Swimming, swimming, in the swimming pool

Ugh, I really am horrible at maintaining a blog! My only real excuse is that I have this need to edit and caption every photo instead of just posting pictures, and I don't have time to sit down and do all of that before posting. So that means I just never end up posting anything!

But I thought I would throw you, our dedicated followers (hi Aunt Nancy!), a bone, and post some photos from swim lessons today :D

Both boys are doing AMAZING at swim class! They both love the water, and I am amazed at how much Noah has progressed. Lucas is also quite the little fish and his teacher said he is doing great!

Happy guy, loving being in the water!

 Go Lucas, go!

This guy is almost ready to swim across the pool by himself! His biggest problem is wanting to listen and follow directions and not just do cannon balls into the water :)

 Float Noah, float!

May is drowning awareness month, so their teacher had Noah practice the proper way to try and pull Lucas out of the pool

Saturday Tourists

Ely is back home for a few weeks, so we are spending the time doing lots of family exploring of our new city!!!

On Saturday, we decided to go check out the USS Midway (a decommissioned Navy aircraft carrier that has been turned into a museum) so Noah and Lucas could get an idea of what Daddy's life was like for the past 2 months. Since Noah is constantly asking to ride the train downtown, we parked down in Mission Valley and rode the train to the Midway :)

USS Midway

The second generation of Fletcher brothers in the cockpit together

(and Daddy creeping in the background, haha)

 Getting flight lessons from Daddy :)

Checking out Uncle John's old helicopter

Future shooter???

Lucas LOVED running out to the end of this platform and then running back up! There were a few adults that thought he was hysterical and also commented on his lack of fear (as they refused to walk out to the end, haha)

That's Ely's ship in the background! (The USS Ronald Reagan) 

 Noah being a goofball :D

Noah sitting in the Air Boss seat

And steering the ship! He took it very seriously, haha

Lucas hanging out in the ready room

Back in the cockpit together!

The cheese man himself!

Poway-Midland Railroad

One of our favorite Saturday morning activities is going to the Poway-Midland Railroad station and the Farmers' market!

Every Saturday, they rotate out their trains so each weekend we get to ride a different train. The highlight is a steam engine that was built in 1907! It has been under maintaince for the winter, so this was the first time we got to ride in it, an occasion that Noah has been waiting for!

The other highlight for the boys is playing with the Thomas the Train tracks and cars that they have set up in the ticket booth. Both boys are obsessed with that train table, even though we have one at home! But I guess we don't have enough of the cool extra pieces or something :-)

Wednesday adventures

Before school train time :-)

Fun while big brother is at school

Mr. Cheese

And then he did this...for real?!? You are only 17-months, kid, you need to slow down!

Noah's great form at soccer practice ;-)

We are still alive!

I know it's been a long time since I posted, so I just wanted to let you all know that we are in fact still alive ;-)

Things have been really busy around here and I've been taking lots of pictures, I just don't manage to post them...lol! I'm going to try and work on updating the blog a little more frequently again, but I've just started a new business venture so a lot of my blogging time (which is pretty much limited to after the boys go to bed) is taken up with that. But I think I've got a lot of that squared away so hopefully a few more posts will be coming your way :-) If anyone even checks this anymore...you all may have given up on me at the point!

This kid and his "cheese" face!!!

Noah LOVES riding the train at the mall!

Afternoon fun at the park

He was going so fast and he "didn't want to ride into the parking lot" so he had to go in the grass...we are nowhere near the parking lot ;-)

Where did my baby go??? He climbed up there all by himself!

This is how he goes down any and all slides :-)

Sunshine

We have had some beautiful weather in San Diego this week! Noah and Lucas both LOVE being outside, and they aren't happy if we can't go outside at least once a day :-)

This is Lucas's favorite thing to do in our backyard!

Noah was having fun pushing Lucas around, but then stopped and said he was tired from the hard work :-)

Lucas enjoying some outside time while Noah was at school