Kids Workshop @ Home Depot: Football Stand!

The first Saturday of every month Home Depot has a free Kids Workshop. From 9-12 you can bring your child in and they can build something. This month we built a foot stand! How perfect is this when football season has kicked off?!?



Our friend Joey brought his God child MaKayla(ms) and his stepfather.Potato did not know what do with himself. I mean he has never built anything with a pretty little girl before. Twitterpated is how I call it lol. He was all smiles and really showing off because he built his project in record time and was showing 'Kayla how to do it!



The only thing that I don't care to much about is that with Home Depot's builds is that they require glue. Who in the world wants to give a child a project with glue? Let's just say we skip it because its not really necessary when you have nails. Shhh don't tell.



After the build Potato got his certificate and pin. I forgot his apron at home like a bad Mommy so we had to borrow one for the project. No worries.A few snaps of the camera and the babies were let loose on the poor customers in Home Depot. I guess they wanted to see just how fast they could run and freak all the older people out. I run after him, apologizing of course. When it was time to leave, Potato's buddy, Kelon showed up with two of his friends.



It was so cute because all of the boys were excited to see each other and Potato did not care that he didn't know two of them. After a group hug we headed home! Woooh until next time......

Labor Day Weekend: Trippin it to the zoo!

Sunday found a Sebastyn, a Potato, a Nanny, Ms. Kasie, and me tripping to the zoo. The weather was all to incredible to stay inside. It took us about 1.5 hours to get there but the boys were fine eating snacks and watch Power Rangers. Potato was not too sure about them because the most hard core his cartoons get is the Wonder Pets. I thought his eyes were going to pop out in amazement.

We finally made it there and decided that Ronald McDonald would feed us.......sadly disappointed were we when the boys chicken nuggets looked incredible and out sad little bugers needed some tlc.

DH and I took Potato to this exact zoo on his first birthday and they were doing a lot of rennovations and adding a whole new tiger exhibit. I was super excited that no less that a year later they were done with the rennovations and they had TIGERS. DH's favoritest animal (so sad he missed it) in the world. No worries we will take him one day.

The zoo was perfect because it wasn't crammed with people so the boys were able to run around like chickens. I am not even kidding! When they realized they did not have to sit in the wagon the marathon was on like Donkey Kong!

Potato was completely adorable because after each animal exhibit he had to say buh-bye. When we made it to the geese I knew he would lose it because he loves his 'feet' feets' (tweet tweets). He would say buh-bye feet feets. Then would come the terrible two fit because he did not want to leave them. I had to tell him that we would come back to see the feet feets before we left. Oh how I love this child! P.S. how do you say Buffalo? "Buffalo!" Right....NO its butt-low!

After hours and ours of jam packed fun with a quick break for us ladies in the middle. We needed nachoes, pickles, and diet coke...duh. Well after all that we decided to end our excursion with a train ride around the zoo. Potato needless to say passed out with the motion of the train. Thank God his Nanny was there to cuddle.

It always seems that the trip home is always quicker than the trips to our adventures.

What did you do over the labor day weekend?

Summer Fest Videos

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Build and Grow-Bug Box

Whoa this post is over a week due so don't throw any stones. It's been very hectic in our household.

It's so hard to remember what happened last weekend. So much! Build and Grow was a lot of fun......for the boys. The Mommy's on the other hand needed more sleep. We were troopers though and did not complain. We are not allowed to complain, right?

Kelon and Pomatoe(according to Kelon), are really becoming great friends! It's so sweet to watch them share and teach each other new things even though some of the habits they learn from one another are not the greatest.

The build was a Bug Box. Simply.Perfect! It was so easy to build so of course Fumy and I had to correct many of our OWN mistakes lol. Thank God the boys will be the architects of the family. Potato was very intense in making sure each nail was tapped. Pretty hilarious to watch actually.

They share very well!

They are so different from one another.

Don't worry he did not hit his thumb with a hammer. He does not particularly like the goggles.

I had to though!

Very serious!

Mommy Troopers

Bug Box Builder Extraordinaire!

Silly boys!

We had to ride the tractor before we left.

Overall everyone had a blast and as always Potato gets better and better with his hand-eye coordination. I am very proud of Potato.

After our build Fumy decided to meet us at the Summer Fest. Part II!

Summer Fest Part II

Kelon did join us for the second part of our Summer Fest Party! Just in case you missed the first Summer Fest.

Fumy, Kelon's Mommy, woke up Kelon from his nap and headed to meet us downtown for some fun in the sun. I had to beg/nag her to get her butt down there because I knew she wouldn't want him to miss out. I am just a little persistent.

They had so much fun running from one end of the slip and slide to the other. Every time they fell they laughed harder. Even with a bitten tongue and a little blood there was nothing but smiles from these little men.

The Mommies decided it was time to move on to another activity. This proved to be a very hard task that had two little boys running from their mommies and tears from the Potato. I did not think he would have so much fun in the fun jump. Hmph!

We moved to the kiddie pools so that Kelon could swim and play in the sand. After being traumatized I figured they deserved some oucecream. I mean I have to spoil them a little right?!

We had a blast and so did they and after another hour or so I had to head home. Potato was in desperate need of a bath and I needed a bath something fierce. Mommy be stinkin!

Show me some of your fun in the sun pictures!

Summer Fest Part I

Who new that just a little over three hours of fun would be cause for a two part blog? Well now that I am sitting down and going through all of the pictures I realize that there are too many to precious moments to leave out! So I won't cheat you! ;-)

One of my friends, a fellow co-worker, has a sister that puts on events in our local area. I was all to happy to find out that this past Saturday they were holding an event just for the little ones. The First Annual Summer Fest to benefit the Free World Foundation. This end of the summer
extravaganza proved to be just what a Potato needed in our current 107 degree weather.

There were water slides, sprinklers, a dunking booth, fun jumps, shopping booths, sand boxes, kiddie pools, food, drinks, and COOKIES AND CREAM ice cream! Oh and not to mention the famous Wayne Toups along with several other bands played kid friendly music the entire time.

I really wasn't expecting much when I drove up since it was not packed and I was able to get a parking spot in the very front even though I had to pay 5 dollars. The things a mother will do for convenience. I pulled out the stroller with both the video and regular camera ready to capture sweet memories. It was flippin' hot that day and Potato had just fallen asleep in his car seat, of course! I pulled him out and when he heard the music I felt him dancing in my arms. He was wide awake and ready to play. I outfitted him in his couture Elmo shirt and swim trunks so he was styling.

When we walked through the gates my jaw dropped. There were dozens for kiddie pools filled to the brim with sand and sand toys. We have been fail parents and haven't taken him to the beach yet so sand was a new experience. Potato was not sure of it and I could tell because I was trying
to put him down in the pool of it and his knees bent. I found it adorable and hard at the same time to hold him and explain that sand was safe. I took off my flip flops and jumped in...still holding my 30+ lb child in the air...and squished my toes around. I felt his legs drop so I knew he
approved. I was really way to excited to watch him play and enjoy himself so I of course threw sand in his lap.

After digging sand out of all of the unmentionables we hit the water and boy was that the icing on the cake! Potato is a little fish it was all the better that my friend (co-worker mentioned before) brought her three boys that joined in the fun.

After a couple hours, a hot dog, and a few powerades, Potato's friends had to leave. He was sad and so was I but we knew that we had our buddies Kelon and Fumy coming to play or did he? Please stay tuned for the conclusion of our day in the sun.

Kid's Workshop @ Home Depot- Periscope

Saturday morning DH, Potato, and I hit the ground running at 9:30 a.m. DH is SOOO... not a morning person so I had to lure him out of bed with Potato kisses and Meche's Donuts.

I was sad to hear that my nephew would not be joining us, but he was getting ready for his first birthday party. Posting about that will come soon. Home Depots building program was so much better than last time. I was able to get an apron for Potato and my nephew. I had to sneak the one for nephew because my sis-n-law would have killed me if I hadn't. I also did not want to take the chance of there being none available next month.

When we got there Potato's friend Kelon was there and the party got started. Kelon is 2 1/2 years old and well this child is so advanced its insane. He talks in full sentences and with great clarity. He had DH and I cracking up with his version of Potato's nickname. PAMATOE!!!

After many close calls with the hammer and a dance by Kelon it was time to go and visit Nana and Papaw at the local Farmers Market....To be continued....;-)