The Elephant Parade

A few years ago we went to the Elephant parade and the kids just loved it but we haven't been for about 3 years. We had to go downtown anyway so we decided to add some fun. When the circus comes to town they have a parade with the clowns, elephants, horses, dancing girls, mini ponies, but not the tigers. Jar and Grif didn't like the waiting but they loved the parade and the clown noses. We would make a pretty cute clown family. They waved the whole time, smiling and laughing. It was fun but we sure missed having Jax with us.

After we went over to daddies work to get the camera for our McTeachers night later after soccer. Jar hasn't been walking as much since he got his cast off and I didn't want to carry both the boys all the way there. So I thought it was our lucky day - good shady spot at the parade and front row parking at the arena. Then a news truck pulled up and wanted to ask us some questions about H1N1 and I thought about running because I don't like stuttering on camera. But the boys liked it and were good and cute too. When the story came out I didn't sound so dumb. So watch out Heidi maybe I will come work with you. J/K that would not be fun for me, I will leave the news biz all to you! You can borrow our clown noses if you would like.

I lost something....

Lately I have been losing something very important. My middle son disappears every once in a while and I can't spot him even when I am looking. One time he was just curled up in a little ball on the couch and just looked like a pile of laundry. He is just so quiet that sometimes it takes me a while to find him. This time I knew he was in his room but I just couldn't find him. I have lost in with a pile of stuffed animals once or twice but this was a new one. Stuffed in a box of clothes he actually looked quite comfy. Jax wanted to try and fit but he is just not nearly as flexible.

Oh Happy Day!!

Finally we get to start Preschool. The waiting is over! Jar could hardly wait to go to his school. He has been so impatient since Jax started school. He was so happy until there were about 50 new faces and he went and hid in the corner. One cute girl got a little too in his face and he ran away. I hope that she isn't scarred for life. It happened again the second day so I was a bit worried we really weren't going to make it to Preschool but now it is all he can talk about. I just keep thinking to myself that it really is a good thing that he missed the deadline for so many reasons. Next year he will be older, bigger and hopefully not as emotional. We'll see!!

Happy Birthday Jaron

How does time fly so fast? It seems that each year is getting shorter and shorter. Days end when we haven't accomplished everything we want to and boys grow up over night. Jaron is so happy to be five. For months he has been asking "Am I five yet?" Now he asks "Am I still five?" It makes me smile.

He got his cast off 2 days before his birthday so we had to have a be careful with his leg party. So the whole family - cousins, uncles, aunt, grandma, grandpa and one friend - all went to the Bees game together. Since Bee signed his cast he was hoping he could visit with him again. It was his lucky day because Bumble came an took pictures with the kids and then stayed a little longer to take a nap on Jaron. He was in heaven. We got to do fun things we don't usually make time for at the games; we rolled down the hill, rode the train, got glow bracelets and we even stayed to run the bases. It was a great night!





Some how he talked mommy into making him a Lightning McQueen cake. I was just going to make some cupcakes since we went to the pool to celebrate earlier in the day. BUT, Jaron reminded me that I promised months ago to make him a Cars cake. So we baked a cake and made it in a hurry but it turned out pretty decent if I do say so myself.