Fun at Home

These weeks have been flying past!  It seems like we don't have enough hours in the day to get everything done, but we've been having some good times.  These are my favorite pictures over the last few weeks in no particular order.

Ben finished his dinner quickly one night so I armed him with a nerf gun and put him in charge of Alex.  Every time Alex stopped eating he got shot with a foam disc.  Dinner wrapped up shortly thereafter!

 

Ben wanted to grow some strawberries on the porch and we finally beat the mockingbird to a juicy red one.  He was expecting it to be chocolate-dipped, but we made do with a smear of nutella and let Ben enjoy his first home grown fruit.

We enjoyed some time outside with the neighbors one weekend and Alex wrote his full name on the sidewalk.  He also announced that from now on he wants to be called "Alexander"...that lasted all of five minutes and thank goodness he forgot.

 The other kids decided to leave their names outside as well.

For some reason that evening, the back of Matt's truck was THE place to be.  The kids brought all kinds of toys in there and had a grand time.  Made keeping up with everyone pretty easy.

 

Inside the house, in front of the ipad is still the favorite place to be.  The boys are obsessed with building things on minecraft and eden and could sit like this and play together all day if I'd let them.  I do think it's sweet that they love to do it together.

Back outside, the boys found a frog and had a great time with it.

I don't know if the frog felt the same way, but he was certainly the fastest one around that afternoon.

The kids woke up early one day and decided to play Paper Cut Factory.  All their games have a name.  I prefer to call this one Trash All Over The Floor.

 

And when the day is done, this is still my favorite sight...two wiped out boys sleeping soundly and hopefully dreaming of sweet things!

 

 In upcoming news, Ben's birthday is a few short weeks away.  He's really turned up the heat on his campaign for a device (his school's term for any sort of tablet or electronic device with internet access).  Nothing like tugging on Mama's heartstrings to get results!