The Granddudes Summer Visit

Last week, Preston and Triston were here for their annual summer fun stay. Some of the things we did were:

1. Played Tiger Woods Golf on X-box;
2. Sang Christmas songs with a sing-a-long CD while pretending it was autumn;
3. I taught them to play 500 Rummy. Actually, it was more like 159 Rummy. Preston picked it up but Triston is not quite old enough yet;
4. They played Hungry Hungry Hippo. I hate that noisy game but eventually gave in and let them play it. We will be buying some quiet games real soon--maybe Parcheesi, Sorry, Chutes and Ladders--those oldie but goody games.
5. We drew, painted, stamped and stenciled; and
6. Went to the Museum of Nature and Science in Dallas.

Preston's painting on canvas.
He used dimensional paint for
the dots on the sun and
he loved that stuff.

Triston's painted, stamped, and
stenciled artwork on canvas.

Preston painted a cool and funky shoe.

And these abstracts on which he
further demonstrates his love of
dimensional paint with more dots!

Triston wanted to paint a house
and with a little help from Mimi,
he was successful.

Oh boy, annoying Hungy Hungry Hippo!

In the next day or so, I'll post pictures from the Museum of Nature and Science. We had planned to go swimming at Linda and David's the day after the museum but their trip was cut short because George ended up in the hospital. He's fine now! The kids were somewhat disappointed because they had been looking forward to swimming all week so we promised we'd take them swimming real soon.

Stay tuned...
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