We want to wish Granddaddy, aka trainsdad, a very happy 71st birthday. We were too busy and tired for a blog yesterday when it was his actual birthday. Big love and hugs your way, hope your birthday was a good one! Funniest part is, it was 71 degrees here yesterday, with gray skies. 🙂

We went playground scouting and found another really good spot to go. It has lots of age appropriate equipment and lots of shade. We spent a few hours there this afternoon.

Contemplating the super fast tunnel slide

Wheee!

The boys got super dizzy on this merry-go-round thing

Trevor had to give it a tune up

Time to go home

When I put this plate in front of Trevor, he said, “Oh. My plate is an ocean!”

Brendan loves his brown gravy.

Bill has a pretty yucky cold, one of the perks of having to go to his office more. We are all hoping the rest of us avoid it. The weather is too nice right now to be stuck inside being sick.

I had to do a post tonight in order to wish Aunt Erin a very happy 30th birthday! We all hope she is able to do something really fun to celebrate!

We spent the morning at the Science Center again.

I dressed the boys in their cute little shorts and their blue and red polos. Never did I expect that right behind us in the entry, the museum would be flooded with several buses full of kids wearing blue and red polo school uniforms. We had to bail on their favorite water area and head for the 3rd floor to escape the madness.

Trevor built with carbon atoms

He controlled an army of little robots

Brendan manipulated virtual sand

Trevor got to try rock candy for the first time. He says, “Sugar rocks!!”

Brendan did not want his own, but Trevor was happy to share.

Trevor did not want to leave and I told him we could come back another day. Later in the evening, he says, “It is tomorrow now.” I said, “It is?” He says, “Now it is tomorrow, we can go back to the Weeseum”. He can’t say museum right, but he sure does love them. Brendan too!

Happy Veterans Day to all of the vets we know and love, and thank you for your service!

Our day was simple. Yesterday Trevor helped Bill fix his truck.

He asked all morning if he could go out in to the garage and work on it again. We had to go to the playground to distract him. The high today was 85, it is hard to believe the snow is coming already back east.

We are ready for snow now! It is on our to-do list to take the boys up to northern AZ this winter and let them play in real snow. I found a great deal plus a super coupon combination and got the boys each some bibbed snow pants and snow jackets with boots. I am hoping they are just the right size to fit them this year and next year for snow-cations before they get passed to cousins who might really get some wear out of them!!
Trevor was not wanting to try them on, but Brendan thought it made him a robot, and he ran around in them with the swishy noise they make. Even in just the bibs, he was sweating so much when I took them off!

Can’t stop puff-legs the robot!

Bill went out for his free meal at our favorite brewery and swapped stories with some other vets. The boys helped me make some fresh hummus for dinner.

Trevor became infatuated with the garlic press

I don’t need a food processor. Trevor was going to press each chickpea by hand. yummm.

The end result was too spicy for the boys but they really love helping.