A visit from Grandpa Walt Walt and Grandma Sooz!

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In one 24 hour span, I'd gone worm hunting and caught a snail (it was a rivoting chase......"will he or will he not catch the nimble mollusk?!?!)   :)

 

 

It was a harefooted chase, but Dookie the Snail (Cal named him) became our pet for 3 days.  Dookie's life with the Walter family was fabulous...well until we had two days of rain and we forgot to bring his makeshift home inside.  Snails can't swim.   (Cal, if you're reading this years down the road, I'm sorry that I lied to you and told you that he'd escaped after the wind blew his cage over.)

 

Hey, D!  That watermelon isn't real. This kid loves to eat food.....even if it's plastic. 

 

We love going fishing at the golf course pond! 

 

 

"Grahammies and milk"...

 

Look who came for a visit!  Grandpa Walt bought Cal his first big boy mitt.

 

 

Snuggling with Grandma Sooz.....

 

Davis's original cast got wet in the bath on Thursday evening.  He was alligator rolling and I didn't get to him in time to stop him!  Here is his second cast. 

Memorize it because it only lasted 24 hours before this happened:

 

Houdini pulled his arm out of his second cast....and he was pretty proud of himself.  :)

 

 

  

Ninja Turtles have to battle bad guys....and recycling cans.

Look who's a solid bike rider now!!!  Thanks to Grandpa Walt's handy work with the training wheels, Cal's bike is now fully functioning and he LOVES it, 

 

 

 

Walt and Davis....just chillin'.  Oh...and that fat pig dog was, too. 

 

 

 

Fishing time!  We went to the pond near the Gillespies house and had a great time catching some pesca.

 

 

Travis and his girls have a funny tradition of kissing the fish before releasing it!  lol.  Ella was feeding it some "cookies", aka catfish bait. 

 

 

We cleaned up and went for some Yo-B! 

 

Grandma Sooz and Cal had fun playing with his new Spiderman toy that they let him pick out.  It's been a big hit!

 

Cool dudes.

 

 

We had a great time with Grandpa Walt and Grandma Sooz!  Thanks for coming to visit us!!!

 

This silly boy got his 3rd (and hopefully last) cast on Monday the 13th. 

 

He was digging to China....one fingerful of dirt at a time. 

 

Cal caught a ladybug and had fun playing with it. 

 

I mean.....gimme a break!!!  It's too bad he doesn't like to take pictures.  :)

How is this boy about to be 4?!  Time is flying.  Such a sweetie. 

 

Hey, Davis!!!  Smiley boy.

 

Davis got his first shiner, and unfortunately it probably won't be his last.  (Update:  May 1st....he was sad that his first shiner was fading, so he decided to fall on the kitchen floor and give himself another.)  He fell off the white bar stools (which I didn't even know he was climbing) while I was cooking.  He always gets hurt when I'm cooking.  This boy is such a spitfire!!! 

 

It was a chilly morn, but we were still so happy that the weekend was almost here!

 

My sweet boys. 

Well...two of us were excited for Friday.  TGIF. 

 

 

A black eye and a cast.....all boy! 

 

Cal is learning how to go across the monkey bars.  He makes it to about the 3rd bar and then drops.

 

 

Where there is food.....the dogs are not far away.

 

Mom and I have a GNO and went to a hilarious show at The Roxy!  The Big Bang was so funny and we had a wonderful time out on the town. 

 

The next day, I let the boys paint because it was fairly chilly outside.  Backfire....Davis started painting his cast. 

 

Double backfire.....then he crawled all over the house, leaving "cast stamps" on our carpet.  Awesome. 

 

 

Easter, storm season, and warm weather....

Now that the weather is so warm, we are never sitting inside....hence the big gaps between my posts!  We are always outdoors now-a-days! The pics will tell the tale....

 

Before Easter, we went to the Gillespies and dyed eggs. 

 

 

...and then the next day we went to an egg hung with the Gillespies!  :)

 

Davis loves Kristin!

 

 

Davis and Avery....future sweethearts?

Exhibit A:

Exhibit B:

 

 

Cal and Ella....again, future sweethearts?  :)

 

The next night, we went to the Schmidts' house and the boys loved riding around in Milly's Mercedes! 

 

 

Sweet Milly wanted to give Davis a ride in her car.

 

I was trying to put Davis down for a nap one day and we were reading some books beforehand.  I looked out and saw the O-Bear staring at us from under the baby gate.  :)

 

 

We met Padraig at the park after school one day.  The boys were all so excited to run around and play together! 

 

We technically aren't supposed to feed the ducks, but since nobody was around we decided to do so anyway.   This is Cal sprinting towards the water with handsful of "illegal bread". 

 

He's a happy little bread thrower.

 

The boys picked some "flowers" for their mommies! 

Davis was so hot and sweaty afterwards!  I'm sure that heavy cast is really breathable.  :(

 

We've been taking the boys fishing at the golf course lately.  They LOVE it!

 

It was 87 degrees one day, so the boys and I ate some popsicles while playing outside.  Cal was loungin'!

 

We hit up the park afterwards and I was the lucky recipient of a "bouquet of flowers".  They may just pick me weeds, but they're the most beautiful weeds in the world.  :)

 

That night, I realized that Davis was having an allergic reaction to the amoxicillin that he was taking for his ear infection.  We've got another kiddo with a penicillin allergy.  :(

Unfortunately, his hives didn't get better until they got worse....much, much worse.  I stayed home with him the next day because they were soooooooo awful.

 

His hives started to look like bruises?!  A few days later, they began to yellow and fade just like a bruise.  So strange.

 

Cal was showing Davis his stunts while we played outside that afternoon.  I actually picked Cal up at noon from school so that he could come home and play with us.  He thought that was pretty special!

 

Sweet O-Bird.....STOP CHEWING UP STICKS!!!!!!!!!!!!  When we mow, it's like mowing over shrapnel because all of the little shards of sticks come flying out from underneath the mower. 

 

Davis likes to talk on the phone now.  So cute.

 

That night, we had an AWFUL storm.  We knew there was a chance, but holy moly.  Mitch and I woke up at midnight because of the loud thunder and lightening.  However, about 5 minutes later the wind came howling in and I seriously understood the "sounds like a freight train" part of being in a tornado.  The wind hit our house like a train.....for a solid 20 seconds, it was terribly loud and shook our house.  We sat frozen in fear, but because we didn't hear the sirens and we were so shocked, we didn't take the boys to the basement.  Once the wind died down and the hail stopped (it sounded like it was going to bust our sky light and windows out......golf ball sized!), we went outside to survey the damage.  Luckily the boys slept right through it.  We were without power for the next 12 hours.

 

This was just part of our fence that was damaged.  It was flapping in the wind, as were several other sections.  Many boards were broken or missing completely. 

 

It blew a section of our deck off?!

 

It ripped the gate off the side of our house.

 

It broke a large limb in our front tree.  What I didn't take a picture of was all the trash and recycling that was strewn all over our neighborhood.  Of course, we all had our full bins out for pick up the next morn....and they were completely emptied.  The crazy part is that we only found a little bit of the trash....the rest just disappeared in the wind.  It was just gone. 

 

Our neighbor's trees were demolished.  This was a common scene around our neighborhood!

 

It doesn't look like this trampoline will be functional any longer.  It flew across 21st Street and landed in the bank parking lot.

 

We left for Larned on Friday afternoon.  As we drove, we saw how far the damage stretched.  This metal sign was bent backwards from the wind!!!

 

We saw several sections of telephone and electric poles like this.  They were snapped like toothpicks!

 

We got to Larned and the boys settled right in.  Peek-a-boo!

 

The boys were playing a fierce game of Slap Jack!

 

Aunt Susie came over and celebrated Easter a day early.  We enjoyed a nice family dinner together.  Davis looks like he's up to something.....

 

Boys....why do you look so tired and grumpy?  Oh....is it because you woke your mother up at 5am to watch cartoons?  Wonderful.  Happy Easter. 

 

 

The boys were playing with their new toys from the Easter Bunny!

 

Time to hunt some eggs!!!

 

 

My beautiful Grandma Gatterman......

 

We broke out the bubbles when we got home that afternoon.

 

 

We went back to the park on Tuesday!  The Gillespie girls and the Walter boys have so much fun together!

 

 

We finally wrote on his cast, which hopefully will be removed next week!

 

Sweet Ollie Bird.....pile of paws.

 

Davis knows his shapes!

 

 

 

Let this beautiful pattern sink in for a minute.  These happy folks covered the shirt that I wore for 70's Day at School.  It was my mom's.  :)

 

I sported my Grandma Young's glasses, too.  Lookin' pretty groovy! (please note Davis in the background as he's trying to break into the liquor cabinet.)

 

Later that day (after I changed), I took the boys to the ENT.  Davis is getting tubes soon, but Cal's still look good.  They look thrilled to be there, don't they?

 

This silly boy wanted to read Hop on Pop while swinging.

 

I read a blog recently that said to have your kids take your picture every once in awhile.  That way they can remember you when your hair and makeup are done, and not just sloppily dressed with dirty hair.  :)  I was wearing workout clothes, but atleast I was made-up.  Cal snapped this pic.....pretty good aim!