Ian's Second Birthday Bash

I will start by saying that is really doesn't seem like Ian should be two years old! What has happened to my baby?!?!?  We had his party today and he had a great time.  He really wasn't too interested in opening presents yet, he was really more interested in talking with all of our family that was here. 

 Ian and his cake with Grandpa Jon and Aunt Dawn. Aunt Dawn always lets the kids (and encourages them to) get frosting off of the cake, she was trying to get Ian's attention to give him some frosting!

 Blowing out the candles.

 We had a Big Red Barn cake in honor of Ian's favorite book.

 Reading a card.

 Tearing open a present...TOOLS!  Ian LOVES tools!

 Aunt Steffy trying to get Ian to go back to opening presents.

 Ian and his cousin Hailey checking out his new work bench.

 Ian, Hailey and Matthew

 Mommy and Ian, he was too busy checking out his drill to look at the camera!

 Daddy and Eli

Ian chatting with Aunt Dawn and Uncle Jonny.

Playing at the park

The Butterfly Life Cycle

A few weeks ago, my mom and Ian found a caterpillar outside.  They brought it in the house and made a home for it, complete with air holes, grass and leaves.  I figured that the caterpillar would only survive a few days and actually tried to convince Eli to let the caterpillar free outside, but before I could convince him, the caterpillar decided to take a nap! Eli lifted the lid off one day and was heartbroken that he couldn't find his caterpillar.  I pointed out the thing hanging from the lid and he almost started to cry.  We read The Very Hungry Caterpillar again and Eli cried "But I don't want a butterfly, I want a caterpillar!". I told Eli there was nothing we could do to stop it from becoming a butterfly. Yesterday a beautiful butterfly emerged. Eli was finally excited about having a butterfly!  This week at preschool they are learning about the letter B and Eli took the butterfly to preschool with the pictures we took throught the last few weeks and shared this with his class. At the end of class today, Eli and his friends at preschool let the butterfly go. This morning, before Eli took the butterfly to school, Eli and I were talking about letting the butterfly go and he was worried about the butterfly being okay. When I told him that most of the time butterflies make their cocoons and turn in to butterflies outside and that they are all alone at first when the come out of their cocoons he asked if the butterfly would be able to find it's family. When I told him that it would definately find friends and maybe some family he said "Well, that's good. Finding his family will make him happy."  So sweet! 

Preschool!!!

I still can't believe that my little boy has started preschool! He is having so much fun and really likes preschool. He has a best friend named Zach, the teacher has reported that they spend lots of time together. I have asked him if he ever plays with anyone else and he said "Yeah, sometimes I play with the cute girl." Oye! Anyway, her are some pictures from his first day!

HELP! I Think My Blog Is Revolting Against Me!

So, as you can see from my last several posts, I haven't been very attentive to my blog this spring/summer. Recently I went to my blog page and couldn't see anything but my posts. I have messed around with lots of things and I still can't get it back to the way it was. I have gotten my information about me, my recent posts and the links to my past posts to show up, but they are at the bottom of my blog. I am still missing the blogs I follow. Help! Ideas???

THE * BIGGEST * TRACTOR * IN * THE * WORLD

Summer's Over?

I can't believe that I only have 10 days of summer vacation left! In the beginning of the summer I had grand plans for our summer, lots of day trips, a small vacation and lots of fun times with my boys, and lots of wonderful blog posts about all of the fun we have had. We have done all of these, but I haven't blogged about any of them! Can you believe that I missed posting about my dear Eli seeing the world's largest tractor?!?! I haven't posted a single picture of the boys playing at the park or in our yard or at the pool... I often think about doing it, but just haven't done it. I will create some new posts for our summer fun. I have to do this, otherwise my blog book of 2010 will only be a few pages long!