Summer, summer, summertime

Girls Just Wanna....

Have Fun! And we did. Thanks to Grandma & Grandpa and Mimi & Papa for letting me run away with the Melrose Girls for the weekend!

My camera has been on vaca...

Lincoln's blankie & photography!

That is why I haven't posted! We've been spending lots of time playing at home and are looking forward to the end of the school year for the boys on Thursday & our trip to Iowa to make summer vacation official. I'm so looking forward to catching up with my girlfriends while the boys have some quality time with their grandparents. Iowa here we come!

Cousin Cael

We were super pleased to have Lindsey and Cael visit us this week. Carter has been BEGGING for some company and was so excited that Cael was coming. The boys had fun riding their tractors something the 3 of them have in common so we made some laps round the pond. We also had a trip to the zoo, a donut shop stop, and some living room farming. Come back soon, Cousin Cael!

An Early Mother's Day

School treated us to an early mother's day with a Mother's Day Tea on Wednesday. Carter has been practicing for months and did a great job. His favorite song seemed to be "If you love your M-O-M" set to the tune of "If you are happy and you know it". I got a great gift of his folder of artwork from the year - something I've been anxiously waiting to see. The first page has his first day "interview" which I'll share with you - he's been asking me to read it to him and seems to really like his own answers!

All About Me

My name is: Carter

I am 4 years old

My favorite food is fried ham

My favorite color is green & red

My favorite book is all the dinosaur books

My favorite toy is a firetruck

When I grow up I wan to be a firefighter

Groovin'

We've been groovin' with the weather - not hot, not cold most days = lots of tractor time and bike time! Carter got a new bike for Christmas and due to a few falls had refused to ride it, until we started talking about getting rid of it and THEN he was in. He still doesn't love to ride in our sloped driveway but loves to ride around the pond and the little brother keeps up pretty well which means I can actually get some exercise with them this year - maybe not for a long or super intense but some exercise none the less (running to keep up with Carter around the pond this evening to catch up to Sean and Lincoln was totally good exercise tonight). Lincoln seems to think his blanket or "baby" likes to bike ride too - so baby often ends up in a backpack (or pack-pack as he says) to go on our rides which is preferable to how he was trying to sit on it and ride.

Lincoln has become a pill the last few weeks, he's totally 2.5, I guess, working on 3 (let us all hope that 3 doesn't last the entire year like it did with Carter) or you all better be praying for my mental health. Lets just say that today I would have paid good money to send Lincoln to school and keep Carter home with me - and I think the plants would have to agree after Lincoln tortured them in the planters.

Oh well, they bring me laughs too right - like yesterday when Carter told me that Lincoln kicked him in the fore-noggin' (he was 100% serious not trying to be cute at all) but it was very cute. And tonight I thought I'd be cute and draw a MOM tattoo on Lincoln's arm - Sean said this was a bad idea because he'd color himself and he was right (I can say that because he doesn't read this blog) anyway, Lincoln went to town and I told him to tell Sean he was Jesse James which he did and at least I had a very good laugh.

The boys are missing Iowa these days, Lincoln begged to go to Papa Work all day long today - they will get a dose of Iowa in the form of a visit from Lindsay and Cael next week and they couldn't be more excited to see them!

My Virtual Quote Board

When I was in college we used to have a quote board on our fridge for the insanely funny things that were said in our house, I really should start one for the boys. These were from yesterday -

When I woke Lincoln up yesterday to get Carter from school, I said "it's time to go get brother" and his response was "nope....nope.....nope, sorry mom" and when I asked him if he wanted to leave Carter at school he said "yes". Last night he also got mad at Sean and Carter who were playing a game that he was not invited to play and he ran to his room and said "Me mad, me go to bed." He didn't of course but it was rather funny!

Last night Carter informed Sean and I that he needed to eat slowly so he didn't gain weight - he really needs to stop watching The Biggest Loser with me!