It's always good to wear your helmet for..............

..............yard work!!

with the way the grass is on the road, this pic make it look like his little mower really works. If only it did:). Daddy would have MUCH less work to do:).

EVERY time Rob mowes, Kyle is out there "helping" the entire time. He gets very upset if he misses even one minute of "mow time"!!

Giving Dad a thumbs up for a jog well done!!

Daddy finally sees him and returns the thumbs up:).

Brock prefers the "riding mower". It's good to save your energy:).

Headstands

Guess who thought that they were hot stuff when they figured this one out??

Just in case you haven't heard..............

Baby #3 due 11/10/11.
And, yes, we're sure there's only one this time:). Whew!!

A new place for shoes

We have a new shoe rack, courtesy of Brock and Kyle. I came into the entry way one day last week to find that they had put their shoes away, just like I asked:). I guess they get points for creativity!!

Imaginations run wild!!

The boys' imaginations have been rapidly growing for the past few months, and it is so fun to watch as they play out what they see in their little minds. As you will notice in the remainder of the post, all of these pics are taken with jams on. We like laid back mornings around here and take full advantage of our stay-at-home time:). Here are some of the imagination scenes come to life from the last week or so in our house:

This day was a few weeks ago - I came into the room to investigate when I was hearing choo-choo sounds and found this very long train made with their vehicles.

Here they are - the conductor and the engineer:).

More sweet smiles to share.

I love how they started with the smallest cars and worked their way up to the big ones.

Seriously, Mom?!?! Put the camera away!!

Not sure how train making lead to book reading, but it's all good!!

A better shot of the train.

This series of pics was taken the day after we visited the Cars characters at State Farm. This structure behind them is State Farm, and if you look closely, you can see a loose representation of the 3 characters that we saw sitting in-between Brock and Kyle - made from Mega Blocks, of course:).

I was trying to persuade one of them to move to the other side so the picture would be more even, but neither wanted to move away from the "Cars guys", so this is the shot - still pretty cute!!

An aeriel view of the State Farm complex.

The next day they were in this boat, forging the high seas. Elmo had fallen overboard:(.

This day was yet another State Farm structure. "Get in, Daddy!" was the command when they showed this to Rob:).

This is one of many very large tunnels that they build for their mega Thomas tracks!!

All of that construction was very hard work, so they were "resting" and enjoying the view from the middle.

My hard workers, taking a much needed break!!

All of that imagining and building can leave a couple of guys just worn out!!

CARS!!!

Last Friday, Brock and Kyle got to meet some of their favorite movie characters. Tow-mater, Finn McMissile, and Lightning McQueen were at State Farm promoting their upcoming new movie (of which State Farm is a big sponsor - Thank You State Farm!!), so we went to meet them. Tow-mater and Lightning are definite favorites and Finn McMissile is a new character that we got a sneak peek of. It was so much fun to watch the boys' reactions as they had greatly anticipated meeting these guys. They were slightly disappointed that they didn't talk, but that disappointment was fully erased by getting to ride the escalators all the way up and down all the floors of Daddy's building:).

Tow-Mater. I was impressed with the fact that they were real vehicles, but still looked cartoon-like.

Brock and Kyle w/ Mater.

And another, because I like the cheesy grin!!

And another because it's funny, too!!

The view of Mater's back-side.

Checking out Mater's tow cable, which the boys greatly admire:).

One last shot of the side view.

And this is Finn McMissile. Brock and Kyle were checking out his back-side. Nope, no tow cable. Bummer!!

Love Brock's smile in this one.

And Kyle's in this one. Sorry that I can never post just one shot. The boys like to make sure that they never smile at the same time!!

Finn's other side - looks like the first, right:)??

This pic was so that I could make sure and remember his name. I'm getting old, you know!!

Ahhhhhhhhh, and the beloved Lightning McQueen!!! All the way to South, Kyle kept exclaiming that we were going to see "Lightning McQueen, my favorite race car EVER!!!!!". But when we got there, we rode the escalator down to the level he was on, and this totally distracted his attention the whole visit. "Can we ride back up?? Can we ride back up, now???", was all we heard almost the entire time we were there!! Oh, well. I guess next time we need some cheap entertainment, we'll just go and ride the escalators at State Farm for a couple of hours:).

Lightning's side-view with Brock looking forward......

.............and one with Kyle looking forward:).

Close up, because he's Lightning McQueen after all!!

Checking out his flames. We can't wait for Cars 2 to come out this summer. I think it will probably be Brock and Kyle's first visit to the movie theater - a fun look forward to!!