Land of the Rising Sons

Friday, April 18, 2008

Wednesday, April 16, 2008

He bit into his PBJ sandwich at lunch and his tooth popped right out! Apparently the kids who got hot lunch from the cafeteria had rice today. Well hmm, guess who dropped his tooth on the floor? :P So Jackson's 7-months-pregnant teacher was down on the floor, along with one of the other Kinder teachers and a parent volunteer, eyes peeled for the tooth, saying, "Aha, I found it! No, noo, it's just rice." LOL

So he got to go to the nurse and rinse his mouth, and she put the tooth in a special tiny tooth-shaped box that he got to wear around his neck the rest of the day. His teacher made him swear he wouldn't open it until he got home. :)

Jacks told me he hoped the tooth fairy would bring him a paper dollar this time (apparently gold dollar coins are just NOT "real" money), and I guess she heard him, because she obliged. ;)

Zoo!

We were so excited to have Anthony home this past weekend, and we decided to take advantage of the beautiful weather on Saturday and headed to the zoo.

Our first stop was Stingray Bay, a special exhibit where we were able to plunge our hands into the stingray tank and touch them as they swam by. We were all a little nervous about it LOL, but Jacks and Cody were both very brave and got a big kick out of it.

It was pretty hard to get all 4 boys looking in the right direction for a picture, but here's a pretty cute one:

Cool butterfly bench!

At the end of our morning, we went over to the children's zoo and the boys got in the water. Boy, did they have a blast, and despite our best efforts, Cody ended up with soaking wet pants. :)

On our way out, the boys played on the big spider web...you can see Cody's pants are so wet that they've fallen down underneath his little hiney and his underpants are showing. LOL

And right before we left, Jacks found this cool rainbow on the ground made by the sun shining through a prism!

Family in the Bluebonnets

We went out on Sunday morning to our usual spot by ExxonMobil headquarters, but it was FREEZING!!! Shocked

So we only got a few.

Here's the best family shot:

The older boys were excited about climbing to the top of the hill, so they took off mid-pic LOL:

So Luke, Anthony and I posed for one more:

And then we caught Jacks as he was coming back down the hill:

Saturday, April 5, 2008

Saturday at the Arboretum

We had a beautiful sunny day so we decided to head to the Aboretum for Dallas Blooms. So many gorgeous flowers everywhere, including cool Texas-themed topiary (very poignant as this is our last spring as Texas residents).

Cody was not feeling especially cooperative for photos today, bringing to mind a favorite Calvin and Hobbes comic that I will have to scan in at some point...but anyway, imagine thinking you're about to get the perfect picture and then coming away with this:

Like father, like son! I have a picture of Anthony and me from my Senior Girls' Formal where we both look fantastic and smiley and all dressed up, and it would have been a great shot had Anthony not ruined it by winking. :P

Jacks was a super trooper and posed for no less than 1 million pictures...with wonderful results.

And Cody smiled every once in a while!

The boys enjoyed the Little Tikes Rodeo, where they got to run around with stick horses. Cody's was a little too big for him, and I was tempted to cite him for high-sticking, but luckily no one was injured. :)

Dad was able to get a shot of me with each of my sweet boys...our next challenge will be to get one of all 4 of us in the same picture!

Dad and I got some great shots of the older boys in the covered wagon. We only got Cody to sit still by promising that face painting was next!

Jacks and Cody enjoyed getting their faces painted the best, as by this time they were VERY tired of posing for pictures. They both chose to get a snake on each cheek and then tried to scare the birds away with their snakiness. Sssssssssssssss................