Busy Week!

Yesterday was our 8 year wedding anniversary (and our 11th year anniversary of dating), and Mitch came home from work with not one, but two gorgeous bouquets of flowers for me, including these amazing fuschia dyed sunflowers. LOVE them (and love him too, of course!)! We stayed home, played with the kids and had some bbq'd bacon wrapped filet mignon to celebrate. My parents will be watching the boys overnight on my b-day in a couple of weeks, so we'll go out and do a double celebration dinner that night. Thanks to everyone who called and emailed us congratulations yesterday - we really appreciate all the loving thoughts! It's hard to believe that it's been that long already!

We've been busy, busy, busy around here, as usual! The boys are officially sharing a room now after many nights of pleading to "have a sleep over" in each other's rooms. We spent a big chunk of time last night taking down Sawyer's bulldozer bed so that both boys are now sleeping with their mattresses side-by-side on the floor. We decided to have them both sleep on bare mattresses, because all week long we've been having trouble with Sutton wanting to sleep wherever Sawyer was sleeping (and trust me, we switched beds back and forth a gazillion times so the issue wasn't that Sutton wanted one bed over the other, he just wanted to be with his brother), so in the end we decided that identical sleeping arrangements was the best idea. I suppose that at some point we will look into buying them twin beds or maybe bunk beds when they're older, but for now the mattresses on the floor are perfect, especially for Sutton who tends to roll out of bed rather often. For now, the empty bulldozer bed shell has been moved into Sutton's old room and will be reassembled into something that the boys can play in and make forts in. After we finally got everything rearranged, bedtime last night was much easier than it had been the few nights before, and I actually had to go in at 7:40 this morning to wake both of my snoring boys up so they wouldn't be late for school!

Speaking of school...this (above) is how Sawyer can most often be found after a long day at preschool. He really loves his new school, but it certainly does wear him out! In the past couple of weeks he has played with Moon Sand and artists clay, planted flowers and watered the garden, stacked blocks (aka The Pink Tower for those familiar with Montessori work), and "did lots of school stuff." Today I went with his class on a field trip to the old library where they attended a "Books in the Courtyard" event. The children got to walk around the courtyard and browse picnic tables piled high with new Scholastic brand books. In the end, each child got to choose one book to bring home and keep. Sawyer chose a farm animal true-or-false fun fact book, and I was really surprised that he didn't pick any of the I Spy or bulldozer/truck/crane books they had there. He did almost swap his farm book for one called "Aliens Love Underpants," but in the end the cute little piglet on the cover of the farm book managed to keep his attention.

I think that my most favorite change that I can see taking place in Sawyer is that he is keeping things MUCH cleaner and neater, and he even has been asking if he can help clean up around the house! Yesterday the boys both wanted to help clean the house before Hattie came over, and they did a great job! Sutton vaccumed the hallway, Sawyer dusted the stairs, and they both took turns dusting the tables and washing the windows. Yippee!

(Saw is whistling while he works here, that's why he is making a silly face)

We had a little musical jam session before we started our 4th of July arts and craft projects.

Hat and Saw making pipe cleaner and glitter fireworks. I'll post pics of their 4th of July crafts tomorrow once they're done with them all :)

Here's a sneak preview of what we're working on for our Super Summer Swap pals - finger puppets! Right now Sawyer has claimed the pink monster, and Sutton is holding on tightly to the panda, so it looks like one of our pals may be able to claim the farm animal set. Hopefully!

We're looking forward to a fun 4th of July this weekend! We'll be heading to McBean park in the morning for some fun in the Kids Zone, and then going to Jim's house for our usual 4th of July swim session and fireworks. This year I am attempting to make Bakerella's cake pops, only mine will be simply covered in white candy with red and blue sprinkles - wish me luck!