Bird houses

Spencer and Cameron wanted to do a craft the other day so I found some bird houses at the dollar store and I let them paint them. Spencer loves using as much color as possible, where Cameron would have been happy to just use red and black although Spencer did talk him into using a few extra colors.

Spur of the moment trip to the zoo

Well when Tim got home from work yesterday we decided to pick Spencer up once he got out of school and head to the zoo for the afternoon. We had a great time! It was not busy, and the animals were all so active. The baby gorilla was cracking us all up pestering all the other female gorillas. Cooper had a great time and wanted nothing to do with his stroller so he walked almost the whole time. When we got home at 6:00 he ate dinner and went strait to bed, poor guy was all worn out. Here are a few pictures from our afternoon, and a video of Cooper at the lions, he was so cute.

Cooper the Lion

Slime.....

Today Cameron and I made slime for him to play with. We learned about recipes, ingredients and measuring things. Oh and we also learned that playing with slime in a cup makes a fart sound. Nice!

Cameron then thought we should probably make Spencer some for when he got home from school so we made him a batch of blue.

Slime

Cooper Love his Corn on the Cob

Here are a couple of pictures of Cooper enjoying his corn from last night. I totally forgot to take an after picture, but he had corn in his hair and the cob was almost picked clean. He LOVES his corn!

Here is Cooper with his slippers on and Cameron making him mad......an everyday occurrence around here.

Cooper with his slippers on

My Second Grader

Well Spencer has started back to school. He is in second grade this year, and is looking forward to this school year. His teacher this year is Mrs. Kovacs, and this is her 27th year teaching. Spencer loves her so far. Here are some pictures of him going to school this morning since I missed taking his picture on his 1st......... 2nd.........3rd......days of school(bad mommy).

Spencer found my old college bag and wanted to use it this year for school

Here he is walking home today

Cameron's new space....

Well like most of us today, money is very tight here and the one thing that has to be cut out is the extra expense of sending Cameron to Pre-K this year. So I have taken it upon myself to be his teacher this year. I knew I wanted it to feel special for him and get him wanting to learn and have fun with mom while Cooper naps so we decided to make him his own "school". He seems really excited about it so far. I guess it will work until we can maybe get him into something at the first of the year.

Cooper thinks he is ready for school too

He is so darn cute!

Cooper was just being Cooper today but he just looked so cute in the new shirt that his great grandma Bonnie had given him. He loves his Lightening McQueen car and is on it most of the day it seems like. He has also gotten to the point if he even hears a beat of music he will start dancing.

Cameron has had enough of me taking pictures I think

Cooper dancing

Cooper the movie lover

Well at least he like throwing them all over the floor for me to pickup anyway. Spencer was looking for a movie to watch the other day and started yelling at me to come and look at Cooper, so this is where I found him. He is such a busy body and into everything so it was no surprise to find him there.

Some things never change.....

Spencer was back at the snake catching yesterday. I really think that he believes that one day I will give in and just let him keep one.....yeah that will NEVER happen! So he will just have to settle for looking at them in pictures!

Here is a short video of him catching it, sorry it is pretty grainy but had the darn camera on the wrong setting and didn't realize it until I played it back.

Snake catching

Cameronisms....

Well I have been such a slacker on my blog these past few weeks. Spencer will be starting school on Monday so I will try to get back on track once we get him back into a routine. But I had to get up a few conversations Cameron and I had just today.

Cameron is friends with our neighbor's little girl, but at times it can be a love hate relationship. I have been teaching the boys that no matter what the situation is you can NEVER hit, pinch or push a girl, just tell and adult and we will help resolve it. Well this morning Cameron and Alyssa were playing and I saw Cameron push her. So he had to come into timeout. Once it was over he came over to me and we discussed the reason for his timeout. I told him he needed to go outside and apologize to Alyssa. So he said, "OK mom then once I do that I will tell her I'm sorry." I guess he still needs to learn what apologize means.

Spencer was at it again today and caught another snake. So he put it in his usual bucket and was getting grass and whatever else he wanted to put in there with it. He then was looking in the bucket and was talking to the snake when Cameron said, " hey Spence, I don't think the snake speaks English". It was so funny!

Then one more thing today. We had just finished eating Spaghetti, and I had Cooper's shirt off so that it did not get ruined. I was saying to Tim that it looked like Cooper's belly was getting bigger. Then Cameron chimed in and said " it looks like he is going to lay a baby". I guess that is across between lay an egg and have a baby.

Man that kid cracks me up on a daily basis!

I will get more stuff put up on here tomorrow, I promise!

Just hanging out

Well the past week has been pretty uneventful around here. So we have been just hanging out around the house, going to the park, and we made it to the zoo yesterday. I was cleaning the boy's closet the other day and found the chargers for the remote control cars Spencer and Cameron got for Christmas from Uncle Kyle and Aunt Kelly. So that has been a big part of their days lately. It is funny to watch them drive them. Spencer has gotten pretty darn good at it, but Cameron on the other hand still pushes the throttle and runs after it at the same time, plus he has a hard time remembering to steer it at the same time as pulling the throttle trigger.

It has rained here for the past 3 days and it has been so nice! We have had maybe 2-3others days this summer that it has rained, which has resulted in lots of wildfires. We even had one in the vacant field just to the north of our house like less than 2 blocks away....way to close!!!! So this rain is more than welcome to stay around for a few days!

Spencer got his face painted at the zoo, he was a tiger.


Racing Cars