Update on Nathan

The first day or so that the boys were gone, Nathan was a bit sad. He's mostly recovered from the change, but I can tell that he still gets bored and wants someone cooler than me to to play with.

This past weekend, we took him to a nearby farmers market. All the fun was playing on the little stage with a couple of other kids that were doing the same.

I can't believe how grown up he's getting.

Last weekend we went to the zoo. It appears to us that Nathan's favorite thing to do at the zoo is touch the stingrays.

Here he is checking out a snake.

And, of course, it's always fun to go into the aquarium where the manatees, turtles, and fish come right up to the glass to look at you!

Here is AJ with his all finished. It's really a cool set.

Indiana Jones and the Jungle Cutter

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Grandpa helped AJ (yeah right), but Austin did his all by himself. Grandma took the day off.

Austin's new shoes

AJ's new shoes....Nickelodeon Slimers

Nato sad???

I bet Nathan is missing his big brothers.....Mom and Dad, too, but I bet the little guy is lonely.

Just Playing around

Swimming today

The Finished Product

Uncle Mike's contribution to your Lego collection

Ok, after a brief visit to Toys R Us, Austin came home with the Indiana Jones Peril in Peru set (625 pieces) and AJ got the Star Wars X-wing fighter (437pieces). Every single piece will be coming home with them :)

July 4th...day at the movie and arcade...

They seemed to like the movie, "UP" but they really liked the arcade and picking out crappy little prizes with their tickets. They've been VERY good although right before bedtime they get a little wild. Both are eating well! Papa is giving them their night snack right now.

July 4th X-Box fun

Nathan's floatie

Noodle fight

Nathan's memorial tribute to Michael Jackson

To Grandmother's house they go...

As you can see, Oz and AJ were giddy today. I had just woken Nate up, so he's groggy and pissed.



Austin, goofing around in the car. The boys just couldn't contain themselves.


Checking luggage in..

Gma and Papa saying goodbye for now to Nathan.

Daddy saying goodbye. Nathan was quite upset.


We hope you guys have a great time. We already miss the boys. Post pix often!

The Cruise

We went to Nassau, which is attached to Paradise Island by bridge... Paradise Island is where the hotel/casino 'Atlantis' is. We took a taxi over and strolled around. They have a massive fish tank- very nice and big enough that you can pay to snorkel in. These are yellow tail snapper, which tastes awesome- in case you were wondering.

They had this huge manta ray... no joke, it was like 10 feet wide.

More yellow tail. I took this pic for the boys bc the statue in the background reminded me of the Lego Indiana Jones video game Thuggee statues.

This is the Royal Caribbean Private Island. It's totally right next to the Norwegian Cruise line private island.. you'll see why this is funny in a minute.

The big cruise ship on the left is ours. The little on on the right is the one my parents and 2 brothers, their wives, and 2 of my nieces were on that same day. Odd coincidence that we're cruising the same route on 2 different ships at the same time. We met up with my parents and brothers in Nassau for about an hour. Too bad Royal Caribbean and Norwegian didn't share a private island or we could have hung out on Sunday, too!

Dropped the ball

SORRY! Gma and Papa came and I was out of town for a few days... THEN there was some computer issue and I couldn't get pix out of my camera for some reason.

Anyways, now it's fixed and here's the update.

Austin lost another tooth! (the bottom tooth, on his left)

And, for Nate, it DOES take two to make it out of sight! (Mike is prob the only one to understand this horrible joke)