The RockinRRanch

Showing off the necklaces they made.

Showing off them cute smiles.

Busy slash park.

Boys running laps.

Another fun park (not many pictures - camera batteries died)

Fun with Daddy.

Jacob reading.

Jacob woke up around 8:30. He played with the road set until Adam woke up at 9:00. I put Sammy into the roundpen and fed him his grain. The boys watched their tractor video during breakfast. Around 10:30 we headed over to the library for Move and Grove Time. The boys sure have changed in the last few weeks. They were dancing a lot today and I sure enjoyed watching them. Then they played for a while at the train table. The boys each made a noodle necklace at a table the library had set up for it. Jacob’s necklace had less noodles because he was more into cutting yarn with the scissors. Adam didn’t want to stop putting the noodles on the yarn and kept saying, “just one more?” We read some book before taking an elevator ride to the top level. Before leaving we ate a packed lunch on a picnic table outside of the library. Then we headed downtown to the splash park. The place was packed with kids. At first Jacob went around watching the other kids with a big smile on his face. Adam watched from my lap. Soon both boys were running and playing in the spraying water. After about an hour we left there and headed over to another park. I really like this park. Thru the middle of the park is a stream with a sandy bottom and a pool that the kids can play in. At the start of the stream is a water fountain. The boys were putting handfuls of really wet sand on the rock wall above the fountain. Jacob told me it was their soap and asked me if I wanted some. We used the "soap" and washed our hands off in the water fountain. We had the place to ourselves for quite a while. Adam wanted to take a walk on the "road" and pointed out the stop sign before we stopped to look for "cars". The boys and I had fun playing “Toss the ball” where we’d toss the ball into the different shapes and it would roll out the bottom. After a while a nice family with the Grandparents, daughter, granddaughter, and baby grandson came to play. They said they'd come from the busy splash park. We stayed there for about 1 ½ hrs. The boys and I had a lot of fun. We stopped at Kohl’s before going home. It was around 4:30 when we got home. Jacob fell asleep in the car and continued sleeping as I lay him in bed. I read with Adam and tucked him in for a late nap. Jared got home around 6pm and Adam woke up at that time. We went outside to take care of the animals. Jacob continued sleeping in the house. I went inside when I noticed Jacob watching us from the window. After dinner Jared built another nice track with the road set and they had fun playing on that. Adam rolled up a piece of stickers paper and said, “I rollin up a present. Here ya go.” We went outside to put a tart over the coop holding a group of broilers and also to weigh some of the meat birds. I thought it was 8:30 but looked at the microwave clock and told Jared, “Its only 7:30.” After watering the goats and sheep the boys asked to play on the sand hill. We went up there for a while. It was 8:30 when we came inside. I decided to give the boys a quick bath. While I was doing that Jared said, “You know its 9:30.” Jared had set the microwave clock earlier but it was 1 hr off. The boys were tucked in bed around 10pm.