"Don't worry Honey, I bought them with my own money"

These are words I dread hearing from Jonathan... although it really is his money*, so why do I care?? Well....he could buy ME something sometime... :) But really, Kayaks??

Testing in our pool

On the golf course lake behind our house

*His money comes from his pest control business, Organic Solutions.

Busy busy busy

Without work to do, there is so much we can do....

We visited the Wigwam for some golf lessons, taught to us by some very talented kids... 3 and 9 years of age... ha ha.... Hayden brought his clubs and he and Zoe putted a little while I kept watch for Security... seriously, I was so nervous they were going to ask us to leave.

(Seriously, when did Hayden grow up??)

We also visited Verrado to celebrate Grandma Schmadeke's birthday. They kids were able to play in the fountain... and I use the word play loosely, because it was really all about who could dump more water on the other, as it usually ends up being anyway.

Children's Museum

Kim and I made it to the Children's Museum... which was an adventure and tons of fun for Zoe... and perhaps not so much for Jude. Before we left, Zoe and I stopped to feed the ducks. I tried adding a photobucket slide show in this post, but it's not working, of course... so I had to do it directly from photobucket... argg!

Anyway, highlights of the trip:

• The giant tunnel that Zoe crawled through, but not so much Jude
• The drums... where Jude's hand became something to also pound on
• Watching Zoe use some weird contraption with wheels
• Having nothing for Jude to do.... except the ONE crawling room where he sat in a corner:(
• Seeing Josh!... and Cheryl and Tom
• The noodles!!
• Painting the goopy house
• And getting Kim's money back... uhhh, yes we did take him out of the stroller

The First Week....

of summer was glorious! Perhaps due to the fact that I really had nowhere to go, no schedule to keep, and no alarm clock to hit at 5:45 in the morning. Showering was optional... just kidding... kind of. The pool washes off most of those germs, right?

A Recap of Saturday (I would do more than Saturday, but then I'd have to add more pictures and it will totally screw up the formatting... Darn You BLOGGER!!!):

Josh and Zach came over for a visit while Cheryl and Tom went to a wedding. Zoe and the boys play so well together, that it went great! We did some sand play, inside play, watched a little sponge bob, ate some lunch..... where the kids at some blueberries, apparently a coveted fruit. I gave all of them the same amount, Josh scarfed his down, and then inquired why Zoe had more than him. LOL...

After lunch I put Zach down for a nap... wasn't sure if this was going to work. I know that really likes to sleep in his stroller, but I wasn't sure how to go about walking him around in that when it was 100+ degrees outside. I laid him down, and he wasn't so happy about that at first... but then I laid next to his port a crib on my bed and he was out in 5 seconds.

While he slept, I took Josh and Zoe to the germ infested McDonald's and enjoyed an iced coffee while they played. Then they had ice cream and after a while, Josh told Zoe it was time to go... and she listened. Hmm... this is not usually the case when we tell her it's time to go. It goes more along the lines of counting, bribing and asking strange unknown children to drag her down. When we got home we found Zach sleeping on the couch. Jonathan said he woke up after we left and when he put him on the couch to watch a little TV, he fell asleep again.... this poor kid slept until 6pm! He would not wake up, no matter how hard we tried. Zoe and Josh swam when we got home, and Grandma Collard showed up to hang out... and hold Zach who kept on sleeping.

We opted for pizza for dinner, and I made the mistake of ordering whole wheat crust from Papa John's. Ick! Anyway, blah blah blah... we made it to bath time, where all three used the same water... I know, yeah mom! But they had fun!

The first day...

.... of Summer Break was such:

9:45 - Space Chimps Movie

11:30 - Lunch with Grandma

12:30 - Wal-Mart trip with a new book

1:30 - Rest time

4:00 - Swim

5:00 - Dinner, at which Zoe asks... "So, what are we going to do today?"