Week 17 - "Where a Kid Can be a Kid!!!!"

Another week full of fun, ending with an exciting activity for Greysen.  Not only has nothing really bad happend this week, but Ive got tomatos growing and turning red!!!!!  Im going to be eating tomatos till I turn into ketchup.  :)  So things are looking up, im very happy to say!!! 

As normal not many activities happend during the week until Friday.  Greysen had swimming again and passed half of the next level in one day.  He is going to be on swim team soon, im sure of it!!!  Now if he could not look like a dog jumping into the pool :)  here are some pictures of the highlights of the day.

This is G and his teacher is estatic because he bobbed up and down into the water 5 times.  Taking a deep breath when he came up and then holding his breath as he went under water.  Guess its a new skill he passed!!!!

 This is G touching the bottom of the pool.  Yet another skill passed!!!!!

 Going down the little slide, his  new favorite thing to do :)

 OH and another skill yet perfected, the BIG leap into the water.  Yes he does look like a dog jumping into the water and maybe one day he will jump like a little boy.  Ha ha, he cracks me up :)

Ok and before I go on much farther I must introduce the new pet of the household.  Probably not quite what Blu had in mind as a playmate, but G LOVES!!!!!  these little pets.  Here is his very first one!!!

This one promptly died, could have been the cheese, or maybe the salsa accidently dropped into the cup, or maybe it could have been the near death experience falling off the table at dinner time.  Either way, he kept it under his light all night, took it to school to share the next day and then added to the family by collecting about 10 more.  They soon died as well but as he says "shhhhhh they are sleeping!!!!"  Oh lordy what have I gotten on my hands now??  A rolly polly farm???  The funny thing is, is that he will talk about them non stop.  All evening long, all day, every word out of his mouth has to do with rolly pollies.  He was even nice enough to share his new family members with spectators at the soccer game.  Some not so excited about the whole experience and some who let him put them on their legs, arms and hands.  The rolly pollies go everywhere with us!!!!!!!  Poor Blu might feel a bit neglected :(

Ok now onto the rest of the week.  I guess its time again for the weekly soccer game.  The boys did fabulous!!!  They played hard and it paid off, they tied with the other team which is a good feat.  Here are some highlights of the game.

Oh and before I forget again.  G has found a new sport as well. It may not be soccer, tball, basketball, karate, or anything like that.  ITS BETTER!!!!  I mean he is truely the athletic person in the family.  I mean check this out!!!!  He may win medals and trophies someday with this one :)

It is now time for our monthly date night.  G goes to school for his "movie party" and J and I go and have some fun together.  This time we went to Chuy's for dinner, it was soooooo good and also sooooooo filling.  But we worked it off with a serious game of miniture golf!!!!  It was on!!!!!  Here are a few pics of things and us around the course.  Oh did I mention it only took about 1 1/2 hours to get through the whole course.  Ya it was a little busy.  But soooo much fun.

Before the battle.  He has his game face on!!!

 Just wanted to take a pic of a palm tree :)  It was a beautiful evening.  Perfect for mini golfing!!!

 In the gold mine.  From here on out the course gets harder and harder.  We are now entering the "hill country"

 J took a pic of me :)  working on his photographer skills

 We became friends with the people we had to wait in the long lines with so we asked one to take a picture of us.  So here we almost to the top of the huge hill!!!

So anyways, I won!!!!  I rock!!!!  So then J decided we needed to test our skills at a water balloon fight.  The golf course has these launchers and each person stands in this cage like thing which also includes a slingshot.  We had 12 huge balloons each.  I can honestly say J won.  I left soaked!!!!!  So then it was time to get some ice cream, yummm Marble Slab Creamery :)  I had smores ice cream and Jacob a birthday cake milkshake. 

The evening was so much fun and I really enjoyed every minute of it :)   Looking for one day spending special time like this with Bill.

Ok then Sunday I had to make crepes.  I decided to try some with yogurt this time instead of nutella.  I really liked it, however I felt a little odd eating while video chatting with Bill.  I was also trying to make Jacob one more but I totally forgot about it.  This is what happens when you video chat with someone for about 30 min while making crepes :)

Ya not so appetizing.  Luckily it was time to go to Chuck E Cheese.  G was invited to a bday party there.  His first time ever going, he had so much fun!!!  It was so cute watching him play all these games.  You want to know what his favorite things were.  Can you guess.  Here is a little hint.  One has to do with a locomotive, the other a bowling ball.  HMMMMMM well here are the pics.  The train and the bowling machine were his ultimate favorite :)

OH and he liked kicking my butt at air hockey, and throwing the baseball.  Funny thing is, when the baseball game was over you still had balls to throw, he would throw them exactly into the holes after the game was over.   It was a big hit and I promised him if he can sleep without pullups on and not have any accidents we would go back to celebrate.  As im writing this (Monday evening) he is sleeping without a pull up on.  He promised to go in the toilet if he needed to during the night.  We will see how that goes.  :)

After CEC we headed to the base to buy some new shoes for J.  G had to buy some too as he wanted to have fast feet.  So now he runs everywhere!!!!  Not that new shoes really changes much, he runs everywhere anyways, but now he wants you to watch him run fast :)

Ok thats it!!!!!  PHHHEEWWWWWWWWWWWWW that was one long week!!!!  But full of fun.  Im so thankful for the boys, they fill my days with unexpected happiness.  Without them these 11 months would go by so slow.  I hope by reading these it makes your days go by faster just because you can go back and read over and over what the boys are doing. 

Well I dont know much more I can add to this, its already full of stuff for you.   You know we love you more then anything.  G still likes you better most of the time.  And J still says he misses you a lot!!!!  I cant wait till we can surprise them :)

Ok love, till next week :)