Our Lucas is 7!!

I'm still in denial that as of Monday, I had a 7 year old.  This guys continues to amazing me everyday.  He is always wanting to learn and does a great job helping out with his brothers. 

 This year he requested cinnoman rolls for his birthday breakfast.  He came up with the joke that he was having "SEVEN-man rolls" ;)

 Always peaking....

 The brothers were happy to hand out presents.

 He is so cute, he made his own shirt!

 brother's present.

 Cake time! Lucas asked for a funfetti cake, with edible cookie dough layers in between covered in sprinkles. 

 Then his activity he requested was bike riding!  We put Adam on the tandem bike and he did awesome!!

Lucas is obsessed with bike riding now that he can cruise around on his 2 wheeled bike with no problems :)

Sneaky Surprisers!

The other morning the boys woke up and found a sign on our front door saying "SURPRISE!"  They looked out and there were 2 boxes! One was to open on Saturday (the day that Lucas was supposed to have his birthday party) and one was for Monday (Lucas' actual birthday).

 Saturday I had three excited boys to see what they got :)

 The notes was from Auntie K and TJ :)  They put together a "quarantined box" to cheer the boys up since they weren't having a party that day!!

Boy oh boy are these three lucky guys!! Thanks so much to Auntie K and TJ for making the boys feel so loved even when we can't see you!

Staying Home!

Well, here we are on week 3 of self isolation.  We are lucky that Ben is able to work from home.  It is nice to have him home all day, but it is hard to explain to the boys that he can't play and difficult to keep them quite while he is on conference calls.  But all in all we are doing well and keeping to ourselves.  I was hoping this would be over soon, but recent news looks like we will be house bound all of April as well.  Virtual Easter, anyone? 

Here are some of the ways we have been hanging around.

Story time with brothers.

Lucas is learning to play solitaire!

Last week we got some warm weather! So we sent the boys out in the rain to play in the mud.  They decided to find a bucket and use the huge puddles to fill it up and make their own water slide.

Needless to say, we were thankful for showers and washing machines that day :)

For some reason I thought I was going to be able to do a video workout class with my two little helpers..... well we made it 10ish minutes.....

We've also started watching "Art for Kids Hub" on You Tube and the boys have been doing some of their drawings.  First up was a picture of the Cat in the Hat! I was super impressed that Adam sat through it and had a lot of fun.

Finished products!

Oh and Caleb made one too ;)

Who needs a Spring Break vacation? We've got kinetic sand!

St. Louis for the Weekend

This year for Ben's birthday gift, the boys and I surprised him with a planned trip to St. Louis.  We left early Thursday (when all seemed pretty normal in the world - nothing was closed yet) and came back Sunday (when everything was closed!)  It was nice to have one last little get away before we are heading into uncertain times here.

Best picture of the Arch - from inside our car (because it was FREEZING) in the church parking lot.

Family Selfie with the Arch hahaha

First nights dinner - pizza!

 We went to the zoo while we where there, which was free and lots of fun!  The boys loved their seal exhibit.

 I took about 100 pictures, trying to wait for a seal to swim over and all three boys to look.  Well, this is the best that I got.

 Chimps!

They thought the big bug was great.

A chilly but fun day at the zoo!

One of our favorite vacation activities...... trying out the local donuts.  This was Pharaoh's Donuts downtown and they were AMAZING! Very simple and so good!

 After breakfast, we were off to the City Museum.  This museum was so fun. You can pretty much climb and slide down everything!

 Silly Face!

 Time for climbing!

 Spinning chairs :)

 Tractors!!

 Somebody was having too much fun and fell asleep during lunch :)

 Man, there were some TIGHT places to fit through.

Silly boys!

 Next favorite activity - local ice cream!

 We found LUCAS AVE!

Ahhhh the new things they have in hotel rooms...... telephones.  Caleb made tons of calls..... mostly to his Aunt Cathy :) 

Ok - thanks for sticking with us! We are officially all caught up!