Second Art Day

Wednesday's are art day at our local museum. Today we met some friends at the park to eat lunch before hand. Anyone know who this big boy eating the hamburger is?

Today's project was an underwater sea. Lawson did a great job! Barrett enjoyed coloring his fish, face, arm, and his entire leg purple. 

Transportation Day

Lawson's invention took a spin; as in transportation. Specifically an airplane, helicopter, and then a double airplane.

Helicopter- there was a lot of fussing on this thing. The propeller was hard to stay up. "It won't stay balanced." was the constant whine. 

So then he made the airplane because the helicopter wouldn't stay balance. He would yell, "Mayday, Mayday, I'm going down"  because basically he was too lazy to hold the swords (wings) and twist the grabber to make the propeller spin. 

I could hear him from the other room saying I know you can fly this thing without doing anything. He used masking taped to tape the swords to the grabber. So basically he was making an auto pilot with understanding what that is. He decided then auto pilot was best when the propeller was taped on and the wings were removed. Little bro wanted a ride after nap time.  

And then little brother got his own plane. 

If you build it, they will come...

I keep some boxes for Lawson's projects. I don't like keeping them because I enjoy throwing things away or taking stuff to my hoarding place (my classroom). But I keep them. In the mornings, he usually watches TV and then by 7:30, he's wanting to make "sompthang".  If it keeps him busy while I get the day organized, I'll keep the boxes even though it completely drives me nuts. So this morning, he built a frog house. It's more of a frog mansion. It has two main buildings with a connecting passageway, three doors, there are windows, an upper sunning deck, a lawn chair, and of course a flag. 

The connecting passageway is at the bottom. 

You can see the sunning deck here. The bottom has a lawn chair. 

He set it out on our back porch around 2:00 today. We have a lot of regular frog visitors out there at night. Our two regulars are Zippie and Doo Dah. I promise I didn't name them. But tonight when we got home from the pool, look at what at moved it! 

Sooo I guess if you built it, they will come, right?

Lauren Rogers Museum of Art

It's the month of family art at our local museum. This is Lawson's fourth year and Barrett's first year to participate. Today was all about Van Gogh's sunflowers. They got to make one for home and another for the museum's artwork.

 

Tupelo Days

We went to Tupelo for a few days. There is always a million things I want to do and people to see. It's a good time but until you live in the middle of nowhere and live away from family on both sides which lives in the same town, it would be hard for you to imagine the party hopping that goes on. Part of the craziness is the fact we never go home. We've only been home twice since Christmas and one of those was about a 36 hour trip. I always have a list of places that I'd like to shop because the closes town to any real size is an hour away. BUT this trip was much more laid back, and we had a great time! 

The Woodmen of the World insurance dudes hosted family day. And since my cousin is the Woodman Dude, we went. IT WAS A BLAST! Perfectly orangized, with music, magic, fun, food, and air conditioner. 

Lawson and Barrett had the best time. This Spider Jump inspired a catapult that was built with papa. 

Lawson has saved his money for months to buy a Transformer Dinobot. Twenty-five cents a chore takes awhile when 1. you don't always to your chores. And 2. The thing you want is $25. It is really cool though. 

Too much fun is hard work.

This is the catapults that they built. It is the neatest thing- I think papa might have something going on here! Plus the bullets are sweet gum balls. Everyone likes to get rid of those. There is a video on Instagram.

Barrett also said his first sentence. He repeatly told us that Misty, my parents crazy rescue dog, was a "baby puppy wolf wolf." Misty is a medium size dog but in compare with our horse dogs, I guess she looks like a puppy. 

Foam, slits for hands and rope make late night wings.

Papaw mentioned that the pine tree in front their house was dead. Lawson went to investigated and quickly told us the problem- longhorn beetle. He told us that we needed to remove the bark in order for the woodpeckers to be able to save the tree by killing the Longhorn beetle. Who knows if any of that information is even true or not. But he and Papaw worked on that for about 30 minutes.

I'm going to end with Barrett's fancy way to sit. Spoiled and relaxed.

Running Man- not the dance

Lawson has his first race coming up next week. He has been seriously practicing for two days. When we were in Tupelo, we did three a days. He only stop a hand full of times- to look for turtles in the culvert, to save a worm on the street, to walk up two hills, and to pick me flowers. 

So proud of this little boy. He ran a combined 3.75 miles. 

Today he ran 1.86 miles at Family Art day. He's enjoying the running so it is making my runs a lot easier. I don't have to wait on Shad to get home; I can bring him along; and I can get more serious with myself in the early morning hours when the world is still asleep. 

He does have the idea that you're suppose to play defense when running and block people which is kind of dangerous. He must get that from his daddy. He does this "Turkey Shoot" where he yells the phrase and veers offpath and then quickly back on. It's funny. Shad said he thinks it's from the movie Planes Fire and Rescue.  I also love that today he yelled back, "Mom, look it's such a beautiful day."