Boys

I want to know what it is in boys' wiring that makes them think they have to stomp in every puddle they see. I'm assuming its something along the same lines as why they need to take everything apart. And why they have to push each and every button on any piece of electronic equipment. I'm really curious. I went for a walk with my children this morning after it rained and I swear it was like each puddle had this magnetic pull on my boys. Especially Nick. Somehow that makes sense though seeing as Nate was wearing sandles (not such a big deal) and Nick was wearing socks and sneakers. Kyra doesn't react the same. She might go up to a puddle and lean over it. Maybe even stick a finger in. But she doesn't feel compelled to stomp in it as the boys do. So I'm curious. What makes boys do, what it is that boys do?

Kissing Monkey Patrol

Just some random pictures I've been collecting for a while on my digital. Hadn't gotten the software for my camera on this computer yet so I couldn't really do anything with them. But here they are! Enjoy. They begged me to draw all 3 of them. I've done it before (I'm pretty sure it was better before, too.) But they all stood over me until I had drawn ALL 3. They didn't want anyone to be left out.

Kyra was going down the slide and then intentionally standing on her head. Silly girl.


Watching the trains. They all had to be up there to see it go by.

First time Nate was ever on a 4 wheeler. My friend's husband actually took all of my kids out at one point but I didn't get pictures of the other 2. He went REALLY, REALLY slow. He had a good laugh after he told the boys to watch out in the woods for dinosaurs. He said that both of them were just staring into the trees waiting to see something. :)

Slacking again

Sorry about that guys. I always seem to go for a couple of weeks in between posts. Blame Lexi. She got me on this Lutheran singles site. I'm just having way too much fun talking to all these new people. It's nice to have intelligent conversations again after working where I work and coming home to 3 small children. I've also met a couple of very interesting men. Kind of interested in one but trying to remember that its online so I need to be careful. But he's actually studying to be a pastor. Kind of cool. And then there's David. ;) Lex and I met him through our crazy adventures on Match (short-lived adventures for me). We've had a lot of very interesting conversations. It's weird. I always thought these people who went out meeting people online were strange (and maybe even a little desperate). But I don't even really care if I come out of this with a romance. I'm just having so much fun making new friends that actually believe the same things as me and have morals. :) I missed that. Got too used to it in school, I guess.
I've also been trying to exercise more. I'm pretty proud of myself too. Lost about 13 pounds in one month. Not like I needed to lose a lot of weight, but I didn't need to still be carrying around all that baby weight. I pretty much just needed to do some major toning. I'm fitting into clothes I haven't worn in a long time. (I even felt brave enough to go lay out in the backyard in a bikini yesterday)
So those are my excuses. Trying to spend more time doing productive things and spending my time online on a site my sister got me on. Well, enough with excuses. There really isn't a whole lot new here. Nate finished his first year of preschool. Looking at his final report card it's neat to see the progress he's made this year. To see all the skills he learned. I think he's very excited to go back again next year. So now our summer project is to get Nick preschool-ready (in other words potty-train him). He knows how, its just a matter of going all the time when he needs to. It's not going to be easy either with two 2-week visits to WI. I guess it will be our first real test of how well we can work together as parents while not being together. I don't have a lot of faith in Brian, but we'll see.
Can't really think of much else. For anyone I had told about the play it's getting postponed until fall. :( Lack of people (male and female) to participate. We'll see how it goes come fall. It should leave the summer more open though. And that's about it. I'll try to get some new pics up soon but I'll have to download my camera's software onto this computer (we had major computer malfunctions a couple weeks ago so we're on a new computer without all the software we had before. And I no longer have access to a lot of my old pictures. :( very not cool. I could however add that on as one more excuse.) So keep an eye out for new pics.