7 Reasons I Love Having Boys - 7 Quick Takes

 

 

Life continues to fly by but we are having a blast.  Our house is loud, rowdy, fun, and full of boys!  Having grown up originally wanting four daughters of my own, I cannot believe how much I now LOVE having boys!  Here are a few things that we have been up to and a few reasons I simply adore having boys!

 

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Creighton Baseball Games

We have gone to a few baseball games for our Alma Mater Creighton University and the boys have a blast.  This week though the most entertaining part was learning how to break open and eat peanuts, more than actually watching the game!  Also, a fly ball from the game was a caught a few rows behind us by some college aged gentlemen and they gave the ball to our oldest son, you would have thought he won the lottery! 

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Getting Ready for T-ball

Sports are a big thing around our house, and our oldest son is a fan of EVERY SINGLE SPORT!  As soon as one season is over he is ready to learn what sport comes next.  His soccer season ends next week and he is already so excited to be getting ready for T-ball which starts in June.  There is an adorable little kids baseball field blocks from our house where we like to go play together!  I guess we are really one our way of creating our own little baseball team.

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Exploring the New Playground - OR instead the Woods

The playground closest to our house just got all new park equipment, but when we go to check it out our boys still prefer to play and explore in the woods and creek behind the park.  They much prefer the sticks, mud and leaves.  Such boys, but I love it!

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Digging Time

We are blessed with a beautiful fenced in back yard at our home with a swing set and lots of outdoor toys.  When we moved in the area underneath our deck was all dirt and my husband and I were brainstorming if we would want to pour a cement pad or put in rocks, but the dirt has become our boys FAVORITE place to play.  They get out all of their trucks and play in the dirt for hours.  Also, our 3 1/2 year old is obsessed with writing his name right now, and so he is commonly found practicing in the dirt!

 

 

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Our Garden is Growing

Remember when we started our new science curriculum and planted our first vegetable garden?  Well, this spring we have had so much rain and lots of sun and it is exploding!  The boys love taking care of the garden and we will commonly find them outside picking weeds or watering it all by themselves!  Plus, sometimes they even find worms and snails in the garden, which you know is simply super cool for little boys!

 

 

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School Fun

 

We quickly have learned how much our son loves to explore, especially with science.  We got him his very first microscope and he is in love!  We got a bunch of cool pre-made slides and then also a kit where he can make his own with leaves, the dogs fur, flowers, or anything else he finds.  It entertains him for hours and he has been learning a lot, which is a win - win for everyone around here!

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A New Library Subject - Waterworks

 

We have completely exhausted our libraries resources on subjects like snakes, bats, tornadoes, volcanoes and a few other very boy like topics.  Due to our awesome homeschool co-op here in our town, this week we found a new subject topic for the library after they went on a tour of our town's water plant.  Since you had to be at least 5 years old to go I was not able to go with our little ones, so our oldest son got to go with Dad!  He had been reading The Magic School Bus: At the Waterworks for a while before the fieldtrip and then found some great new books at the library this week all about how the water system works! 

Well, that's what we have been up to!  For more Quick Takes, visit This Ain't The Lyceum