Here we go Red Sox, here we go!

Today was an extra special day for all of us! Ryan, Lucas and I purchased tickets to the Braves vs. Red Sox game for Dave as his Father's Day gift. Since we couldn't figure out how coordinate a trip to Fenway for a game, we had to settle for Turner Field. It was a 1:35pm game with temperatures in the high 90s so we were a bit worried. But, we opted to leave our seats and head straight to the covered section which was primarily empty. The boys did great! Ryan loved it...ok, really he loved all the snacks and dancing...but whatever works. And Lucas was a trooper-it certainly was hot out there and he didn't complain once.
We all did our best to cheer Boston on to a victory...but despite our best efforts, Atlanta came out on top 2-1. Next time we'll have to cheer from the stands at Fenway!
Happy Father's Day Daddy! We hope you enjoyed your day!

Locomotive museum & the park

On Friday we started our next lesson plan which was trains. So, on Saturday we met up with Landon & his mommy to continue the learning fun at the Southern Locomotive Museum. The boys had a great time exploring together, as always.





Today we took the boys to the park to play. Ryan is absolutely loving the fact that Lucas can finally interact with him the way that he wants.

The Zoo and "why didn't God bring me any presents?"

We had Gavin all day on Saturday while Jaclyn worked. I knew I was going to have to keep the 3 boys busy all day...so we packed up the three of them and our lunches and headed to the zoo. Ryan and Gavin had a blast! Ryan always has so much more fun when he has a friend to explore with.

This morning, we started our second week of summer learning. I had purchased a bag of alphabet sponge stamps that Ryan has been begging to use so we started off with those.

He already knows the sound that each letter makes and can identify the letter if you make a sound so I figured why not try to work on spelling. As he stamped each letter we talked about the sound it made and which words might start with that sound. He picked the words and we spelled them together. Please excuse my illustrations, an artist I am not. lol

For our second week of lesson planning we are working on learning about God & The Bible. I know when I was little I always thought God was a man that lived in the clouds :) So, I thought Ryan would enjoy starting at the beginning. He already knows that God loves him and that he's talking to God when he says his bedtime prayers but I think that's about it. His time at church is spent on snacking and his etch a sketch.

Anyway, we started off by talking about God. I was explaining to him that God is way up beyond the sky & clouds in a place called heaven and although we can't see him that God is everywhere and always looking over us. Ryan proceeded to calmly walk away. I didn't know quite what to make of it. He promptly returned and said "God is like Santa & the Easter Bunny?" I told him maybe a little bit, only because we can't see them but we know that they are there- but that God was more like the wind-we can feel it but can't see it. And he replied with "then why didn't God bring me any presents?" I had to hold back my smile while I told him that our presents from God aren't wrapped or toys, that God gave us the earth and trees and that He gave daddy & I two healthy little boys to love. He looked at me like I wasn't speaking English! Precious moments like that make me so incredibly happy to be a mom. And it should be an interesting week of learning!!

Today our focus was that God created day & night