Children's Museum

Madison tried her best to get in the lap of this statue to read the book.

Carson trying to make a huge bubble.

I think this was the kids favorite part of the museum

Carson was not impressed that this plane moved side to side and front to back.

Flying an airplane just like Daddy!

This museum is in my hometown. I was so excited to take the kids there. I can still remember when it opened. I have not been to too many children's museums yet but this one by far blows away the others. The one we have here just does not come close to comparing! The kids had a blast. We rode the miniature train, made lots of bubbles, dressed up like firemen. dug in the pebbles and flew airplanes. We were doing great until some girl slung bubbles onto Carson's face as we were leaving that exhibit. I had my hands full between getting soap out of Carson's eyes and chasing Madison.

Miss Madison

Madison has taken a liking to this babydoll. It started when we were at my parent's house. She now carries this particular doll everywhere and insists on sleeping with it. I'll post some pictures later of her sleeping with it. Sometimes, when she gets really mad because she is in her crib, she will toss the baby overboard and then that just makes her cry all the more. When I go to get her up from her nap or for the day she will hand me the doll first.

She loves all babydolls now. She can usually be seen carrying one in each arm around the house. When I picked her up from church this morning, she was carrying one around that she had found there.

A Day at the Park

I think I can catch this one!

Come back! Come back!

Carson and Harper

Our entourage.

I'm not scared of you.

A goose! Over there!

Carson, Harper, and Blake

We spent the month of July in Oklahoma and Texas. On this particular day, we went to a park near my hometown to feed the geese. I was so excited to take the kids to this park because I have fond memories of feeding the geese as a child. That and the fact that Madison LOVES ducks. The kids has the best time. I really thought that Carson would be afraid of the geese but he was not. There was one goose who tried to eat the bread out of Carson's hand and I just knew he would flip out but he didn't. He just laughed. I also thought that Madison would be afraid of the geese but she loved every minute of it. You can see in one picture above where she is nose to beak with one goose. After that she only wanted to catch one! She tried so hard!!

Madison walking

This is the best video we have of Madison walking so far. She practically runs now. She just woke up from her nap one day and decided she was going to start walking. And she hasn't looked back.

Soccer Camp

This is Carson and his soccer coach, Coach Ben.

The soccer sessions were one hour long but Carson generally only participated for the first 15-20 minutes. I don't know if he is ready to play soccer this fall or not. That is still up in the air. When he did actually participate, he had a blast! Every time we would drive by the soccer field during the day he would ask where Coach Ben was. Carson even tried to talk like Coach Ben one day. We were driving home and Carson said, "Mommy, I saw a trailer!" Then he said, "I saw a traywa." I must note here that Coach Ben is from England.

This next video is of one coach 'soccer surfing.' It is about a minute long but watch until the end to see Carson try it out.

Little climber

Madison's climbing adventures continue on a daily basis. Her latest feat is scaling the inside of the refridgerator. She can already climb up in Carson's full size bed. She tries her hardest but she just can't quite make it up onto the couch...yet.

Carson's Birthday

Even though Carson's birthday was almost a month ago, I still wanted to post some of his pictures. We took him to Toys R Us the night before so that we could spend his birthday money. He picked out a train set and a few trains. We were able to convince him that he could not open them that night. I still do not know how we did that! So after he went to bed, we wrapped everything and put it in his chair at the table so that he would find them for breakfast. Maybe that was not such a good idea since the ONLY way we could get him to eat his breakfast was by giving it to him as he sat in the middle of his new train set!

After breakfast we went to the local children's museum. They had a Clifford exhibit that the kids enjoyed. Then we went to the Rainforest Cafe at MGM Grand for a late lunch. Carson loved all of the animals in the restaurant as long as he did not get too close.

We had his birthday party the next night and we rented a bounce house which was a HUGE hit.