Little Minds

This morning we had a great time enjoying a little sunshine and a soft breeze. While outside Sam found a caterpillar. He played with that poor thing until I thought it would die from exhaustion. He put him on his army man truck, that was a $3 find on clearance yesterday at Wal-mart.
I told him to leave the poor thing alone and let it play on his truck. ABout 5 min later Sam had the truck in the air shaking it saying, "Det it out, I want it out"
I looked and the scared little caterpillar had climbed into the one small hole on the top of the truck. At first glance I thought he had squished it trying to "det it out"

I finally poked the right way and it came running out. I am glad to say, I think it finally got away without to many injuries. : )
The boys were swinging and I looked down to see both of them almost asleep staring at the ground.
We came up for lunch and had mini corndogs for lunch. I cut them up for the boys to eat and Sam was taking all of the bread off for fun. He started giggling and said "Look mom, a wee wee, ssssssppppp" that last part was the sound of it tee teeing : )
I had to turn my head and laugh, it was so innocent and so funny!

Coupons and Deals!

Courtney I thought of you first when my friend e-mailed this to me. It is a link to a blog that posts some of the best deals of the week.
http://savinginstyle.blogspot.com/search/label/Coupons
I bookmarked it to check each week for myself : )
Hope you find some good buys!

Fun Trip to the Zoo

Saturday Morning we decided it would be a fun day to visit the zoo, so off we went. We showed up late for the sea lion show, but did get to hear them barking after the show and went and watched them swim around for awhile. Davis said "There so cute"...a phrase Magan has now influenced all of us boys in the house saying much more than we care to admit. :)

We then went to see the Lorikeets and we had the best time trying to catch and pet these birds. Sam and Davis have the cheap dad that does not like to spend the buck fifty for nectar to feed the birds, so it takes a little while longer to get the birds to come to ya. I hope the video turns out OK, because Sam and Davis were both "so cute" trying to hold the birds. In the end, both Sam and Davis got to hold the birds for a little bit on their hands. They repeated a hundred times "Get it Dad"..."[I want to] hold it dada"..."Here Birdie".

We then went on to Sam's favorite animal to see...the Rhinoceros. Sam informed us several times that we were mistakenly refering to it as a Rhino. IT IS CALLED A Rhinoceros. The Bham zoo also has two new white Rhinos where the Elephant used to be. They were neat to see but not very active. Our old pal, the black rhino was up and walking around...and as we have come to expect, gave us multiple demonstrations of watering the grass, rocks and fence. This sprayful demonstration always makes us laugh, even me and Mom start giggling with the boys. I don't know where the fascination with the rhinos came from...I am just glad Sam was not scarred from the San Diego Rhino. I know Tanya and Joe probably remember what I am refering to... :)

Well that was about all for our trip. We made a quick run through the monkey house...but it was lunch time and we needed some BBQ.

Stories From Granny

Below are a few stories Granny sent to me and I wanted to post. I did not have any pics from their visit to Granny's, but did find some funny ones with them wearing stuff Granny and Granddaddy brought back from Hawaii:

Sam wanted a green race car from Walmart. It was after supper and we were heading home from West Point. Sam said we could go and be real fast!! Granddaddy and Granny and Sam could go in Walmart real fast and leave Davis in the car. Granddaddy asked him what we would do if we cann't find a baby green race car at Walmart. Sam said we could just go to another Walmart. Granddaddy told Sam we only have one Walmart. Sam said, "You only have one Walmart?!? Sam has three Walmarts at his house."

*Sam did later get this race car spending the dollar given to him from Grandaddy’s boss Chuck. He wanted a Chick Hicks car from the movie Cars. He likes it because it is the mean one. Still trying to figure out if this was a good choice or not. Scott.

After Sam’s bath, he was told that he needed to brush his teeth and put on his medicine. I got some of vapor rub on my fingers and asked him where do put it. He pointed to his neck. After I rubbed it on his neck and chest he said that's enough Granny. He then went into the living room and told his Granddaddy to put his drink right here and his food and leave the T.V. on. His preparation for the morning.

It was also sweet hearing Davis call for me during the night. After I took him from his bed I laid down with him in the guest room and he snuggled up so close to sleep. He popped up once to give my face and rub and ran his hand through my hair then wiggled down right next to me again and we both went to sleep.

Me and Daddy had the time of our lives, laughing so hard at the little things they said and did. We look forward to your next date night!!

Surprises

Just now finishing this post that I started about 2 months ago, where does the time go?!?!
The first set of pictures are of the boys and their dollar tree dinos that dad brought home for them after his long trip.
The flowers are of course for me : )
Aren't they gorgeous, I have been dying to try out that vase that mom got for me and I liked the way they looked in it.
In one of the pictures Davis is feeding one of those dinos he had actually put a bite of food in its' mouth and then pushed the mouth up and down to chew it. So cute but kind of gross!

The second group of pictures are of the gifts that the boys got from Granny and Grandaddy's trip to Hawaii! Now I know what you are thinking, Coconuts, Pineapples, grass skirts, but no we're talking gloves and mittens : )
Apparently these things aren't a top seller in Hawaii (go figure)and they found them at a Great price. Well, Hawaii or not, the boys LOVED them. Sam carried his around for a few days in the orange cooler bag he also got from them. As we pulled up to the church building on Sunday and openned the van door, on a 70 degree sunny day, Sam said "Ooooo, that's cold, better wear my hat and dloves"
SO he wore them into church and as soon as we said Amen to go home, he had them on again : )

Hodge Podge

Have a lot of random things to post about here : )
The first is that Nanny sent the boys a Valentine card with punch balloons and airheads! Getting mail that has candy and balloons is about the best thing you can do for a little person : )
Sam loved the balloon and had a ball with it, while Davis spent most of his time trying to open that candy. Sorry lighting is so bad in these first pictures.






Sam got his first bike today! He has been wanting one for a long time now, we kept putting it off b/c of out yard situation at the present time. He gets to ride them both at Nanny's house and at Granny and Grandaddy's house, so he was dying to have one here at the house. I wanted to get him one at Kid's Market, but didn't find anything I really liked. Then I was rudely awakened to the price of bikes at Wal-mart. Where they are between $10-$25 at Kids Market, they are $50-$75 at Wal-mart.
I thought we were just going to have to wait until next kids market to get him one, but we had seen one at TJ Max. They don't normally carry them but they had one on clearance for $29, so we went to get it today. I walked all over the store looking for it and couldn't find it! I finally asked the right person, b/c he not only knew were it was, he knocked it down $10 more dollars b/c the tires needed to be aired!!!!
So he got his first NEW bike for $19 : )
What a blessing, and he LOVES IT! You can see from his little smile that he couldn't wipe off his face. On the way home he kept looking over his shoulder in the back to see it, and updating us on any and all movement it made while back there.






Teacher moment : )
I started cleaning out some things so that I would be able to tag my Kids Market stuff, while doing this I found these letter blocks. I bought them about a year ago for $1, but they were to hard for Sam at that time. (They still sell them at Wal-mart)
He was thrilled to play with them. As I lay them on the table for him I thought, He really needs a alphabet to use and try to get them all in order. I started to go and print one off on the computer, then I thought I remembered buying a coloring book with letters in it. In the top of the closet I found the book and it had a list of the ABC's in the back. I showed him how to look at the letters and see which one came next, this was too hard for him to look back and forth. Duh, the letters come out, so we started to find the letters and lay them on top of the picture in the book without the square block around them. It was perfect and he loved it : )
By now, Davis is so jealous he is practically throwing himself on the table to be involved. I thought for a minute and remembered the blocks that Sam started with when he was Davis' age. I got them at the Dollar tree and he loved them back then. They were Pooh and they were scattered all over the house and most had been thrown away in the past 2 yrs. I did buy a few extra packs for gifts back 2 yrs. ago. So I just so happened to have a new pack for him in the gift closet (The choice was between princess blocks or spiderman). We went and got them and sat and tried to put them together. By the end of it, he was fighting them like they were action figures, but hey it's a start right : )
After we finished playing we bagged them up and put them back in the top of the closet until next time we need something to do quietly.












A few more thrifty finds:

My sister found this really awesome cape for Sam for $5 at the thrift store! It lights up and makes flying sounds : )

The backpack is from Bath and Body Works for $2.50 on clearance.

Davis' blanket turned hat, was free : )
For about a week every time we got ready to go somewhere, I would here him running toward me saying "Ready Go Moooom, Got my hat!"
I thought he was so adorable with it around his head like that!

That is all I have time to post about right now, but have more to come soon!

Bad Guys...

Sunday Morning I was playing with the boys as Magan was getting ready for church. We were playing with some action figures or as Sam and Davis call them...our guys. Then as we were walking down the hall to go to Sam's room, we heard a loud clanking noise. Now this is a normal clanking noise in our household, and it happens anytime anyone uses the shower/tub in our master bathroom. Most people would have probably tried to fix it by now...but I am really not the guy to do that, and by now, we are just used to it. Anyway...we heard the clank, and in a playful manner I whispered to the boys "Oh no, what was that?" Sam, not really caring that much, shrugged his shoulders and said "I dunt know" and continued on to his room. Davis then looked up at me with very serious eyes and whisped his answer to my question..."Bad Guys". Then his gun fingers on both little hands pointed towards the source of the noise and he started firing...pew pew pew...at those clanking bad guys.