Cheese!

I want to point out, Jordan is giving himself bunny ears!

Best Standing in Line faces!

Don't we look happy to be at Worlds of Fun! And this was like the 2nd ride of the day! Excited and Thrilled!

Noah Said

I decided to write some of the funny things the boys are saying on the blog. 1 because they are funny and 2 to help me remember when I am old. B/c I will have this blog in 50 yrs. Ha!


Okay here goes.

Our neighbors are moving b/c of the husband's job. Our neighbors son said it was all his Dad's fault since his dad was not having any fun at his current job- he wanted to change jobs. And Noah said "Doesn't he know he is NOT supposed to be having fun at Work!!"

Before and After

This little monkey is still at my house. Now he is a sad little monkey! He is like almost a month old!

Newest Member of the Fam!

This is my newest nephew Tyler Joseph Davids. He was born 4 weeks early on Monday weighing a whopping 6lbs 4oz (hope thats right :). Anyway, as you can see is doing his tanning session since he is jaundice. Which I will point out, I told his nurse on Tues morning that he should be tested. But his doctor thought he didn't look jaundice and waited until the day he was going home to test him. And shockingly, he was jaundiced and couldn't go home (DUH! Why don't people listen to me). He was a little glow worm for a day and then went home yesterday. Yeah! Mommy and Tyler are doing GREAT!

Coco Keys

I surprised the boys w/an overnight at the Sheraton and 2 days @ Coco Keys! They were sooooo shocked and excited. Even Lucas who had no idea what Coco Keys was, but like the idea of staying in the hotel. We were wet, wet and wetter for Tues evening and ALL DAY Wednes. I had even been able to pack a suitcase and sneak it into the car w/o the boys knowing. I know they are not that observant. I took some other pics of our stacation!

Lunch!

The top 2 photos are of what the kids called the "park". It had 5 slides and LOTS of ways to get wet. To include a giant blucket at the top that dumped hundreds of galloons of water every 7minutes. The bottom pic is of the stairs that lead to the 3 other water slides. Two slides you use innertubes. I tried them out w/the older boys. They were fun. Lucas would not go on them. Surprise, surprise. NOT!

Noah and Eli enjoyed being on the lazy river. Lucas liked to play basketball, and thought he needed the life jacket so if he went on the 4ft side of the pool, he would be safe. Lucas liked the outdoor hot tub best. Noah like the lazy river best. While, Eli's vote was for the HUGE water slides. I like the lazy river too, but only when it wasn't crowded w/kids racing. Which was not often!

King and Queen of Winnerville (inside joke btwn Lucas and I). I am not wearing my crown.

We made a stop at kaleidascope. The boys weren't very interested, but did have fun!

I took the boys back to MoneyVille. It was hard to enjoy w/3 instead of just 1. Noah and Eli enjoyed playing the stock market w/ over 10,000 and running a lemonade stand to figure out how to make a profit. Lucas set up shop in the market and had no problem taking control.

Yummy! Trevor is quite the noisey eater.

Trevor was quite happy to share his goldfish.

He is practicing his big brother skills.

Trevor taking his own pics

Trevor found my camera and decided to take his own pics. However, he was still the subject of his own photos. I believe Julie is to blame since he thinks he should be in all pics :). The second he is taking a pic of his new outfit that Nana and Papa got him. It is really cute, trust me!

Pizza at Nana's

All the grandboys got into the pizza making process. Trevor had to have a little help from Aunt Jennifer. I don't know how I missed taking a pic of Jordan, but he equally enjoyed making his own sausage/pepporoni pizza. And they almost enjoyed making the pizza as much as they enjoyed eating them.

Today, Lucas and I went to Splash Cove. It is a Shawnee Pool. A coworker Julie and her 4 girls were there. I couldn't take pics since there was so much water. But if you google it. You can see how cool it is.

They have a video screen that puts you up on the tvs. Lucas thought it was the coolest.

We topped the evening off at Chucky Cheese. Lucas was THRILLED!!! I was able to buy 40 tokens and get 60 FREE w/a coupon!! Probably too many, but it allowed me to join in the fun. Lucas liked the rides (which are the top 3 photos), but we did spend about 15min playing skeeball (spelling??) Julie probably knows since its her fav. Lucas played lots of games and had a blast. He got very good about finding the tickets that other kids left on the games. The bottom pic is of his prizes w/Chucky.

Lucas and I were trying to find something fun to do while the older boys were at camp this week. On Tues, we went to Crown Center to visit Kaleidscope and Moneyville. These two pics were taken at Kaleidscope which is full of art projects for kids to do. Lucas painted a bird, colored a card for me (how sweet), made a bookmark, colored a sign w/stencils of his name and age, colored a sheild and airplane. This was very interactive, so I was not able to take many pic. I really got into it, but Lucas moves so fast btwn projects that I had to put my stuff in his bag to finish later. The day got thumbs from Lucas.

Lucas and I went to the Moneyville Exhibit at Crown Center. It is a free exhibit from May to Sept. It had lots of activities to teach kids about money. Some of the photos show them. The exhibit that tried to show how much you can end up paying in interest on credit cards was interesting, but over Lucas's head. In the 2nd photo Lucas is holding the $100 bill that he designed. The bottom photo is Lucas on his own million dollar bill. I folded the page, but it actually has 3 bills on it. So, Lucas has his pic on 3 million dollars. But he doesn't share well.

Top photo: Lucas is inspecting different types of money from the past to try to figure out who used them (example beaver fur- Native American Indians, Spanish settlers, shells- I forgot, some greek coins etc). 2nd photo- Lucas is trying to figure out which bills are counterfit. 3rd photo- Lucas is being a bank teller. Bottom photo- Lucas is matching the coins w/the correct piggy bank which have tags showing how much money they hold. A group of kids from the YMCA came and kind of took over. But Lucas still enjoyed himself.

I took Lucas back to the free Monday night concert. My friend Tina and her girls were in town. So we had some fun together. Lucas hit face painting first. Only 30min wait. This time he got a snake face. No balloon this time. Lucas could of been 2nd in line, but waited until long was over an hour long b4 deciding that he wanted one. But when he realized how long his wait would be, he changed his mind.

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Check out your Plants!

Okay, Mom, I took these pic's yesterday. I hope that you are happy w/what you see. I am sorry to say that the lobia in the baskets has not made it. I checked them twice a day, but they still died. I haved failed you. But ALL the rest of the plants are doing fine. Have great time w/DAD. Eat some brauts for me. Love Ya. Rachel