Memorial Day Weekend and Other Happenings

Axel does the funniest things with his legos. Here is a stormtrooper in a toaster.

Jimmy John's! (best sub sandwiches)

Celebratory gelato after getting a camera up his nose to check for a possible edamame bean (couldn't find it).

Anyone else have this problem? Toys in the bed when he is supposed to be sleeping?

What a cute midge fly.

For Memorial Day, we went to the Kensico Dam park to have a picnic and play baseball.

What amazing form!

We got caught in the rain while walking home from the library! We were soaked!

Pretending the mop is a tank.

We received Alex's graduation announcement, and Axel took everything else off his bulletin board to "make room."  

Jeff and I decided to try the famous marshmallow challenge on Axel, but Jeff did it kinda wrong (your supposed to leave the kid alone with the 1 marshmallow for a few minutes to see if they decide to eat it) but Axel has never cleaned up his toys faster!

We had a long day of helping friends while their mom attended to a family emergency. This was at 4:30 when we finally had a quiet moment. Poor tired boy! He has been trying to phase out naps, but he still needs them!

On Axel's last day of gymnastics, they had each kid do a circuit. He was kinda being a pill that day in class, but he still did a good job! (I know that none of you can imagine him being a pill, but it is true)

Jeff's Phone Dump

I am terrible at remembering to upload pictures and videos from Jeff's phone. So here are some from February and on.

A snowy walk by the Bronx River.

Jeff took this picture while walking to the train station on the Bronx River trail. We sure live in a beautiful area!

Here is the picture Luke took of Bill Nye the Science Guy at the USS Intrepid.

He was so excited that Daddy let him sit in the front seat while Daddy worked on the headlights. (Good thing I didn't know because that is just asking for Axel to accidentally take the emergency brake off and the car to run over Jeff... Did you ever notice that I think of the worst-case scenario all the time?)

Searching for his Easter basket.

Easter Egg hunt!

He is really into jokes right now, and really bad at telling them. This on is an "Axel original" (ie he made it up himself)

Can you tell that Jeff and I had just been telling him "What do you call a boy with no arms and no legs..." jokes?

Batman!

This short video from the Call's visit was cute!

 Throwing sticks in the river, as you do.

A couple weekends ago I had a church meeting down in the city, so Axel and Jeff had a father-son crazy night out. Bowling, Five Guys, and a new lego set! A perfect night!

And Axel beat Jeff. Haha!

Candid Family Life by Luke

When Luke was visiting, he took a gajillion candid pictures of us. Here are my favorites. (Also he used a fish-eye lens in many of them)

Thanks Luke for the fun pictures!

Mother's Day 2016

I had a nice Mother's Day weekend. We hung out as a family on Saturday, then Jeff and I went on a date. I got a bunch of cute new clothes, and we had sushi. Sunday morning I got to sleep in and not have any church responsibilities! I was able to attend Sunday School AND Relief Society! That never happens! We talked to all our mommies, Jeff and Axel made dinner, and just had a very pleasant and relaxing weekend. Thank you Jeff and Axel for being so awesome!

They got me azaleas and hydrangeas. So beautiful! They will look awesome in our backyard! And Axel wrote the letters on the card, and drew the arms of the monster.

Out of the mouth of babes... (and the drawing is of my head and hair with one arm)

Ask for more kisses and this is what I got.