Sophie's 5th Birthday

On Friday the kids and I went down to Indy to celebrate Sophie's birthday (I am in total denial that this means Dave is going to turn 5 in a couple of months!).  We met at a park and had pizza and cupcakes with ice cream and the kids had a blast hanging out with their cousins.

Getting ready to blow out her candle.  No idea what is going on with Dave.













Ike really enjoyed his ice cream.  Kept him occupied for about 10 minutes!

Sophie had lots of (unwanted) help opening up her presents.  :)








Besides the party, we have been pretty much just hanging out around campus.  The weather has been really cool in the mornings this past week, so we have spent a lot of time inside until it warms up.

Playing on Dave's bed.









I had to wash Dave's sheets because he fell asleep on top of a granola bar he insisted on eating around 3 a.m. the other night.  The boys thought it was so fun to be on Dave's bed without the sheets on.  They are super strange!

Ike and Bennett watching the turtles eat.  

Dave doing his homework for preschool.













He has homework to do about once a week, which is really nice to get him in the habit of doing it.  He always insists on doing it right away!

After looking at old videos on youtube I realized how I have been slacking taking videos of Ike!  So I took one today while big brother was not around to try to steal the spotlight  :)  Here is Ike talking about a bunch of random stuff.

Ike Turns 23 Months and Dave's 1st Day of Pre-K

Since I was slacking on writing both of these posts, I figured I may as well stick them together.  I am in total denial that Ike is going to be 2 in a month and Dave is one short year away from kindergarten.  I can't take all this growing up!








Ike's 23 month picture...only about a week late.

Dave before his first morning.  He looks so old!

Ike wanted to get his picture taken with Dave-pretty sure he thought he was going to school too!











A little about each boy.  Ike continues to dislike hearing "no" and now tattles on whoever did so.  Imagine him crying to the point of blubbering and then telling me, "Daddy said no!!!".  Not a fan.  He has started saying ummm whenever he can't think of an answer.  "Ike, what color is the tractor?"  "ummmmm, blue?"  Still gotta work on those colors  :)  He insists that I sing Muscle in the Arm every night before bed but only really wants to hear the line about the horse.  His favorite books right now are any Curious George and he still loves lawnmowers above all other things.

In the last week Dave has insisted that he will be the following professions:  firefighter, soldier (because they get to carry guns, of course), work at White's like dad, and a basketball player.  So we'll see if any of those turn out.  His teacher this year is Miss Stephanie who he absolutely loves and he seems to be having a ton of fun so far in his class.  He loves to watch youtube videos of kids talking about random things like video games and opening up blind bags.  His favorite TV show is probably Power Rangers right now.  And he is obsessed with anything to do with Legos (especially mini figures).

Ike having a blast playing with noodles.

Dave making a pouty face.

But look at that grin!

Ike keeping our yard looking the best in the neighborhood :)

Bennett, Dave, and Ike playing superheroes upstairs.








Finally, here's a video of Ike singing the Batman and Spider-man songs (sort of) and then attempting to jump.  He really did jump this morning, but has had trouble repeating the skill  :)

A Week in Southern Indiana

We just spent a fantastic week relaxing with the family down in Evansville.  Josh had some extra vacation time, so we headed down to see everybody and enjoy the tail-end of summer.  Tony took off the whole week, but everybody else had to work which gave us lots of time to do some random activities that we have been wanting to do!





Dave with Uncle Justin.  He was so excited that my stepbrother Justin came to visit over Labor Day weekend!  They had lots of nerf fights!

Ike with Uncle Tony.  Adorable.

We went to Sky Zone!  So. Much. Fun.










One summer in college I worked at the plant where my dad works in Kentucky.  Every day Tony and I drove past Audubon State Park in Henderson and I always wanted to see what it was...finally made it there, and it was so nice!

Dave and Josh on a grapevine.

The long hike to the "scenic" overlook.

It wasn't super scenic, but we had a lot of fun getting there.








We ventured over to Kentucky again to go to Smothers Park in Owensboro.  Seriously the nicest park/play area I have ever seen.  Highly recommended if you are in the area!

Dave and Ike in the splash area.

I think they thought it was funny because it looked like they were peeing?  Boys...

Dave climbed this big rock wall all by himself.

Just watching a barge go by.

Big time bubbles in Gamma's awesome tub.

Riding some rides at Gatti Town.  Dave even got to go on the bumper cars.

I just loved Dave's expression here.

Ike and Papa Charlie on one of several lawn mower rides.  He always made sure to tell me that it was "on" afterwards.







So that was pretty much our visit.  I didn't get any pictures of the kids playing in the pool, but we spent many afternoons lounging in the sunshine!  Dave, Josh, and Tony also played golf one afternoon, but I received no pictures of the event.  Lots of good food and fun times being with family!