Cornelius Chronicles

Quotes of the Week Rebekah: "How do dogs get puppies? Do they lay eggs like birds?" Loyd: "Well, I better go to work." Mom: "What do you do at work?" Loyd: "You know, I build robots all day long, like Daddy." Birthday Boy of the Week Party of the Week To celebrate our sweet little boy's birthday we all ate way too much sugar and the boys had a great time playing with Loyd's new Star Wars light-sabers that light up and go "Shwing!" We also had a party for him on Saturday. We had a great time. The theme was bugs. We invited lots of his little friends over and built bug jars and bug binoculars. Then, we went on a bug hunt and captured lots and lots of bugs. It was a really rainy day so the bug hunt had to be relocated from the backyard to the front room. The kids had fun. It was funny to see them giggle, squeal and flinch as they found and collected plastic cockroaches and dragonflies and happily plopped them into the...

There was no preschool this week so we had to get creative to keep Loyd busy. He decided he wanted to play outdoor bowling. He set up his own pins (and even became one) while Xavier attempted to knock them down with the bike trailer flag. Silly boys. Future world champion bowling league winners. Happy Valentine's Day!

Loyd had his first big Trooper School field trip this week. We all went to the Moody Gardens Aquarium to see lots of beautiful sea life. Xavier was fascinated with everything. He ran from observation window to observation window shouting, "Oh! Look! Oh! Look!" Loyd just ran. He made 3 laps around the entire Aquarium in the time it took Xavier and I to see 2/3 of it. Thank goodness Loyd had his own personal trip chaperone to keep up with his energy. :) I couldn't resist getting a picture of Loyd in the shark cage. There's something comforting in knowing he's stuck in one spot for a minute. :) I had a difficult time getting pictures of the boys' faces. They didn't want to look at me. They wanted to watch the fish and squeal at the water acrobatics of the seals and penguins. I can't say I blame them. I had fun watching the animals too. They are way more fun to watch than boring old mommy. It was a fun field trip. We had a great time and ...