Fourth of July & Pancake Breakfast

Some of you may remember a post I did while we were in Chile about the bedtime stories that Jimmy makes up for Caleb.  One of the most popular has been one about the pancake breakfast, though the story version includes Gio and Bella (my parents' golden retrievers) going to the Lake for the breakfast too and chasing and barking after the ducks.  Because of the frequency of the pancake breakfast story, we have been looking forward to this year's breakfast, and especially since both boys are a little older and can enjoy the breakfast and have fun.

After the breakfast we decided we would flip Caleb's bed so that it is lofted, like we had been telling him we were going to do that weekend of him turning three.  He was super excited about it, and napped great with the new setup, but didn't like it so much at bedtime.  We think him being tired with a  late holiday bedtime was just too much for him, so we flipped it back at 9:30 that night. :(

Excited about his new bed!

This will soon become a reading and play area under the lofted bed.  Landon was already having fun playing.

The following weekend after asking us a couple of times about it, Caleb said he was ready to have his bed up high.  We flipped it up once again and there it has stayed.  

Caleb really likes his bed now, and both boys are loving playing and reading underneath it. Working on finding some fun curtains to put up underneath so it can also serve as a fort for them to hide and play it!

Lots of swimming in the afternoon that day, and we finished our festivities with S'mores and Firecrackers at a friends' house.  Long, busy, fun day!