Mondays, Tuesdays, and Fridays

Here’s a photo-tour of some things we do when our neighbors John and Justin come over.

We exceed the 100-lb weight limit on the stroller.

We eat lunch in the park every Monday, Tuesday, and Friday. No crumbs for me to sweep!

We eat apples. What great Washington boys, crunching away locally-grown apples.

What is it about little boys eating apples? Camera-magnets. This little guy (Justin) is such a ham! His haystack hair, goofy poses, and grunt-and-point language are quite endearing.

Jay eats his apples like a horse when he’s hungry. He starts on one side and eats all the way through till there’s nothing left. None of that eat-around-the-core nonsense for him! Thankfully I have managed to teach him to pick out the seeds.

We play scoop ball. It’s entertaining to watch these youngsters figure out how to scoop and throw. I find the slower-reaction time of toddlers very amusing. Throw ball. Watch it in the air. Ball lands. Look down. Wow, a ball!  Bend over. Pick up ball. Repeat.

Rose and I observe from the sidelines. She’s so good.

Slide sequence—the bumper booty game:

Jay and John played bumper booties for a good 20 minutes, squealing and laughing the whole time.

Boxes. Need I say more?

They played in these boxes for an entire HOUR straight!

The only time we did not go to the park for lunch, we had a lunch movie picnic.

Toy Story 3—muy emocionante! I don’t love turning on the TV for entertainment, but it’s fun every now and then. We watched half of the movie at a time.

Good ole Netflix streaming has a plethora of shows. We recently discovered Mighty Machines. It’s a mid-90’s Canadian show that just shows footage of machines at work, with a narrator explaining what’s going on in kid-friendly language. It’s the least-annoying kids show I’ve come across yet, unless you count the theme song. The boys love it.

Meanwhile, the little Rose bud hangs out and plays happily in the background.

Stroller-time again! Big brothers hold their younger siblings. Younger siblings try to escape. We ventured to the library this week. It was definitely exciting. I love watching the faces of passersby when they notice that I have 4 kids in my stroller.

We made a magnificent fort.

It took up our whole family room!

The boys watched the other half of Toy Story 3 on the laptop in their spacious fort.

I think I wore them out.