Boys will be boys...

Since the weather has been so nice lately, we have found ourselves loving the great outdoors with a couple of minor exceptions. The other day we were in our driveway talking to the neighbors when I noticed Mitchell putting something in his mouth (which was no big deal, considering the fact that he's always putting rocks, mulch, etc. in his mouth). Anyways...I leaned down only to notice that it was a cigarette butt...ewwww!! When I went to pull it out, the whole thing broke open and all the little nasty particles were floating around in his mouth~I thought I was going to puke!! In this case, the bad news was that we don't know anyone who smokes which means that cigarette butt was probably one that the trash man or somebody threw out the window as they were driving by...oh my goodness, it still gives me the willies that he's gonna get some nasty disease!! But, so far nothing has shone up,thankfully!! ha!!

Next, Daddy decides he wants all of us to go to the park in our neighborhood yesterday so that I can see how the boys love to go down the slide head first...I am totally thinking this is a terrible idea, but I just thought I would go along with it b/c he was so excited. We walk over to the play ground that was full of kids and parents. We get the boys to the top of the slide and get Mitchell in position to slide down and off he goes...only to get his arm caught behind him and face plant the slide and bite his lip. Needless to say, he totally freeked out screaming and blood was just pouring out of his mouth!! So we scooped him up, grabbed Parker (who was looking at us like, "are you kidding me, I didn't even get to try it!!"), scurried to the car, getting some very interesting looks from all the spectators like, "are you seriously that stupid?? Honestly, who sends a 1 year old down the slide head first". So, we got him home and cleaned up with only a fat lip to show for it.

So then there's today...we were playing outside on our deck enjoying the beautiful weather!! Parker was pushing a cooler around when he fell down a step and slammed the side of his forehead into the deck. Luckily, he didn't bleed, but there is a huge knot on his head!! Then, we decided to hit another park and have a picnic dinner. It was great~the weather was perfect, we had a big quilt with all of our stuff on it so the boys could eat their dinner and play. So, kyle and i are just sitting there eating while M & P are walking around under this tree when all of the sudden, Mitchell trips over a tree root and literally plows into the ground with his forehead while managing to scrape the rest of his face across to ground to catch his fall. Then, if that isn't traumatic enough, there is one of those old fashioned jungle gyms on the play gound. Well, kyle crawls inside it and yells for the boys to come over and crawl in too. Parker gets right in, but then Mr. Clumsy comes stumbling over and reaches out to grab one of the metal bars with his hands and totally misses only to kiss it with his tooth at a record breaking speed. We literally heard the "ting" of the tooth to metal bar impact...it was awful!!! The blood came pouring out yet again. Mitchell looked up at me like, "what are you doing to me??" It was soooooo pitiful!! Fortunately, we were the only ones there tonight, so we didn't get any weird looks from spectators!! Parker; however, looked at us like, "what is Mitchell's deal??? He keeps ruining everything!!" So, tonight we left the park with Mitchell screaming bloody murder in pain and Parker screaming bloody murder b/c he was absolutely furious to be leaving!! I can only imagine what this summer will bring if we have already had this much drama being outside!!

Boy have Mitchell and Parker changed our lives!! With them, life is so much more exciting!! I can only imagine what they will be like as teenagers~ha ha!!