Day 5...

Friday we had the chance to spend the afternoon with Grandma and Grandpa Crooks to see Grandpa use his Racing Experience Gift Certificate at the Kansas Speedway. As much as he enjoys racing, the kids all went together and bought him a Gift Certificate for a 6 lap ride to see what it is like to go 160 mph in a NASCAR Race Car. We all enjoyed getting to see him do this, and it was neat to be down in the Pit Area of a Major Speedway.

The Grandkids cheered as Papa made his racing debut!

Day 3...

Another day of Fun for the boys...
We started the day by hitting a few (ok, quite a few) Garage Sales in the area, and Kendall is such a sport by walking with me and looking through any toys that he might find and is pretty good about realizing what is good and what is Junk!

Then we picked up Kaiya and headed to Mom's work to help her out for a little bit before lunch. Kaiya and Kendall came back to our house to play for a while before we had to pick up Lizzy from school. We stopped for Ice Cream on our way home from school and then came back to get ready for Cheerleading and T-Ball Practice. After practices we had a nice dinner as a family and then Lizzy went back to Cheerleading practice from 9-10 (Wow- she practices alot, no wonder they are so good). Kendall practices that great form at T-ball Practice...

Day 2 of Daddy Daycare...

Well, we decided to go to the James Lewis Elementary playground today, but due to some construction work at the school they had the school property closed. We then headed just down the street to the Pink Hill Park to spend some time on the playground equipment for a while.
After 45 minutes of playing at the park we decided it was time to drop by and see if Mom needed any help at the store, but on the way Kendall spotted a large helicopter coming in for a landing and it actually landed at the James Lewis Elementary where we originally wanted to play so we stopped to see what was going on. The school was replacing some Air Conditioning units on the roof and the helicopter was removing the old ones and lifting the new ones into place on the top of the school. The helicopter company from St. Louis was very nice and brought Kendall over a sticker while they were hooking up the chains to the first piece and another guy brought Kendall some Safety Glasses to wear to keep the dust and dirt out of his eyes when the helicopter was down so low. It was very cool to see the helicopter lift them up and hoover over the school to put them on the roof.
Well, Kendall's T-Ball game was rained out last night so we hope to get his game in tonight. Lizzy has Cheerleading Practice during the game and I have to work in Knob Noster so we will miss the game, but I am sure he will do as well as he did the first game. Good Luck Buddy!

Daddy Daycare...

Well, its that time of year again when Daddy gets to keep his little one at home while Miss Ami is on vacation. We plan to do something fun and exciting every day while still helping Mom out at her new store when we can. We will also be dropping and picking Lizzy up from Summer School and taking her to Cheerleading Practices and getting Kendall to and from his T-Ball Games and Practice, since that does not leave us much time to do anything too demanding - we will be spending our time at local parks again this year and doing some fishing when we can.

Today we spent about an hour fishing at the little pond in our subdivision and we caught about 10 Bass and one big Perch. Kendall really likes to go fishing with Dad, but does not like to put them back in the pond because they are too "Sluggy" (which I think means that they are too slimmy). We have a T-Ball Game tonight if it does not rain anymore, so we are going to take it somewhat easy the rest of the day...