Farm Park....new Plane

Jared wanted me to write a post about his day. Today, he and the entire first grade class at Wickliffe Elementary School went the Lake Farm Parks. Jared said it was "GREAT!" He got to milk a cow...see a sheep pee, what can I say, he's a boy and thought it was cool. He got to pet lots of animals and he learned all about bees.

Coincidentally, we found out that the bees that are swarming around and living in my neighbor's roof, do indeed sting. Well, at least the females do. We have to ask them to try and get rid of them, it's VERY hard to play in our own backyard, as the bees keep swarming around into our yard. Today, we had to play in the front yard after Jared got home from school...I don't like that because we're so close to the street and the cars fly down our street, it's just not safe!

Anyway, back to Jared...he got a new plane today. It can go on land or water. The propellers really spin, too. He loves it and took a photo of it...here it is!

And here are some other pics of him playing with his plane and chalking outside. Notice how "sweaty" he looks in the photos...he came home from school that way, it was a warm day and he played hard today!





Hope you enjoyed the pics...there will be many more as summer comes...T-24 more days of school left! Woohoo!!!!

Busy Boy!

Jared's been SUPER busy lately! He's still ice skating, taking swim lessons and recently, we've added cooking classes (at the YMCA, of course.) He's super cute, wanting to make what he made in class for us. He's also been trying to help us more in the kitchen. He likes it and is learning how to be safe in the kitchen, so why not?!?

He, like Jaime, has had the pleasure of playing outside in the warm temps! He can't WAIT for SUMMER! (Me, either!) Today, it was a cool, rainy day, but it was also his school carnival, so we had a fun "inside" day. We went to the carnival, he won lots of prizes, we had lunch there ($3 for main food item, cookie, chips, and pop, can't beat that!) Then, we had some popcorn ($.25) and went off to Jared's ice skating lesson! Now, his teacher is VERY strict and trying to teach Jared to slow down, he's so fast! Anyway, she was trying to teach him how to go slow backwards...and, well...see for yourself, here's a video...Tom and I were dying! LOL! Poor kid just wants to zoom around that rink, spinning, going backwards, but no....his teacher won't have it! LOL!


Also, here's a slide show of Jared from things he's done over the last 2 weeks. I have some of him in his cooking class, as well as cooking at home. Tomorrow we are going to bake homemade "Shamrock pretzels," he learned how to make them in class on Friday. Can't wait! We were going to bake them today, but we went to the library, checked out Toy Story 2, and got wrapped up in that! But, BEFORE that, we noticed that Jerry's Dari Pride's opening day was today! Soooo, we opted for ice cream with "crunch coat" instead of pretzels tonight! (We ALWAYS go on opening and closing day!) Going there almost makes Spring official! :) We "heart" Jerry's Dari Pride! Enjoy the pics!

SNOW DAY!

Jared was sooooo excited (as was Tom), that he had a snow day on Friday. We got the back end of the Winter Storm that hit the Northeast Coast. It swirled around and came back to us off of Lake Erie. We were expected to get up to 10 inches of snow...at one point they even canceled the Winter storm warning...as you'll see from the pictures, we got WAY MORE than 10 inches of snow. Not to mention that as I'm typing it's still a blizzard out there! Crazy!
Anyway, I had to keep Jared occupied somehow since school and the YMCA were closed. We had Cousin Connor sleep over on Friday night. The boys had a lot of fun together. By mid afternoon and after Connor left, Jared "bored" again. I didn't really want him to play outside, mostly because of the windchill, so I told him we could bring some snow inside. He thought that was the coolest thing. The last time I did that he was about 3. Once the snow melted, he and I made edible play-dough to play with. He thought it was super fun and liked eating it, too! He wanted more, but we needed more ingredients. That prompted a quick trip to the grocery store! This is the first time I've been to Giant Eagle in literally MONTHS! Jared went to the Eagle's Nest while I shopped. I found a textured ball for Jaime when I was there, so once we were home, the boys had a fun time playing with it. It was a nice couple of days in-spite of the weather!
Hope everyone is safe and warm! Enjoy Jared's slide show and don't forget to check out "Jaime's World" to see what he's been up to!