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Nerf gun fun

Posted on July 28, 2012 by Kendra

Levi discovered a huge Nerf gun at Audrey Ellas 1st birthday today. He had a blast!

Roving Bands of Children

Posted on July 28, 2012 by Robert

Even with all the heat once it starts cooling off each night the kids all want to play outside.

Levi even ride his bike for the first time in months. He has been very resistant to it for some reason.

Josie wanted to ride a bike, but hers had the training wheels off right now so she can start learning some. She used Levi’s while he ride his old big wheel.

Then trains captivated everyone attention.

Later more bikes and some bump drafting.

I know I’m posting a lot more ask if the sudden, I’m just enjoying playing around with the new website software. All this time my family has owned our domain name and we really haven’t done much with it. It’s also really ready to post from you phone, like I’m doing now.

Posted in Uncategorized Tagged with: bikes, Kids, street, summer

Spontaneous Kid Block Party

Posted on July 26, 2012 by Robert

I think almost every kid on our street was out tonight.

We were missing a few, but we had a lot of kids out running around.

If it had wheels it was used to play, including an office chair.

There was some tailgating going on.

And some riding of age inappropriate vehicles.

Or non vehicles.

As well as some training on roller blades.

And a lot of falling from that.

The kids just kept going up and down the street.

Sometimes they just had to rest

Other times they took a break to play with the chalk.

We love having good neighbors with kids. It has been great.

This is a phone post btw, so forgive any wonkiness.

Posted in summer Tagged with: Kids, street

Wooldridges visit

Posted on July 25, 2012 by Robert

The Wooldridge family came for a visit a few weeks ago. We generally only get to see them about once a year, but its fun watching the kids grow up.

Peyton and Kendalynn have Nintendo DSs and Levi felt left out, so I let him play with mine.

Here’s the whole crowd vegging out on electronics.

They sure make good pacifiers in the car.

We went to the beach again this time. Its been a while since we’ve gone to the beach with them, and we had a lot of fun.

This time Melissa, Kendra and Trudy’s roommate from college was able to come with her little girl and husband Justin. We saw Justin at an Astros game the week before, but Melissa wasn’t there, so this was a great chance for them to all see each other.

I have found that digging a big hole in the sand and then putting some water in it creates a self sustaining busying action for the kids. They played in that hole almost the whole time, much like our last visit.

All cleaned up and about to head to dinner. Kendalyn posed for the camera.

An actual smile for the camera.

Peyton, waiting for everyone to finish getting ready.

The big kids. Melissa’s family had to leave earlier in the day, so they weren’t around for this shot.

Our spot on the beach.

There was seaweed, but we survived. You can see our path we cleared out some.

Kids just love getting in our dog’s houses.

They were playing hide and seek and this became their joke.

We went to the health museum in Houston the next day. They have a bunch of puzzles in their main lobby, so we were playing with them.

They had a dance game to teach about strengthening of bones based on exercise. Levi was surprisingly good.

They had another thing where you could pick out facial features to make a custom face.

This is what the kids collectively made hollering out options to me.

After the museum and lunch we went to the Chocolate Bar. That went over pretty well.

Finally we went to see Brave. This turned out to not be a good idea as the movie is aimed at a much higher age than previous Pixar movies. Levi was actually crying about the mom in the movie.