Super Heros Parade

A Rose Festival Tradition..... the Junior Rose Parade (the largest kids parade in the US!) We had lots of fun. Oma came with us and we used our capes from the Amazing Race. I made two little capes for the boys too (Thanks Kathy for helping with the velcro!) Nathaniel loved "flying" by as the crowd cheered him on... till he fell and skinned his hands of course. Logan ran a bit too. They slept hard last night!

Bribery

Potty training was slow going... I guess I shouldn't say that. Nate is good about going potty when I remind him to, it's the poops that are an issue. He is in big boy underwear so it's a real mess to clean up (even though he attempts to clean up his mess himself by helping rinse them in the toilet- why should I have to do all the work?) I found these 2 remote control cars for cheap (under $10) at Bi-Mart and we decided to do a sticker chart for days that our poop went into the toilet and not our underwear. 10 stickers later (ie. 3 weeks) and we got to play with our new toys! Of course Logan was getting stickers along the way too, so he got a car as well. Lots of fun! And we haven't had to take them away for pooping in our pants yet either!

Potty Training

Because potty training is so much more fun with flotation devices...

Wild Hair

Logan always has wild hair and I rarely try and tame it.... but Nathaniel decided to give it a try. I was surprised Logan sat as still as he did. What a great big brother.

Portland's "Amazing Race" Challenge

SuperMom capes are ready to go.... this was more work than I expected!

We are ready to race...

Guiness World's smallest park in our very own city, who knew?

Never seen this elephant before...

Trying to spell our state capitals while the water fountain is on

Playing football with Seattle Seahawk fans

Mom's ringing the liberty bell, while I'm trying to shoot her. Guess we weren't clear on what charade to act out. We had a tough time with this clue... it needed to be unscrambled "Treble billy". We called Dad at home since he likes to do the jumble. I barely spelled it out and he said the answer. I almost hung up saying call me when you get it and he was trying to tell me that he had the answer already. I could hardly believe how fast he was!

After finding someone with a driver's license from out of state, this is mom and I attempting to make the shape of Arkansas or was it Alabama. Apparently we needed a geography refresher.

We finished 56 out of 135 teams!!!! So much fun.... really a lot of fun.

Dozer Days

I was out shopping last week and the boys were watching a delivery man go up and down the elevator(?) on the back of his truck. He mentioned... if your boys think my truck is cool you should check out Dozer Days in Camas next weekend. The kids actually get to operate all sorts of bulldozer and other equipment. So I looked it up and sure enough...we got tickets and invited Oma and Papa Jim to join us. (Which was great, because Ken and I stood in lines all day while the boys went and played in the sand box and ate elephant ears and ice cream with the grandparents). At the entrance we hopped into the back of a dump truck and drove off into the quarry where all the diggers where... let the fun begin!

Logan just enjoyed playing in the dirt and collecting rocks for Papa Jim

Nathaniel loved "driving" the buldozers and other equipement. We only got through 4 of them before it was nap time. So much fun though!

Mother's Day

Mother's Day was a special day for me... the boys took me out to breakfast. Later that day they came in saying "surprise" with tulips in their hands...

And then in typical boy fashion.... the tulips became swords.

We spent the afternoon at my parents house celebrating with OMA.

And then the water bottles came out...

My wonderful family