Neighborhood 4th of July celebrations

Our neighborhood does a fantastic job with celebrating the 4th of July. We have a parade, games, fireworks, dinner and of course a lawn mower race. Since we were at the lake and didn't get back until Monday we missed everything except the lawn mower race. We enjoyed watching the men race last year; some of the men really get into it.

This year the races were taking place in front of our house. It was an extremely hot summer day; 104 with no wind, so Wesley and his friend Erin cooled down with a yummy popsicle. Wesley liked to watch the guys race by and would clap as they passed.
They have two different races; lawn mowers that are not modified and then modified. There were several lawn mowers that raced in the not modified race and then there were 3 in the modified. The sheriffs blocked off the road and clocked them as they passed; 35 mph. I told Mark he wasn't allowed to ever race lawn mowers at 35 mph.
Wesley and Mark waiting for the races to start.
We have tons of frogs in our yard and flowerbeds that Wesley likes to catch. He decided that after the races he wanted to put them in his pool and have them swim with him.

July 4th weekend

We headed to Lake Texoma to celebrate our July 4th weekend. On Friday afternoon we meet Katie's parents, her brother and his daughter, and her older brother and fiance. Wesley has talked about driving Pop's boat for weeks now and was very excited to finally get to do it. We got up on Saturday morning, had breakfast then headed to the lake.

Wesley enjoyed filling up his Pop's minnow bucket with sand and water. His cousin Madison even helped him.
We were not sure if Wesley would get in the water so we started him out throwing rocks in the lake. After he was use to the water splashing on his feet we moved further in. He enjoyed jumping in the water and jumping thru the waves.
Madison really liked playing with Wesley's fishing pole.
On Sunday morning we got up and headed to the lake (yes at 7 am) so everyone could fish before it got to hot. Wesley went with Mark, Pops and Christy to fish; he helped drive the boat. Kay, Chad and Katie stayed on the dock to Perch fish. We had a great time and caught many perch and even a few turtles.
After Mark and Wesley got back from their fishing trip they fished, but Wesley didn't want to do that so we headed back to the house.
Madison brought along a LeapFrog computer and it had a song that counted from 1 to 20; Wesley loved that song so he played it over and over. The kids enjoyed running around dancing and holding hands every night.
They even enjoyed rolling around.

First day of Mother's Day Out

On June 30th Wesley went to his first day of Mother's Day out. We talked about it for several weeks prior to him going. Mark stayed home that morning to have breakfast with us then left for work shortly after. We were not sure how he would react when I dropped him off but knew that he would get upset because we were leaving him. I began to put his bag on his hook and put his lunchbox down, then he lost it. He didn't want me to leave his lunchbox outside the classroom. I left him crying for his lunchbox and not me. The directory called me at lunch to tell me that he cried off and on the whole morning but was running around the room playing after lunch. He actually napped which we were surprised. When I picked him up for school the teacher told me that he wanted his lunchbox after lunch so they gave it to him and he laid down on his nap mat with his lunchbox and took a nap. He is very attached to his lunchbox. He will go on Thursday's during the month of July and then starting in September he will go on Tuesday's and Thursday's.

The week of Wesley's first day of "school" we practiced eating out of his lunchbox. He really thinks this is fun.