Drew and Austin

Just lovin my boys today...

please keep in your thoughts...

Sorry to have a downer post today, but I feel compelled to request some prayers or good thoughts today for my uncle Ricky who found out last week he has lung cancer. * Edited to add* Today his wife passed away, who has been battling cancer herself...(This is my dad's little brother.... ) Please say a prayer for their family ...

Thanks....

Turtle Friend

We picked up a turtle off the side of the road the other day (Austin's been wanting a turtle) and so we had a pet for two days. (you can see it in the grass in front of Austin)
They didn't want to let it go, but I was afraid of death if it didn't eat, so we set it loose in our strawberries, and of course it didn't stay. Other neighbors spotted the turtle throughout the week, and then yesterday we saw one crossing the road into the woods, and the boys decided it was ours....which made Drew "want to cry " because he missed it.
Anyway, the boys had a lot of fun with "yellow spots" (as he was named).

Our garden has been doing great with all the rainfall...

Sorry these pics are kindof over exposed, I'll take some better ones later....

Toothless Smile!

We lost the other tooth! It was so wobbly I can't believe it held on as long as it did....
This one was lost after his tee ball game while drinking a Capri Sun...I guess the straw suction did it!

We ran into Mrs Odum at Sams and she told Drew he looks like a first grader now...




We have had vacation bible school all week, which both boys enjoyed. Austin was so excited that he got to go to school, and on Monday for their first snacks they got apples and bread sticks....that made his day! The rest of the week he kept asking for bread sticks (they changed the snack every day) Each grade was broken into two classes and somehow every single kid from his kindergarden class was in the OTHER class. So the first day was pretty sad for him...but they still got to have recess and snack together, so he was okay after that.




The boys found a frog out on our deck the other day. It was real pretty...looked like a tree frog, but a brown bark tree frog (is there such a thing?)
Austin is always the one to catch the frogs and bugs, where Drew is more timmid, but here is Drew holding his first tree frog....he was pretty excited...

Austin being Ausin put the frog on his head.

Fishing

Here's some more pictures from fishing today. They aren't the best quality because I had to scan them...
They had so much fun we had to go fishing tonight at the pond by our house...

Austin was the first to catch tonight, too...I guess he's just the little fisherman!





(Andrew is doing the I caught a fish dance!)

Today Bass Pro and the Department of Conservation had free fishing...the boys loved it! Austin caught two pretty good sized catfish, and Andrew caught three little perch. These were the two polaroids they took there....I'll post more later...

Mohawk....Rock and Roll!!!

Austin wanted a mohawk...so he could Rock and Roll!!!
He looks too good in a mohawk!

and Drew wanted in in the action....

(Unfortunately for the boys, mommy said no to keeping them)

Lost a Tooth!

So Drew has had a wobbly tooth for awhile. He hit it on something a while ago, and it's been kind of loose, but getting looser. He hasn't been able to eat apples unless I slice them for a few months. So today he was eating baby carrots and for some reason he bit it with his front tooth, and he tooth started bleeding, he freaked out (he can't stand the site of blood), by the time he calms down and I look at it, it's still hanging in there. We didn't try to pull it because I was afraid he'd freak out more. So an hour later he's "just touching it" and it falls out! It's his 3rd lost tooth, but his first top one...something about the top teeth that's special...
Tonight before bed he tells me he doesn't want to put it under his pillow for the tooth fairy, he wants to keep it (hmmm...sounds familiar....I think I still have a little box with a couple teeth in in too that I didn't want to cash in). So after some discussion he wrote a note to the tooth fairy asking to keep it, but maybe still get some gum.
Maybe the tooth fairy is up for negotiations these days, hhmm?


Austin told us tonight that "when you mix hot and cold water together you get warm." I said that's right, very good!
Then he said, "yah, when you mix warm and hot you get cold" I said I don't know about that...
Austin said "yah, it does, I know because I'm smart...I don't need to go to kindergarden"
Andrew pipped up, "Austin, you have to go to kindergarden to learn all kinds of stuff..."
Austin said "no Drew, you just come home and tell me all the stuff you know and then I know it... I don't want to go to Kindergarden, I want to stay home all day with momma"

Such a sweetie....at least we have one more year before his school starts. And I have one more year to teach him that warm and hot don't make cold...