Fun Filled Weekend

McKenna, Lucas & Elijah Holding hands.

We had one of the busiest weekends I have had in a long time.

Aaron had a Frisbee tournament on Saturday so i wanted to make sure the boys and I got out. I called Erin and the two of us and all three kids went to breakfast at the local breakfast place and then hopped over to the Lindsay Wildlife Museum across the bridge. I forgot how small it was, however it entertained the kids for  about an hour.

Lucas and McKenna looking at the birds and owls

Elijah, Lucas and McKenna

Lucas and McKenna flying on the bird wings

Elijah's turn!

Elijah's Wingspan

Lucas looking for his prey

Elijah checking out the exhibt

We dumped everybody off, had our separate lunches and naps and about 3:00 rendezvoused again for another outing, this time to the pumpkin patch.  Again, this place was small and not much to write home about. I think we had higher expectations because we had heard about and how great it was from several friends. We were expecting lots of bells and whistles, and it really wasn't that, BUT the kids had a great time running around and seeing some goats and pigs and riding the train (for like, seriously 2 minutes and it cost me nearly $10).  We wore them out and went home.

Elijah on the wrong side of the scarecrow.

The three of us on the train ride - and Erin photobombing us in the background!

Erin and McKenna riding the train

The boys on the train ride

Lucas and McKenna in the bus cutout

The only decent picture on the pumpkins

Lucas watching the pig

Lucas feeding the goat.

The boys feeding the goats video! 

Today, we got up...you know, the kids at what we thought was about 630 am, and us around 7 am. Turns out Dad informed us that Elijah had come in to his room about 330 am, and had not fallen back asleep....at all....  We had plans to see friends with a new baby today, and Elijah running on 330 am wake up, just didn't seem like it was going to fit in to our plans.  So we promptly scolded dad for not sending Elijah back to bed, scolded Elijah for getting up and going in to Dad's room so early in the morning, and then punished them both by making them spend the day together. Of course Elijah was a perfect gem for dad. Of course he was. And you KNOW he would have been an absolute basket case if he was with us, so in the end it really did work out for the best.

Lucas scoping out the new chick in town! 

Accessing the chick

Yep, I think he likes this little girl! (p.s. he LOVES babies)

We got to spend some nice one-on-one time with Lucas, which was honestly, a little weird for all of us, because I don't think we have ever JUST had Lucas. Lucas kept saying the whole drive to our friend's house "where's Elijah".  It was pretty awesome only having one kid to look after as well, so we might have to punish dad and Elijah more often HAHA.

Lucas loved the baby as you can see and we had a nice visit.  We got the kids bathed and in bed before 8pm, which is a sheer miracle in this house and now they are all sound asleep, which is where I should be. With that I bid you goodnight.

...and onit begins- Episode 1

STAR WARS!! 
The boys and Aaron popped I. star Wars episode 1 tonight. I guess we are prepping them for the new episode coming out this Christmas. Elijah is entranced and Lucas comes and goes, but I think we may already have some fans on our hands.  You'll know where to find us Christmas afternoon....

We got haircuts

Very time I get these boys' hair cut they look a little more grown up. Ugh my heart melts and  dies a little as these babies are not babies any more. Here's a couple post hair cut photos from dinner tonight. Excuse the messy faces.

Happy Saturday

This was my 6 am, Monday morning companion this week:

This One's for Aunt Lynn

Elijah working on a puzzle that cam in his box

I was working from home last friday when the door bell rang. I thought it was just another Amazon package being delivered, but to my surprise it was a Mroczka package being delivered- EVEN BETTER!  "What" I thought "cold this be?!"  It is no one's birthday, we are still 5 months from Christmas, so what were they sending in this big box?
Well I had to curb my anxiousness to open the box, because really it was not addressed to me, or Aaorn, it was addressed to two cute (but noisy at times) boys- Elijah and Lucas.  So as soon as the boys got home I said, "hey! look at that!" and we got some jumping and yelling and a little screeching and we promptly opened, what turned out to be an end-of-summer-and-back-to-school care package!  How fun!  The boys were so excited! Each of the items was marked with an L or an E. Elijah helped identifying what belonged to whom, and they had such a blast.
What a wonderful surprise gift to send these boys. Thank you Aunt Lynn & Uncle Joe!

The boys did it all by himself! 

What you can't see is Lucas is hold a Batman car!

Gymnastics Birthday Party

The boys' cousin Liz, turned 4 on Sunday and had a gymnastics birthday party in walnut creek. It was surreal for me to walk back in to a gym after more than 20 years, good and bad memories, but luckily not too many since this was not a gym I attended.
The kids had a blast (after a minor melt down from Elijah in the beginning) and some of us parents did too.
It really was a fun party and Erin K and I said that we wanted to have our party's at the gym too! LOL. I guess we are kids at heart.

Here are some cute little videos of the kids:

Lucas on the trampoline tumble track

Lij on the tumble track

Monkeying around.

image: Luke on parallel bars.

Party animals all lined up.  Lucas and Elijah are the first two.

The Birthday Girl

AND....

MOMMA'S STILL GOT IT!

This is the one that I am most proud of!

The Weekend without the Men

A couple of weekends ago, the men took off on their annual camping trip and left us women-folk, home with the children. So you know what we did? We banded together and practically had a whole weekend, starting on Thursday and ending on Sunday, together. That's how we do it!

Thursday night we had a lovely picnic at the bottom of first street. The kids ran around and we mingled. It was lovely.

Friday was work and...I can't remember. LOL. I think Dinner at Kaitlin's. Yeah I think that is right.

Saturday, was FUN DAY! 

 1st we went to grandma Bridget's new work- In Harmony. Its a music studio that is a franchise of a children's music program called Music Together. Bridget did a special session with the family and friends. The kids had so much fun, and Elijah participated....some of the time (he's not a real "joiner").

Then, as it turns out, it was the day of the Annual Peddlers Fair. So a couple of us walked it.
Along the way we ran in to a band of merry men (and women) playing oom-pa-pa music...with a Disney edge to it. haha!

Here is a cute video of the boys dancing away.  DARLING!!!!

Three kids in a two seat stroller. Good thing J has a skinny booty.

Sunday rolled around, and it was a normal routine day and then the men came home. The End  LOL.