Recent Pictures

On Sunday morning we met up with our friends Jason and Dana and their little boy Silas at the zoo.  We hadn't seen Silas since March and there is nothing baby about him anymore.  He is 100% toddler.

My mom is coming next week to visit.  The boys are super excited.  They keep asking how much longer until she's here so we made a countdown ring.

Yesterday the boys turned in their reading logs for the Nashville Library (we signed up for the Nashville, Brentwood, and Williamson County libraries summer programs).  The boys already turned in their logs for Williamson County and each got a book and reusable bag.  Yesterday they each got a book and they both picked out alligator books.

Again, the books are sort of from Taylor Swift (the boys are pretty much over her though at this point).

While at the library, we were planning on going to storytime, but there was a performer during all the storytimes instead.  Ms. Ginger did a lot of songs about gardening and how things grow.  She was good but a little too slow for the age group that usually attends.  Carter and Rylan did fine (and were talking about parts of her show today) but a lot of people left during the show.

Ms. Ginger gave each family a packet of sunflower seeds to take home.

This afternoon while Rylan was still napping, Carter and I planted the seeds in one of our beds.

We were racing against an approaching storm so we didn't do an amazing job - just dug 4 small holes and dumped a bunch of seeds in each.  We'll see what happens!

In hopes that I don't spray weed killer on an flowers that do grow, I made popsicle stick markers for our four spots.  Carter requested a sunflower to be drawn on each - hopefully this permanent marker doesn't wash off.

After the library yesterday, we went to the sprayground at Cumberland Park.  We've always gone on our own but finally had friends join us!  Missy and her kids were there with us from 10:30 to 12:30 and then Suzy and Jen and their kids were there with us from 12:30 until 2 pm.  We had so much fun but we were so worn out by the time we left.

Will, Carter, and Rylan ...

Luckily neither Rylan nor Carter got hurt jumping off the huge step / seats!  They jumped for a long time too!

Luke ...

Carter and Hutch ...

Riley and Hutch ...

I had seen some watercolor animal paintings on Etsy a while back and really liked them as decoration for either one of the kids' rooms or their bathroom.  I decided to try to make some myself this afternoon.  I drew an outline of a snake on cardstock and cut it out to use as a stencil.  Then I filled in the snake stencil with watercolors.  I need to blend the colors a little better, but I thought it looked pretty good for a first try.

Carter saw the snake when he got up from a nap this afternoon and requested a kangaroo.  My paintbrush was a little too wet this time and the color ran under the stencil but I think if I'm more careful, the kangaroo could look okay too.

Tonight we went to Cheekwood for Family Night Out.  Some thunderstorms rolled through about an hour before the show so they moved it inside.  The performer this time was Mr. Greg (and his Musical Madness), and it was our first time seeing him.  He was pretty good - at least the kids seemed to be having a lot of fun.  Missy and Heather's kids were also there so it was extra fun!

Crazy dancing!

Us parents were sitting in the front row of chairs.  Heather was holding Lewis but he was cruising and was holding onto my legs when Mr. Greg pointed out an adult "volunteer" to come up on stage.  He apparently though Lewis was mine and called out Heather - THANK YOU LEWIS!!!