James turns 5!!

I blinked and James is 5 years old!!!! I can hardly believe how fast life goes......hard to keep up sometimes.  James is (of course) back on the Cars bandwagon with the new Cars 2 movie that he just loves.  We had a mommy / Jr. night where only the two of us went and picked out all the stuff for his birthday party AND went to Toys R Us so he could pick out his very own birthday present.  He picked all the new characters from Cars 2 die cast cars, which he adores.  He calls them his "very special cars...that are delicate".  

Here are few pictures of the birthday party

First Trip to the Dentist

Jr. had his first trip to the dentist this week.  No cavities to report and he did really well.  He is getting so BIG!!

Lemonade.....Get your Lemonade

Katie has been "HOT" all summer to sell lemonade (or anything for that matter) out in front of my parents house with her little posse of friends.  (Her posse consists of 2 other girls from school)  They were trying to talk my mom into it for a while and she kept putting them off saying "Sorry girls I don't have any little cups" , or "Out of lemonade another day".   They finally broke her the other day.  She not only made the lemonade for them but also let them all paint a sign and setup a little stand for them.  Katie and Shandis stuck around to sell 2 cups of lemonade and then got bored and headed down to pick up Riley (the other one of the posse).  Jr. didn't miss a beat and stepped right in with my mom to take over the stand.  He knew exactly what to do, of course, because he watched in on Max and Ruby at least a dozen times. 

When I arrived to pick up the kids Jr had just collected the monies (as he calls them) from the neighbors who cleaned him out of lemonade.  He was a hit and made $3.00 by himself.  He kept yelling "Lemonade, Lemonade" to all the people driving by and of course who could resist those baby blues!!! 

Thunder Storm

Last night was the first night I have seen my kids in the past 5 days. Jr was so worn out from playing at Uncle Mike's house that he was asleep before I could even lay down with him. The thunder and lightning woke him up around 3am.  He came up to sleep with me as he was scared.  He has the uncanny ability to wake up 2 minutes before the alarm goes off....He woke up asking for chocolate milk and as I was getting him a fresh cup...my alarm went off.  I have been using my phone alarm lately but it sounds like crickets.  Standing in the kitchen half awake I hear a panic cry from Jr.  "Mom, Mom...there is bugs in your bed!!!!"

Needless to say he was WIDE awake after that!!!!

Little Brother's are so much fun

Katie is always looking for someone to dance with. Jr. likes to every once in a while, but today he wanted to wear the dance skirt to dance with her. He was shaking his booty and swishing the skirt to the music.

Ride that Duck!!

I am not really sure why my crazy son feels the need to ride the resin ducks at my mother's house....but he really had fun. He even managed to get Katie and Grandpa to take a turn on old mother duck. Yeee hawwww!!!