Yay! Frances is here!

My "little sister" came into town yesterday to spend a long weekend with us. She got to meet Jammy, Grandy, Reed, and Nolan first and even read books with them before bedtime. (Todd and Nekoh have already spent time with her when we lived in Charlotte and Nekoh seemed to remember her well!)

We had a girls day today and went shopping for some fabulous back to school clothes, then out to lunch, and then

to see a movie! Can't get much better than that! We've managed to wear her out both nights she's been here already as she's been off to bed at a surprisingly early hour...for a teenager. I'm not far behind, though! More fun to come for the weekend...

Nat'l "Bring your kid to work day"

Somebody is enjoying his breakfast at mommie's work! While Nolan headed off to big boy school and Todd to "work", Reed is enjoying a morning at the office with mommie. He had a fever yesterday and had to come home early from school...clearly, he's not sick anymore, but rules are rules and he has to stay home, or go to work and run around like a mad-man!

I'm pretty sure...

this won't be the last time his pants end up on his head!

Home Depot activity #4 (for us)

We've missed a few of the past crafts that Home Depot provides for the little ones, but we managed to get there today! The boys had the help of Daddie, Jammy, and Grandy to make pencil boxes...in the hot, hot sun. Phew, hope they decide to do next month's activity indoors! The boys didn't seem to mind even though the rest of us were drenched.

Tellus Museum 2011

One lovely Friday, Nana and I took the boys and all 4 Goodloe's to the Tellus Science and Planetarium Museum. We all had such a fun time exploring the museum and putting our hands on everything allowed!

This was feat #1...getting all 6 kiddos and 1 senior citizen to stand still for a photo...just kidding Nana!

Aaaarrrgh!! Is this where they got the idea for jaws? This will DEFINITELY haunt me in my nightmares.

We sat in super-reclined movie theater seats to watch the planetarium do their night sky show on the domed ceiling with a Sesame Street twist. About 3 minutes into the show, Reed hollers "Mommie! Who's that big yellow duck!?!?" Ok, so the boys were never really exposed to Sesame Street and the likes of Big Bird, but a big yellow bird that can talk? I mean, come on! It was funny nonetheless.

They have a big excavation area where you can dig for fossils and shark teeth and even pan for semi-precious gems. The boys had fun just throwing the dirt from side to side and splashing around in the gem mines' water tanks.

Chasing after 6 kids under the age of 11 can be quite a task. So we made Keely and Ryan be "captains" and take control of 2 "buddies." Ryan looked after Reed and Leah,

while Keely kept track of Linde and Nolan. Job well done, Captains!!

In case you were wondering....

this is what CRAZY looks like.

Twin-cicles

Last weekend the boys had a sleepover at the Goodloe's while the adults went to Michelle and Jaime's (next door neighbor's) luau. The twinsies were so funny "teaming" up...Leah picked Reed, Linde picked Nolan, and they would run around shouting "TEAM" to each other. I think it's just because they can't tell each other apart!! So funny!