Fun with Water (and corn)

This week we haven't done much other than pick corn and play outside (when the weather was cooperating!).  Not the most exciting week, but we sure had fun  :)

Ike "helping" pick some corn.  Stacey and I (with help from Divana) picked over 300 ears!

Shucked and ready for us to put up!











I know that I am sure sick of seeing corn!  We decided that we would not make very good pioneer women, but it will be nice to have in the cold winter months.  And it was free, so that always works for me!

We had a huge thunderstorm Thursday night, which of course kept Dave up most of the night.  The upside was it created an awesome puddle in our front yard that the kids had a blast playing in.

Dave looking a little crazy with the hose.












Ike up close and personal-he kept wanting to sit on my lap after he was soaked!

Dave spraying down Bennett's feet.

Jumping in from the road.











Ike and Dave have loved watching everyone's ice bucket videos!  We have even gotten to see some of them live in action.  Ike is especially pumped about them, and he recreates them whenever I let him play with the hose.

Ready to dump.

His after.













He always says, "Ikey wet" when he dumps the bucket.

Dave after he dumped water on his head.  Here's a video of the two of them doing the bucket challenge.

Pizza and a Snake!

Our family went with two others from our neighborhood to Fridays on the Farm Pizza at Hawkins farm up in North Manchester.  It was so much fun!  You sit outside, order delicious brick oven pizza, and the kids get to check out the farm and all the animals.





Sam, Ike, and Lewis enjoying the beautiful weather (or something like that).











Josh and Dave-both sporting fresh haircuts  :)

Just checking out some chickens.

Ike and I.  He has the goofiest smiles lately.









In other news, we had a snake in our garage a couple days ago!  Talk about exciting, especially for Ike and Dave.  I don't think Josh was too pumped about it, but he did manage to scoot it out with a golf club.  Don't worry, it wasn't injured!







Our new friend.

Dave looking a little freaked out, but kind of excited.











 

Cousins

Josh's parents had Sophie and Caleb this past weekend, so we got in lots of quality cousin time!  My mom was also in town (it was Josh's duty weekend), so we had lots of grandparents around too.




Gamma bought the kids a self-inflating whoopee cushion.  And it was the best toy ever.











Dave and Sophie playing dress up-you can't see that they are both wearing a pair of Auntie Em's winter boots  :)










They had some pretty intense foot races (I am pretty sure Sophie won every single one)












Ike cooking up some delicious soup for us.












Caleb rocking Sophie's heart sunglasses.













Story time with Grandma D.  I think this one was about a boy picking his nose?











Seriously, these two are so cute.









And on Saturday, we headed to the beach!

Digging up some sand.

Who needs buckets when you have plastic cups?!

Ike was really enjoying his watermelon snack.

22 Months!

Every month we inch closer to my little guy being 2, and it turns out he is not so little anymore!  His mind is always turning and I have a feeling he is going to be quite a bit like his big brother (in both good and challenging ways!).  He is a little tornado of destruction and he has really developed his temper tantrums lately.







His month picture-getting more and more difficult for him to sit still.












Ike has been obsessed with taking golf cart rides with our neighbor Mike this summer.  I finally snapped a picture of them cruising around-of course Dave was not cooperating.






Pretty typical of the kids-Dave is refusing to do what I ask and Ike is not wearing a shirt.












All of his interests center around heavy machinery (tractors, lawn mowers, etc.) and anything that makes a loud noise (weed eaters, sweeper machine).  A couple weeks ago we had a new roof put on our house and ever since then Ike has kept repeating, "roof all done?" because it was super loud all week and he was tired of hearing it!  Now he has a whole routine saying, "lawn mower all done, sweeper all done, roof all done?".  He says it every time I lay him down-I guess he doesn't want his sleep interrupted by loud noises!







Don't worry, Ike always wears his ear protection while operating his blower  :)











Ike can now count to 3, can kind of tell the difference between colors (still won't identify on his own though), his favorite book is Goodnight Goodnight Construction Site, and he loves to pretend call all of his grandparents using anything that even somewhat resembles a phone (remote control, camera, etc.).

The boys had a rough bath time without dad the other night.  I couldn't resist a picture!













Ike learned to ride the scooter this week!  Here's a video of him scootering around the driveway.

And here's what happened when I told him he had to go inside because it was raining.












We are pretty sure Ike is coming down with hand, foot, and mouth since half our neighborhood currently has it.  Right now he just got over a fever and has a couple of bumps, so we will see.  Anyway, he would not go to sleep last night so we let him come hang out with us while we watched TV.

So cute!  Here's a video of him running around when he was supposed to be asleep.