It's the most busiest time of the year.

When did Summer get so busy?! I guess right around the time I decided we needed to keep busy & get out of the house a lot this Summer. My bad... I don't know how people who have lots of kids do it with all their kids in a bunch of activities. Most days last week we were busy going 3-4 places a day, which is a lot for us since usually I have a 1 place a day rule. But we've been having a lot of fun! 

We went to a Build and Grow workshop at Lowes and I helped the boys build a dragon from How To Train Your Dragon. Seriously so hard to assemble. You'll notice the top of Preston's dragon has a big sticker. That's because I had to take his wings off because I did a step wrong TWICE and it ripped his wings so we improvised and used a sticker to hold them on. I apparently wasn't assembling them fast enough for Preston becuase he kept saying "Aw. Those kids are cooking. We aren't cooking." but once we got past the first few steps then he said "now we're cookin!" Hopefully the next craft is a bit simpler for mom....

We went to Family Swim time at Fremont Pool. Every Friday from 5-7 is family swim and its half price to get in. By 5 it's usually not so hot out and so its not terrible to be out in the sun. And Fremont has a kid pool that is only 1 foot at its deepest. The boys were the only ones in there and enjoyed it. Well. Mostly. Preston warmed up to the idea of getting wet, Jaxton would get out of the pool anytime he got water on his face/shirt/head and Lucas was in heaven just splashing and kicking. 

The only sad part was Lucas rubbed sunscreen in his eyes on our way to the pool and so the whole time we were there he had red puffy teary eyes. Looked so sad. But he had fun! 

Sometimes Jaxton crouches down like Gollum from Lord of the Rings to eat things. Happens a lot actually. 

Preston has been into games lately and so we got out CandyLand which he usually refers to as "Candy Crush", the game people play on their phones. (not me). It's good for him to play it, he has to learn he cant win all the time & he needs to learn how to be a gracious loser. 

I think the first day we got it out we played it 5 or 6 times... Lucky me....
 And when he was going to bed that night he said "I wish we had a game called Steak Land instead of Candyland! That would be so funny and so much more delicious!" 

I agree. 

Louie continues to fit in nicely around here. He's very good at letting the boys maul him which is good because things like this happen a lot around here. 

Before we do anything fun the boys know we have to do our chores. Last week I let everyone pick what 5 chores they wanted on the chore chart as opposed to picking for them and one of the chores Preston picked was to do the window. Jaxton of course helped & kept telling Preston that he needed more "sauce" on his paper towel. Another one of Preston's chores was mopping and after about 5 minutes he told me he was never picking that chore again. HA! You wish... 

We did more sensory activities, and Lucas played with some shredded paper. Surprisingly he didn't try at all to eat it, just wanted it off him and his tray. Not a big fan of it. 

I let the boys slice and scoop out a honey dew melon. They thought they were pretty cool getting to use knifes. 

Preston went to day camp Mon-Thurs last week thru Mesa Parks & Rec. He enjoyed it but said it would be ok if he didn't' have to go anymore. He does his own hair now in the morning when he gets ready. Fancy. 

We had cousins over to play a few times last week and so we build a car track across the floor. 

We went to a Home Depot kids workshop and they built riding mowers. Those were a little easier for me to assemble then the dragons were. 

Lucas did great things this week. He is still progressing with his crawling, he can clap now, we are working on high 5's, he started saying the MMM sound, which is good since he is already showing some speech delays. He's mostly over his separation anxiety which is lovely & has discovered the deliciousness of graham crackers. 

Jaxton did get a double ear infection in the middle of our busy week so we had a nap time for a few days. One day EVERYONE fell asleep for a few hours, including me! It was magical. 

Lucas worked on picking up and dropping puffs while I worked with Jaxton on spelling his name & playing with some toys. Or at least thats what I told myself when I saw he had dumped out all his puffs. 

I took these milk tops & juice lids and wrote the letters to Jaxton's name on them and then he had to put them in the formula can. It's a work in progress. But we had a transition meeting for him to start preschool at the same school Preston is going to and he should be starting shortly after he turns 3 in November. The thought of Jaxton riding the bus and going to school seems so sad and big to me, but school has done AMAZING things for Preston. He's so much more social and talkative now then he was before and has learned so much so I think Jaxton will do great. Plus he will have the same teacher as Preston and he knows her and the classroom so it should be an easy transition for him. 

 Yes, it is possible to play outside in Arizona during the Summer! You just have to go at about 8am and find a covered one. 

 This week is another busy one. Library trips, book store trips, breakfast and lunch at the school, summer movies, patrick has a few days off to spend with us, and I have some Scout stuff that needs to be done. And of course, try to keep cool!