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Henry and Normal Grandpa have been having fun together (and Cole when he is not in school). Below are some pics from their outings.

Apparently, at Cabela's Henry didn't even know he was in a store. He just thought it was a play place for kids.

$99.97 seems a little high. Maybe if they lose the kid. 

This outfit from the kid that tells me he doesn't like sports. 

This outfit is a bit much, I think.

Henry likes rabbits now, so we stopped at the pet store to take a look. I made it clear there was no way in hell we were buying a rabbit though.

The boys made a nice sign to welcome Great Grandma home.

Is it immature to still laugh at a license plate like this? Why would you get this?

Henry loves his animal binders that we made him. I've been printing off lists of the most dangerous, most endangered, etc. animals and we put them in plastic sleeves and in a binder. He loves them and carries them all over the place. 

My fishing trophy. Awesome! Sadly it is just from a made up tournament and all I had to do was beat Jason and Joe (with my partner Ryan catching two monsters). I still love it though. 

Cole's athletic outfit he wore to a rock climbing birthday party. He came home to report that he weighs less than the ropes and clips so once up on the wall he just floated there until someone came up to grab him. He is very narrow. 

If you don't care about doing a good job, kids can actually help with chores. Even a 4-year old. 

We just can't stop the basement projects. The latest creation for Henry was a wood snake.

Cole is planning his next build while we work on Henry's snake.

I thought Henry did a great job painting his snake. 

Cole decided on making a wood hot dog. 

We went to the Brewer game last Sunday. It was fun. I think we will make a habit of taking advantage of the 5 County half priced ticket days. And on Sunday the kids got a free lunch. 

Weather is warming up, so we got out the big Jenga. This year, we are planning on building Yardzee (basically just giant wood dice) and maybe washer toss. 

Goofball. 

Pics from my Instagram:

First Jr. Whopper for Cole and first order of Chicken Fries for Henry. Both are amazing.

Cole is small.

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I chaperoned a field trip for Cole's school.

We went to Marvel Universe. I bought a $15 snow cone. Wtf!

Scott and I saw The Who. So that's cool.

Cole and I made a wood car.

Henry and I made a wood tree.

They boys rode the tiny elevator at Great Grandpa's office.

We had a guy party in the basement. Cole beat me in one out of three games of 301 in darts. All luck and he shoots really close, but whatever. Henry finished his first lap of Mario Kart and was super pumped about that. That's all folks! 

Yep, we have serious hoarding tendencies 

Holidays, oh, holidays

Since our last post we have celebrated St. Patrick's Day, Easter and April Fools' Day. I guess April Fools' is probably not really a holiday, but close enough.

For St. Patrick's Day, Cole had to make a leprechaun trap for school. At first I had planned to make one big enough to fit a kindergartner, but Kristin thought that may be a bit much. Then I let Cole draw out a trap and with a little tweaking we had a plan for a reasonably sized trap that he could take on the bus. We used pretty crappy scrap wood, so I was a little worried about slivers. In the end, I thought we made a pretty cool trap though.



Henry needed something to build, so he drew a guy he wanted to construct. It ended up looking like a Mine Craft guy, so that was cool. The boys used a lot of paint. Henry probably went through about $25 worth of paint just making some purplish-gray color.

The boys also enjoyed green toilet water, green pancakes, green milk and some Lucky Charm marshmallows. The pancakes were pretty gross and Henry couldn't even eat them. I think Cole did just out of excitement of them being green.

Not surprisingly Kristin went pretty crazy on Easter. She believes it is standard to give the boys each two baskets. Luckily a lot of the stuff are things we would have bought them anyway (undies, water bottle, jammies).

They also did an outside egg hunt with our neighbors the day before Easter. For Easter we hid another 25 eggs each around the house filled with candy and change. It took a long time and a lot of hints but Cole was pumped to find his second Easter basket hidden in the oven. And of course, per Cole, "This is the best Easter ever!"

The boys certainly do not understand April Fool's. They will just say something like "Mom, you're late for work. April Fool's!" Our attempt at an April Fools' was freezing their cereal. It did not go well as they didn't get it at first and then Cole cried. I guess he was afraid we didn't have more Lucky Charms.