He was so excited. He made the Tooth Fairy a card to thank her for coming and put his tooth in an envelope. He said, "It''s no fair I can't keep my tooth!" but he followed the tradition of giving his tooth up anyway.
What a face!
Putting his card and his tooth under his pillow.
So excited and now he is ready to go to sleep so the Tooth Fairy can come.
Well, maybe a bit too excited to fall asleep right away!
JT also made the Tooth Fairy a card. In his card, he asked her if she could please give him a loose tooth. He was a little sad she wasn't coming to visit both of them!
Putting his card under his pillow.
And Ready for bed.
In the morning Sam came downstairs with this from the Tooth Fairy... Very excited! He got 5 dollars and a bunch of change. He grabbed his piggy bank and tucked it all safely away.
JT also got a note from the Tooth Fairy and she was nice enough to leave him a penny.
Hanging Around the House. 
Of course, we need to be silly.
Eli LOVES Ritz crackers.
The other day, I was folding laundry in my room. I put Eli in the Pack-n-Play. It didn't take long for Sam and JT to join him in there. Eli was all too happy to share!
Eli in his highchair.
This is what he does when he is done eating. He pushes his head to the side and refuses another bite.
Sam watching Dad make a Saturday morning breakfast.
Dad outdid himself this Saturday and made Mickey Pancakes. They were almost too cute to eat!
Eli and Murph - Murphy is so good with the boys and Eli Loves him. Unfortunately he is shedding rather badly and Eli always ends up with handfuls of hair! Gross!
He thinks he is sooo cool in there. :)
There was an incident involving Otis and a roll of Duct Tape. I am not allowed to go into the details, but let's just say it took at least 20 minutes to get it off!!
Eli plays hard and sleeps hard too.
Yes, he fell asleep while jumping! And this isn't the first time it has happened!
The boys glued to the computer screen. They were watching a show on it.
Hanging out with Friends.
We have had a lot of playdates since the summer started. Some of them with school friends and others with our best buddies. Here the boys are playing with the Lee's and I grabbed the camera to take some shots.
A rare picture of me with one of my kiddos! I am usually behind the camera.
Sam practicing diving.
JT diving too.
Arwen and Gavin. :)
Eli and Gavin
playing together.
JT and Jordan.
I came in and found them like this watching a show and sharing Jordan's blanket. So sweet.
Sam and Jackson.
Playing Chess on the computer.
The Lee's have a matching pair for everyone of our boys. They can play for hours!
The other day I watched the boys for a while. Gavin came over wearing the same onsie Eli was wearing. This actually happens a lot! Here Eli is stealing Gavin's binky while he is busy.
An Impromptu Project.
Last weekend Matt redid our downstairs powder room. It may have been a result of the tag team effort of both JT and I. The bathroom has been a mess for a while. The toilet paper roll fell off and has been replaced so many times that it doesnt work any more. The same for the hand towel rack. So... JT was going to the bathroom inthere and he was playing with a circle ring that goes to the toilet paper holder. It ended up falling in (surprise, surprise). When he told me about it, I looked into the dirty water and saw it on the bottom. I was NOT about to put my hand in there and reasoned that it being metal would surely NOT go down the drain when I flushed it... I was wrong. Ooops! Things went from bad to worse. So, Matt ended up sayinghe was going to replace the toilet... Then as long as he was doing that, he might as well replace the toilet paper holder and the towel rack, and if he was doing that he might as well paint the AWFUL gold squiggles and finally he thought if he was going to do all that he would change out all the fixtures to silver since neither of us like gold... here it is...
Looks great, huh!? That is because he had some pretty great helpers.
All changed into their large white T-shirts and ready to paint!
They were so happy with themselves. And LOVE using that bathroom now.
CATERPILLARS ----BUTTERFLIES
As one of the learning experiences we are doing this summer we decided to get live caterpillars and watch them grow into butterflies. Thank you to the commercials... livebutterflygarden.com! Anyway, it has worked out good so far.
When them came, there were so little and grew quite large right in front of our eyes. I got a picture as they were starting to go to the top of the container and attach themselves.
It was soo cool.... we actually got to see a couple of them get into their chrysallis. It takes about 45 seconds, and they are completely covered. The boys have been keeping a journal of it. Just look at their faces in this picture!
Once they all formed their chrysallis, we needed to transport them to the butterfly net. It was a very daunting task because you need to be extremely careful that they didn't come off the paper and fall! Matt helped me with this. And here they are in the net. They were like this for about 5 days.
Last night one was shaking and we thought we would definitely witness one coming out of its chrysallis, but it never happened. When we woke up this morning.. .there were 3 butterflies! Now we have to feed them. First you have to make a sugar water mixture, then you need to put the sugar water on flowers, or tissue. The boys are getting the food ready for the butterflies here.
It's not surprising that Sam takes this very seriously, is it?
Here are our 3 butterflies. A little hard to see. We are sure the other 7 will be making an appearance in the next day or so. It is all very exciting!
We will be sure to write more about them when they are all hatched. Just please cross your fingers that none lay eggs and I have to do this all over again! As I was reading the instructions, it said it was a possibility... don't you think that should be a disclaimer BEFORE you purchase them!!
Oh well, the boys have loved every minute of it, so I can't complain!
Tomorrow we have summer movies and more time with our friends. We are busy getting ready for Ya-Ya and Poppy to visit and of course the 4th birthday and birthday pirate pool party for our little JT.
