Bounce House Fun and PJ Day

The boys had PJ day at school on Monday. It was a very cold and snowy day so the boys were able to wear their super warm fleece jammies to school. They wore their boots to school and then put their slippers on for the day.

That night, I set the boys loose on their chalkboards. They both had a good time drawing and erasing. Luke drew an excellent picture of himself and then drew a Ryan, a Daddy and a Mama.

(Luke, A Self-Portrait)

Today I took the boys to the Bounce House. It has been a few months since we've been there, so they had a good time re-exploring the place. Luke refused to go to bed last night and ended up staying up with us until 10:30. As a result, he was very tired today. After about 20 minutes of bouncing fun, he was worn out and grumpy. We stayed for about an hour to let Ryan play, but I spent the rest of the time either chasing Ryan through the obstacle course (thank goodness he can do it all on his own now) or listening to a very whiny Luke say, "hold Mama, hold Mama, hold Mama."

I used to have to carry them up this super-steep slide-they figured out how to do it themselves today.

Below is Luke and his Aquadoodle-he loves to draw.

New things:

Luke likes to take Greg's old Bronco megaphone and walk around the house saying, "Hup, two, three, four." He is practicing his future career as a drill sergeant, or maybe he's just following in his Grandad's footsteps.

When Luke is excited about something and wants to tell me about it, he says, "Wow, Mama, wow, wow, wow."

Ryan likes to ask me, several times a day: "Mama, whatcha doin?" He also likes to ask where someone has gone. He holds up his hands and shrugs his shoulders and says, "Mama, where Daddy go?"

Both boys are following in Greg's frugal/money saving footsteps by being totally in love with putting money in the bank. They like to take Greg's change and put it in the piggy bank we have in our room. The boys have their own banks, but it is full of more substantial money than pennies and dimes. If Greg leaves change on the nightstand, Ryan is really good about either coming to get me and ask to put "money in the bank" or he'll bring me the change and ask. They found some of the Euros that I had left over from our trip to Germany and wanted to put that in the bank, they were pretty upset that I wouldn't let them.

I leave you with a picture of the back of the boys' tricycle. It has a little trunk and they love to fill it up with all of their special treasures that they collect during the day. I think my favorite is a Christmas ornament that was Greg's from 1990-something of Santa in a car.