Summer Fun - Part 1 (June)

Back to swimming lessons! It took a bit of time to catch up to where we were before, plus he mostly just wants to play instead of do the lesson, but we can usually convince him to do the exercises before going to the kiddie pool.

Still keeping up the McD after swimming tradition

They're extra sweet when they're sleeping ♥

The cutest little fake Birkenstocks - on the cutest little feet - you've ever seen! 

I love it when Nolan includes Branson in his play time. Although you'll notice he's safe from B grabbing any of the toys which makes it easier for him to be nice ☺

 

 Typical

Justin introduced Nolan to one of his favorite Chip and Dale clips, "Applecore." Nolan loved it and watched it lots of times.

Showing it to Gm Bailey

This summer Nolan especially loves going for walks in the cemetery when the sprinklers are on!

 

If you can't tell, there's a Nolan in there. For a couple of weeks we'd always find him asleep in his bed like this. Not sure what he was doing haha, but I'd always pull the covers back to find the poor kid drenched in sweat. Silly kid!

He even wants to be in charge of the remotes at Sara and Lis house. Here is is keeping Lis' hand away hahaha.

 Nolan was not happy that Branson was touching the book. Oey.

Jeanni likes to keep the 'hawk' alive

Family History Dept. Summer Party

This week was the annual Family History Dept. Summer Party at Murray Park. We have swimming on Thursday nights at 6:30 so we thought we'd just show up, eat dinner, then leave for swimming. Well, we let Nolan try out the bouncy houses and mazes and he was having so much fun that we decided to stay. Actually, we gave him the choice and he wanted to stay and play (although by the time we left he also wanted to go to swimming haha). We just figured we don't get to do things like this very often, it's only once a year, and he was having so much fun! So worth it to blow off swimming for one week.

His favorite was definitely this bouncy obstacle course and he did so well!

Good climber! (who knew?!)

Right after I took this picture he decided he would rather just go back down the way he came instead of going down the slide haha. But the next time he went down the slide and never looked back!

In the bouncy castle! He kept trying to throw the ball out.

Cute Branson was feeling a little left out so we let him bounce on the outside and he loved it!! (as you can see by the super big smile on his face!)

I love this one ♥

(I work closely with the two guys in the background, Dale on the left, Jeff on the right. It's super weird seeing coworkers not in shirts and ties haha)

He climbed about 3/4 of the way up this one and then started coming down, so Justin went up with him. 

Here comes daddy!

Waiting in line to get his face painted. He saw kids with their faces painted like animals and said he wanted to be a fox. However, by the time it was our turn and a stranger got their hands close to his face he changed his mind ☺

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(Proof that Nolan is not always torturing Branson ☺)

Justin had Branson giggling SO hard while we watched Nolan at the playground.

Trying Out Some New Things

A couple of months ago I saw an ad for a free soccer class for tots. Usually soccer classes seem to be for kids at least over 3 years old, so I was excited to find one for younger kids. I didn't really care about the soccer per se, but I was curious how he would respond to directions, listen to instructions,  interact with the other kids, etc.

He actually did pretty well with not using his hands and only kicking the ball, and with some help he did pretty good sitting on his circle when the coach called him over, but I don't think he once actually listened to the coach haha. Justin or I had to repeat every direction haha. Also, he discovered some bubbles they had sitting in the corner and that was it. Forever after that whenever there was a slight lull he'd make a break for it and Justin would have to bring him back.

I was really impressed with this place. The 'coach' was amazing with the kids and they played all sorts of fun listening games and other fun things. Too bad it's a tad far for us, but I don't know, we might go back because I think it'd be really good for Nolan.

Being brought back from his latest escape towards the bubbles.

Branson was a super good boy as usual

...well except for maybe all the spitting up ☺

They gave all the kids a cute little wristband. Here's Nolan showing it off.

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A couple of months ago Nolan and I got up on a Saturday morning and headed to Home Depot for one of their kids workshops. This is the first one we've done and it was so fun! Nolan is still a little young for it, but he absolutely loved it and was SO proud of his creation!

This time they were making a travel Tic Tac Toe game.

He loved hammering!

He picked all the colors for painting.

Lately he's been a little stinker about taking pictures and always runs away or hides his face when I pull out the camera, but he was so proud of what he made that when I asked him to take a picture with it he totally posed! Adorable!

  

Good job Nolan!!

It was so fun to spend the morning with Nolan. As we were walking out to the car I asked him, "wasn't that fun to hammer and paint and do stickers and things?!" He said, "Ya!!" And then with so much sincerity added, "thanks for doing that with me." Awww. I completely melted. Then just to extend our little 'date' we decided to get some donuts, yummm!