Monday, August 27, 2012

First Day of Pre-K Preschool

Well it's that time of year again! Carson went back to school today. This year he is in a 4 year old program and he will go 5 days a week! He goes from 9-1, which will give Tyler and I some time to hang out together every day, just the two of us!

It's an eventful first day of school too! We are getting his by the outer bands of Hurricane Issac which means LOTS of rain and wind!! 

 


                         First Day of Preschool 2011                   First Day of Preschool 2012


Sunday, August 26, 2012

Golfing

I am so behind with my blogging!! We have been on the go for the past 3 weeks so I haven't had much to sit down and think. :)

Carson has shown an interest in golfing so my dad bought Carson some golf clubs. He took him golfing a few times while we were in Italy a d we went again while we were in DC a few weeks ago. He's actually not too bad! He's been practicing at the driving range and on the putting green. Now that we live in Florida ( a golfing state) we may have to pick him up a set for our house as well! :)

Tuesday, August 21, 2012

Zoo

We spent last week in DC and while we were there we visited the National Zoo. My sister went with us and I was very thankful for it!! Two kids, one stroller, and it was a warm (hot) morning! So thankful I have a double stroller to use on a normal basis! Ha!! We enjoyed seeing the Pandas, elephants, and most of all the alligators (of course!)

Friday, August 10, 2012

Little painters

The summer days are sometimes long, especially when Jason is traveling. Now that I have two very active little boys I need to start thinking with my teacher brain!! I have all the "Stuff," I need to start using more of it.  Carson has always loved painting and creating "stuff" so I thought I would see if Tyler liked it as well. A few weeks ago I pulled out the water colors and some coloring book pages and let the boys have some painting fun. Tyler did surprisingly well!! He tried to eat the paint at the beginning but once he realized mommy keeps saying "no," he stopped. It was a great way to spend 30 mins before dinner.

Painting with water colors 





After working with water colors I decided to move onto some canvases! Carson painted some pictures for us when we moved into our other house in Charlotte for the playroom. (He was 19 months old.) We had an empty wall in the hall by the boys' bedrooms so I thought I would have them paint some more canvases to help decorate  the house. I bought 6 - 6x6 square canvases. I had the boys paint two each. Once those dried I had them make a hand print over one of their paintings and then a footprint on the other. I then made a photo canvas of each of the kids while they painted. So on the wall I have a photo of each of the boys painting and then under each picture and hand and foot print. (Sorry I didn't take a picture of this yet!) Both boys had so much fun painting!Tyler was so mad when I started cleaning him up! I guess we need to work painting into our schedules every week!
























Thursday, August 9, 2012

more Italy pictures

So it's been a month since our trip to Italy. Here are a few more pictures from our trip. It was a wonderful trip away. I already shared some pictures from Venice so I'll share some from Florence.