Mostly Wordless Wednesday - Rocket Ship

A big box + Imagination = A really cool rocket ship!

Taping up the sides

Testing out the size

Planning where the knobs and buttons should go

Painting time.
Let's start with a little red

Good job, Jay. Keep it up!

Next we'll add some green...

And pink...

And purple!

Jack's pointing out the top of the rocket

 

Jason peeking out of the window

 

"Come on in, Shawn!"

 

"Here, let me help you."

 

Getting ready for takeoff!

 

Shawn's counting down...Blast Off!

I may have created a monster. They keep adding things that need to go on the rocket. The last thing Jay told me before bed was that he needed pictures of us to put inside so he won't forget us on his trips. lol.

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Shawn's favorite thing from the day was going to school and walking around outside.

Jason's favorite thing from the day was building and painting the rocket ship.

More School Angst

The idea of school has started to creep into our daily conversations, and what used to be more of an abstract someday kind of thing has now become a someday soon kind of thing. I think we're all more than a little ... excited nervous sigh ... excitedly nervous about this upcoming transition.

While Shawn knows he is going to start school soon, I'm not sure he really cares about the magnitude of this milestone. How can he when he doesn't have anything about which to compare? For him, it seems to all be something to take in stride.

Jason, however, has really begun to internalize what school is going to mean to him. Questions like...

"Mom, what if they don't have a cubby for me at kindergarten? That would be a disaster."
 

and...

"But mom, what if they don't like me? What if they think I'm going to destroy the whole school or something?

Are you going to destroy the school?

No, but how do they know that?

Well, you just go in and say, "Hi. I'm Jason. Do you want to be friends?"

That's all I have to do?

Yep.

Well, okay then. I'll try."

...make it clear that he has started to think and worry about what the whole school situation will be like. I am trying my best to give him information to comfort and encourage him while at the same time help him talk about these insecurities he has. I do believe he is (they both are) going to love school, which I tell him regularly. I suppose we'll see how well I've done convincing him of that once school starts.

I do have to admit that these conversations are starting to freak me out a little. My ba-hay-bies...are starting school...in 23 days! They were just born yesterday! How can they be old enough for school? One second I'm marveling about how this is possible, when in the next, mama bear rears her head with thoughts about how those kids at school better be nice to my boys. Growl. The second after that I'm right back at "OMG! What am I going to do?! Ba-hay-bies...school...ack!" (I'm pretty sure that's all totally normal parental freak out stuff and not crazy at all. Right? lol)

We've got 23 days until the boys start kinder. I guess it's time for me to figure out what we're going to do for that first day of school. With Pintrest as my planner, the possibilities might be endless. ;)

San Diego Part 2 - The Zoo

Our second full day in San Diego was also a great day!

We once again started with some hotel fun.

What 'cha doing, Jack?

Oh, nothing...
I'm just feeling his hair with my fist.

We walked a LOT. Did you know this place is virtually all up hill?! I almost died pushing the stroller up and down the hills!

Daddy and the big boys

Mommy and Jack at the waterfall in the aviary.

Mommy and the crew at the polar bear exhibit.
(It ended up being a big, sleeping polar bear. lol)

We saw lots of animals...



We fooled around a lot.





Jack went into the petting zoo.
And ran from the goats.




Jason and daddy went on an
archaeology dig.





Jason as one of the archaeologists.



Daddy as an "Alien life forms" technician.



The street dancers putting on a show.

Of course there was more eating.

Um, Jack was there, too, but he didn't get pictured. Oops!

The boys made hand prints for me and grandma. I'm already obsessed with the boys' hand prints, so it is no wonder I thought this was the coolest idea. :)




The talented Sarah painting Jason's hand for his print.




My hand prints of the boys' hands as their favorite animals -
an orca (Shawn), a shark (Jason), and a duck (Jack)




Grandma's hand prints...a herd of elephants.

We took a few family pictures.

Take #1

They look so thrilled. Take #2. lol

Take #3.

As you can tell, the boys had so much fun they were exhausted!

Trying hard not to fall asleep.

Trying hard not to die from boredom. Ahem.

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Shawn's favorite thing from the day was reading with daddy.

Jason's favorite thing from the day was getting to pick the music for bed time.

San Diego Part 1 - Sea World

The boys had a great time on our trip to San Diego. We had so much fun, in fact, that we're all exhausted!

Our trip started at the hotel. Jack loved talking on the phone all. night. long. We finally just unplugged it and just let him have it. lol

"Hello? Hello? Are you there?"

One of the biggest highlights for two of our guys was meeting Elmo and Grover.

Jack would follow Elmo anywhere, I think,

Elmo snuggles

Poking Elmo's nose!

And finally, he gave a little love to Grover.
He wasn't so sure about Grover until the end. :)

All Shawn wanted to do was talk to Elmo and Grover.

Hey, Elmo, why is your hair red?
(Seriously, he wanted to know some deep stuff!)

The boys were kind enough to pose for a caricature for me. :)

Shawn was modeling for the artist, Sergio.

Sergio was coloring in my handsome boys' pictures.

Taaaa-daaaahhhh!
Still makes me so happy!

Jason's highlight was going back to his favoritist game in the whole entire world!!!!!

Extreme racing!
He is getting quite good at it, too!

We saw some shows and the animals, too.

Daddy and Jack chilling at the show.

Checking out the orcas--Shawn's favorite

We ate lots of food.

Hm. Now I see why his caricature looks the way it did...

Waiting for mommy to come back with some food

Hot dogs! Yum!



Yea! I'm hungry!

The boys hanging out

We couldn't forget visiting the dirt.

Here they are "planting" trees. ;)

There were lots of smiles all day long.

Jack and daddy hanging out while the big boys
played in the dirt.

Jason got to go back to his recue raft, which he loved.

Shawn and daddy taking a little break

Mr. Jack being a funny guy.

Jason and mommy got to have some funnel cake (chocolate brownie funnel cake - mmm).

Makes my mouth water just looking at it!

He ate and ate. He loved it just as much as me.

In the end, we all felt like this.

Cat nap time.

After finding ourselves some souvenirs, more sharks, we called it a day and went back to the hotel. It was a great day all around!

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Shawn's favorite thing from today was going to the pizza store.

Jason's favorite thing from today was going to Target to look at the cars.