jak thought long and hard about how he should enter the water.
he settled on a belly-flop.

kelan doing his calisthenics before his first plunge into the Atlantic...

testing out the water with boppa.
he likes it!

here's a wet kelan. he had fun at the beach.

kelan think's mommy's funny.

jak loved all the balloons we had for aunt gigi's birthday

spacey kelan.

you know firemen must be well-armed...
kai threw those little pop-it things on the ground,
and it made the fireman very happy.

Fireworks time!

Jak stayed on Marcy's lap and said "That's loud" a lot.
Kelan had to get out of bed and see what all the commotion was about.

Happy Fourth of July!

Laser Tag!!

The red team- Kai, Noah, Andrew and Junior.

Noah and Kai with their game faces on.
Run little girl, run!
kicking some blue team butt.
and the red team emerges victorious!

jak

weeeee!

As part of the activities for the fourth of July, there was an extreme bmx/motorcycle/skateboarding show. These guys were crazy! The pictures don't do it justice...

jak was rather impressed.

kelan's starting to go places!

reading before bedtime...

Here we are heading to the 4th of July "Walk to Iraq and Back"

Kai was ready to go!! Kelan cheated about half way through and hitched a ride on Boppa's shoulders.

We got to put a ribbon on a tree along the way to wish daddy a safe and speedy return.

Here we are afterwards. Kai ran a long way with me! I was so proud of him!

what do you do when you're trying to entertain jak and there's a thunderstorm outside?

why, you rock out, of course!

I think Kai may have a future...

jak can be his roadie.

brothers

kai being goofy.

this is how kelan looks while he's making the squealing noise that peels the paint off cars outside.

for some reason kai got kisses.
AND hugs.

kelan was very very sleepy

the boys

"uh mom, your hair is in my eye."