Best Friends

Oakley's best friend right now is LJ (Little James). He is our friends Kathy and James first kid, and he's only three months older then Oakley, but a head shorter. These two are a hoot together. They love playing with each other and are finally learning to share. Here are a few pictures of them at LJ's birthday party last week. They loved running throught the sprinkler and using the golf clubs as swords/guns.

They also got to play together this week and I set up the little pool in the back yard. They had so much fun dumping water on each other, and splashing around the pool.

I even caught them on video chasing each other around. LJ might be faster then Oakley, but Oak has a longer reach.

Funny video

I've caught Oakley doing a few funny things in the last little while. This one just cracks me up and it makes me wonder what he's thinking. Enjoy his sillyness:

It's what fun is

I've been wanting to take Oakley to Lagoon because I knew he would love it, and we finally got our chance a few weeks ago. My sister got discount passes with an online school that her kids go to, so we got to tag along with them. We had a great time, and it was only hot for a little while. Oakley loved the kid rides. He loved the train:

And the "guns" (he called them)

and the Elephant

and the helicopters, especially when cousin Rachel rode with him.

and "Ugly" I mean "Bulgy the whale,

and the space ships which thankfully don't make as much noice as I remember,

and the carousel,

and especially the cars. He had to ride these ones a few times in a row until he got to ride on every color, green, red, and blue. Good thing it wasn't that busy.

The bumper cars he didn't like so much, probably because all three times that he rode in them he'd just get stuck against the wall and couldn't figure out how to turn the steering wheel all the way around to make it back up. Maybe some day he'll learn.

He also loved playing in the little splash park towards the end. At first he didn't want to get wet, but then once he did, he wasn't afraid and just ran right through all of it.

We ended the day on the huge ferris wheel and as you can tell we both loved it. I'm glad I got to take him. We got to go last week too with Wes, but that will be another post.

A few funny pics

Here are a few fun pictures of Oak from the last little bit. He's such a silly boy. He loves to wear his hat like dad, but it just keeps getting and lower and lower on his eyes so he walks around like this half the time.

And now that Cars 2 has come out there are many more cars in his collection to show off.

This one's just silly.

He loves helping dad mow the lawn now. He used to be scared of the lawn mower, but now that he has his own, he just likes to help.

And sometimes he's just too darn cute not to take a picture of. "Hi, my name is chubby, my moms name is chubby, my dads name is chubby . . ."

Our adventures downtown

A few weeks ago I needed to go downtown to the Church History Museum. I wanted to see if the children's exhibit they have there was worth bringing my primary kids down for an activity. So I decided that Oakley and I would head down on the trax, since he had never really ridden it, other then from the Gateway to Temple Square. He loved it. He was so good the whole way, just sitting on the seat and looking out the window.

The exhibit was fun, not very big, but fun. Oakley's favorite part was the touch screen computers that they had. You could play differnt games, like memory, or a maze game, but he just liked pushing all the buttons and making the screen change. Here are a few others that he played with.

Then we went and walked around temple square. He loved looking at the water in front of the temple. We also got to go up to the top of the Church Office Building which is always fun to look out from. By then he was getting a little cranky, so we headed back to the train after that. It was a fun day, and well worth the trip.