My Life With Boys

Monday, March 28, 2011

Show Me Your Shark Teeth

Watch out for this cute, little shark swimming in the pool this summer.

Robb will proudly display his not so scary pearly whites if you ask him to show you his shark teeth. For all those who know me well, you know how infatuated I am with sharks, and apparently I have passed this gene onto my boys.

The New Orleans Aquarium is the place to go if you happen to have this type of obsession. We actually visited the aquarium a few times since it was just about a ten minute walk from our hotel. We spent a lot of time watching the huge tank with the sharks but we also loved seeing the turtles, jellyfish, and alligators.

PS-You know where we will be in July...watching Shark Week with the Stockburgers of course!!!!

Only in NOLA

There is a parade for everything in New Orleans. We missed Mardi Gras by about a week, but I guess they always find a reason to parade down the street, throwing beads, being silly, and having a good time. We spent a good part of our first day in Gretna (across the river but only about 5 minutes to downtown NOLA). One of Will's work associates has become our New Orleans friends, they have two children also so we are always able to find things to do with them. They live in Gretna so that's where we headed for Puppy Gras, that's right a parade to benefit rescue dogs rolled right in front of their house. It was definitely not the biggest parade I've been to but we had a great time. The boys got LOTS of beads, balls, and stuffed animals that actually became the toys for the week in the hotel room.

After the parade we jumped on the ferry that let us off right in front of the aquarium (more to come on the aquarium).

this is our very poor attempt a family shot in front of the New Orleans skyline...Trey was watching the river, Robb fell asleep about 5 minutes after this picture was taken

Tour Guide

If you have something against New Orleans, please excuse the next few posts. I am probably going to sound like a bit a tour guide. We spent Spring Break on one of Will's business trips to New Orleans. We had such a great week being tourists, and Will was able to spend lots of time with us too!!!!

Who Knew?

...apparently Grace and Micajah do. They suggested taking the boys to the Jackson Children's Museum a few weeks ago when we were stopping through on the way to New Orleans. I am so glad we took there advise; the new museum is fabulous. Someone there told me it opened around Christmas time, so obviously very new. We are lucky to have a good children's museum here, but being new they had all kinds of different things for kids our boys ages. It is a very bright and active museum with lots of activities to crawl over, under, around, and through. Some of the boys favorite exhibits were the cooking area, under Jackson, Strong Me, and the intestines (that's right it is a crawling maze that takes kids physically through the whole digestive system). We had such a fun time; we will definitely be making another trip to the museum.

The way my boys are such climbers, I feel like this should be framed above their beds:)

Jesus Loves Me

There is not much sweeter than a group of 3ish year olds singing Jesus Loves Me. Trey's choir had a recital a few weeks ago, and they sang their little hearts out glorifying God. What a great way to end a Sunday!!!!