Isaac rarely naps now, so instead of getting a little break every afternoon where I can sit and blog peacefully, I am busy playing with the kids, going on little field trips, breaking up fights. Not blogging. And by the time they go to bed, I am either too tired to think about blogging or I am catching up on all the stuff I didn't get done during the day. So, there's my excuse. Take it or leave it!
This post is just going to be a quick little synopsis of what we've been up to this past month.
Isaac didn't want his picture taken. I think he was pointing at me and saying, 'Go! Go!'
The first weekend in May was the Holland Festival at Jacob's school. Each family is asked to donate a pie for the lunch. I kinda put it off until the last minute and could have just bought a pie at Marie Callendar's or something, but me being the Dutch girl that I am just couldn't spend the money on it, so I decided to make something with ingredients I had on hand - a chocolate cream pie. I baked the crust and when I pulled it out, I discovered it was lopsided. One end was barely to the top of the pie tin and the other was going over the side. I tried to fix it, but the entire crust shot out of the tin all of a sudden! Then I had to try to put a hot crust back in the tin. I wasn't really laughing at the time, but now I find it quite hilarious. The pie ended up being pretty ugly, but at least I could just drop it off in the kitchen and run!
Jacob was so proud to show us the garden that his class planted!
Later that afternoon we headed to Irvine because I ran on Maddie's Team in the 10k for the Pediatric Cancer Research Foundation.
Alan went to UC Irvine for undergrad and so we visited the campus so he could reminisce and the boys could run off some energy.
My friend Katy ran the 10K too, with her team from the Loma Linda Children's Hospital.
There were tons of things for the kids to do and the boys had lots of fun! Here is Jacob posing in front of the 'Cookie Car' from our hotel with his balloon giraffe.
Isaac goes to a music class every Monday morning and while he doesn't love it, he is getting better at participating so I snapped a few pictures a couple weeks ago.
We've got a battered chicken! One of the other chickens was a bully and plucked all the feathers off her head. She obviously needed to be separated from the others so the boys agreed to let her use their cardboard playhouse. She's still living separately and is now in the garden so Alan doesn't have to move her and her entire house every time he wants to water the backyard. Poor girl. There were a few days when I wasn't sure she would make it through the night, but she keeps holding on.
A little Frisbee practice in their undies.
Isaac and I dropped lunch off for Alan next week and Isaac was excited to show Alan the Hulk with stretchy arms that he made out of Legos. He also liked wearing the 'cool' 3d glasses (or whatever those are).
We went on vacation last week (more on that later) and when we came home we discovered that our little pet caterpillar who had spun a cocoon had emerged as a butterfly while we were gone. Fortunately it was still alive so we set her free.
A couple weeks ago I got this Spideman sprinkler from Kohls for super cheap. The boys love it!
On Sunday we went to the park to fly a kite. The boys had so much fun and just wanted to run and run and run with that thing!
Memorial Day morning I just wanted to get out of the house, sit and drink a coffee so my mom and I took the boys to Citrus Plaza and enjoyed a Starbucks while the boys got totally drenched in the fountain. Good times!!
