It's May

We've been busy lately, but with nothing that seems of any interest:

Kyle has had 5 birthday parties in the last 2 weeks (Reed has been to 2 of those).

JR has his school's pop show and some auditions coming up, so he's been busy preparing for those.

And we've had baseball games (only 1 more if it will ever stop raining).

So here are some pictures I found on my phone so I have something to post. 

 This is how JR watched the football draft.  

He's also on the phone (it's on speaker)...little Jerry McGuire 

Kyle will always find something to climb.

If JR was smart, he'd be the one hanging out with our 6th grade neighbor, not Reed. 

Little Jan and Not Jan

JR came home from school on Monday and informed me I  "needed to do his Greek mythology homework."  He just assumed that since it involved drawing and coloring I was his go-to.

Now, I showcase JR's talents on here all the time, but drawing and coloring are not one of them.  So I enlisted my mini me to do the drawing, but I did make JR do the coloring.  (JR had to do everything except the drawing...he also had to list some things on the back of the pictures.  I know, the horror of him having to do some actual work!) 

So here are a few of Reed's cutest pictures.  He was worried they weren't good enough and the teacher wouldn't think JR did them.  I kept telling Reed, "Oh, she'll be super impressed with 'JR's' 

drawings!" 

And as you look at these, remember this is coloring done by an almost teenager.  Oh my. 

Look at these next two. JR hardly even bothered to follow the pencil lines, and then he certainly didn't bother to erase the pencil lines.  

ifly

Kyle and Reed went to an ifly birthday party and sleepover on Saturday.  They loved ifly and tried to see how late they could stay up at the sleepover.  How late you ask? Late enough that Reed went to bed at 6:30 last night and I had still had to wake him up for school at 7:15 this morning.

The parents sent us videos of the flying and they are very cute. 

I still think it looks like Kyle, but Kyle swears up and down it's Reed, and Reed swears up and down it's him (and those are Reed's shoes) so it must be Reed.  Here

Which means this is Kyle's.  I just assumed this was Reed because he was following directions so well, but then I saw Kyle's big toothy grin, and yes it's Kyle.  Here

She's Not a Cartoon

I can't believe it's been almost a month since I've done an exclusive Chloe post.

She is getting so big, and that's the first thing everyone says when they see her.

"Chloe's gotten so big!" 

I think it's time for her 1st grooming.

I'm not sure who she's starting to look more like.

Barkley from Sesame Street

or Sheepdog Sam from Bugs Bunny.

Bros Seein The Stros

I wasn't supposed to even go to the Astros game Saturday night.

The plan was for Jason to take Reed and 2 of his friends.

But then JR and Jason got invited to sit with Christian and his dad, so I found myself baseballing with three 8 year old boys.

They celebrated 2 home runs...even though we still lost.

And ate pizza and ice cream.

JR scored them all a free hat

but they still said their souvenir was getting on the jumbo-tron.

I even had two people I didn't even know were at the game text me to tell me they saw them dancing around. 

We could see JR and Christian from where we were sitting, and they were sometimes nice enough to wave back.

And if you're feeling sorry for "poor Kyle" who didn't get to go, don't.

Granny Sherry sent me this picture of him enjoying his evening at her house.

(And he gets to take 2 friends another night.)

Rain Day 2

No school today.

On the bright side, Kyle slept until 8:00 and JR and Reed until 9:00.

I now have kids ranging in ages from 5 to almost 13 upstairs.

After their lunch out with friends, of course.

And if you're wondering what the humidity is like after a Houston flood, it's a million percent.

No seriously, a million! 

Turn Around Don't Drown

Jason left for work this morning, but this was as far as he got.

Can you see the two cars that didn't turn around?

The kids already had school off today for our bad weather day.

What are the odds that we'd have an actual bad weather day on the scheduled bad weather day?!

So Kyle and Reed were at a sleepover last night.

Where we live didn't get hit that hard. We got about 7 or 8 inches of rain.

Other parts, like near Jason's office, got hit really hard.

Have you seen the family floating down the street in the refrigerator yet? 

(If you haven't you don't live in Houston. You can see it here.)  

That's just a few streets from his office.

But not to worry, we are high and dry.