Cupcake time

Sometimes I decide I just want to bake something.  Both boys love to help in the kitchen so we made cupcakes.  D can help with pretty much everything, except filling the pan.  He would love to fill it but I am not ready to let him.  G can basically only put in the pan liners but he thinks he is helping a lot and that is all that counts.   I let them pick out the cake mix and the frosting so that is why we ended with pink frosting.  Of course the best part is eating them!!! I am hoping I can have them help me make Christmas cookies this year.  I have always wanted to do that with my kids. 

Hometown Parade

We like to go back to my hometown every year for July 4th. They make a big deal out of it so it is neat to go and see all the sights.  It all starts bight and early with a parade.  It seems to get longer ever year but they don't throw as much candy as they used to so it is kind of a bummer. This is the first year that G has really paid any attention to anything and he liked it for a while and then he got hot and retreated to the pickup. D just had fun being with his cousins and didn't care about the parade at all. 

 



Time to Grow Up

I went and picked up the papers yesterday to register this kid for kindergarten.  He is so excited.  He will be attending one of the schools that I taught at so I feel good about the people he will be with everyday.  They showed him his classroom, the cafeteria, and the gym.  Plus we spent a few minutes on the playground.  He is ready, the problem is that I am not.  I could cry just thinking about having to send my baby to spend his days with someone other than me.  I know that it is part of growing up and that it will be good for my little social butterfly but it is hard!!! I now have to think about school supplies and school clothes.  This is new territory for me.  I will be alright after I cry every day for the first week and I know he will love it.  It will become our new normal but right now it just seems hard.  I will miss having his smiling face around all the time and the random I love yous through out the day.  Like I said, it is time to grow up.

RAIN!!!!

We have had more rain this summer than we have had in about 3 years.  It has been very nice.  The bad things is that we have mosquitos that we haven't had in 3 years.  I would rather have rain and a few more bugs than no rain at all.  At one point we got around 7 inches in a 3 or 4 day span.  We had some really nice puddles afterwards.  The boys loved them. 

 

 I tried to get them to play in the mud also.  G was having no part of that messy stuff.



Easter 2014

 This year we had most of the family together at Granny's for an Easter celebration.  It was nice for all of us to be together.  We don't get all of these people together as often as we should.  The kids had a blast hunting eggs and everyone left with more candy than they will ever eat.  I am pretty sure I still have some of ours in the pantry.  Thanks Granny for letting us invade your space.

 

 Following Daddy on one last egg check