My mom used to make us hold up signs for our first day of school every year.
I HATED IT! But now .... i am even more annoying and make my kids have signs for EVERYTHING!
At 5 years old... Mary Bratton thinks it is great. Wonder when she is going to realize how lame it is ( and how lame I am)
... NO COMMENTS PLEASE!

Mary Bratton started a little Art Camp today. She had so much fun.
It is only 3 hours a day for 3 days ... but it is still her first camp experience on her own!
She wanted to take her sign to Art Camp ---- probably because it is so cool!

Jenny and I took the kids to Yogi Bear to the waterpark.
We all had alot of fun. The kids had us on the run!!

























Mary Bratton and Bekah

























picture with Yogi Bear on the way out....everyone was worn out!















I have to make sure that i always have lollypops - Beau asks for them ALL THE TIME.
HE calls them 'Be Bops'
We looked back on the drive home and Bekah and Nate were BOTH asleep with their lollypops in their mouths!

Beau's 3rd week of swim lessons! Mary Bratton joined his class this 2 week session!
They are both doing great! Today was the day that parents got to watch during the last 15 minutes of class!

















so proud of you Beau!





















Beau has really started to enjoy is swimming classes!




















He is doing 'monkey on the wall' and climbing the wall -
he kept trying to say 'monkey wall' - it was so cute!
He was so proud of himself and he KNEW THAT WE WERE ALL SO PROUD OF HIM!!!!
WE ALL CHEERED SO LOUD...... and then when Mary Bratton went ...
Beau cheered loud for her! so sweet!

beau will say "kick, kick, kick "

















jump.......



























did NOT like swimming on the back

SO PROUD OF MARY BRATTON AT SWIM LESSONS!
my camera ran out of battery but she dove off of the diving board and swam all the way across the pool.
Before this week - she would only swim with her BIG mask that covered her nose!



















See that BIG BOW....??? WELL.... underneath that is Mary Bratton swimming!!!!!
Go pumkin , go!



















Beau was out of the water a matter of seconds before he asked for a lolly pop

My dad came to watch and Beau ran past me and Tal yelling 'PAW PAW'...... he kept running back up to him giving him hugs!


















yay!


















Ansley Tomkins and Mary Bratton waiting their turn - i think they got bored being patient!

I put Mary Bratton on a little ticket system ( with guidance from Stacy after she did something similiar with Bryant)
It started out kind of rocky but for the past 2 weeks, Mary Bratton has been an angel. I am so proud of the way that she has been behaving. Her goal was to get 10 tickets. We have been working on this for 3-4 weeks. She finally got 10 tickets and deserved every one of them!! She was able to choose either something that she wanted to buy or go somewhere she wanted to go. She wanted to take her friend Megan to Gatti Town but Megan got sick on the way. I told Tal and Beau that they better get dressed quick and we all went to honor Mary Bratton! I'm so proud of you Mary Bratton! love you sweet girl!

The water squirt game - how many times did we do this???? lots!

























Beau has never riding these cute little merry go rounds - so i thought that he might start liking them if I would let him ride in my lap.
Well - he hated it .....
























so with one croc left in hand - me and Mary Bratton finished our ride!

















I was Mary Bratton's 'little friend' while we were at Gatti Town.

my 3 kids!



















Beau loved chunking this ball down the lane!

















and couldn't wait to see the ball roll back up. i thought it would hit him in the nose!

Thursday for lunch, I took the kids to Sal and Mookies for a surprise lunch for my friend Jenny.
She is leaving the Public Affairs Dept. at UMC and she is going to the Jackson Chamber Partnership ? is that right Jenny?
Anyway - she got a great new job - glad that i don't have to be saying goodbye to her at all - but happy that they invited us to join to celebrate with her!


















this cracked me up - one of her co-workers gave her a huge container of gumballs b/c she would eat them off of his desk everyday.
They said that anything that happened she would say ' that deserves a gumball' and pop one out! - THAT IS MY NEW MOTTO FOR ALL THINGS FANTASTIC...... THAT DESERVES A GUMBALL!

























They are looking at her little goodbye deal - everyone is gathered around and Beau is on the ground UNDER his highchair - he wouldn't get out!

























Mary Bratton and her wiki stick creation!
MB and mommy got new haircuts on Thursday. I don't like mine - but her's is so cute!

Happy Father's Day to the best daddy on earth.
I know that we are a little predudice since he is OURS..... BUT WE REALLY THINK HE IS THE BEST!!!!!!!!
Glad we got a picture of Beau's little feet in this plaster hang up.....Beau stepped all over it and it broke within 30 minutes of giving it to Tal!



















Tal and his two babies ( and his new XM radio ) on Father's Day weekend!

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We looked up and have NO idea how they both got on the see saw.
they were so cute. going up and down and having so much fun.
These two are always on the run ... the two of them both sitting on the see-saw having fun!





















monkey see - monkey do! just playing around!


















shutting each other in and out of the house!