GRADUATING

We held the very last preschool last week. We had an alphabet party where we played games and ate yummy food! Brittney made the first game--Bingo. She made all the boards the same and we played black out so they all won at the same time. Haha. They had fun finding the letters on their boards!
BINGO!!

After Bingo we played alphabet matching. I made all the letters and colored them and then went to Mardel's to laminate them and then when I came home and was cutting them all up I realized YOU COULD TOTALLY SEE THROUGH THEM! I was so upset! So then I had to spend an hour or two cutting up 52 squares to match exactly to each letter to glue on the back. So much for it all being laminated. All well, they had fun!
After matching Vanessa read them "Chicka, Chicka, Boom, Boom" and let them put letters on a tree.

Then we ate a yummy lunch made by Brittney and then had the boys wear their graduation caps that Vanessa brought! They were so cute! :)

After graduation they got to frost their cookies that we made sometime during the morning. :) They each had their names to decorate (KADE FOY, KOLTON B, PIERSON) and a trophy.




I'm so sad preschool is over! Kolton sure is going to miss it! If anything he loved that once a week he got to either go to someone's house and play or have his friends over to play and he loves activities so he looked forward to school every week! I might have to do something else with him and keep having play dates! :)

Red & White Game: 2011

We went to the OU Red and White Game on Saturday. Kolton was SO super excited! We went to 4 stores that morning looking for an OU shirt for him and finally found one! It was worth it though because he LOVED it and LOVES his shirt!
His favorite part to watch was when they'd kick the ball. We got there like 30 minutes before it started and he loved watching the kickers practice and we sat so close (like 8 or 10 rows up) that you could totally see everything. It was great!



I loved that you could hear the players yelling stuff to each other and everything. It really made you realize they are totally real and are playing a game together. I know that sounds weird, but it was cool. Totally worth the $10 we spent to go! :)

Haha! His whistling cracks me up! He just makes a really high pitched sound and puts his fingers around his mouth. I love it. He would also yell really loud "GO SOONERS!" and everyone around would laugh.

He started to get a little tired by half time so he got a little snuggling in with daddy.

Which then turned to playing! ;)
We ended up leaving at half time. It was super fun though and we will definitely take Kolton every year!
(He wore his shirt Saturday, slept in in Saturday night then wore it after church on Sunday and slept in it Sunday--he LOVES it! I washed it Monday and I'm sure next time he sees it he'll want it again!)

Playing with Brigham

Brigham got to come over last week as well to play! The boys had a lot of fun jumping on the trampoline!
Well, except as we walked out there Missie's tail got Kolton right above the eye so he shed a couple tears before joining in on the fun on the tramp! :(
He quickly got over it and was loving playing with Briggs.


Kolton sure is gonna miss his bud! Don't even get me started on how sad I am they are moving in a couple weeks!! :( They will definitely be missed but we are excited for them and the opportunity they have in Utah!

Easter Egg Hunt

On Wednesday we went to the park with some friends from church and had a picnic and played and then did a little Easter egg hunt. Kolton was SO excited for the hunt he hardly wanted to play. Once he was done eating he was ready to go find some eggs!
We had all the kids line up on the sidewalk while some of us "hid" the eggs and then we let them go have at it (and collect 11 eggs each :)).


After the egg hunt one of the moms had the idea to have all the kids sit together that would be graduating the same year, 2026. That seems so far away! 2026! Crazy!

Tayte, Emma, Beckett, Claire, Kolton, Kashton, Kade, Ethan

(I know my blog isn't private so if anyone is uncomfortable with me listing their names let me know and I'll take it off! I won't care! I just want to be able to remember them 10 years from now! :))

Sidewalk Chalk, Put-Put Golf, Playing

Kolton's new favorite place to play is on the dresser in the office. The other day he made a bridge so Handy Manny and his friend could stand up on it to watch all the dinosaurs go to the park. :) On Thursday we went to Chickisha with Liz and her boys to go to this sidewalk chalk show at this college there. Her father-in-law owns a trailer that he sells fair food from and he was hired to work at this show. He gave us free corndogs and lemonade and fries. SO SO yummy!! Its amazing! After we enjoyed our yummy food we walked around the oval and looked at all the art. Some of them were CRAZY good! I couldn't believe that people were able to do it with sidewalk chalk on the road!

There were some pretty talented artsits there that's for sure! After our lemonade was gone the boys started eating their ice, one piece after another after another! As we walked back to the car Kolton and Dalton continued eating their ice. I was taking pictures of them and as I snapped one I realized Kolton was choking on a piece of ice. I totally got a picture of him doing the whole gag thing. I debated whether or not to put it on here because its kind of funny now when you look at it but I don't want to gross anyone out. :) He quickly got it out -- by the time I asked him if he was choking it was out so it only lasted like 3 seconds.

Here's where we got our yummy food! :) They were the only food vendor there so they had a line at least that long the whole day!

On Friday night we went to Andy Alligators. Kolton has been obsessed with golfing lately. He has asked to watch golf instead of his typical choices of Handy Manny or Little Einsteins or something lately. With the Masters on his obsession has really grown so Brady thought he'd like to go golf at Andy Alligators. He LOVED it! LOVED it! He was so excited and did pretty good!

On the first few holes he got really excited when he got it in (there's 18 holes). As it went on, though, it was like he expected his ball to go in and would take nothing less. ;)

In hole 13 he got a birdie (its a 3 par hole) and then at hole 14 he got a hole in one. He was SO excited!

After doing put-put we took him for a ride on the "race cars" as he calls them. He had a blast riding them and did not want his turn to be done! After that we headed to Brady's parent's house (even though no one was there) to watch the Thunder game since we don't have the channel most of the games are on. Kolton got out the blocks and built a couple of towers.

Saturday morning we went to the church to do a deep cleaning. I had to leave in the middle of it to go to a photo class where we went around OU and took pictures of plants etc. We were originally supposed to have some models but the girls couldn't make it so we tried to find some things to take pictures of. Most of the pretty flowers had been picked but we found a couple to just play around with. There was also this huge trail of ants that were moving SUPER fast running from this little hole in the sidewalk to a wall. I don't know what they were after but they sure were getting at it!

Medieval Fair

Sometimes (who am I kidding--all the time) I just look at him and melt. I love his sweet side! He has been getting a little crazy lately. I don't know if its the little boy in him coming out or what but he has some serious energy! One night he was going crazy in the house running and jumping and dancing around everywhere so Brady took him out to jump on the trampoline to expel some of that energy. Brady would roll around on the trampoline and Kolton was supposed to jump over him before he got him.

Then they started jumping high--like REALLY high. Our trampoline is old so it has some serious bounce to it!

When they'd hit the peak, Brady would let go of Kolton so he'd get the feeling of free falling. Kolton told me it kept tickling his belly.

He LOVED it!

Then Brady bounced on his back and Kolton laughed the entire time! He came inside when it was all said and done and crawled up next to me on the couch and said "Whew! I'm tired mom!" It worked!! :)

He got sent to time out sometime this last week and when I went to let him out he was reading his books. I snuck back out and got my camera to take a picture. His favorite book right now is "Brown Bear, Brown Bear What Do You See?" He takes it all over the house with him and even sleeps with it. He loves that he can "read" it by himself.

My dad was in town last week and came over one night. Kolton was SO excited! He loves when Grandpa comes to visit! He was super excited when Grandpa gave him "Tangled." I don't even know how many times that movie has been played!

Kolton even got Grandpa to play kinnect. Kolton's favorite is the track and field so Grandpa got a workout. :)

I don't remember what day this was but I was in the kitchen doing dishes or making dinner or something and Brady came quickly in and told me to get my camera and go to Kolton's room. It cracked us up that he dressed himself up as a fireman randomly.

We went to the Medieval Fair. We went with our friends, Shana and Kit Revell, and Liz and her boys. They charged for parking this year! What is up with that? I haven't been in years, but when I was a teenager/college student I went a couple times and I don't ever remember paying for parking! Anyway, I thought there would be more kid things. I don't know what I was thinking but I was a little disappointed. I'm not interested in any of the things that are sold there (I don't want to be a fairy...) so I didn't really want to look around at anything. Kolton ended up riding a lama and going through a pirate ship. He was really wanted to ride the lama and then I told him I couldn't go with him and he changed his mind. He was excited when the worker said I could walk along side him. He LOVED it!

He kept telling me that the lama was so pretty and so nice to let him ride on her.

We brought Missie with us to the fair. She loved all the attention! Everywhere we walked 300 people wanted to pet her. Well, except for one mom. Her kids asked her as they walked by if they could pet her and she said "No, she might be contagious." WHAT?! Contagious of what exactly? Haha! It made me laugh. And anyway, why would someone bring a dog to a public place full of people that could make you sick? There was TONS of people there! TONS! And it was pretty warm! We took a few breaks to cool down and let Missie cool down as well. Kolton took advantage of those times and played with her. He loves to tease her and ride on her. I love that she'll let him do whatever and she just sits there.

We went through the pirate ship and Kolton thought that was pretty cool.

The pirates fascinated him!

One was even nice enough to let us take a picture with her. :)

On Sunday in between conference sessions Kolton and I made some cookies. I gave him the beater and he went to town. After a few bites he said, "Mom, I have it all over my face! Take a picture!" So, here's our obligatory cookie face picture. ;) I don't know why but Kolton says "I made a gold!" instead of goal. It makes me laugh every time. He put his socks on all by himself for the first time this last week. Every time since then that he's done it he tells me "Mom! Say YAYY!! You did it by yourself!" so every time I have to get really excited for him! :) He also tells me "You are so good at cleaning and tables and dishwashers mom!" After he brushed his teeth one morning I told him that his teeth looked so clean and white. He asked me why they were white. I told him that if they are clean they are white. He asked to see my teeth and after inspecting them he said "Mom, you need to brush your teeth! They are not white--they are dirty!" Gee, thanks! ;) I guess I need to whiten my teeth! Haha.