Ten at the End!

1) The week started with a Memorial Day cookout at my parents! Yummy food and fun pool time!

2) Ben's newest motorcycle arrived. Let's briefly review the history of the non-four-wheel vehicles he has had: The Go-ped, the Buddy Scooter, a Ninja motorcycle, and now a 1963 Honda motorcycle. If you want more specifics reasons for the purchases and subsequent sale of each of those, you'll have to talk to him.

3) We just got these hot wheels race tracks. The kids (AND DADDY!) have been very busy creating death defying drop offs from our upstairs landing.

4) Ben has built some amazing lego creations with the kids, one of them being a robot. This week Elena recreated that robot. I was pretty impressed since it had been a few weeks she saw Ben do it, and this was done entirely on her own!

5) Does your toddler know when their birthday is? We were at the pool and someone asked Evan when his birthday was. They specifically asked if it was in August or September. He paused, squinted his eyes appearing to give it some serious thought, and then slowly replied, "SAN ANTONIO."... I love that kid.

6) Elena comes up with the most random crafts. That girl loves her some tape.

7) Along those lines, she makes us cards on a daily basis. They are always filled with flowers, hearts, rainbows, and stick figures hugging. In fact its making me think that I should give her "just because" cards too!

8) Evan and Asher share a love for Hot Wheels, and at any given time you can hear simultaneous "Vroom, Vroom" noises coming from the play room. It's pretty amazing to see Asher walking around hugging 3-4 cars at a time in the exact same way Evan did at that age.

9) We have all been looking forward to this weekend, because Ben's family was coming in to town...

10) And they were coming into town for Elena's end of the year ballet recital!! We were all so proud of her! And I think it deserves its own post.