Sheets Wildlife Museum and Other Things (Like Dave Losing a Tooth!)

Yesterday, Divana and I took Ike to check out Sheets Wildlife Museum in Huntington.  Josh and I had taken Dave when he was really little (here's the link to the blogpost if anyone is interested  http://jmbowyer.blogspot.com/2010/09/sumner-wildlife-museum.html).  To summarize, it's a museum filled with animals that a man from Huntington hunted throughout his lifetime.  Super awesome.

Divana and Ike with a giant moose head.















Ike with the huge polar bear.  It is crazy how big these animals are!










Dave had a wiggly tooth for a couple of days, then lost it last week during school.  He is super proud of his new smile, and Josh rewarded him by buying him minecraft on the WiiU.  Basically the best thing that ever happened to the kid.




I have noticed he is smiling for me a lot better these days!







Gosh Dave is getting so big!  We signed him up last week for Tball, so he is getting really pumped for that.  He also swam 15 laps in the pool the other day by himself!  Maybe he'll be an olympic swimmer someday  :)

Dressed in costumes by 8 am on Dave's day off on Monday.  We also went to the pool where Ike was able to swim without his floaties for the first time!  Here's a video.

Ike is suuuuuper into Jake and the Neverland Pirates.  He wants to watch it constantly and always has his eyeglass and sword ready to go.

The boys and their friend Gabe playing outside last week on a warmish day.

Couple of cuties!














We are all geared up for our Florida trip...two weeks and counting!!  And we are looking forward to some warm temps here in Indiana this weekend.  A little preview to Spring.

January Recap

We have had a busy start to the year already!  Dave is back to school and loving it, we bought a new (to us) van, and I finally joined the 21st century and got a smart phone!  In sad news, one of our turtles (from when my brother and I were little) died last week.  Shelly lived a nice long life (at least 20 years!), but I almost expected them to outlive me.  Here's Ike with Yertle.



And a video of him saying "purple turtle".  Love how he says it!








Ike and I have been working a little on letters and numbers.  He basically has no interest in either.  Definitely different from his brother!!  I thought I better get him started since he starts preschool next year-where has the time gone??  He has become super temperamental at times but is still our little joke-ster and thinks all gross bodily functions are absolutely hilarious.  Oh-and he learned to snap.  Here's a video!  He is super proud of his new talent  :)

He wanted me to take a picture of his mean face.








Dave has been getting along great in school.  I hear very little about what actually goes on from him though!  He can read most kids books now with a little help sounding out the hard words, which is just crazy to me.  Love hearing him work through words and how excited he gets when he figures a difficult one out.  We spend a lot of time at the pool because I lifeguard on campus, and Dave wanted me to take some cool action shots of him with my new phone the other day.

Popping out of the water.

Not sure what this move is!







The boys fight constantly and drive each other crazy (and me too most days!).  But then they do something super sweet for the other and I forget about all the noise they created just minutes before.  They do agree on a couple things-their love of the movie Jumanji (random right?) and the Goosebumps TV show.  We are all super excited about our upcoming trip to Florida-leaving in less than a month now!  Even though our winter hasn't been too bad, we are looking forward to some of that Florida sunshine.

One last pic-selfie with Ike.







All the photos in this post are courtesy of my new phone!  I think I kinda like it  :)