RANDOMNESS

LEGOS
the boys have really been into building "inventions" with legos lately. finally they are old enought to play with the fun ones. you know, the tiny ones that have really cool pieces and fun sets. they pretty much don't go anywhere without taking an "invention" with them. it's really neat to see their little imaginations come to fruition, especially jax. he has an engineer's brain FOR SURE! he loves to take things apart to see how they work and then put them back together. which is why i appreciate the legos so much, before legos it was breaking apart toys or the back off the remote!

MOTHER'S DAY
for mother's day this year jason and the boys made me a picnic table. they stained it white and engraved each of our names in it (with room enough for newbaby, too) it was really sweet. i'm not sure i like that the boys are being taught really young to keep secrets from mama, who knows how great they'll be at it by the time they're teenagers!! but i do appreciate surprises and they've never spoiled one for me so far!!



GARDEN/YARD
our garden is surprisingly THRIVING!! i never would've guessed that we could even keep it all alive. the peas are almost to the top of the fence and the lettuce is gigantic! we need to plant new radishes now since we planted 4 rows at once and they're all gone already! boomer chokes down lettuce now because he's proud he grew it! which is the biggest reason for me to have a garden! the yard needs a whole lot of work, the grass is very weedy and dead-ish in places, but we have some plans to help it out, so we'll see how that goes.

a few weeks ago my mom found a huge frog near her house. we took it home to set it free in the pond out back. the boys named him hoppy.