Life with Little Superheroes!: Memorial Day... many posts behind!

We've been having some upload/download speed issues with our wireless connection, so I just haven't been able to do much with photos this last month. Jason's pc is good now -- so hopefully I'll catch up today.

Jonah spent the night last night. Ben's getting big enough that he has specific requirements about his guests. He asked last night that I take Owen into our bed and let him and Jonah stay in the two beds in his room. It was after 11PM when we got home anyway... so they were pretty much already asleep. This morning I heard Jonah in Ben's room saying IT IS TIME TO WAKE UP BEN! This pic was right after they got up...

Now we're playing outside. Jonah's on the trampoline and my boys are in the sandpile. Jonah has asked Ben several times already "why are you so bossy?" I remember bossing other kids just like Ben is ... but I am wondering how do I turn it off with him. Ugh!

We went to Bruceville and Vincennes for the weekend. It was a very busy weekend ... Jason wen to Vincennes on Friday night for Jonathan's graduation and then back later that night to Greencastle. We had soccer on Saturday morning and John and Judy and Laura came up for that. Then Laura, Ben, Owen and I headed for Bruceville with some shopping stops on the way and later, I took Laura home after dropping the boys off with my mom.

That night was bday dinner for Pappaw Kaiser... you can't see it in the photo but we had a "Transformers" bday cake. We also had curly straws and later, spray string! Grandpa ended up taking the spray string and turning it on the boys. Ben didn't like that as well.

Then the highlight of the day... playing in the dirt. We didn't play long in the morning b/c we had to get ready for Jonathan's graduation party. The boys had fun at the grad party (we met Jason there... he came down again on Sunday after church in Greencastle)... but got a little too hot. They are definitely not equipped for summer yet. Maybe Owen's hair needs cut... not sure that is going to happen anytime soon though! I enjoy it too much!

Later in the night it was back to play in the dirt. We had a "picnic" (took dinner to Dad in the fields -- and so we took some out for the boys first). Owen announced when we got there with food "I NOT eating!!" He did eventually eat of course -- he just didn't want to stop "working."

Oh and we also took a trip to visit a couple of cemetaries in Knox Co... to see the graves of Grandma Mengedoht and Grandma McCarter... as well as Grandma and Grandpa Kaiser at the Bruceville Cemetary. I had to keep reminding the boys that the tombstones were NOT for climbing.. but the trinkets on them made them think they were toys somehow. Hopefully other than the broken flag on Grandpa's site (which still had enough stick to poke back into the ground) we didn't leave any remnants of our visit. I remember going with Grandma Mengedoht and Aunt Mary Moore to the cemetary all the time as a little girl... to put flowers on the gravesites. This was a new experience for my kiddos though... so hopefully no one minded the rowdiness out there!