Five for Friday - Recently

I am working hard to catch up on my entries this week!  Five for Friday should be just the thing to get our most current activities caught up, and then I have to try to make up for missing 2 of Tyler's monthly updates! (Ooops!)  Not to mention a preschool post, hopefully before the next school year starts, and a few other drafts that are sitting in my posts list!

1.  Timmy has taken a liking to fishing.  The neighborhood recently built a pier on the pond right by our house and as soon as Timmy saw it he started talking about going fishing.  His Grandad gave him a pole for his birthday but our trip to Rhode Island gave him his first taste of it.  As soon as we got back Tim got him the rest of the accessories he needed.  Timmy is so good at casting that he has a short rod with a regular reel on it instead of a child's version.  They've gone three times in the past two weeks and Timmy asks to go almost every evening!  I'm sure that the fact he has caught 2-3 fish each time out is helping to keep his interest!

Tyler is not willing to be left out!

2.  Timmy has a busier social life then we do!  Last Saturday we went to Nate's birthday party, at their home, where the whole group was entertained by The Great Zucchini!  At the end he had all the kids run up to him to get a Great Zucchini card to give to their parents, Timmy came running over to me asking to have him at his next birthday party!

3.  Caleb's party was last Wednesday at the Nature Center in Reston and it was dinosaur themed.  As soon as we got the invitation Timmy excitedly said he wanted to wear his dinosaur shirt to the party.  The kids had a blast finding and making fossils and going on a walk to look for dinosaurs and their eggs in the woods.  Timmy has another birthday party coming up on the 11th as well!

4.  My boys love each other so much!  Tyler loves to wake Timmy up if he's the first one up in the morning, or from their naps.  It makes me one happy mommy to see them loving on each other like this!

 

5.  Tim is putting in some upgrades in our house for us!  He installed a beautiful back splash in our kitchen and powder room and he's upgrading the rest of the powder room fixtures as well.  Some new kitchen lighting and a fresh coat of paint for the whole house are on the horizon as well.  Because of a bunch of out of town trips the project is taking longer then we had hoped, but it is so going to be worth it when it's done.  Here is a sneak peek!