NEW DOORS

As lucky as we are, Lee works at a door plant and recently was able to get us new interior doors in our entire house (for free!)! We now have 20 something new doors in our house. They are solid and beautiful! We got to pick out what door we wanted and what hardware we wanted for the doorknobs. We love the finished product! The only downfall....The handles are easy for Brady to use. Therefore, in his "free time" he enjoys opening and closing any and all doors in the house! ;)

This is what all doors in the house look like now.
Except this one. This is our closet door in our bedroom. The mirror is huge and built INTO the door! Awesome!!!

SCI

Last weekend we took the boys to the Science Center of Iowa for a nice Saturday trip. We all had a great time! The first thing that we did when we got there was probably all of our favorite. We went to the Star Theater to watch Big Bird, Elmo, and other Sesame Street characters on a dome screen. They taught us about the stars and Earth. The kids were in awe of the whole event!

After the star video show, we played, played, played!

They started at this wall that was full of vaccuums, pipes, balls, etc. They would drop the balls into a "vaccuum" and the balls would fly up the wall and then do an "obstacle course" down the wall. Brady loves to carry way more than one thing in his arms at one time. He tried to always have at least 3 or 4 balls in his arms at one time. They stayed and played at this 'wall' for a very long time!

Brady also played at the train table for a good amount of time.

Lee and Tyler built a rocket out of paper to put it into the rocket shooter. Their rocket didn't turn out so hot. But, it was nice to watch them work together and try it out!

This shows Tyler and Brady giving the weather on Channel 13 news!

Playing in front of the green screen.

This was very cool! They could have played with this thing forever. You push the 'pins' through to the other side to see your hand prints, faces, whatever.

Lee and Tyler kept putting their faces into it, so Brady wanted to do it too, however he just put the top of his head into the thing.

Tyler caught a fish!

Bubble Bay. Lee and I thought that this was pretty neat, and we figured Tyler would really like it too. However, it was messy, so Tyler didn't play too long with the bubbles.

Instead, Tyler put on a puppet show for me.....

And Lee played in Bubble Bay!

GARBAGE TRUCK

A couple minutes of each Thursday morning is spent looking out the front window at the garbage truck. Both of them love to watch the garbage men pick up the garbage. Tyler even hops on the grocery cart at Hy-Vee and says that he's getting on and off the 'garbage truck.'

OUR LITTLE BOYS

Tyler was sick this week, so here he is in his firetruck PJ's playing with his firetruck.

And here's our little trouble maker. He found a new place to put all of the magnet letters that are on the fridge. The new place is in the ledge of where you get ice/water. He also has his Dad's phone in his hand, which he's not supposed to have!

DOUBLE GUN SHOW

Brady has started to show his "guns." Here's a video to show him and Tyler both showing their gun show.

COUCH JUMPING VIDEO (and Tyler's bad cough!)

Brady is fearless and has found a new love. The love of jumping on the couches and jumping from the ottoman to the couch and then from the couch back to the ottoman. I know that there are parents that do not allow couch jumping, but I guess Lee and I are a little more relax on that situation. Yes, he has fallen. You would think that maybe he wouldn't do it anymore after a fall, but I guess he loves it so much that he gets right back up on those couches! Here's our little dare devil couch jumping.

You also get a glimpse of Tyler's cough that he had this week. He was a bit sick, but we are working on getting healthy around here. My mom came and stayed home with the boys on Tuesday and Lee stayed home with both of them on Wednesday. Tyler's cough was so bad and he continued to spike a fever. His medicine is doing him wonders and he's getting back to his normal self!

PLAYING BALL VIDEO

Here's a video of our happy Brady playing ball with me.