Raising Boys

Every Tuesday and Thursday Brice attends speech therapy at the University of Tulsa.  During his half hour appointments, Rogan and I often go on "treasure hunts". Treasure hunts are actually just a walk around campus looking for nature's treasures such as acorns, leaves, rocks, anything that catches our eye.  Today, we hit the jackpot.  We found a little snake skin from a garter snake.

Brice was very excited when he came out of his appointment to see the treasure we found. He was waving the small skin all around saying, "snake, snake!". The ladies in the waiting room and his speech pathologist were not impressed.

Raising boys guarantees life is never dull.

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Holy Smokes!

Where did that week go?

It all started when Brian's parents arrived a week ago Saturday to spend the weekend at our house.  They left on Sunday and Tuesday, June 15th Road Trippin' Granny and my mom arrived.  Mom and Granny had been traveling from Kansas to Colorado to visit family. After their Colorado road trip they drove to Oklahoma to spend the rest of the week with us.  Granny left Friday to travel back to the Land of Oz and my dad arrived for the weekend to pick up my mom and head to Oklahoma City to work for a few days.

Brian, the kids, and I followed my parents to Oklahoma City yesterday to spend Father's Day together.  It has been crazy around here.  Hotel Mitchell has had no vacancies.  We have played dominoes, visited with family, had fun, and have eaten a lot of food.  Good times!  We had so much fun in fact, I never even stopped long enough to pick up my camera and snap a picture. You will just have to take my word for it.

A great way to kick off summer.

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Soccer

Brice started indoor soccer last night.  We decided to go with soccer instead of t-ball we were afraid t-ball may be a little too slow moving for Briceman.  He did a great job and is actually pretty good at dribbling the ball while running.  The Lil' Kickers is not actually a league they work on their skills and teach them the basics.  Next year he will be old enough for games.  We hope he continues to enjoy it, we believe it is a great activity for him because he gets to move constantly.  He was so proud of his uniform he did not want to take it off last night.

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What Didn't We Do?

We started out Saturday morning by heading out to our little local airport for the Just Plane Fun event.  They had all kinds of games for the kids, bounce houses, the local mascots and we watched teams try and pull a 747 airplane.

Sunday we went to a new little water park they opened up down the road. No pictures, but we had a lot of fun. It will be a great place for me to take the kids this summer.

We also played outside.  The boys had a race.  Rogan cheats.  He says, "GO!" and takes off while everyone else is still on their mark.

Brice painted a few pictures.

We attempted to roast marshmallows for s'mores.  Brice just liked burning the marshmallows and Rogan just wanted to eat all the ingredients.

We did a lot and we had a lot of fun!

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Zoo Day

It has been very hot in Oklahoma...like July and August hot.  Despite the ridiculous heat the boys and I decided to head to the zoo today.  There was a pretty good breeze so it was tolerable.

The boys ate their weight in food and they kept wanting more.  We started off with popcorn and a lemonade (I did feed them breakfast by the way) then they wanted lunch. Chicken strips, fries and a fruit cup.  Of course that had to be followed by a large cookie for dessert.  Our boys, it seems as if their legs are hollow sometimes.  I do not know where they put it all.  I did not buy myself lunch because I thought there is no way they will eat all of theirs so I'll just have the leftovers.  I had a turkey sandwich when we got home.

The goose was trying to sneak in for Rogan's dropped popcorn.

Rogan was alerted to the sneak attack.

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Our Weekend

We enjoyed our weekend very much.  Brian had to work a little, but he was able to be home most of the weekend.  We did a whole lot of nothing.  We hung out in our backyard, went to the neighborhood pool and cooked out.  Our neighbors came over to eat and play in the yard.  Tans, full bellies, laughs and lots of fun at our house.  Hope you all enjoyed your long weekend as much as we did.

 

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