Happy Father's Day Steven (AKA World's Greatest Dad)!

The boys would like to thank you.   Thank you for making money to buy us food and toys, letting us wear our favorite clothes, giving us bananas every morning, reading "Fox In Sox" lots and lots, teaching us manly things like how to hammer nails, how to paint, and of course how to swim.  We love you, and hope you wear one of your new ties to church today:)

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I ♥ evenings in the summer time

Steven is teaching Dylan the back stroke in the back ground. Isaac's silly hair and cute face are in this video, watch some of it!
 
We told Isaac how to use his arms, and this is what he did that same day!

And I tell Steven to back up more b/c Isaac can almost swim accross.
Isaac is also jumping into the deep end and swiming to the ladder. His idea. He's such a little "monkey see monkey do" to his big brother Dylan.

compare

http://thefegers.blogspot.com/2008/08/getting-ready.html
this is my post from 2 years ago of Dylan's first day in this preschool

Isaac's First Day of Preschool

Isaac is 2-1/4 years old.  He started preschool today!  I sewed him a cot sheet and this matching pillow.  He and Noah decorated their boxes.  He was so excited!

Dylan's cot sheet is made out of his favorite "'reen blanket" material.  It's pretty worn now though.  I just did surf boards for Isaac.  He used super hero and motorcycle stickers for his box. 

I was worried the whole day might look like this: 

But it wasn't.  He just didn't want to go stand alone.  I'm so glad Corrie was there to help out.  It was Noah's first day of preschool too.  Corrie made Noah a Cars sheet and made Malia a butterfly one.  I love Noah's little back pack!  Dylan's teacher didn't let him bring a back pack when he started at 2 so I didn't try with Isaac.  Noah and Isaac's teacher is okay with it though.  Oh well. 

Dylan can't even escape the cameras at school:)  Sorry buddy. 

But this makes me love this school even more! 

There's a whole bin of pretend cameras and phones.

Dylan was happy to show me his cubby and put his updated box away in his room. 

Isaac went for the motorcycles, then for a puzzle. 

He gave me a kiss and was fine! 

No tears, no fight, no concern.  I'm happy I guess.

Then I walked Dylan to the playground where his class is at that time.  He woke up with a stiff neck yesterday morning.  It is really hurting him.  I hoped it would be better this morning, but it wasn't.  He was guarding it and walking like he needed his V-8.  I gave him some tylenol when I got him home and he said that felt better.  But Steven felt so bad that he bought some Icy Hot type stuff that he thought said was okay for two and up.  Upon further inspection at home, it read 12 and up.  Steven decided it would make Dylan feel better anyway, so he slathered it on.  Dylan was excited.  It felt cool for a second, then Dylan screamed that it was burning!  I washed it off then comforted him for a long time after.  Steven tried some on himself and felt so bad.  I hope it's better in the morning!  I'm not sure what to do for him.  I tried light massaging it before.  Icing it would probably help, but he's not in the mood for that ever.  Thoughts? 

Ok, back to our half-day school day.

I wanted to walk back in to see Isaac, but the door was closed and I knew I should just walk away.  I took a picture under the summer-time door decorations. 

Then I walked away.  I wasn't really sad.  Isaac wants to stay and play each time we drop his big brother off.  So, I got my oil changed, got my teeth cleaned, then went to the dollar store to get some flags for flag day, of course!  I called half way through the morning for the report, and Isaac was "socializing on the playground and was as happy as could be.  He ate his morning snack and even asked for more."  That made me smile.  Noah, on the other hand, asked for his mommy and was a little sad.  No crying or anything. 

I picked them up at noon. 

And Isaac was happy!  

He had eaten his lunch, had played, had made a hand print with finger paint, and was coloring when I got there.  He was in his extra shorts from his box.  He was standing by the gate on the playground when his teacher came back from break.  He didn't know to ask another teacher I guess and couldn't hold it.  She said he peed for 2 minutes when she rushed him to the potty:)  She was impressed:) 
Noah was in Malia's room because he wanted her when he saw her in the lunch room.  He only ate something once he was sitting next to his "sissy."  The funny thing is, he didn't want to leave with me:)  He wanted to stay in Malia's class room.  We love Malia's techer.  Then after gathering 3 of my chickens, we went to see Dylan.  His class was still eating lunch.  He usually asks for seconds. 

Their school decorates for every holiday and season. 

I wonder where they store all of this stuff!

Happy Flag Day!

And here are the kids with their flags.  Except I made them put them down b/c they were covering the DVD player causing contention or covering their fake smiles causing a not-so-good group shot. 

So day 1 of preschool went well.  My baby isn't a baby any more, he's a big boy. 

um, i grab a camera, what would you have done?

This is b/c I posted the potentially embarrassing photos of Malia below. 
(Believe me, she's NOT embarrassed yet.)   

W.T.

Malia has always been a picky dresser. 

The things she picks are often PJs.

This day, she wore a shirt from when she was like 1 or 2 years old.

And she said her legs were hot, so this was her outfit.

I was laughing every time I asked thie cutie to put on her real clothes that her mom packed for her. 

But since I couldn't fight it or convince her,

why not embrace the look:)

Are you laughing still at the out take?:)

WolframAlpha

tutorial of a quick way to get your homework answers. 
where was this when i was in calculus?

http://www.wolframalpha.com/screencast/introducingwolframalpha.html

It's genious, and it really works!

i wish it had a blog widget,
I'd put it on my side bar with all of the other stuff I should weed through.

have you heard of it?  my dad sent me the link.

It's clicking

Isaac has only been wanting to swim with me or Steven.  Otherwise he stayes on the steps or does "choo choo train" around the edge.  Until last night.  I was out visiting teaching (and getting pulled over) with my grandma, and Steven got Isaac to fall in love with swiming like he did last summer.  He's so excited with going "under water, mom, underwater!"  He glides and kicks his little legs and asks me to take his picture. 

So after teaching a batch of swiming lessons this evening, I got in to see him practice his under water face again. 

Dylan is swiming more too, he can float on his back, turtle float, and get rings from the bottom.  I should teach him diving and swiming on his back.  We're just so lax with structured teaching for our own kids.

Isaac's eyes are tired.  He was actually asking me to take the picture again and again and again, silly guy. 

Hi Kailin, thanks for visiting us this evening!

 And Isaac has my camera at the end to give me a dose of my own medicine.

Isaac, the master shopper

After visiting their new preschool class-to-be, I took Noah and Isaac to Rollin' Oates.  They have mini shopping carts - perfect!  Isaac knew that Noah wouldn't know that it was our first time using them.  He made sure to be the one to tell Noah where the food goes.  I think he's pretending he's Dylan (the big brother).  Dylan will often tell Isaac the rules, then Isaac repeats them to me in a cute matter-of-fact serious way.  

Ties

A friend gave us some ties because her boys have outgrown them.  She saw my boys were wearing ties at Jake's Bar Mitzvah.  Now my boys are about the right size for them, and I know how to tie them!  Have you ever tried tieing a toddler's tie, not wearing it?  I was so frustrated and it took forever!  I finally had Steven try, then we clipped one on him.  Isaac's is a clip on now. 
Dylan's tie here is a perfect knot, if you ask me:)

I love each of these pictures.  Dylan isn't into this quick photo session before church. 

Here's another day, more ties!

Isaac almost always picks a flower or two as he walks by them. 
I don't mind b/c they grow like beautiful weeds. 


These series crack me up.