Random pics

Isaac has 4 of the Rescue Bots and desperately wants the other two. He asked and asked us and even my mom. 'Oma, do you have any money? Will you buy me Boulder and Blades?' My, my, my. So, we told him that if he wants them he has to earn money to buy them. Now he gets all excited to do chores. Score!

He's pretty good at folding and putting laundry away. 

And washing the chairs

This was taken at boot camp. Jacob wanted to try out the stretchy bands that we were using. I love how serious he looks. Could be the new poster child for Better Life Fitness!

The Schenkel girls taught the boys how to pump. They would never listen to us!

Isaac has it down! Now he goes outdoors and will swing and swing and swing all by himself. 

Jacob is still working on it.

 We went to Art in the Park a few weeks ago and the highlight for Isaac was the balloon guy who made him an Iron Man.

Someone was plum tuckered out!

Jacob's last day of school. Pretty serious business, apparently. 

Give the boys a couple cardboard boxes and their imagination goes wild.
This time they made tvs with remotes and computers with keyboard and mouse.

They were so, so excited by this! They were running back and forth asking each other what they were watching or telling us what website they were looking at. Jacob 'played' some game for a long time, yelling 'I won! I just won!'
They made these a couple weeks ago and they still get played with almost every day. Love it!

Blueberries and a scarecrow

A local farm has the most delicious blueberries and one Saturday morning we decided to go pick (and eat) some. 

 Did you know the Power Rangers enjoy blueberry picking?

The farm also has some birds that we had fun visiting. 

Speaking of birds.......
We have some birds who think our garden goodies are for them so we made a scarecrow to hopefully keep them away.

Jacob's first attempt at a scary scarecrow face

Second attempt - much scarier!

Isaac's scary scarecrow face - yikes!

Yikes again! We had to wait a day to put him up because we didn't have a big stake.

There he is!

I'll tell ya, he has scared me a couple times! I'll be turning the hose on and out of the corner of my eye I see this huge 'person' in the garden and my poor heart starts a poundin'!

Fun with Friends

A few weeks ago the Leonard girls came over and the kids had so much fun (and frustration) trying to climb the tree. They were so creative and some of the stuff had me laughing so hard!

Most of the effort was put into tying the hose around themselves and the others trying to pull them over from the other side. 

Note: Nobody ever got over.


Then another afternoon the DeBoer kiddos came over and we had some water fun!
I tried to get Elin to nap but she just kept saying, 'No. Pool. Pool.' I couldn't resist this adorable face.

If someone is going to do something dangerous, it's going to be Isaac.

Luke kept going so much farther than Jacob on the slip-n-slide and we finally discovered it was because he was shirtless. Once we took Jacob's swim shirt off, he flew! 

Preschool

A couple weeks ago we finished our letter-o-the week preschool and I am going to miss it! We had so much fun every week and made some great memories! 

I've probably posted most of these pictures before, but I wanted to do a little recap of our year together. 

This was the first week - Isaac, Josie and Livi all ready to learn about the letter A.

Isaac's first craft

And his first worksheets. He was so proud of himself for writing the letter A!

Josie and Isaac hard at work mixing up some cookie dough. 

Can't wait for those cookies to be done!

Bug Safari!

Whatever Sarah is saying, it must be very interesting!

Snack time may have been the most favorite part! I think almost every week, within 10 minutes of arriving Isaac would say, 'I'm hungry!' because he knew there would be a yummy snack coming soon. 

This was the only picture I got of our end of the year party last week. I went indoors to see what the kiddos were up to and found this. Isaac is looking at an old cell phone and Aliyah is 'nursing' her baby. I laughed so hard I cried! Never a dull moment with these kids!

And this has to be my favorite picture from the whole year because it just so perfectly portrays these kids and what our preschool days were like. Josie has an ice pack on her eye because she smacked into Isaac's head, Livi is wearing rain boots and a tiara and Isaac is wearing boots and holding his new box of Band-Aids. I just chuckle every time I look at this picture!

So, now these kids are on to bigger things next year - preschool at a real school! So thankful for Sarah and Cheryl who were willing to partner with me and do this. Isaac and I enjoyed it so much!