90% Buddies, 10% Rivals

The boys are best friends most of the time and it melts my heart to hear them giggling together without them knowing they have an audience. The boys just got up from nap and were playing blocks in Fisher's room while I put some clothes away. I turned around to see Fisher giving Noah a hug, saying "Noah, I want you for Christmas Time." I'm not sure where that came from, but it made me laugh and thank God for these two. This was this afternoon while we were out back playing in the sprinkler again. They love it!

Big Boys..

I can't believe how fast my boys are growing up, Fisher spent his evenings this week attending Vacation Bible School and absolutely loved it. He was one of the younger kids so I think he got a lot of attention, and loved hanging out with his new buddy, Caleb, all week. I got the impression that he thought of himself as quite the "big kid." Fisher is also "training" for the Cherry Festival Big Wheel Race. He's so excited about his new "racin' machine."

And as for "not-so baby" Noah, he's liking using the potty, in fact, more often than I really have energy to keep up with. He's not really potty training, but I'm not willing to tell him he can't use the potty. Maybe the jelly beans we're using for "potty treats" have something to do with his excitement. Either way, is he going to love this picture some day or what?

He also loves cruising in the driveway, though he can't really reach the pedals on his trike yet or maybe just doesn't have an interest in pedaling. But his true love, currently is blowing bubbles and he's actually very good at it. He's content blowing bubbles long after his big brother has moved on to something else. The other day the wind was blowing the bubbles in kind of a circle or was sort of changing directions and he started laughing and said "Look Momma, bubbles dancing." Wishing you all well hoping that you too find the time to enjoy all that summer has to offer like dancing bubbles!


(Make sure to scroll down to see my previous post from earlier today about my landscaping hobby)

What's blooming?

I've gotten into landscaping over the last couple summers and here are a few pictures of what's growing at our house. I even tried growing a flat of flowers from seed, just to kind of experiment and keep me occupied during the spring while I was getting anxious to get dirt under my fingernails. There are buds on my seedling babies but none have bloomed quite yet, I'm so excited! Another experiment for us were some Azeala bushes we had planted on the south side of the house that weren't looking so well. We diagnosed them with inadequate drainage issues and decided to move them to the south side of the house. I'm a little concerned they may get too much sun once the scorching heat of summer hits but so far so good, they look to be recovering!

Oh and one last one of my hydrangea bushes, I think they're a favorite of both Andy and I and consequently, they've gotten a fair amount of our attention. BUT, it's paid off, we have three of them and all three have more buds than we can count and are very lush and green. What fun!

I know that the next owner could not possibly appreciate or feel as excited about the landscaping as I do, but I sure hope they like it.

Sprinkler Time

We got the sprinkler out for the first time this afternoon, what fun! I think we have a very fun summer ahead of us!

We're LOVING being able to be outside so much! We've been hiking and biking and just plain playing outdoors during the day as well as in the evenings with Daddy. It's great to have Andy available to have fun with us since he doesn't have stuff around the house to worry about like he used to.

Personally, I'm enjoying digging in the dirt immensely. I started some flowers from seeds over the spring and have now transplanted my babies outside. I'm hoping for somewhat of a cutting garden. We'll see how it goes. So far so good. I bought a few new perrenials and we've also moved some things around for more optimal conditions, so if we move sonner rather than later, there are a quite a few things that I would miss out seeing and be a little disappointed about. Hopefully I'll have some pictures of my flower babies to post in the next month.

No Big News... (Amended)

So we had about 6 showings the first week the house was on the market and nothing for the last two weeks, we're pretty bummed about that. We have had plenty of people do the repeated drive-bys ever so slowly over the weekends and we always have high hopes for a call from the realtor on monday mornings, but nothing! We had no real rush before, so we were content to sit on it for a while, but now there's a house we're VERY interested in and grow more fond of the idea of being there every day. So we're just taking things one day at a time and we'll see about making an offer contingent on the sale of ours.

Our idea when listing was that we really liked our house now and that we're in a beautiful place for the summer, so now we just have to remember to be patient. That's the house/moving update I'll have to get back to you on 'da boys later, maybe tomorrow after my midwife appointment so that I can update you on all three of the little guys!

AMENDED POST-

I was able to get a couple photos during our little hike tonight, so here they are. I'd heard about this spot with some great views but the mosquitoes were INTENSE and the view was a bit over cast but the company and exercise was good. (Gone are the days of the perfectly posed photos, the boys nor their father have the patience, plus did I mention the mosquitoes?)