Happy Fathers's Day

A hearty happy Father's Day to all the dads in our family! All of the pictures below are from the boy's first few years. Except the one of Scottie, it's just too hard to get pictures of that guy. And the one of Papa, Cole is 15 months in that pic. I'm missing a pic of Cousin Eric and Uncle Fred, sorry menfolk! 

The Things Boys Like

I'm back. And our internet is faster. Whoohooo.

This means I can finally share some more of the Memorial Day photos. If I were to label these photos from our two boys' perspective, I would call them Cars & Balls. 

You see, last Christmas (2 Christmasses ago?) Santa brought Sara and Rhett these little cars. And this Memorial Day was the first time G and C rode in them. Sara and Rhett were gracious chauffeurs, even when they had other things to do. And the boys were appreciative.

And later, when the chauffers tired of their passengers, and the cars had to be parked to let the batteries charge, the boys still couldn't pry themselves away. 

They climbed in, and swayed their bodies back and forth trying to make the car move. Nothing happened. 

Grady turned on the radio, and hopped out to see if he could fix the issue. Cole busted a move. 

A little under the hood inspection to see if Grady could figure out the problem.

Nothing under the hood seemed amiss, but Grady isn't a quitter. He decided to just push the car.

The pushing did actually move the car, but it was moving towards glass french doors, so we moved on to other activities. 

Ones that involve balls. Everyone got into the act here.

Look at that form!

More later, I'm working on a little Father's Day something that needs me to get back in the kitchen.

Faster, Better, More

Rejoyce, friends, for soon I will have faster internet at home. Our current set-up is mediocre at best and is really the limiting factor in my blog posting. Keith, having finally reached his breaking point, is getting us switched to a new provider on Friday and then (I hope) I'll be able to post a little faster. Right now it takes forever just to load one picture, so many times I sit down to post an entry but walk away irritated. I'm not sure what causes our current internet provider to be so slow, but I imagine it must be trying to send the picture pixel information via morse code using a tin can and a piece of string. Painfully slow.

Continuing on with random information-sharing, our boys are loving their new pre-school type daycare, and we adults are adjusting to the new schedule, albeit slowly. A few random things about the boys:

• Cole has one truck he loves at school and he runs to be sure to get it each morning. Lucky for him they're the first kids dropped off, imagine the scene if some other kid got the blue truck first!
• Grady is way smarter than me. Already. He puts himself in time out for offenses he knows he shouldn't have committed. Makes me question how effective time out is as a disciplinary method with that kid. Especially after I can't help but laugh when he, after hitting Cole, looked at me and said "Geddy now go time out! NO HIT!". And then marched to the time out chair and sit there for a minute.
• Cole still thinks he's a dog and greets me every day by licking my cheek.
• Grady still loves opening and closing doors. We thought that was a phase, but it's here to stay.

Memorial Day: More of the cousins

I'm not much for conversation lately, so here are a few one liners and some more pics from Memorial Day. These cousins are getting plenty of time together.

Cole loves to copy Rhett, pushing trucks. Truckts.

Can you feel the pre-teen angst and brooding?

Another round of truck pushing.

A quick break from Wii playing. Note the big kid playing with her in the background.

And where is Grady while everyone is playing in the play room? Oh, that's right, he's in another room, playing with the door. When does this phase end?

Memorial Day: Cousins