don't get in the way of men doing their work

allow Elmo to demonstrate

Every morning while I get ready upstairs, Jordon jumps his little heart out in this jumperoo while Brandon builds blocks or plays garbage man.

So like usual, I listen carefully upstairs to all that's going on down stairs. I could tell something unusual was happening and then I heard Brandon coming up the stairs telling himself, "I gotta tell Mommy. I gotta tell Mommy."

This photo depicts what I was planning to see when I came downstairs...

...and this is how I found him instead!

Apparently he had some help from big brother to get into this position. He wasn't really hurt which made this event pretty funny. But I assure you all that we'll be taking more caution in leaving Jordon is Brandon's care.

wet boys in a pool = FUN!

Brandon wasn't too into getting his picture taken this day, so this will mostly be a Jordon showcase.

I love this picture of Brandon running in the background. He LOVES jumping through this wiggly sprinkler. Thanks Aunt Katie for the birthday gift!

This is Brandon's new fun game to play. He calls it "Trash Garbage" and the couch is his garbage truck and then he goes around the house and collects all his toys and anything else he can carry and that's his "trash" that he puts that in his truck. Clean up is real fun too!

Mama and the boys at Pike Relay for Life. She is a team captain and stayed at the track for 24 hours for the third year in a row. The blast "party" music the whole time and Brandon really liked that. He also liked watching all the Little League baseball games that were being played all morning!

This is the last day of "school". Carter and Max are B's best friends.

Next year they will all come back and be in Preschool. I'll admit that I was a bit nervous taking him to school back in August. But now that I've seen how much he loves it and how much he's grown there - I have no regrets. I love this program he's in and I'm thrilled that it's so close to our home! I did a little test to see how much he was learning. I knew they would be learning shapes this year and I purposely chose not to teach him shapes or even really reviewed them much with him. Believe it or not, his teacher made a comment to me about how he is one of the kids that ALWAYS knows his shapes. Some other kids in the class know all the shapes every time, but a lot of kids at this age still mix a few of them up. Anyway, I was so glad to hear that. And now since I see how well the school does at teaching him things, I think I'm going to stop teaching him altogether! (just kidding for those grandparents out there!)

Mrs. Christy!