Tuesday

Sorry so late! I just got everyone down for naps. It's been a good day (well kind of) I'm in a grumpy mood and my 2 older boys have been driving me nuts but other than that it's been good. The Vogt kiddos have been pretty easy. I got out boxes today and that was their big adventure. They played in them and then painted them! We were outside for most of the morning (well in between punishing my boys)

Poor Kobe is still trying to get those darn teeth through so he hasn't been happy either. Everyone ate well, Lilly is still upstairs singing to herself (all the single lady's, happy birthday, the itsy bitsy spider, oh and now if your happy and you know it) she cracks me up!

Tuesday

Fun morning outside! We played outside from 9-11 (we had the sprinkler on for the first half, then it rained and since it wasn't thundering or lightning.

The kids ran around and had a blast! haha, like Tristan and Lilly's look? They didn't want to get their clothes wet :-) They also swang and played cars outside. Oh and Lilly gave me a heart attack! Let's just say she's going on our baby swings for a little longer, she let go while I was lightly swinging her and she looked like she was swinging from a flying trapeze!!! Thank God I caught her before her head swung and hit the ground and she's so floppy her legs stayed put on the swing so she didn't totally flip over on her head! I was so shaken up we were done swinging for the day! So be warned!

Everyone is in a great mood today and all ate well (Ian was a pigger today!) They had zucchini muffins for breakfast and Lilly and Tristan kept asking for more, more, more! Lunch was grilled cheese/pb and marsh, yogurts, watermellon, juice.

All in for naps by noon, everyone was sleepy by then (lots of yawns), Tristan is beside himself because for some reason Sprout is off Comcast? I'm calling to see what's up, I hope they didn't take it off! He is a very good boy though, because I saw Spongebob is on and he said "mommy said I'm not aloud to watch this" then when I told him there is nothing else on for him to watch he said, well then I'll watch SB, I said no way are you getting me in trouble mister! Oh and he did try to change the channel to espn for baseball too! haha

Monday

The morning went very well and I don't think Ian, Luke and Matthew heard me scream too much at my boys :-) haha. It really is August and Bryce and Landon are so ready for school to start back (especially Bryce). I over heard him telling the McKinley boys how much he misses it. Bryce was my handful this morning and making some bad choices like eating all of Landon's gummy snacks and biting him at another point. Let's just say he had no choice but to take a nap this afternoon!

The older boys were really into coloring cars pictures and cars stickers. Ian loved it to but only for maybe 15 minutes. Poor Ian was dragging shoes up to the boys saying "You go outside with Ian?" He wanted to play outside so bad and they weren't interested. So finally I took him out in the garage to play so I could peek in and watch the big boys every few minutes. Finally they all decided to come out and had a great time for a good hour running around being boys.

We had a snack (marshmallows and gram crackers and water earlier) Lunch was a mixture of pizza, pb and marsh fluff sandwiches, chips, yogurts, watermellon, and juice. Everyone ate well and then they had CARS gummies for a treat. They played really well with the trains down in the basement. After Bryce got sent to his room Landon and Matt really played well. Now That my boys (including Kobe) and Ian are down for naps Matthew is painting pictures while Luke is watching Sesame street (they are the old episodes on sprout and he's fascinated that they are different) he even said "wow this is very tricky"

Kobe is much better today Kyle! It's amazing what motrin and some teething gel will do!!! He got a bath before his afternoon nap and took all naps in his crib today! Come on teeth let's get this over with!

Monday

Today has been a somewhat lazy but good day. We haven't done too much that's too exciting, but the kids seemed to have fun. We basically just played inside most of the morning (tv off), good old fashion play time. We read books, and the kids pretended a lot. First the locked up Ian (he was a monster) in the dungeon (castle) downstairs and that went on for a good while. Then they played with the huge exercise ball and ran around and screamed like maniacs. I kept asking if they wanted to go outside and of course the answer was "no" until finally when Kobe got up from his morning nap and it was so stinken hot outside that they just played under the patio.

Ian ate very well today, muffins and milk at breakfast and lunch was pb and j, mac n cheese and applesauce.

Ian was the only one who wanted to color today and also did stickers. I was trying to emphasize what colors he was using.

Kobe is in a better mood today, but ended up in the carseat for his afternoon nap. Everyone was down for naps at noon, although Landon is being very loud I don't know how anyone could be sleeping!

Tuesday

sorry no pics today, I'm still uploading from the beach!

It was a good morning! Kobe took a great 2 hour nap so we went outside during those 2 hours and it was so nice out! The boys wanted to swing for a long while and slide. Then we came down under the patio and I sat out buckets of water with ice and they had a blast playing/eating the ice and water. They splashed cars in it.

Ian and Landon both were snotty today *they must have the same cold, they had the same thing going on.

Ian ate great for both meals (he was super hungry) pancake with milk and grilled cheese (he didn't eat his fruit or yogurt at lunch though. I've been noticing he is using his good manners a lot lately (lots of thank yous)

We then came inside before lunch and I did a mini lesson about spelling their first names (Bryce's last name) I wrote it for them then they copied (you should see Landon's Kyle!) Ian of course just scribbled over what I wrote, then we decorated them with cars stickers.

After lunch everyone went down for a nap (Kobe is super sleepy today) Bryce is already passed out, not sure about the other 2 boys but I don't hear anything

Tuesday

Fun and Hot morning! We were outside all morning and time flew by! Of course it's so hot out we had to get very wet. You should have seen Lily and Ian, they were so cute. They both played like crazy in the little pools. They would copy each other and would do silly things like fall in the pool backwards and then laugh at each other. They were inseparable today and are little love bugs. They are the same height and it's so cute to watch them play and talk. At one point the choo choo whistled and we could see it from the driveway. Ian went to look and left the pool, Lilly followed and said, Ian lets swim, ok.? Ian said, look... train, then Lilly said ok let's go get it Inan, grabbed his hand and off she thought they were going to go (of course I had to stop their romantic get away!)

Landon had a rough start today, but after an hour or so of screaming over everything he seems better. The big boys played chase around the elmo sprinkler. We ended the morning with swinging.

The kids all ate well, blueberry muffins and bananas for breakfast, lunch was whole grain mac n cheese, yogurts, mellons, and yogurt.

monday

Today was a lazy day! Ughh it's so hot outside and I just wasn't in the mood to get all the pools and wet stuff out since I'm mowing tonight (that's going to be fun!). So we stayed inside and played. We actually had a board game thon. Ian didn't get most of the games but was good at playing "lucky ducks" and the "go fishing" games. Bryce was in a mood this morning, probably because he was up by 7 and went to bed super late. So I told him no nap today then he's not going swimming tonight. Landon slept in until 9 so we'll see if he naps but he was acting up too. Ian was begging for his nuk and sleep all morning. So all in all, I had 3 sleepy heads this morning, well 4 if you count me.

Ian didn't eat much today at all, 2 hours later he finally ate his breakfast, he drank his milk and lunch was just a few nibbles of mellons, a bite of yogurt and mac n cheese and then he was done. All were down for naps by noon. We took a little trip to return library books today too just because I was sick of my 2 big boys picking on each other.

Tomorrow we are going to have fun, we are going to play in the water and get messy, no more of these boring mornings for me!