keeping busy

you know that whole 'christmas is july' saying?  well we saved the boys christmas money and got a trampoline for the backyard, so it was pretty much christmas in april this year!  luckily micah was visiting when we got it and he offered to help justin set it up, and the boys love it!  i think trampoline people design these things with brody in mind, that kid's a jumping machine!

I'm trying to be more proactive in creating activities for the boys this summer, and right after i made that decision it rained for like four days straight.  so we started to get a little creative with painters tape:

i wish i had video of the twins doing hopscotch, it's so cute the way they hop from each square on both feet. another bonus of the taped game, the boys loved pulling up the tape when we were done playing, since there were so many pieces it took them like 25 minutes to pull them all up, it was wonderful!!

we took a rainy day walk:

and one saturday afternoon justin and the boys did play dough.  his parents had sent this dental play dough kit and justin and the boys really got into it!  kade liked extracting all the teeth- creepy!

back when i was teaching preschool i made quite a few batches of gak for my kids, i figured the twins were old enough to play so i used this recipe, which took about 5 minutes to make and i just store it in a ziplock.  we've used it almost everyday since i made it earlier last week! (as a side note if you do use this recipe and need borax, i got mine at target in the detergent aisle, it was at the bottom and i walked the aisle about three times before i finally found it; it's very discrete.)

stretchy fun!  

we also picked up a bike trailer from a garage sale and i was worried as to how to keep the twins helmeted while riding, and then lightning struck with raskullz helmets, we got the t-rex ones and the boys LOVE them!!  they also wear them around the house to play to help channel their dinosaur power.  they actually make them down to a size 3 yrs so that was very helpful! (and the little ladybug girl ones are soo cute!)

and last but certainly not least:

yup, it's undies all around for the boys at this house!  (pardon kade's hand.)  we used a 3-day book a friend of mine recommended.  the first three days were a bit of a beast, as expected, but by day four progress (thankfully) was being made.  overall the boys were champs with the big transition to undies so hurray for crew and kade, hurray for undies and hurray for no more diapers!!