S-U-M-M-E-R!

Because, you know, it's not really summer until the Pompano opens!

Emmy totally rocked her goggles.

This is what it looks like around Basil everytime he goes to the pool. Only one of these kids are ours.

Jacob took a turn in the dunking booth.

Jonah won a door prize.

Wordless Wednesday

The world is your canvas

Because where's the fun in ONLY painting on the paper?

Not much of this left...

Thankfully. I'm ready to be done with the whole school schedule. FREEDOM! 5 school days and counting!!

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On the days that he's awake from his nap, he likes to go outside with me and wait for the bus. He waves as soon as the bus rounds the corner, waves it to a stop, waves the kids off, and waves as it pulls away. The bus driver always waves back enthusiastically and yesterday he tooted the horn for Caleb, he thought that was especially cool.

Get ready summer, here we come!

First Pond Day 2010

We went over for Mother's Day. We cooked, swam, hunted for turtles, picked blackberries, licked honeysuckle, ran, played and got dirty. It really was too cool to get into the water but kids don't care, they had a blast.

This was taken right before the fish found his toes. He was NOT a fan and didn't get back in. I'm hoping that some water shoes will prevent a freak out in the future.

Emmy trying to rescue the golf cart that was stuck in the bushes because Jonah "wanted to go through there."

Caleb decided that he just wanted to run behind it for a while, their driving is a little too crazy for him.

They worked hard to find blackberries and only came home with a cup or so.

Probably because most of them looked like this:

Honeysuckle. I remember this being a favorite thing to do over there when I was a kid.

YAY for the pond!!

Gator 911

Update:

I guess this answers our question, we saw this when we passed by on Saturday:

Original post:

We've been watching Gator 911 on CMT pretty regularly now. Jacob and Jonah love animal shows and since we've been to Gator Country a few times, they feel like they're watching people on TV that they "know." "HEY! There's that big tall guy that let us pet the snake last time!" A month or so ago, we heard that they were at the canal down the street from our house but by the time we got out there they had already gone. Jacob and Jonah were bummed to say the least. Fast forward a week, and we just happened upon them as they were getting there again. I'm not sure if they ever caught the gator in the canal, but the boys were jazzed to get to be there nonetheless. Basil went with them for a bit and I stayed in the car with Caleb and a totally non interested and unimpressed Emily.

Mile run 2010

Remember last year? Oh the horror. It was a complete disaster. This year, we tried to prepare for it. Basil took them out to the track and had them practice, and I really think that's what made the difference. That and the start time, last year they started at 12:30 and this year it was 8:30. It was cloudy and breezy this year and blazing hot with NO wind last year. They did GREAT this time around, zero crying and no walking! Jonah ran first and finished in 9 1/2 minutes, give or take. Jacob finished in a little over 8 minutes!! Basil had his stopwatch (haha) and he kept saying "you'd better slow down boy or be able to keep up that pace!" When practicing Jacob was running around an 11 minute mile and Jonah somewhere around 14 or so. I guess running with all of their friends and having people cheer them on amped them up some. I was SO proud of them! They have something at school where if you run the mile in under a certain time you get "presidential" and I have NO idea what that means but the boys were excited to find out that they both ran fast enough to get it.

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Jonah and his friend Gavin waiting their turn to go:

Almost done!

Finishing strong.

Whew, done!

Jacob waiting his turn:

The teachers letting him know that he had two laps to go:

At the finish. This picture makes it look like he was hurting, but he never complained.

Can you stop with the pictures Mom? I'm trying to catch my breath!

Emmy will have to do it next year, and she'll have that oh so fantastic 12:30 start time. It should be a real trip, because she's not the runnin' kind of girl.