Road Trip

Nonna, Poppi, Kae, Izee and I drove to San Antonio to see family. It was a long drive! Thank goodness for portable DVD players. The boys watched a lot of movies!

After all that driving it was nice to spend a few days in one place. On our last day in San Antonio we went to Seaworld.
We saw a show about Sea Lions and Killer Whales.
We got to feed the dolphins.
We also saw a really cool show called Azul. It had stunt divers, synchronized swimmers, acrobats and dolphins.
The boys loved watching the shows!
They even got their picture taken with the divers/acrobats from Azul.
The next day we headed back home. It was a really fun trip!

All Aboard!

When Kae was 2 he and Daddy spent A Day Out With Thomas. Izee loves trains! Now that Izee is 2 it was his turn. So Izee and Mommy spent A Day Out With Thomas. The first thing we did when we got to The Colorado Railroad Museum was ride the train. Then we wandered around the museum property and looked at all the cool trains.

One of my favorite trains is the snow blower train. Izee's favorite was the caboose. He loved climbing around inside the top of the caboose. There were also lots of other trains that Izee could climb in and "work" the controls. Some trains were fun to look at even if we didn't get to go inside them. For lunch Izee had a hobo lunch. It was a sandwich, chips, cookie and drink wrapped in a bandana and tied on a stick. He loved it. He carried his leftovers from lunch around all afternoon on his shoulder. As if the trains weren't enough excitement, there was even a firetruck there. It was a really fun time for both Izee and Mommy. Izee slept the whole way home.
I saved the best for last. This is my favorite picture from the day. Izee is such a cutie!

The Fire Muster

It was a cool drizzly Saturday morning for the 2nd annual Fire Muster. It started with a fire truck parade.
The parade ended at the park where the kids got to climb on the trucks.
Kae's favorite part was the fireman training. They had the trainees go through a tunnel with some fire hose, spray out a fire, and save the baby.
Both boys had a great time! Ever since the Fire Muster Kae plays fireman everyday. He tells me that he is going to be a fireman when he grows up.

ArtWalk

Friday night was Art Walk in our town. They close Main Street for a few blocks and have lots of activities and music. They also have lots of local artist showing off their work at the various businesses on the street. We didn't go into any of the businesses but still had a great time on the street. (The pictures are a little fuzzier than usual because I forgot my camera so I had to use my phone to take pictures.)

They had lots of sidewalk chalk so the kids could draw all over the street.

The local dairy gave out samples of their chocolate milk. Izee thought it was good but got distracted by everything else around him and didn't finish his cup of milk. Kae, on the other hand, had 3 glasses!

One of the local community groups had bubbles and hoola hoops for the kids to play with.
We stopped to play with one of the new pieces of art in town. It is a cool xylophone that even has mallets tied to it so the kids can play music.
One of the gymnastics studios in town gave a demo and then led the kids in a dance on the gymnastics mat. Izee liked watching the gymnasts but didn't want to dance. Kae did a great job dancing with the older kids.
After all the fun cowboy Izee got an "ee-ha" (izee's word for horse) ride back to the car. Daddy is a very good ee-ha.

Another First

After 1 week of pre-k, Kae got his first homework assignment. They sent him home with a paper cutout of a person and he had to make it look like himself.
We could use anything. We used scraps of material for the clothes, buttons for the eyes and ears, and yarn for hair. Mommy and Daddy helped Kae by cutting the material and putting the glue on the paper but he placed everything.
Doesn't it look just like Kae?

Start of School

Kae just started school his second year of presechool last week. This year he is in Kindergarten Readiness class (pre-k) 4 days a week.

He was super excited his first day of school!
Kae is in class with his friend, Charlie. Here they are in the front yard before heading to school.So far Kae loves his school! Each day one kid is the star for the day. The star gets to be the line leader, ring the bell at clean up time and bring one item for show and tell. Everyday, when he gets home, Kae tells me who's turn it was for show and tell and what they brought. Today it was his turn. He took his time deciding what to take and finally settled on his dump truck. He said the kids in his class thought it was cool. His first show and tell was a success!