Before school football

Are you noticing a common theme with my February pictures - and the love of football that Jim & Ben share together!  And their shorts, in February?!  As soon as they hear the weather is going to be warmer they are asking if they can wear shorts.  Here are some shots of the boys playing their football before we walk to school. 

Speaking of walking to school, we have a great group of people we walk with!  I love that I'm home with them and am able to do that every morning!  We meet on the corner at 8:40 and make our way to school.  And to think next year I'll be leaving Ben there for kindergarten!

Note Ben's tongue!

Sunday funday!

Another day spent outside.  I did my usual grocery trip to Wegmans in the am, while Mark & the boys hung out in the morning.  The boys played some Wii - some Madden football, Mario Cart, and Nitro.  Then it was time to head outside.  We went over to Mount Vernon after lunch & had lots of fun there, playing some soccer first, than some baseball, and finally some football.  Love how much they love being outside and playing sports!  Came back home & had more fun outside. 

Ben's latest haircut is a Mohawk.  I love it when he lets me put stuff in it to make it spikey!  A big smile from him! 

And Jim is all set to walk over to football field! 

(I feel like I should come back & update some of these posts with pictures from my phone.  I have some fun pictures of the boys at the field.  But I guess it's a step in the right direction that I've been updating these and actually using my real camera, so we will go with that for now!) 

My busy bees

Enjoyed another fun day outside, loving this milder weather.

I love their seat, watching Mark cutting away at some rebar.

Love the hat Ben!

Always smiling! 

Having fun climbing into the garbage can! 

On a roll!

Similar to what we've done with Jim, Ben does a little 'school' once a week with a group of 6 other kids.  This is our 2nd year doing it, and we have a lot of fun with it!  Tuesday was school day for us (we normally do Monday's but with Monday being a day off we pushed it to Tuesday).  Had a fun day learning about geography!  Think Ben had fun doing that too.  I still can't believe that come the fall he's going to be a kindergartener. 

Like I mentioned in a previous post, the weather has been really nice here lately!  Both boys decided once we got home from school pick up they needed to put on shorts & a t-shirt since it was so nice outside.  Had them take a break from playing some football (note Jim's football glove) to take a couple of pictures.  Also note their soccer jerseys - they've really been into wearing jerseys & pretending their different teams & quarterbacks.  Ben can rattle off a lot of the QB's and their numbers for different teams. 

 Silly boys:

 Say cheese -

No School Monday

Jim didn't have any school on Monday - it was a teacher work day, with it being the end of the quarter.  Had a great day together.  I had Julia for the day - and we started our day off with a trip to Costco (I needed to price something, and now Ben is wondering when we can go shopping there.  We haven't been in awhile since I didn't renew my membership in August).  Then we made a trip to Target so Jim could pick out his Valentine's.  And then we went to Lee District.  We ended up being there for almost 4 hours!  It was such a nice day outside, and the kids were having a lot of fun! 

We got home around 4:00, and then spent the rest of the afternoon outside.  One guess with what the boys were busy doing -- more football, of course!  Love that they are always playing this together!  Also love Jim's latest style of this socks - he tucks his pants into his socks.