Yesterday the kids spent the morning with Grandpa while Grandma, Fred and I went to Lincoln for their annual rummage sales. I found some good things including clothes for the kids, a Halloween costume for Rion for next weekend, an old baseball glove, the game Sorry, and a few other little things. My best find of the day was a Leapster for $1.00. It was the old style, but after some cleanup it works just fine. I only bought it so Cordelia could have one of her own. The boys always leave theirs laying around and then she gets them. Then the boys get mad because she has their Leapster and many of the times Cordelia ends up tossing it across the room. Now she can do whatever she wants with this Leapster, I really don't care if she breaks it. It might have been the best dollar I ever spent. When we got back, Cordelia was sleeping so we played Sorry and the Operation game that Grandma picked up for the boys. After supper last night we filled up the pool and Cordelia and Torii had a good time playing in it. Rion sat inside in his swim trunks playing his Lego Batman video game. I told him a few times that he should come outside before he missed his chance, but he kept playing his game. We were outside at least two hours and as soon as we came in, Rion was mad that he didn't get to play in the water. We are going outside again this afternoon as soon as Cordelia wakes up from her nap and Rion is going outside no matter what.This morning I was doing some chores around the house when Torii wanted some lemonade. I poured him a glass and he went into the living room and sat down by Rion. Torii asked Rion if he would like a taste of his lemonade and Rion said "no thanks." It was so nice of Torii that I gave him a good behavior award. The award was for ice cream whenever he wanted it. He held onto the award for about an hour, which was an hour longer than I thought he would last. He turned in his award right after lunch which I thought was nice of him. And he even ate good for lunch. Here's the link for the awards that I used and where I got the idea: http://familyfun.go.com/printables/games/feature/activity-tickets/activity-tickets.htmlTorii was pretty proud of his award so hopefully it helps inspire more nice acts in the future.
Torii never thought the water in the pool was high enough so he kept filling it up.
Fred created a mud spot in the backyard which was a big hit with the boys. Cordelia had to get in on the action as well. She didn't like it at first, but then she seemed to enjoy the mud. That is until she slipped and parked her butt in the mud.
She was smelling the flowers, but stopped as soon as the camera came out. I wanted to get some pictures of my minnow buckets repurposed as flowerpots anyway and the picture turned out cute. I need a couple more minnow buckets and then every step will be filled. 
Cordelia hanging out with her too cool sunglasses.
Ok, not an outside picture, but still had to post a picture of my video game addicted boys. I can't believe how good Rion is at the Lego games. He can get through levels by himself. And he's helped me figure out things that I couldn't figure out myself. I was going to help him with the Batman game, but he's kind of taken that over by himself and is well on his way to completing it. Rion really likes to figure out how things work and likes to find the solution to problems and puzzles. He has very good problem solving skills. I guess that's why he likes the Lego games so much.