Mmmm... Good Things... Mmmm...

Some good things are packages sent to loved ones serving over seas.

Some good things are fresh lemonades to cool off with during an amazingly humid farmers market visit.

Some good things are lazy afternoons spent perfecting Transformer moves.

Some good things are cookie-cake for breakfasts.  

Some good things are afternoons spent with friends on the windy and overcast beach. 

Yes.  Those would be Eli's legs and arms sticking out from the wave. 

You don't see my child?  Neither do I.  Fearless four year old likes to freak his mother out by going under waves. 

"Let's go fly a board!"

Rain. For. Days.

What an amazingly wet month.  I could not cut my grass for over two weeks because of the constant rain.  Blah!  And once I was able to get out there, the grass was so thick and tall the lawn-mower quit on me!  Twice!  Blah!  Piles of grass clippings everywhere!  Which I raked up and got blisters on my hands!  Blah!  I'm upset!  CURSE THE RAIN!!!
(Though since it was such a hard mowing job, I did feel like I got my cardio work out in for the week. (Took over an hour.) Winning.)

So me and the boys pretty much went nuts inside.  Doing really anything to entertain ourselves.  From enormous fort building, to blowing bubbles off the counter so that the boys could pop them with blunt instruments.

It's a ship.  Man overboard. 

Now two ships, connected by a plank. 

On the random 30 minute chance that it wasn't raining, we'd take that opportunity and hit the pool! 

I'm sure when Matt sees these he'll be like, "Man, they're blurry!  Should have used the DLSR!"
Then I say, "Well you try blowing bubbles to 3 boys, taking the picture at that moment, and trying to frame it well, too!"
And he'll say, "Oh sorry, Babe.  I'm a dork.  You're amazing."
We'll probably stop talking at that point and just make out. 

 

A New School Year

And we have a 1st grader on our hands!

Isaac is in a classroom with two teachers and around 25 students.  So far he really enjoys going to school.  This is a good school year--however homework is getting for real!
The morning of the first day of school Matt called us.  We put the phone on speaker and Matt said family prayer.  Good moment.  (First day of school pictures bugs were flying around Isaac's face.  He did his best to keep cool.)

Plus these two stinkers have started to preschool.  4 days a week, 3 hours each day.  (I fill those 3 hours with as many errands as I can!)   They are some what okay with school.  Not huge fans, but always seem to have fun.  They've had to learn not to punch other kids in the stomach--for that does not make friends.  Both love to have a back-pack!
However, I will be taking them out of this paid preschool at the end of the month.  Nothing against this school, we just have to have more wiggle room in our budget for a big change coming.  (Yeah, we're moving again... in the same town, just a different home.  Shocking/not shocking.)  Me and a few other stay-at-home moms are going to start a combined preschool, each taking a week per month to teach.  It'll be good, I promise.   (First day of pictures Eli decided to smile with his eyes.  And Titus just remained a cutie.)

I think they look like turtles,
 with the bags as their shells and their short legs and arms sticking out.