Tired Boy

Perhaps I should have taken a nap today.....

Water Time

It's hot, so we are playing in water.

We also played with the watertable

and the sprinkler...can you see Aiden in the background?

Video Gamers

This is how we play video games!

My Three Sons

Chef-in-training

I LOVE helping Daddy make pizza and anything else he will let me help cook.  I helped make all of dinner tonight, but Dad is putting the finishing touches on top!

Pool

  
Mom and Dad got us a new pool while we were away.  Emery loves it the most, but we are ALL little fish!

Budding Artist

Aiden having a great time at craft time at the library.

Climber

  
Emery is scaling to new heights!

Stuck

Perhaps I shouldn't be swinging in the baby swing.....

Fireworks

The boys had a great time at Papa and GG's house, but they were thrilled to see us today.  I got to snuggle all evening with the boys!

Parker very excited for his first fireworks (yes, that's right, we've never taken the boys to see fireworks before....)

This was about half of the Leiran/Rathbun crew waiting to watch fireworks in Monona.

Guess what Aiden liked the most....

Aiden and Emery were constantly having fights over who got to sit on my lap.  It took most of the night, but they finally decided that they both could.

Wide awake for the whole car ride home!

Ready to Go

Ready to go!  We are heading to Papa and GG's house for a whole week!  We can't wait to get up there!

Reading

Have I mentioned that I like to read?

VBS Sunday

Ready for church to start.

Here's about half the kids in bible school singing a song. Aiden is in the middle, and Parker is second from the right in the front.

Close up of Aiden doing actions for one of the songs.

Zoe's Birthday Party

 
Zoe had a lull in her birthday festivities, so she invited the boys over for another party.  The boys had a great time stringing beads to make braclets.

After dinner we went outside for a pool party.

We also ran in the sprinkler.

They have a new playset.

We treated the sprinkler more like a shower.

While we were playing in the water, the adults were putting together their new basketball hoop.

  

Daddy helped us each dunk!

He also blocked a few shots.

Zoe thought it was nice to rock with Emery.  We hope you had a great birthday, Zoe!  We had a great time celebrating with you.

Monkeys!

We are such little monkeys, we like playing on the under-side of the play equipment!

Hey

How you doin'?

Lion

ROAR!

Happy 5th Anniversary to the Cooks!

While John and Lisa are out celebrating their anniversary, we are watching all of the kids.  They had a great time playing outside and then we turned on The Empire Strikes Back.

Baseball

Warming up with grounders.  Parker is so proud of being able to play baseball!  Ms. Rachel, his preschool teacher, came to watch him play.  We also found out that he'll have Ms. Rachel in the fall as well!


Parker's team practicing running the bases. They really like to make sure their foot stays on the base.

Sneaking Food

We have been sneaking food out of the pantry for the last 4 days and this is what we opened.  10 cans of coke, 2 cans pineapple juice, 3 cans of pineapple, 2 opened cans of maple syrup and 1 unopened with a glass to pour the maple syrup into, a couple applesauce packets, and a large jar of peanut butter.  Our punishment?  We had to clean up the whole mess and now we have to have peanut butter sandwiches and vegetables for every meal from now until the jar is empty.  Mom is hoping that will teach us not to be sneaking food in the basement.