Irritating

So as I am drying Ansley's hair tonight, Austin turns on my fan and starts doing the thing all kids do when near a fan, talking into it.  He only says one thing before he turns it off and looks at me and says, "Mom, I'm not going to do that because I know that it is irritating."

Now if only he could get it through his head how irritating it is when he picks on his sister :)

Holiday Weekend

So we spent the weekend at the cabin...........swimming:

 Our cabin is just behind these "monsters" ... we can only dream of being able to buy one of these :) but it puts it into perspective of where our house is with regards to the lake.

How Austin spent his weekend........jumping off the boat into the lake.....he really is amphibious 

 This is just a far away shot of the lake area where we spent most of our time.

 Austin could be in this inner tube all day; and I do mean all day!!  We pulled him behind the boat for quite a while.  This is a picture of him before we talked about hand signals....so for like 10 minutes we are driving around the lake and we have no idea what he is saying, but we know he was talking non-stop.  Seems he was saying go faster, slow down, and stop....we now have hand signals :)

An & I keeping close watch on the talker 

 When we docked for lunch An needed to go to the little girls room, so Eric took here to the bathroom, well just as they walked into the boy's room, there was a wasp nest and a wasp bit An; the worst part was that it got tangled in her hair and bit her twice while trying to get out of her hair.  It was a red wasp and my mom was allergic, so we were super worried!!!  We rushed home and got her a Benadryl and Tylenol and she was fine.  She actually seemed to forget about it until we would ask her how she was feeling ... poor thing!!

 Some how Eric convinced me that I could take Ans out on the tube and he could pull us slowly....it lasted for a bit but eventually we dumped out.... A2 did NOT like that at all!!  No more tube for her and I for a while :)

 A1 on the other hand could stay in it all day...until

 Oh that's right my friends....we let A2 drive the boat while Austin was in the float!!!!!  HAHAHA

 Can you see her little head behind the steering wheel????

"Hey An, don't look at Austin, look at Daddy ... don't worry about steering, smile and wave for the camera!!!" ............ okay, kidding!!!!  I am out of the picture but am actually holding onto the wheel and throttle the whole time....tricked ya!!

 After all of that fun, we had to get some rest!!!

Happy 4th of July America!!

Progress

One of the best things about our new cabin is that we are super close to a lake, so we decided to take out boat up there permanently, which meant for the first time in three years Eric has been able to park his truck in our garage.  This, my friends, is real progress!!  So because of that, we had to build a "parking spot" for our trash cans to be in compliance with out HOA.

Which meant power tools!!!

 

Austin helped Eric to build the fence and gate for the landing...kind of hard to describe...but here is Austin putting on the hinges.

 Ansley thought coloring one of the boards was a fabulous idea!!

 Look at the cuts and bruises on her legs & knees; seems this girl is quite clumsy!!

but at least she can still smile :)

 Is Austin trying to pop Ans' head off or is he just being silly?  You decide....

After all of that hard work, they set off for an afternoon at the pool.  This is a weird angle, but in the picture the two of them are actually sharing a pool chair during adult swim.  We needed photo documentation of them sharing :)

Lima Bean

So one of Austin's projects in school this year was to plant a lima bean and grow it hydroponically; well, once well established we decided to move it to a pot.....and low and behold, what do we have here??????

Dinner!!!  Woohoo!!!

 

So we asked Austin if he wanted to eat his product, and wait for it....NO!!!  He wanted to take out the seeds and plant the new seeds so that he could have more plants.  To think, this was the one way Eric and I thought we could get him to eat something green!!

Last few days of Pre-K

The last few days of school were activity days for the parents to attend and participate in with their kids....so Eric went to the field day and helped with the bean bag toss.  The girl in this picture is Austin's "best" friend Ashley.  They played really well together all year and he said he was going to miss her.  Some how out of the 20 kids in his class and the 20 in the other class only one other little girl is going to the same elementary school.  The weird thing is that our house was only about 2 miles from the Pre-K.  But it seems that most kids who are going to our elementary school either went to a church program or stayed at home this year.

 Austin is searching for the bean bag and Dad is not helping at all!!!  If I could just reach.......

 Of course, there was ice cream as a reward at the end of the event; note: Austin did not share with Eric.

 A semi-picture of the whole group.

 Austin is eating his cupcake before lunch; what a surprise!!!!

 Sign says it all!!!

Yippee!!!!

Austin's End of School Graduation

When I tell you that I have been too busy to sleep, I am not kidding!!  So I am playing catchup on life for a few posts............

So, I think I wrote about this before...........but in case I have not..........So Austin was in a Georgia Pre-K all year, and they had an end of year party for the two classes of twenty that were in his school.....look at all of these people!!!  It was only Pre-K for 40 kids, but from the looks you would have thought it was college for 100!!!

This is just a random shot of the crowd.......

 

Okay, in my defense, the plate is for A1 & A2 and myself....I am not that big of a pig :) but the point is to look at the look on Austin's face....he is like "I am not eating anything but cake Mom!!!!"

Ansley just hung out with Grandpa the whole time eating & drinking too :)

Here is Austin's graduation cupcake; there were lots of As in his class

So each student got an "award" from their teachers (Austin's are Ms. Ana (jeans) and Ms. Kristy (Red shirt) and he is racing away in the bottom left hand corner with his Science Award!!  Why am I so happy about his award?  Well, while other students got the "diva" award or the "soccer" award, Austin got the science award because he loved to do math & science in class and per Ms. Ana "often would ask me questions in class that I would have to go home and look up the answer to and get back to him the next day" ... this simple statement makes me proud :)

 

I am not sure why I included this, but the three of us are walking to the playground at the park; it was an "unofficial" graduation so it could not be on school grounds.

Anywho, we all had fun and are proud of Austin going to Kindergarten, finally!!!