Splish Splash

Gage is getting so big. Since he is sitting up so good lately I decided to let him take a 'big boy' bath. He loved it. I think he was as facinated with what Bailey was doing as he was with the water. He did finally figure out that splashing was fun, but then he splashed himself in the face. That was a little confusing for him.

Oops, the other video is cute but here is the one I ment to put on the first time.

School Bells are Ringing

 It seems like summer flew by too fast. Now it is time for another school year. I am back in classes at UNO. Halfway done, but a long way to go. Austin is in 4th grade this year. He still hasn't decided if he likes school but it is more fun than being home all summer. I guess I am that boring. Cole started Kindergarten and is loving it. He was very excited that some of his friends from preschool are there too. He loves to show me the pages they do in class and tell me all about the fun things they learn.

 

Bailey is in her first year of preschool. It is hard to believe she is big enough for preschool because the boys were 4 before they went. She is doing great and loves to go to her school.

This is a crazy time of year for our family and I am sure it will get crazier as the holidays get near. I am in class Monday thru Friday mornings, thanks to the grandmas for watching the little kids. I also have two evening classes on Tuesday and Wednesday. Poor Todd is home by himself with the kids. He does great but little baby butt, Gage, is still not sure he likes to be happy when mommy is not here.

Austin is a busy little boy these days. He and Cole are both doing Karate still. We have that on Monday evenings but once a month Austin is supposed to be at Boyscout at the same time. We still haven't figured out how that is going to work for the long haul.

Overall, life is going good. We are always busy but by now we get confused if we have spare time so I guess it works for us. I am looking forward to the holidays so we can hopefully see a lot of people we haven't seen in awhile.

A Summer Recap

  The family and Papa Jim had a lot of fun in July at Austin's Boyscout Fishing Derby. It is held at a private lake (big pond) that used to be a sand quary. So Bailey had a lot of fun playing on the sand 'beach' while the boys fished. No one but Todd had much luck catching antyhing but it was still a good time. Of course, part of the bad luck could have been from the 2 little imps that insisted on throwing things in the water and were sitting on a fallen log in the water. Boys will be boys.

    

We had Bailey's 3rd birthday party at our house, I love summer birthdays. All the kids had a good time playing in the bouncy house and being crazy kids. Mom and I had quite the adventure the night before making Bailey's cake. I came up with the great idea of making a 48 cupcake pull apart cake. It turned out okay but never again will I try a pull apart cake.

It was a very busy and fun few weeks for us. We finished off the summer with a trip to the Natural history museum at UNL and then a day trip to Mahone State Park. The kids had so much fun at both. The museum has many cool dinosaur exhibits with life size skeletons.

At Mahone we rented paddle boats, Bailey and I won our race. It was a little nerve wrecking at times because Bailey kept wanting to just get up and walk out of the boat. She didn't understand that she would sink in the water.



Austin (laying down) and Cole (climbing up) were 'hiding' from the water

 



After the paddle boats we headed over to the waterpark. It was so much fun. They have a large wave pool, a kiddie jungle gym in water, and large water slides. It was very crazy in the wave pool-where the kids wanted to be the whole time. I was afraid to let them go too far out because everyone was bumping into each other. It was chaotic but fun.





Austin shoting water out of one of the water guns



Trying my hand at Blogging

I have decided to try to figure out all this blogging stuff. It seems like a rather easy and fun way to keep everyone up on what is going on in our hectic lives. I am not sure how often I will be able to update this but I am hoping at least once a week. Enjoy.