Happy 7th Birthday!!!!

Wolf Pack

I'm a mother to Wolves now.  The boys crossed over from Tiger Cub Scout to Wolf.  Evan is the more motivated scout but Sean surprised me telling the Cubmaster how excited he was to be a Wolf. I never know what he's going to say!  It was a cold and wet weekend so didn't camp but they got to do a bunch of fun things and had fun despite the weather. 

Cub Mobile

They only wanted to go once....  I think they were a little scared.  Evan told me the brake didn't work (he was moving it in the wrong direction per Steve).

Hoppy Easter

Spring Break Extravaganza

The kids had a hard time understanding why we couldn't go to California again (um, it's expensive).  We did make it out to North Caroline to visit our friend Todd.  We did some hiking there and the kids made me sad when they picked stuffed animals over patches in the gift shop (that's what I get for asking them).  We stopped at the Children's Museum in Indianapolis for our annual visit.  They still really like that place.  Once we came home, we hit the Field Museum and even managed to do the Mirror Maze in the mall near our  house.  It was a fun but tiring week.

Evan Star Student

Evan is star student this week.  I didn't realize this until 4:30am this morning as I emptied the kids backpacks.  I missed the note from the teacher on Friday.  I went into full mom panic looking for stuff that he can take to school to put on up on the star board (thankfully we did not have to make a poster board for it).  I happened to have this scrapbook notes that I bought on clearance that seemed to work well for the occasion.  As soon as Evan got up, I asked him all of these questions.  His answers were amusing.

Where did the time go?

I've been really busy and haven't posted here in forever.  We had a great Christmas.  We spent the week after going down to St Louis for some family fun.  We hit their Science Center, Zoo (for Christmas lights) and City Museum.  The kids loved the City Museum so much that we're going back there soon to visit it again.  It's been a cold winter - kids have missed several days to the school being closed for "coldness".  All three kids are back in swim lessons.  Evan is the most enthusiastic about swimming out of the two; Sean however is finally learning something in class and is turning about to be a decent swimmer.  It helps that he has long arms and legs. At the end of January, we went on a Cub Scout camp out (indoors) and poor little Evan hurt himself sledding (he hit a tree).  He bounced back but it gave me quite the scare.  Though it's hard for both boys to pay attention at Den meetings, we are continuing with Cub Scouts for another year.  It takes Sean so long to acclimate to new things... he just starting to make friends.  Both boys enjoy the outings a lot.  We are camping a lot more now and doing other fun stuff like Pinewood Derby cars.  Evan just hit the 48 inch mark recently and is super excited to ride the American Eagle this year at Six Flags.  We will probably go back to St Louis' Six Flags too now that Evan can ride more.  Sean is growing like a weed.  He's 52 inches and going.  I've got him into 7s and 8s in clothing even though he is still 6.  Evan is getting his had me downs now.  Yikes!  Lots of pics on Flickr from the winter.  Check it out....