Recently...

What a busy couple of weeks. I'm not sure what has made them busier than any other time, but they sure seem to be! I still have a long list of to-do's that I've been working on and the boys and I have been continuing with potty training and keeping busy with little projects and activities. These pictures are from a couple weeks ago but I just haven't found time to post them yet.

On Memorial Day, we took the boys to the Air and Space Museum. We found out that if you go after 4 pm, the parking is free and admission is always free so this is a perfect family outing for us! The boys loved it of course and this is the only good picture I got because they were so busy running around looking at all the airplanes.
We had one week of crazy, record-breaking heat so we spent every waking minute either indoors or at the pool. Finger painting was just one of the many indoor activities we did that week. Thanks to Grandma and Grandpa for the paints!

The boys also went to their friend Rachel's 3rd birthday party a few weeks ago. The pink birthday cake and having their faces painted for the first time were the highlights. Jack wanted a spider and Cullen wanted a race car (actually his first choice was a pink butterfly but I thought Brandon would rather not see his boy come home with that on his face) and they were eager to show off their cheeks to any and everybody they saw that day. They kept trying to touch their cheeks while the lady was painting them, though. so they both had rather smudged faces.

Eating the cake that they talked about for days afterward

A couple weeks ago Renee and I drove out to see our friend Stephanie and her daughter Callie. We had a great time visiting and the boys were really well-behaved and even let me talk with my friends for a couple hours! That's the first miraculous happening- the second is this picture below with all three kids looking in the same direction and smiling! Incredible!

Cullen got a hankering for a peanut butter sandwich one day so he opened the pantry, climbed up the shelves,got the peanut butter and bread down all by himself, and then got a butter knife from the drawer. I discovered him trying to saw through the peanut butter lid and asked him what he was doing. He replied "Eat a peanut butter sandwich" and went right back to his work.

Even though we don't allow the boys to have pens (for obvious reasons) Jack found one lying around somewhere and drew dozens of lines across both arms of our couch. I was upstairs getting ready and needless to say, I was not happy when I came back down and saw this. I looked up what Heloise would do and am waiting for my dry-cleaning solvent to arrive today so I can try to clean it. Hopefully it will come off! I am thankful, though, that God has given me two little boys who constantly remind me that there's no use valuing material things :-)