It's Summer In Texas

It's summer in Texas which means I have to cope with my usual obsessive fear dislike of bees for a couple of months. I took this photo from the safety of the Hendricks house in Huntsville.  He was on the glass on the front door. It's probably the closest I have ever been. They fascinate me......in a very scary way that makes me shiver when I think of them.

Fourth of July: 
We had a fairly mild 4th this year.  After hee-hawing around about what to do, we met up with the Eubanks and The Kastens in Addison for Kaboomtown.  Don't get me wrong, I think the fireworks display is great, but Kaboomtown has made a name for itself as one of the best fireworks displays in TX and people come from all around to see them. There were certainly plenty of people there.  In fact, the traffic afterwards is HORRIBLE! But I won't start in on it.  I could literally write an entire post about Kaboomtown traffic. Ugh.

All in all it went very well.  It was incredibly hot.  We were out there for hours.  We had a handful of kiddos with us.  The majority of the kids could not care less about fireworks. We had ZERO meltdowns. That's success in my book.

Fourth of July, Part Dos:

 Bobbie bought us a blow up Lightening McQueen pool with a side for the backyard. Since the fireworks were actually on the 3rd of July, we got up on the Fourth and filled up the pool.  The Monster just stripped down and got in (as he does, every day now).  I don't think that there is too much cuter than my boy running around the yard naked, so I got the camera out.

Alex has discovered Locust this year. I hate those things. I think they are creepy with the weird noises they make (now that I think of it, you would think I might have a problem with crickets as well. Simply not so).  We keep finding them in the backyard and Alex loves to look at them closely.  He won't touch them though. Smart kid. GROSS. 

Gattitown with Julian:
 Our buddy Julian came over to play the other day.  We took the boys to a place called Gattitown to have some fun. Well, fun for them.  There is nothing fun to me about a place with screaming kids, a pizza buffet lacking anything resembling good pizza and covered with, what I am convinced are, the rudest (or hungriest) people on Earth, and games the seem to sense just how much money you have on your pocket. However much is there, that's exactly how much it cost to play that particular game. BUT! Three year old boys think this is INCREDIBLE! So, they had fun and they were fun to watch.  I can't remember exactly, but I believe Julian is about three months older than Alex. He is very smart and having a conversation with Alex and Julian was hilarious.

Kate: OK boys.  We need to listen and have good manners right?
Alex: yes. Like saying yes ma'am or yes sir.
Julian: NO Alex.  It's NO ma'am and yes sir.

My other facorite moment was when we were on the way to Gattitown.  Julian is very expressive. he will tell you out of the blue in the most sincere manner that he "loves his Mommy and Daddy very very very much".  He also sings the alphabet in his own sweet way:

... O  P  Q  R  yes  T  U  V ......

It took me too long to do a post. I need to do more posts more often!