"Happy Mother's Day" and "Breaking in the Pool"

I woke up Sunday morning to two little boys at my bedroom door holding up their cards saying, "Happy Mother's Day, Mommy!"  It was about the sweetest thing ever!  Not to mention my wonderful husband making me french toast.

These pictures are a little blurry since I took them with my phone, but Ty made me this picture at preschool, and I thought it was so sweet.  He came running out of the room when I picked him up on Friday and handed it to me with the biggest smile on his face and said, "Happy Day's Mother, Mommy!  I love you!!"  HAHA, it was so sweet, it kinda made me tear up a little.

This might not be legible, so it says: Ty says, "My mom is 14 years old (nice).  My mom is the prettiest when she wears a blue shirt.  My mom likes to make pictures with paint (news to me....).  My mom always says if you don't eat all your sandwich I will tickle you.  My mom is funny when she tickles me a lot."

Justin was nice enough to take Ty fishing on Mother's Day afternoon while Dallas took his nap, so I got TWO WHOLE HOURS to lay in my hammock uninterrupted.  It was heaven!!  After that the boys wanted to get in the pool (Brrrr) so they took the official first dip ever in our new pool!  Dallas got right in with his little airplane floatie and just giggled and kicked his way all around the pool.  Did I mention, he's my daredevil?

At first, Ty was really excited about going swimming, but when it came time to actually get in, he had a little freak out for some reason.  He said he was afraid of sinking since he can't touch the bottom.  Eventually, Justin was able to get him in (reluctantly) and he swam from the edge over to the steps so he could get out.  He wasn't happy about it, but he did it!

Since I was too much of a weenie to get in the cold swimming pool, the boys broke in my Mother's Day present for me....a new reading raft!!  Woot!  Hopefully, I'll get some time to enjoy it one of these days.

Spiderman and His Amazing Friends

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(For those of you who don't know...)

Ty's new favorite game is to play Spiderman and his amazing friends. Ty is Spiderman, Dallas is Iceman, and I am Firestar.  Firestar has to stand on the end of the hammock (web) and let spiderman climb up to the top and destroy bad guys from his elevated vantage point.  Iceman's job is to stay at ground level and get the bad guys trying to climb up the web.  Firestar's job is to tell spiderman where the bad guys are (and of course keep the web from falling down).

 When Spiderman has destroyed all the bad guys, he slides down his web and joins humanity again.

 Ty knows how to swing himself now.

 Dallas likes to swing too, as long as he can go really high.  When he wants to be pushed on the swing he says, "Swing me higher than grandpa."  Grandpa came over last Monday night and pushed him higher than he'd ever gone on a swing before, and of course now he only wants to go higher.  He's my little daredevil, no doubt about it.  I see many trips to the ER in my future.

Man, I love these two!

Whatcha Doin', Poopin'??

 Although I wouldn't say we've officially started potty training (that will happen this summer, though) Dallas shows some interest in using his Spiderman toilet (occasionally with the desired result).  I just thought these pictures were so cute, I had to share them.

The Air Force Museum

A few weekends ago we loaded up the boys and headed over to the Air Force Museum in Dayton for the RV's 2012 inaugural "work the bugs out" trip before we head to Holiday World in a few more weeks.

 We left on a Friday night, and there really was no plan as to where we were going to camp.  So we ended up sleeping in a walmart parking lot (redneck, I know).  I was plenty weirded out by this at first, but I have to admit it was pretty convenient...not to mention FREE.  So anyway, in the picture above, the boys are enjoying some hi-tech Dr. Seuss betime stories on the ipad.  We had them sleep together for the first time.  I honestly didn't think anybody but Justin was going to get any sleep that night because I was sure they would keep each other up all night and I'd have to be up refereeing.  (Of course, Justin would sleep right through all this....he wouldn't wake up even if a tornado came right through the middle of the RV).  BUT....to my surprise, after about 10 minutes of tickling each other (and maybe a few pushes and kicks and such) and talking back and forth, they both fell asleep and I didn't hear a peep out of either of them til morning.

 So here are a few of the highlights from the museum.  It was fun, but honestly, I think it would've been better if the boys were about 5 years older.  They thought the airplanes were cool for about the frist 20 minutes.  After that, Ty asked if we could go home now about every 5 minutes.  HA.

The boys went to their first movie too.  We saw Hubble at the IMAX theatre in the museum.  Ty did great, but was a little scared when it would get loud.  Dallas did about like you'd expect a 2 year old to do at a movie (even though it was only 45 minutes long).  There was a lot of "Sit still," "SHHHHH" and "Whisper."  The best was when there was a picture of Earth on the screen and it was at a pretty quiet part of the movie and Dallas yelled, "That's the EARTH!"  HA!