Out and About

As you can imagine we are out and about around town all the time.  I love my digital SLR camera, but it is so cumbersome to drag along when you have to also control two little boys.  So I'm in love with the iPhone that Matthew gave me.  It has a much better camera on it than my BlackBerry did.  So I have a few pictures of all the fun we've been having lately.

Cole's new favorite thing to do - drive.

I actually didn't take this one, it was saved on my phone and when I imported my pics, it came over.  But I'm proud of it anyway.  This is the newest Shelton boy - Cody.  He was born on the 9th of September.  And Nan got to go to Oklahoma for the birth.  He is the first Shelton baby (of this generation) with dark hair.  And he has lots of it too. 

This is Carter sleeping on his floor.  He said he didn't want to sleep in his bed.  I told him he had to go to bed, so we compromised with the floor.  Of course, I moved him after he was asleep. 

Carter didn't want to go to school one day.  He had a hard time understanding he had a new teacher and not all of his friends were in his new class. He's doing better now.  But on this particular day I had to bribe him and distract him.  I told him he should spike his hair up and show all his new friends.  It worked to get him to school.  But by the time we got inside, the hair spray didn't last and his teacher just assumed he was having a bad hair day.

We were running ahead of schedule one day and I drove past Crave cupcakes.  Just too irresistable to keep driving.  So I treated the boys to the best (and most expensive) cupcake they'll ever have.

Cole doing another one of his favorite things, sliding down the big blocks.  Those blocks are one of the best toys we have.

Carter riding the hand pedal train at WonderWild.

Cole yelling at me to come get him down.  He can do it, he just prefers to boss me around.

The Jetta finally died.  Brian tried to drive it to work a week ago and it just wouldn't accelerate fast enough.  We knew this day was coming, as we've dodged the bullet several times.  But when the mechanic called and said the turbo needed to be replaced (around $2000) we said, "No way - we're buying a new one." So Brian is thrilled with the purchase.  And Purple Heart came today and took the Jetta. We decided to donate it and let them auction it off and get the money, we'll get the tax right off.   

After church on Sunday, we took the kids to Itz Pizza.  They have games, pizza, movies, all kinds of fun stuff for the kids.

Carter on the Monkey Jump.  I kinda wanted to ride it too :)

Cole enjoying his brownie for dessert.

Okay, I think that covers it.  I promise to update the blog more frequently.  Especially now that they fixed the upload photo feature - it's much easier.  Not so daunting.