Weekend Wecap

We had yet another great weekend. Friday afternoon found the sky just opening up and rain and hail pouring down for quite some time:


Instead of getting to play outside the boys rearranged the furniture in the living room. Well, really they just pushed the loveseat across the room but my little Eastie discovered all the dust bunnies underneath and, all on his own, went to get the Dust Buster, he vaccuumed up the mess and then vaccummed under the other couch too before putting the Dust Buster away! I wanted to reward him but at the same time I want him to always have that helpful spirit without necessarily looking for anything in return, ya know? I gave him a quarter anyway. :)

And with the downpour outside we were starting to worry whether E's first t-ball game would happen the next day or not. Surely the fields were getting super muddy with all the rain. We'd have to wait and see.

On Saturday we started a new "game" with Dalton...I plugged a nightlight into a timer so that it wouldn't come on till an acceptable "morning" time. He's been waking up waaaaaaaaaaay too early most days and I was hoping to train him to wait a bit or even go back to sleep. I wasn't sure he'd get it, especially not right away, but Saturday morning we didn't hear from him till his light came on and him calling, "It's morning! Yook! It's morning!" I was so proud of him--and as a sidenote, he waited for his light both Sunday and today as well!!! Easton always waits till his clock flips to 7 so I wanted to get Dalton where he could wait quietly too for when they start sharing a room. Hooray for not waking up at 6:15! :)

Anyway, no one called Saturday morning to tell us the game had been cancelled or anything so I made special pancakes for my guys:

(That's supposed to be an "E" next to the baseball.)



Then the boys shouted things at Wabie and waited for him/her to respond:




E's game wasn't until 11:45 so after a stop at the post office we finally made our way to the fields. We made sure to pack chairs since the ground might be soaked:


First was a half an hour of practice. They stretched, they followed the coach around the bases, they all took turns batting while the rest of the team tried to field the balls, they tossed balls back and forth to each other. I don't think a single kid caught one but they were having fun:


After practice we went over to another field for the game. That's how it was with soccer last year too, practice for half an hour, game for half an hour. Anyway, the kids lined up to bat, of course they wear helmets for that:


Dalton did really well during E's activity...he entertained himself really well and stayed right by us so we didn't have to chase him all around or anything, he didn't throw fits about not getting to play...I'm sure it won't always go so well but this first time we were extremely pleased:




Easton did really well. He's grown up a lot since soccer last summer. He seems to "get" t-ball and he's slightly more aggressive
Look at that hussle!

But at the same time, he's still a team player:

He never got upset when he didn't get to the ball first or anything...unlike one of his teammates who spent a lot of his time laying on his stomach pitching a fit.

We were super duper proud of him. Here's a bit of video highlights from his first day as well:

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We came home for D's overdue nap and some quiet time for E. When everyone was up we joined Jason on a drive into Boulder to switch out laptops. It was something to do and then we went out to dinner at what is usually one of my favorite spots in Boulder. I guess dinner isn't so much their thing, unfortunately. My favorite part of my meal was my pickle. And the boys gobbled up most of my sweet potato fries and ignored their untoasted, white bread, too much jelly, peanut butter sandwiches:


Dalton showing off what he'd colored:


Easton saw this statue out the restaurant window and wanted to check it out before we left:


D's finger is in it's nostril. Lovely:




And because I didn't get any special dessert on our anniversary, we made a stop into the Cheesecake Factory for a single slice of cheesecake to-go. Just for me! :)

Dalton amused us the whole way home:


On Sunday we'd decided to go to the second service at church. They were doing a "class" after the church for new people and we'd wanted to go to that. Even though we've been going regularly since January we really haven't made any real conncections or gotten involved in anything. And fellowship with others has been something I've really been looking forward to with finally finding a church. Until now, Dalton's probably the most connected in the church. People recognize him a lot! :) "Hey, it's Dalton!" "Hi Dalton!" Strange but true. Anyway, we showed up to church half an hour too early! It was funny to us that neither Jason nor I caught that...and we've been to second service before, we just went two weeks ago. Silly S's! :) Jason drove me by a Starbucks instead before we headed right back to the church.

We brought the boys in for the worship part with us and then I took them to class. Even without any bribes or promises of rewards both boys did great for their drop offs. Hooray! And when I came back to the service a man was talking to Jason inviting us to join their small group. This was something we've been praying for! So after the sermon we caught up with the man and his wife again...they have a 4 year old son too and we'll be checking out their "life group" very soon!

We picked up the kids, gave them a snack, and then dropped them back off (together!) into the "provided childcare" so we could go to that "get-to-know-our-church" class. They fed us and the kids pizzas and while we learned about the church and listened to other new people introduce themselves it still didn't really do a lot to make us feel more connected...but maybe did help us to see other ways we could become a real part of the church family. But praise God for sending those Life Group people our way during the service as that's really what I'd been looking for. I'm pretty excited!

We came home for D's overdue nap yet again and in the afternoon we just hung around, I ran to Super Targs for some dinner fixin's and that's about the end of our weekend.

Today finds me on my first day of my third trimester and our regularly scheduled doughnuts. Good times!