And More Exploring

On one of Gunnar's off days last week, we decided to do some exploring.  The heifers could use some more mineral and salt blocks anyway.  The boys love throwing rocks into the pond and there's an old collapsed house back there that Gunnar and I wanted to poke through.  The wind was a little chilly but nothing so bad to just make you mad.  

Dumping out salt blocks. 

I like him.

Got his trusty rock like usual!

"Helping" spread out the mineral.  

Always be curious!

"Hey, wait for me guys!"

Checking out a set of working pens we haven't been to before.  

Livestock feed is always better if children play in it first! ;)

Finally made it to the water!! It's not really a pond but a windmill overflow tank.  So right now it has a lot of water but it doesn't always if the pasture is empty.  

Daddy and Kit

Troughs are pretty fun to play in too.  

Finally made our way to the old house.  It is much more fun to look around when it's cold and you're not worried about snakes!! We're not sure how old this house was or when it collapsed but it was fun to look around.  Monte found a "BIG nail" that became his treasure for the day!  He dropped it at one point and was heartbroken until we told him that we could find another one! Monte is pretty nimble and good at climbing so it's fun to watch him get to explore.

Kit was not as much of a fan and wanted to be held.  Too many big obstacles for his liking! 

Has his nail!

We walked past the house to check out more of the pasture.  Kit would walk a few steps, find a rock, pick it up, walk a few more steps, find a "better" rock, drop the first one and pick up the next one, over and over again! Seriously! This kid and rocks! Just last night when I went to bed I discovered two little rocks on my nightstand!

Guys!! He's getting SO big!! Cue the tears! 

"Climbing" trees!

Learning that cactus thorns usually win in a battle against tennis-shoes! 

"Crazy Hair" as he loves to call it!  He was cracking himself up with his hat hair!

Even though it was kinda chilly it was so fun to spend so much outside time with Daddy!  The boys love to ride!  

And just as a side note, my mom gave us a couple little outfits like this the other day and I said, "Oh great!! These are way too big right now and will be perfect for this summer!"  Ummm yeah so NOT way too big!! 

So cute but this outfit should not fit him yet! *sob*

Exploring

We're trying to take advantage of where we live and the beautiful weather as much as possible lately so when Gunnar got home today we got out and went on a family walk/adventure! 

Kit loves riding!  He kept cracking up at Trooper and the dogs, especially Sister! He's always loved her!

and ROCKS!! Lately this boy LOVES rocks!! He always has two in his hand if he's outside! The other day Gunnar said that in his short walk to the house, he would pick one up, take a couple steps, find a "better" one, put the first one down and pick the new one up, over and over again!  

We dug around a junk pile! 

Gunnar and I found some cool old grain press we think... It would make a cool porch ornament!  It was HEAVY though!

Anyone know? Gran?

This kid!! haha He loves wearing caps now and always asks for one if he sees it, this too small onesie (suddenly all of his clothes shrunk! ;), these WAY too big shorts and his new cool shoes!   

Seriously, these shorts are 12 months, which he is outgrowing in all his other clothes, I think they were sized wrong! But we just got them back from Jax and I went ahead and stuck then in his drawer and Gunnar keeps putting them on him and they're sooo ridiculous and cute!!

Just a boy and his dog exploring!  He's such a little boy! So curious and adventurous!  He kept asking what the poles and wires do. Explaining electricity to a two year old is not an easily conquered challenge! He kept asking where it was going, "where doe-ing Daddy?" Gunnar explained that it went to the pump that pumped water into the tank. Monte would say, "Oh." walk for a little while then ask again, "dat doe-ing to pump? pump water?"  You could tell he was thinking it over for a while.  

Exploring cattle chutes and pens!

He pushed this thing all the way to the pens, about half a mile, left it there while we went on further, then pushed it all the way home!! We have certainly gotten our money's worth out of this dump truck!  

Love my guys!

Cousins and Bulls

I watched Jaxson last week so that Sara could get in an extra day of work before baby girl gets here. While the boys are definitely playing together more, not just beside each other, there was a lot more of the "That toy hasn't been touched in 30 minutes but now that he has it, I HAVE to have it NOW" haha Just learning how to be a person right?!

First time I have gotten him to say my name.  Sara told me he's really taken a jump verbally lately so she wasn't surprised that he could say it so clearly now. 


Jax was the first one up from nap time so we got a little hang out time in. 

When Uncle Guns got home we went and "helped" him give the yearling bulls hay.  They all love the truck and bulls so it was kinda nuts and fun!

Nothing like a lap full of boys!

We stopped and loaded hay first.  Gunnar and Monte went to get the skid steer but Jaxson and Kit did not want to be left behind!

Kit got distracted by some broom weed on the way! 

 

They all wanted to ride in the skid steer! Monte definitely was not a fan of Jax and Kit in his "I normally get Daddy alone" space.  So it was good for him!  It was rather entertaining watching all three of them "work!"

Riding with Un Guns

"BUUUUS!!"

He works hard and looks fine!

Gunnar took Monte to "help" get the string off the hay!  He was so proud of himself when he was up there!

The little boys and I got into the back of the truck to watch the show!  Those bulls were hungry!

Sweet cousins

We were two for two that day because Jaxson said Uncle Guns (Un Guns) for the first time too!  He was more interested in being silly but I did manage to catch it once!

Oh my EYES

So we've had some bad eye luck around here lately.  Monte was throwing a rock up into the air and it came straight down onto his face.  I saw him doing it and thought "that's going to hit him in the head." I told him "that's going to hurt if it comes down and lands on your head," made him get far away from Kit, and went to make lunch.  Just a couple minutes later, I heard crying and went to see him with a big ol blot of blood on his eye.  (I did make sure that the rock wasn't big enough to actually hurt him if it landed straight on his head)  Let them learn, right?!

So after texting several people pictures and talking to Gunnar, we decided to go with a butterfly bandage and skip a trip to the ER for stitches. 

We were out so I made one of sorts out of athletic tape until Daddy got home with some real ones.  It happened right at lunchtime so he was hungry and tired.  As soon as he ate lunch and got full, he acted like he didn't even know it was there and was right back outside playing so I don't think it actually hurt very much after the initial hit. 

I had to shave his eyebrow a little to help to bandage stick so he looked a little funny for a while.  He didn't like me touching it but did a good job letting us doctor it as needed.  

Grapes as a "what a brave boy" reward helped some too! ;)

 

He did a good job not touching it or messing with it so it healed up super quickly.  It had actually sealed back together by the time we changed the bandage that night. 

Morning snuggles

The day, actually within minutes of deciding it was healed enough to take off the bandage, he tripped while running and hit a shelf a quarter inch above the cut.  BOYS! hehe You can see the line, where he hit the shelf.  We decided to leave it bandaged one more day...

So just a few days after Monte's eye healed up, Kit tripped while being silly and nailed the tension rod part of the screen door.  He cut his eye as close as possible to him eye without actually getting into his eye ball.  It made me nervous for a little while until we got it cleaned up and could see that it didn't actually get his eye.  

Silly boy!

So Monte's eyebrow is still working on growing back but other than that it all healed up well. (This was the best picture I could find where he was close enough to the camera to tell what his eye looked like.  I was showing him how crazy his hair was!) 

So all well's that ends well right?!