We were at the science center one day and they had a fun wall painting activity. They gave the kids paint and let them paint all over the wall. They had a blast!
Wednesday, June 8, 2011
Welcome Baby Jacob!
On June 2nd Rexford and Austin got a new cousin! Rexford was so excited to meet Jacob and loves to hold him. He's a cutie!
Rexford and Jacob
Me and Jacob
Green Eggs and Ham
The boys were really in the book Green Eggs and Ham a few weeks ago and wanted to read it all the time. So one morning we made green eggs and ham. Austin ate all of his and Rexford (who doesn't like eggs) even ate half his plate. They loved them and ask for them all the time now :)
Thursday, June 2, 2011
Cake Fun
The young women in our ward had a talent show with a cake auction to raise money for camp. I made two cakes which turned out to be a lot of work and a big mess but it was yummy and fun :)
The first cake I made was a zebra cake found here:
I changed it a little because some people said the cake had no taste. I just used a white cake mix and then divided into two bowls and added dark cocoa powder to one. Then I followed the directions for how to make the zebra stripes. On the website they didn't frost the cake but I used a homemade dark chocolate frosting between layers and a homemade vanilla buttercream for the top and then used a combo to decorate it. It's not perfect looking but from the pieces I trimmed and the leftover frosting, it was yummy! I want to make another one soon so I can slice into it and see the stripes.
The other cake I made was from here:
I have made these cupcakes several times and they are delicious! So for the auction I made a cake instead of the cupcakes. It's a heavy cake and you need milk to go with it but it's one of my favorite cupcake recipes. Peanut butter and chocolate go together so well!
Silly Austin and Matthew
These pictures are a little dark but you get the idea:) Austin was being silly the other day and drilling on Matthew. Matthew laughed and liked it so they kept at it for awhile. Silly boys!
Preschool End of the Year Party
Rexford's end of the year party was a pool party at his teacher's house. The kids had lots of fun eating pizza, swimming, and jumping on her trampoline. It was a great way to end the year and start the summer!
Rexford swimming
playing with his friends
Eating pizza!
Skyler, Rexford, Alex, Andrew, Taylan, and Mason
Last Day of Preschool
Rexford's last day going to preschool was Wednesday because their class party the next day was going to be at their teacher's house. All the summer birthdays got to celebrate by wearing a special hat and eating cupcakes. His teacher made him a scrapbook with pictures from the whole year and a book with his artwork too. He loves looking at these. He was very excited to bring home all of his school supplies and especially his journal. He has written several entries since he brought it home. He told me "If someone doesn't know how to write, then I can teach them because I am a good writer." This is great because he really does not show confidence about some academic things and even though he is capable he doubts himself a lot. I love to see him writing and drawing pictures to go with his entries. He's growing so much!
Rexford with his birthday hat
Rexford on his last day of preschool
And here he is on his first day of preschool - he looks so young
Rexford's Preschool Graduation
Rexford's Preschool Graduation was last Tuesday night. The chapel where they had the graduation has terrible lighting and my camera doesn't do well with bad light so my pictures never turn out well in there :( But here are a few anyway and some taken with Rexford's camera after. I can't believe the year is over, it went so fast! Rexford has grown so much, physical and academically and we are so proud of him. I am sad it is over...but it is really fun to watch him doing things like writing in his journal by himself and reading words and adding and subtracting.
Rexford and his class sang a few songs
Here is Rexford and his teacher as they called his name
Rexford's class after all their names were called
Rexford and Mrs. Comprosky
Rexford wanted me to take a picture of him with his camera
He took a picture of me and Brian, not too bad:)
Rexford and Daddy
Toy Story on Ice!
After Busch Gardens we drove to the St. Pete Times Forum for the Toy Story on Ice show. It only took about 15 minutes to get there and the boys fell asleep in the car so we sat in the parking garage for awhile and I let them sleep. Then they ate a snack and we headed inside to find our friends and seats. I let the boys get a fun cup with snow cone inside and then we got ready to watch the show. They LOVED the show! Austin was so excited to see Zurg and Buzz and they both loved watching their favorite characters. And our seats were great! It was a really fun day and even though we got home late, the boys slept and everything went smoothly. P.S. And Austin stayed dry and went on the potty all day! He's such a big boy now and so cute in his little underwear :)
Rexford chose an alien cup
Austin picked a Woody cup
I didn't really take any pictures because it was dark but here's one of most of the main characters.
Afternoon Busch Gardens Trip
Our friend Stacy and her parents who live in Tampa got us tickets for Toy Story on Ice in Tampa. I figured if was going there I would go early and let the kids play at Busch Gardens for a bit and I wanted to go early to avoid traffic from Orlando to Tampa. I picked up Rexford after school and we drove to Busch Gardens. We had fun playing around for a few hours just hanging out and going on rides. Here are a few pictures from our afternoon.
My little drivers
and pilots
Rexford and Austin on the hippo ride
Whee! Down the hill
This has been closed the last few times we've gone so it was first time we could ride the carousel
Austin on his horse
They wanted to take a picture on the turtle
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