April 10 with Cal

Wednesday: It was just CAL for a few hours over at the Beach House today, and he was quite pleased to have all the toys to himself! We played with our treehouse for quite a long time today. We took some of our toy animals from other areas of the house and introduced them to our treehouse animals. Cal was quite serious about the entire process.

Cal makes super cool animal sound effects too ...

We played for a long time in the spare room too. This is where most of our cars are parked. Cal was very much into CRASHING all of the cars today ...

He decided to make this Hotwheels vehicle (below) into a dinosaur monster truck today and claimed it wasn't quite stronger than he was because -- see? It's not as TALL as him.

We also did our share of bird watching out my side window while we played with the cars and our toy playground. At one point, Cal was putting our trucks down the playground slide to see what would happen ...

Here is our little man, all finished from his bowl of chocolate ice cream, just before I wiped his face clean.

Cal really likes chocolate ice cream!

We played at my house until about 3:30 and then drove on over to Cal's place. He fell asleep almost immediately after leaving my house. This picture (below) is a very sleepy little Cal after I woke him up and carried him into the house from my car. He can barely hold his head up ...

Here is VERY talkative and EXTREMELY informative Erin, telling me about her day at school. She has OPINIONS and she KNOWS stuff! 

We played in their basement for awhile, mostly watching Aidan play a video game ...

It sure was nice to be with these guys today. We met Dylan and Kelly over at Holy Trinity at 6pm. It's getting easier to transport all four kiddos--it used to be quite stressful with the three little ones all scrunched in the back seat together--but I moved the trash bag from the floor of the back seat and made more room for Aidan legs that way; PLUS, we have a very serious talk before I begin driving--about not screaming at each other while I am driving, etc. They are much better at hearing what I am saying this year than they were last year--so that is very encouraging!