after dinner fun for this tot

Nate loves dinner! He puts his hands together for grace, eats his dinner, drinks his milk then waits for mama and dada to announce its time to put on shoes for a bike ride. Then he runs around finding everyone's shoes, telling us to put them on! Its time!

He loves the ride! Pointing out trucks, cars, dogs, trains, and letting me know when we hit a bump. Sometimes deer run out in front of us, sometimes there are loose dogs running around, sometimes we can see a storm rolling in and mama rides super fast so we won't get hit by lightening.





The ride is great! But what this little man wants, what he waits ALL day for, comes after the ride. As soon as his alien helmet comes off he is running to the house for "Pop-Pop" or as full English speaking folks say, POPSICLES!! He can hardly wait to get his pop-pop.



He takes a slurp and exclaims"yummmmm"!!! These things are the best part of summer man! (Don't worry Grandma S, they are made from organic strawberry lemonade)



We take the pop-pops outside and slurp and nibble and when they are gone... Dada and Nate kick the ball around, or hit the ball around, or throw the ball around. Whichever strikes their fancy. But it almost always involves a ball.




Sometimes there are tears when it gets so dark we must come in. I won't name names.
What could be better than these lazy summer evenings?

McMath Moment of the week

Today we are celebrating one week of proper crayon usage!( ie NOT on the walls, books, furniture.) Nathan has spent the week coloring at his leisure(but I've been watching like a hawk), and will have free usage now(until he colors in a library book, or something equally horrible)

Washed up

Today was a rainy, gloomy, chilly day in Clovis. We did our grocery shopping before lunch and naptime. A great day for napping.

Then we watched The Backyardigans and snacked on garden tomatoes and popcorn.

We played cars and colored :)




Mama's is on the right Nathan's is on the left.

Keeping Cool

Our backyard...

lots of sliding..

and tomatoes

New Coat

Here is a little fashion show for your Sunday enjoyment. Part of the loot we scored at Target yesterday, a new coat for Nate, some 2T pants(which have us nervous about how soon he will 3T for the length.), and some 2T shirts for fall. Here is Nate modeling his new 3 in1 coat.

Coat 1 - heavy winter coat

Coat2- fleece lined jacket

Coat 3- fleece jacket

Saw your McBurger today

We went on a road trip today... to Target! Two hours there... two hours back. Nate watched Toy Story, I finished a quilt binding and Dave drove through 200 miles of this. WIDE OPEN NOTHING!

Except for when we drove through "the cheeseburger capital of Texas" and " the beef capital of the world" Then we stared mouths open, even though we have passed them dozens of times before. Sad Sad Sad.

McMath Moment of the week

Brought to you today by summer, sweet corn, and Nathan trying desperatly not to drop the ear in the trash can.