James' entire class received an invitation to a classmate's birthday party at a bowling alley! Anthony was off helping people clean yards after the hurricane, so I double checked with the birthday boy's mom that it was okay to bring Rett. There were so many kids and family members there, she said one more would definitely not be a problem :) They had a great time bowling, I don't know why we don't do it more often!
James and the birthday boy, Jake, opening his small drone James got him:
We took an afternoon walk around the park one day. It stinks that it is still so hot here that it only really becomes bearable to play outside after 6pm. We ended up finding a legless lizard. Don't ask me how exactly it is different from a snake, but Anthony and James know how :)
We came across two hawks hanging out around a field and they let us get pretty close to them. Anthony came up with the idea of catching a lizard and throwing it up to them. The hawk actually swooped down and caught it midair!!! They tried to do it again and video it this time, but the hawk didn't go for it a second time. Seriously, Anthony does the coolest things!
Anthony's birthday started with a present from the boys (a NASA tshirt) and some french toast for breakfast (his favorite).
His birthday fell on a day we go to Lake Mary for James' OT appointment, so we didn't have a lot of time to celebrate at home. At work Anthony's coworkers got him a cake, but he was so busy that he didn't even get to eat any! He told them to go ahead and cut the cake while he was seeing patients and then he took some home to eat later. How depressing is that? Working on your birthday is no fun! After we got home from Lake Mary, he sang and had him blow out his candles on his cookie cake:
Anthony couldn't really think of anything he wanted as a present for his birthday and since we just had to buy a new refrigerator for the condo we agreed not to get him anything...but then his actual birthday was such a let down and not fun at all for him so I decided to surprise him with a new xbox! The old one we have been using makes it hard for him to play Halo with Jared and Pablo since they have the new ones. He almost never gets to play since he is so busy so I thought this would be the perfect treat for him. It was so fun to watch him open the box, he thought it was something for the aquarium he forgot he ordered. Nope!
One side of our yard is mostly cleared of branches that came down in the hurricane, but the other side is still pretty bad. Maybe one day it will actually not be 100 degrees outside and we can go out and clean up without feeling like dying!
Anthony cut down this palm tree and had me get a video of his lumberjack skills.
After the tree fell down, Anthony was cutting it into pieces and found a dead bat. I guess it had been living in the tree and died when it fell. Anthony was sad that it died, but he thought it was so cool to see the bat up close. I wish I could say that the bat is NOT in my freezer right now. But I can't. Someone wanted to keep it because it was just so cool.
James wanted me to get a picture of one of his key chain prizes he got for selling coupon books at school:
Every year they have a big expo/festival in port orange and this was our first year of checking it out. In past years there was always something else going on that weekend. This time my mom was in town so she got to experience the chaos with us!
Playing with bubbles at someone's table:
The boys didn't want the coloring book at the honda dealership table, so they gave them dry erase pens to write on a car. So exciting!
Total concentration:
We did a few carnival games. At the fishing game James got a stuffed whale and Rett got a stuffed dog.
I told the boys that they could each ride one ride. James picked a tall slide, but when he got his tickets and walked to the top he changed his mind. He said it looked taller at the top than it did from the bottom :) Rett wanted to do the slide too but he was too short. At the rate he is growing, next year will be his year for it! So he settled for the carousel and he really liked it!
We played the game where you try to throw ping pong balls in the glass bowls to win a goldfish. James reeeeeally wanted to win. They threw an entire bucket of balls and didn't even get close :) As we were turning to go, the person running the booth reached over and handed me two tickets for them to come back and get their own goldfish when it was time for us to go home. It was so nice of him! The boys gave him a high five and they were very happy to pick out their very own fish.
We passed by a karate booth where you get to spin the wheel and whatever move it says, someone from the karate school will show you how to do it. James didn't want to try it, but Rett was game for trying out nunchucks. He was so cute doing it! Plus, he was actually pretty good at it!
They were running a special on the little dragons class (ages 4-6), $19 for 8 classes and a free uniform so I went ahead and signed Rett up. Maybe this will be his sport, after all it is in the air conditioning!
After the festival we had some down time at home listening to general conference. I got a picture of the boys playing quietly with play doh. So rare that they are this still and playing well together. Right as a took this picture, a speaker was talking about how deceptive pictures on social media can be. For example, if I had posted this picture online someone might think that these boys play together like this all the time which is far from true. It is more like an mma match at our house most of the time :)
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