General Silliness

 

 

N got this inflatable Spiderman on a visit with his mom. He is roughly the size of N. If you look carefully, you'll see Spiderman has a diaper on- courtesy of N (who REALLY needs a baby doll). The other morning Rudy was doing something in the backyard and N was playing with Spiderman. To watch Rudy, N stood Spiderman up in one window and then stood watching Rudy in the other window.

Two days in a row Rudy was dressed like this. He wore this outfit to church on Sunday (cleaned up a little) and said he wanted to be the Mayor and be in charge of everyone. The next morning, we were home most of the day, he put this on again and wore it around the house.

Butterflies and Treehouses at Tyler

Saturday we headed out early to the Butterfly Festival at Tyler Arboretum. We've never been to the Arboretum during an actual event and it was much more crowded than we expected, but the arboretum is so large that we never felt the crowds as we walked around.

N checking out the fairytale tree house.

Rudy and N in the Goblin house, where N felt the need to scream and shout.

At the actual festival, there were lots of activities. Rudy spent most of his time watching Jon the Bugman. I helped N make this antenna. So cute!

Hatching eggs. N didn't want to leave the eggs and just kept sitting on them saying "bawk, bawk".

Every few minutes another butterfly was tagged and released.

 

 

Paul and Rudy waiting at the bottom of a tree house.

 

Peek-a-boo

Rudy up in the highest tree house. I think he's posing as if he were falling.

As soon as I took that picture, he immediately said, "Now a nice one."

At one point we walked over a small bridge and Paul and I were talking about The Three Billy Goats Gruff. Rudy hadn't heard the story, so we were recounting it to him. A little while later we came across this Thoreau cabin that was set up like an old school house with books in it. Rudy found The Three Billy Goats Gruff and sat to read it.

N loves frogs. There were 4 of these statues and he had to sit on all of them.

Just resting in the bears' chairs.

Trying out the medium chair.

A new tree house- set up like a fort. See Paul and the top and N at the bottom chasing Rudy down the hill.

 

 

Paul stood in the fort taking a picture of me and Rudy, while we waited for his phone to cooperate, I took a picture of him and N (check out the little peep hole on the right).

 

Laving the fort (I'm not sure what N was doing in the back. He wasn't upset, I think he was being silly.)

It was another beautiful fall like day (kind of sad when it happens in August). And the ride home included two sleeping boys- always a plus!

Fun at the Farm

On Friday night we decided to head to Johnson's Farm for some outdoor time. We started with looking at the classic cars that were on display, then had some delicious barbecue. We walked over to check out the animals.

N enjoyed walking on the tires.

Paul and I could have watched the goats forever. There were a lot of babies (kids?) and they looked so funny and playful, we left trying to figure out how we could have a goat!

Trying to get the two of them to look at me in a picture is becoming almost impossible.

The rope maze that they quickly cheated their way through by climbing under and over the ropes.

I love the way Rudy's Star Wars shirt looks like a third person here. The way his hand is placed I think he did it on purpose.

After seeing the animals, we headed to the playground and practiced our tractor driving. Rudy had the speech about sitting and here's what vegetable we'll pick next down pat!

The biggest monkey climbed the spider web structure.

Future pitcher?

Rudy was just a little too big for these and N was just a little too small.

Rudy fit on these better but the track was harder to navigate and he ended up getting off and pushing it a few times.

Our drive home included a rainbow that then turned into a double rainbow.

Rudyisms

*I found several posts that were still just drafts- this one was from April 2012*

We cooked a turkey breast at the beginning of the week and ate it for dinner several nights. After the first night, Rudy complained he didn't like turkey and ate only the bare minimum. We decided to make open-faced sandwiches with the leftovers one night. We told Rudy we were having open-faced sandwiches (no turkey mentioned) and he yelled that he LOVES open-faced sandwiches. We never mentioned the word 'turkey' and only called it 'meat and gravy' that we put on the rolls and he happily ate turkey.

Rudy told us a friend at school was wearing a sling because "he tried to do a flip but it didn't work out".

Happy Birthday, Paige!

Yesterday we celebrated Paige's birthday party at Renee's aunt and uncle's house. As always, the pool is where the kids spend all their time.

When not in the pool, bubbles were a big hit with the youngest members of the family.

Rudy and Lucy took some time to hang out in the hot tub.

More bubbles.

Cake time! Now we no longer have three 2-year-olds, we have one 3-year-old and two 2-year-olds. Next month is Charlie's birthday!

The birthday girl anxiously awaiting the candles of her cake being lit.

Silly boy with goggles (that stayed on almost the whole ride home) and cake on his face.

Well if the oldest monkey is getting a picture, then the youngest one needs one taken, too.

Cheese!