On Friday, Ms. Jackie (the 2-yr old teach at Aiden and Eli's daycare) took them home from daycare and kept them over night. UF was competing against GA in a gymnastics meet and I wanted to make sure while we were living in Florida, that I actually got to go to a meet again. I got to see a few old teammates which was fun. I called Jackie at 6:45pm to see how things were going. She told me the boys had a great time at the park, then they ate McDonald's for dinner, and then they just wandered around on her farm a while and got really dirty. She even gave them a bath. I told her I was shocked that Aiden let her give him a bath and that he even got dirty enough to need one. He got all kinds of dirty exploring around her house and really enjoyed feeding her horse. Brad and I had a great date and got to see some great gymnastics.
On Saturday morning, we picked up the boys at 9:15am. We didn't get back home until about midnight so it was very good that we didn't have to pick up the boys until around 9:00am. When we got to Ms. Jackie's, she had all their stuff ready. The boys were busy playing in the living room. They were glad to see us and said they had a great time. They want to go back to Ms. Jackie's but have us go with them and feed the horses. We went to Lowe's Build and Grow Workshop when we left Jackie's house. It was the first time we have gone to Lowe's (we love Home Depot on the first saturday of the month). The boys liked getting different aprons and they were excited to build a car.
Here is Eli helping daddy pound the nails in the bottom of the car.
I was working with Aiden and made him try to hit the nail as well. He did it two or three times and then said he "wasn't strong enough; mommy finish."
They were really happy to hear (literally) that the car made noises when you pushed a button on top. Although it looks like Eli is using his car as a phone, he's actually listening to the speaker on the underside of the car.
Brad tried to take a picture of all of us but Aiden was too busy listening to his car to stop and smile for the camera.
The boys took awesome naps. Ms. Jackie said the little stinkers (she didn't call them stinkers) even woke up a little before 7am so we knew they would be exhausted. The fell right asleep and slept for 2.5 hrs. After they woke up, we went to a local park about 20 min away from us. I didn't realize Brad had never been to this park before and he enjoyed it. Brad and Aiden played chase and hide-and-go-seek for a long time. Eli, as you can see below, was serving me up so food. The wood chips were carrot sticks and apple slices.
I have a video of this that I took on my camera (and need to figure out how to put it on the blog) but Eli was driving on the cars and Brad acted like Eli had just hit him. Eli would crack up laughing and I must admit I was laughing because Eli was laughing so hard.
Here is Brad and Aiden working on the digger. The handles are so heavy that Aiden can't lift them up by himself. He decided he would make Brad do all the work and he would just tell Brad what to do. Pretty smart boy!
We stayed at the playground so long that I wasn't going to have time to make dinner so we went to IHOP (where kids eat free from 4-7pm everyday). It was taking a very long time to get our food so I asked Brad to get his phone out and let Aiden play with the flashcards that he installed on there a long time ago. Brad has an Android-based phone and it has a touch screen. It was Aiden's first time playing with it. He had so much fun tapping the screen to make the next card appear. We even got Eli to take turn with Aiden. If Eli would say, or at least try to, the name of the object, he got to tap the screen. Brad just got a new iTouch earlier in the week so he gave mine (I got it free a few yrs ago when I bought my mac) back to me. I loaded it up with kid apps and decided I would carry it for when we had long waits again.
We went to church on Sunday morning as usual. Here is Brad playing with the boys in the afternoon. They were playing Candyland but Aiden didn't want to play by the rules so Brad wouldn't play with him. He got really upset that Brad wanted to play by the rules. Aiden decided to wear his new Lowe's apron to AWANA on Sunday night. We found at the end of AWANA that next week is Camo week. Aiden is already so excited and he has his entire outfit picked out (including socks) but told me yesterday "I wish I could have camo underwear." The kid cracks me up.
This morning I let Aiden play on my computer some. He really enjoys to be mentally challenged/stimulated so I wanted to see how he would react to the computer. I also thought that using a mouse would be good for his motor skills. He was getting the hang of it and really enjoyed it. After taking Eli to daycare at 11am, Aiden and I had a date at chick-fil-a by his therapy (it has a bigger play area than the one closer to us). We ate, he tried to play but said it was "too loud" in the play room and wanted to "wait until the noisy kids leave." He absolutely cracks me up at times. I told him I had my iTouch and put some games on it for him. I showed him how to play a memory game and then he also played a matching number game, and tracing some of the alphabet. He acted like he had been using the thing for months. It was ironic because we went to therapy and he used in the iPad in therapy for the first time. He dragged these shapes into the correct spaces like he had been playing that game for months. It was amazing. Ms. Lisa also had some cool writing apps. Needless to say, I see an iPad in our very near future. He was able to use a special pen and could practice his writing on the iPad and actually enjoyed doing it. At home, when I try to work with him on writing (most other things he will do willingly), he says no and won't do anything. I even try and bribe him with special play time, a piece of candy, etc and he still won't trace/write letters for me.
Eli didn't get much of a nap at daycare and Aiden got no nap so they were a handful this afternoon. After a certain amount of fighting on the train table, I kicked them off. Aiden asked to build a new track and I said yes but if I heard any arguing, I was putting it back in the box. The little engineer built a pretty cool track in about 5 minutes. He has a 3-way switch on the far side an a 2-way switch on the side in front of Aiden. There were lots of places for the boys to play on the track so they stopped arguing thankfully. We also made muffins this afternoon. Aiden stirred the batter for about 10 seconds and then told me "my hand is tired." When daddy came home at 5pm, Aiden runs to him and tells him we made muffins today.
I let the boys have special snack time in the living room in chairs so they could skype with Nana.
The other fun thing is that I got my new blog book in the mail today. It's the thickest one yet!! I love that I have these books to document our family growing and to see all the pictures.
Finally, Brad got his written orders today for Air Force War College in Alabama. We are relieved about this. Brad's orders even state that he is due to check-out at the end of June which would be totally awesome. However, I'm gonna still expect Brad back in July and will miss our birthdays as usual. I think he's only been around 2 times out of the 5 yrs and this would be 6 yrs. Whatever happens is God's plan!
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