I love my boys! They are soo much fun. We did a ton of playing this week a ton of art projects and we had lots of "special" stuff. Oh, and the fish-dino thing is still alive.
Lauren and the boys made bug boxes this week, they were adorable. Kleenex boxes they painted, put googly eyes on it, pipe cleaners for legs and antennas. B keeps snacks in his bug box and Zonie is keeping various toys in there. They are soo cute and the boys are soo proud of them.
Jonny was in town on Wed and B and C are still talking about the visit! They played trains for 3hrs. They ate lots of sweeties :) and best of all they made a diorama or as Braydon calls it his Habitat. He was wanting to make a house for his Dinosaurs so Jonny and he tackled it. They took a shoe box, glued blue tissue paper on the back for the sky, a yellow pom-pom for the sun, pipe cleaner trees, clay rocks, on the bottom with a pond. It is nice! Braydon has been playing with it non-stop it is like his doll house for the dinos. I will walk by and he has the dinos in the pond "taking a bath" then I will walk by again and they will all be on top of the box jumping down into the grass. It is great. He will sit for an hour without doing anything but making voices for each of them and playing all sorts of games.
The rest of the week they had play dates, park, clay making, play pools outside, we made a cake. We had a blast. The boys and Dad played trains upstairs after we all made a fort, the dogs came in and acted as two KingKongs with the tracks and bridges.... it kept us busy.
Caleb has a new trend, every time we put his shoes on he take one shoe off and walks around as seen in the pic. Braydon is continuing to say the funniest things ever! Ex. We were driving and Rob said "I like that hood (he was talking about the hood of a diesel truck) and Bryadon says "no, I like Robin Hood better". I love it!!
Hope everyone is doing great out there and miss you all.
*the dino-fish thing is over an inch long and crazy looking
Sunday, July 25, 2010
Sunday, July 18, 2010
A week with Mom and Dad
Hey Fam and Friends,
Hope yall are doing great! We had a fabulous week!! Robbie and/or I were home with the boys all week and we had a blast! Our little Dinosaurs is still alive so I guess that is something to report on and finally this weekend was busy!
So Rob and I tag teamed the week with the boys and I think we all enjoyed it more than anyone thought. When Dad was home with the boys they did building stuff. Learned to use a bunch of different tools and did real guy things! When I was around we played games, made cookies and read a ton of books. The boys are so great, they are just growing soooo fast. Caleb has added a few new phrases to his vocabulary he now says "all gone", "uh-oh" and "more please". he is also walking backwards now... it is adorable. When the dogs want something in his hands he will just start backing up or sometimes (since it is a newly discovered talent) he will just walk down the hall or around the room backwards. Bryadon is really showing his "big boys style" he is talking soo much more to strangers/ mom and dads friends. He is really confident, he doesn't want to play with baby toys anymore he wants to play with things that he can pretend with (action figures, dinosaurs, farm animals etc). It was sooo cool to have so much one on one time with them. They are both amazing and they are completely their own people!
Our family Dino. I dont know all the details on this but what I can tell you is that Lauren and the kids were learning about Dinos and she found these eggs that are from a species that somehow date back to the Jurassic period. They are a water fishy- thingy and the eggs can stay dormant for YEARS and with the perfect mixture of water, light and food they hatch. Soooooo we have the perfect mixture in a bowl in our kitchen with what is now a .5inch long thing swimming in it. It is really crazy looking, apparently it can live for a few months and will get upwards of 2inches long (there is a blurry pic in Snapfish). The kids love it! It was a great find by Lauren!!
This weekend...housework, yard work, Adam was in town, Lots of dress-up and play with the boys, party in the backyard with tons of friends and lots of Margaritas (thanks to Robs new Margarita Machine, who wants one?..?), Big family news :) , we all went to see Toy Story 3, playdate at McDonalds...does it get much better than this?
We miss you all and one more heads up that we will be celebrating B's birthday early (targeting August 14th as the date) you are all welcome!
Hope yall are doing great! We had a fabulous week!! Robbie and/or I were home with the boys all week and we had a blast! Our little Dinosaurs is still alive so I guess that is something to report on and finally this weekend was busy!
So Rob and I tag teamed the week with the boys and I think we all enjoyed it more than anyone thought. When Dad was home with the boys they did building stuff. Learned to use a bunch of different tools and did real guy things! When I was around we played games, made cookies and read a ton of books. The boys are so great, they are just growing soooo fast. Caleb has added a few new phrases to his vocabulary he now says "all gone", "uh-oh" and "more please". he is also walking backwards now... it is adorable. When the dogs want something in his hands he will just start backing up or sometimes (since it is a newly discovered talent) he will just walk down the hall or around the room backwards. Bryadon is really showing his "big boys style" he is talking soo much more to strangers/ mom and dads friends. He is really confident, he doesn't want to play with baby toys anymore he wants to play with things that he can pretend with (action figures, dinosaurs, farm animals etc). It was sooo cool to have so much one on one time with them. They are both amazing and they are completely their own people!
Our family Dino. I dont know all the details on this but what I can tell you is that Lauren and the kids were learning about Dinos and she found these eggs that are from a species that somehow date back to the Jurassic period. They are a water fishy- thingy and the eggs can stay dormant for YEARS and with the perfect mixture of water, light and food they hatch. Soooooo we have the perfect mixture in a bowl in our kitchen with what is now a .5inch long thing swimming in it. It is really crazy looking, apparently it can live for a few months and will get upwards of 2inches long (there is a blurry pic in Snapfish). The kids love it! It was a great find by Lauren!!
This weekend...housework, yard work, Adam was in town, Lots of dress-up and play with the boys, party in the backyard with tons of friends and lots of Margaritas (thanks to Robs new Margarita Machine, who wants one?..?), Big family news :) , we all went to see Toy Story 3, playdate at McDonalds...does it get much better than this?
We miss you all and one more heads up that we will be celebrating B's birthday early (targeting August 14th as the date) you are all welcome!
July (30 photos), by maureen jenkins
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Sunday, July 11, 2010
Busy Weekend
Hey fam and friends. We had a busy busy weekend. We missed daddy all week but we didnt let that slow us down! The boys and I hit the town running and only came home for naps and recharge.
Saturday morning we got up early ate a great big breakfast and met Megan at the bookstore to play and listen to story time. The stories were all Spot the dog stories. Braydon was the most outspoken kid there! Every time they would get to a part where Spot was hiding the book would ask "Where is spot do you think he is in here (behind some flap on the page)?" Braydon would say "I dont know lets check it out" every time, it was sooo cute. Then the best was that Spot the dog showed up too!! we couldnt believe our luck! we thought we were just getting a story, instead we got three stories read to us and we got to meet SPOT!
After the bookstore we went to lunch and the kids ate everything. we left lunch, had some time to kill so we went and each of the boys got to pick out a toy. They both got little plastic action figures. Braydon got horses and Caleb got dinosaures. We clocked out of the store just in time to make it to another place that was having Dora the Explorer and Alvin and the Chipmunks perform. The boys loved the singing and dancing but Braydon was freaked out by the characters "no mama, I dont want any pictures, they are way toooo big and I am just a little scared" So cute. Caleb didnt mind so he got pics with them all.
We made it back in time for a late nap and then outside to play with our friends and eat some Chx, potatoes and green beans...the boys love green beans :)
Sunday wasn't much slower. We ate breakfast with cartoons on then we loaded up and went to the Grocery store. The boys were big helpers, they loaded to cart, picked out the fruit we needed and unloaded everything from the cart onto the conveyor belt. When we got home we had an early nap and it was back to work. The boys helped me in the yard. I mowed, Braydon sprayed the patio furniture with water and Caleb stood on the picnic table watching everyone.
Cleaned up, played with our new action figures, cooked on their grill in the playroom, read almost every book on the bookshelf and went to bed...now we get to go get Daddy in a few hours! Yeah!
Miss you all
Saturday morning we got up early ate a great big breakfast and met Megan at the bookstore to play and listen to story time. The stories were all Spot the dog stories. Braydon was the most outspoken kid there! Every time they would get to a part where Spot was hiding the book would ask "Where is spot do you think he is in here (behind some flap on the page)?" Braydon would say "I dont know lets check it out" every time, it was sooo cute. Then the best was that Spot the dog showed up too!! we couldnt believe our luck! we thought we were just getting a story, instead we got three stories read to us and we got to meet SPOT!
After the bookstore we went to lunch and the kids ate everything. we left lunch, had some time to kill so we went and each of the boys got to pick out a toy. They both got little plastic action figures. Braydon got horses and Caleb got dinosaures. We clocked out of the store just in time to make it to another place that was having Dora the Explorer and Alvin and the Chipmunks perform. The boys loved the singing and dancing but Braydon was freaked out by the characters "no mama, I dont want any pictures, they are way toooo big and I am just a little scared" So cute. Caleb didnt mind so he got pics with them all.
We made it back in time for a late nap and then outside to play with our friends and eat some Chx, potatoes and green beans...the boys love green beans :)
Sunday wasn't much slower. We ate breakfast with cartoons on then we loaded up and went to the Grocery store. The boys were big helpers, they loaded to cart, picked out the fruit we needed and unloaded everything from the cart onto the conveyor belt. When we got home we had an early nap and it was back to work. The boys helped me in the yard. I mowed, Braydon sprayed the patio furniture with water and Caleb stood on the picnic table watching everyone.
Cleaned up, played with our new action figures, cooked on their grill in the playroom, read almost every book on the bookshelf and went to bed...now we get to go get Daddy in a few hours! Yeah!
Miss you all
Monday, July 5, 2010
Thank you
Family and Friends, hope you guys had a great Fourth, we look forward to hearing what everyone did and send us pics! We have been doing great we had a big Fourth of July weekend,Rob and I are doing whatever we can to spend time with the kiddos now that we are back in town.
The Fourth was spent at our neighbors pool and it was a blast. The boys did great in the water. They both spent most of the day jumping in from the side into the pool. Braydon and Dad also spent a lot of time shooting each other with water guns. Caleb is officially tan! they have been spending days at the pool and in the sun and he is my little Mocha baby. Braydon has sprouted a few more freckles on his nose and looking older everyday.
Rob and I seem to have a never ending list of house projects so that is how the rest of the weekend has been spent. We cleaned the garage (it looks great) and today we are going to be painting the upstairs TV room. Next on the list SCRUB I will be scrubbing this house top to bottom. With Summer in full blast all the neighborhood bugs have sought refuge in our windows, corners and any other cool indoor location they can find.
We also wanted to say thanks to Mamie and GiGi for helping out the whole week we were gone. The kids had a blast and though I am sure yall are exhausted, they are already asking when we are going on our next trip and if you can stay again :) . Thank You guys!!
*I had to put the pic of Caleb on here because this is him at his most happy. He would suck on a pacifier, stay half naked and carry his blanket around all day everyday if we let him. So cute.
The Fourth was spent at our neighbors pool and it was a blast. The boys did great in the water. They both spent most of the day jumping in from the side into the pool. Braydon and Dad also spent a lot of time shooting each other with water guns. Caleb is officially tan! they have been spending days at the pool and in the sun and he is my little Mocha baby. Braydon has sprouted a few more freckles on his nose and looking older everyday.
Rob and I seem to have a never ending list of house projects so that is how the rest of the weekend has been spent. We cleaned the garage (it looks great) and today we are going to be painting the upstairs TV room. Next on the list SCRUB I will be scrubbing this house top to bottom. With Summer in full blast all the neighborhood bugs have sought refuge in our windows, corners and any other cool indoor location they can find.
We also wanted to say thanks to Mamie and GiGi for helping out the whole week we were gone. The kids had a blast and though I am sure yall are exhausted, they are already asking when we are going on our next trip and if you can stay again :) . Thank You guys!!
*I had to put the pic of Caleb on here because this is him at his most happy. He would suck on a pacifier, stay half naked and carry his blanket around all day everyday if we let him. So cute.
Saturday, June 26, 2010
Rome (225 photos), by maureen jenkins
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We are Back in Business!
Hey guys! we are back in business! during our last blog we realized that the device for uploading pictures was broken and we have been out of biz ever since with out blog, but now that we are back in town and thanks to a quick trip to Target by Robbie we are up and running once again. Hope you are all doing great. The Doane clan is thriving here in SA! We have pics of the boys plaing in a few of their new fav garage sale finds and then some of them having treats and fun with Mamie and GiGi last week.
So what can I update you on? Bryadon is in the throws of pretend play! it is really cute, his imagination takes him places that we can only try to keep up with. Right now he is sitting on the floor playing with his barn and barnyard animals speaking both sides of the conversation for all of the animals interactions..."no cow you go in first, (pig) I was already in there and that is not good sharing". ADORABLE! Rob and I love getting to hear the toys play together and see who gets put in time-out and who has to do better finishing their dinner.
Caleb is my little rockstar. He understands everything you tell him and is doing a great job getting around. He no longer has the teeter walk he just walks and had recently started running. He still has no fear is is most often found standing on the little rocking chair backwards and trying to get as much momentum as possible or climbing onto the kitchen chairs table etc.
They are such good friends that they keep each other busy and we get to enjoy watching it all.
On the other side of the fam, Rob and I got in LATE last night from our trip and we had an amazing time. We have chosen no to bore you with all the pics but I will put the link to Snapfish on here so that you can peruse them when you like. The highlights were listening to the Wedding Mass and Homily from Cardinal Shuccca (sp) and of course the Colosseum...not to mention great us time. We went for walks, dinners, drinks, ice cream etc. all by ourselves!
Enjoy the pics and miss you all.
So what can I update you on? Bryadon is in the throws of pretend play! it is really cute, his imagination takes him places that we can only try to keep up with. Right now he is sitting on the floor playing with his barn and barnyard animals speaking both sides of the conversation for all of the animals interactions..."no cow you go in first, (pig) I was already in there and that is not good sharing". ADORABLE! Rob and I love getting to hear the toys play together and see who gets put in time-out and who has to do better finishing their dinner.
Caleb is my little rockstar. He understands everything you tell him and is doing a great job getting around. He no longer has the teeter walk he just walks and had recently started running. He still has no fear is is most often found standing on the little rocking chair backwards and trying to get as much momentum as possible or climbing onto the kitchen chairs table etc.
They are such good friends that they keep each other busy and we get to enjoy watching it all.
On the other side of the fam, Rob and I got in LATE last night from our trip and we had an amazing time. We have chosen no to bore you with all the pics but I will put the link to Snapfish on here so that you can peruse them when you like. The highlights were listening to the Wedding Mass and Homily from Cardinal Shuccca (sp) and of course the Colosseum...not to mention great us time. We went for walks, dinners, drinks, ice cream etc. all by ourselves!
Enjoy the pics and miss you all.
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