Jackson took gymnastics all spring, but I just now got around to getting the pictures on my computer! He loved it, but his coach is pregnant now and taking a break. 
On the 2nd day we visited the Riverbanks Zoo and Gardens. We didn't actually make it to the garden part! We got to feed the lorikeets. Jackson didn't really have the patience for it, but Jonah did a great job of holding still and waiting for the birds to come. Jackson got to go on his first pony ride, and loved it. The pony's name was Spooky. It was a great day and the rain didn't start until we were leaving. So in tradition we once again got to drive home from Columbia in the pouring rain!
We took the boys to Columbia, SC for a little weekend getaway. The first day we visited Edventure, a hands-on children's museum. They had a travelling bubble exhibit that was pretty cool. You can see the boys trying to make a bubble around themselves. They also had a miniature Piggly Wiggly's grocery store. The boys shopped and got to check themselves out. Strangely enough they were more interested in the grocery store than the huge fire truck. I guess we know what they spend the most time doing :) Jonah liked the drums that you could play along with the tribal people on the big screen! The only thing they didn't like was the gigantic 2-story creepy boy "Ed" that was in the middle of the museum. You could climb in the backside of him and they're was a slide and stuff inside!
Jonah is quite fun and challenging these days. I'm amazed everyday at the new words he can say. He can name way too many of the cars from CARS! He is especially obsessed with shoes, so here he is with Clay's sandals on. He will walk around with them on and try to jump up and down.
All that craziness definitely wears him out. He fell asleep in the wagon on the walk home from the pool.
We spent part of Memorial weekend on our first serious house project. We decided to stain the porch floor. We had to treat the floor first, then stain it, and then add the clear coat. We used a brownish color with some red over it that matches our furniture! We are rather pleased with ourselves :) It makes it seem much more like a room and less like an outside patio. Anybody that wants to visit and check it out is more than welcome!!
We went with the Roses on their boat to the sandbar. This is a place on the river where when the tide is down there's a sandbar in the middle of the river. So essentially you have beach without all the waves. The boys loved it! There were crabs everywhere and we found some shark's teeth. The boat next to us accidentally caught a sting ray (he must have wandered a little too far up river). At one point, dolphins went swimming by. S0000 cool! I wasn't fast enough with the camera though. We also played some baseball and bacci ball, and took rides in the kayak. The boys slept for 3 1/2 hours that afternoon!
We went with some friends by way of boat to an outdoor concert at Palmetto Bluff. It was a gorgeous evening to take a boat ride, have a picnic and enjoy some big band!
Our nephew Randall loves Thomas trains, and we've tried repeatedly to get Jackson to play with them. We realized this week that we were working on the wrong kid :) Jonah loves the trains. So much that we moved the train table into his room. He actually leaves the track set up and pushes the train around. He will play quietly forever. Unlike his brother, who was Godzilla with the train track.
We went to the neighborhood pool for the first time yesterday. We've been playing in the baby pool in the backyard for a couple weeks, but I decided to brave the big pool. Our pool has a zero depth entry which is really nice with small children. We had lots of fun and even did our own animal rescue! We had to get one of our balls out of the drain and when we lifted up the lid there was a frog trapped in there. So, of course, we got it out and helped it back to safety. Renae will be so proud!!
Here's Jackson dancing with the flower girl. He totally fell in love with her, and that's the only way we got him down the aisle. He held her hand the whole way. We laughed later b/c we spent so much time talking to Jackson about walking down the aisle that we never explained to him what happens after that. He was pretty antsy sitting in the front row. He didn't get that we had to sit there for 20 minutes and watch the actual ceremony. He got that all out of his system by the end of the night. We had the two most tired boys I've ever seen. They danced their little hearts out. We're still waiting for the photographer's pics, but I'm guessing that there are more of the boys at the reception than anyone else.
