Seriously, we have been so busy lately. Between Father's Day, both boy's birthdays, vacation bible school, 4th of July, t-ball, and getting ready for Memphis to start kindergarten, I don't even know where to being without making this a complete novel.
So, I guess I will start with Father's Day. It was a day we were able to spend with all of them! We did our traditional things and enjoyed being with each of them. The boys got Scott a new fishing pole (luckily, the store was out of Transformer ones, and he ended up with just a black one for an adult).
Next, the boys' birthdays. I spent several days making cakes for them. Our kitchen was a mess! Memphis wanted a dinosaur cake with a volcano. We had a party for Memphis' friends at Chuck E Cheese on the 27th. Maverick joined in, too. Oh - and Daddy and his friend, Jim got into the action.
The next day we had a party at our house for mostly family and some close friends. Maverick seems to really like Mickey Mouse, so I made a cake for that day too. The boys loved showing off for their grandparents and cousins.
Then came the 4th. A nice day to start with. The neighborhood kids played in the front yard on the water slide. We had our friends, The Lewis', over. Some neighbors came over and we had burgers and brats and hot dogs. Then came the rain. A lot of rain. We ended up singing karaoke in the garage with our neighbors! The rain did stop in time for some fireworks in the cul-de-sac and the town's show. It was fun.
Today Memphis starts kindergarten. I can't even believe that he is 5 and going to be going to school every day!! I am excited and sad at the same time. I am sure that Maverick is going to be really sad. He always misses "brother" when he is gone for any time period. We are fairly sure some of the grandparents will be missing time with him as well. It was kind of funny at his goal setting meeting when he already knew all the sight words for the year and all of his upper and lower case letters. In fact, he told his teacher when she was asking him his letters, "I can read whole words".
Here is a funny Memphis story.
Memphis and Molli were neighbors for a long time, but didn't really know each other until they were in preschool together 2 years ago. That is when Molli informed Memphis that he was her boyfriend. We have since gotten close to the Lewis family and try to do stuff with them as often as possible. Well about 2 months ago, Memphis and I had this conversation:
Memphis asked if I would take Molli and him to Elitchs to get married. I said sure, but then what are you going to do? He said after they got married, they would go to 1st Bank and get some money and get their married pictures. Molli will need to buy Memphis a red and blue ring, since those are police colors and he is going to be a police officer when he grows up. After pictures, and this is probably my favorite part, they will come home and have some lunch and take a nap. After nap they will go to the hospital and get their kids, Kosmo and Memory. (Good thing they took a nap, huh?) Apparently they are going to live in Parker. Although Memphis is going to be a policeman, he is going to work with his daddy too. Molli can stay home and take care of the kids and do laundry, but she is the boss. (He has already learned that!) They will still come over for dinner and I can buy their kids expensive toys.
I loved his detailed planning on this and wanted to share it!
Hope everyone is doing well. Love - The Oldham Zoo
What a hilarious story! He seems like he has given that a lot of thought!! I can imagine there is a lot of emotion both happy and sad with Memphis starting kindergarden. They start in July there? Does he go all day or half days? Thanks for the update.
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