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15 May

Life Lessons

Wade has been building some signs for the school FunFair on Saturday. He was adding another layer of paint this afternoon and the littles wanted to help. Since it was only the first coat of color, Wade decided to let the kids have a turn. Ben was so frustrated that he couldn’t spray on his own, but he was determined to try. Kaitlyn just had fun with it.

14 May

Mother’s Day And A Soccer Game

Mother’s Day started with breakfast in bed. Kaitlyn evidently got up extremely early to make me donuts (a Raddish recipe). Wade joined her at some point to help put them in the oven and hep cut the pear.

Then we were off to church where a flower bar had been prepared for all the ladies. The kids made pictures frames in Sunday School and then Wade took me out to lunch. The boys treated me to dinner. Alex made fajitas and Teague made a chocolate chip pie.

The late afternoon Wade and I spent at Kaitlyn’s soccer game.

13 May

Ben The Model

Ben and I got to soccer practice about 20 minutes early today. He requested some photos on the bleachers and of course I said yes. I love the poses that he came up with!

12 May

He’s Home!

Teague returned home today from a week at Camp Cody in Freedom, NH. We had gotten a few pictures during the week, but no actual contact with Teague. Wade and I were at the school to pick him up when he got off the bus and we couldn’t wait to hear all about it. He was rather blasé about it, but seemed to have had a good time.

11 May

The Baking Queen

Kaitlyn was very excited when her latest box arrived from Raddish kids. It had a recipe for Pork Bao Buns and Kaitlyn has been begging nightly to make them. Tonight Kaitlyn made the Buns and I made the Chinese Sticky Rice.

10 May

Dust Bowl

The littlest baseball players are always a hoot to wrangle on the baseball field. The only question is what will distract them. Tonight it was the dust. The kids played in it. The kids kicked it up when they ran. They loved it. The poor adults tried so hard to redirect the kids, but it truly was a losing battle and it made for some fun pictures.

09 May

Play Date

Ben was so excited to have his own playdate today. Lucy came over for the morning and stayed for lunch. These two always play well together and today was no exception. They spent most of the day outside with little time inside for various activities. Lunch was the cutest. We made two types of macaroni and cheese, which Ben then combined with frozen peas. They had peppers and hummus on the side with milk. They chatted and ate an then were off to play outside.

08 May

Monday Little League

I definitely didn’t know Little League was going to be multiple nights a week when we signed up. I was thinking more like 1 time slot a week, similar to soccer. The schedule is twice a week – Monday, Wednesday, Saturday (but only two of those days). Thankfully the games move quickly and so far Ben is enjoying the practice. His coaches seem to have quite a bit of patience – thank goodness!

07 May

Soccer Sunday

Kaitlyn hasn’t played a soccer game in several weeks – first an off week, then a couple rain outs. Today they were playing makeup game and it was obvious all the girls were ready to play. Kaitlyn scored a goal in the second half and then she was on fire! Fairly quickly she scored a second goal! I love to see her so proud of herself.

07 May

Sunday Stories

Ben is always a little crazy at church. He does fairly well sitting with us during the service. Sometimes he wants to go down to the nursery after the Children’s message and sometimes he is content with all the fun items I have in my bag of tricks. Recently he decided it is his job to sign the entire family in the pew register, but that only takes a few minutes.

Today, he made himself well known to the entire church (again). The youth director had all the children up front and was giving the children’s message. She started by talking about macaroni and cheese. She pointed out if you want to cook it, the directions are on the back. She had a few other similar examples of where you find directions. Then she asked the question, “What do you need to do if you want to go to Heaven?” Ben immediately piped up (loudly), “You die.”

The entire church burst out laughing. He was of course completely correct and is still a little too young to say things entirely for humor’s sake. Looking back, the youth director probably should have worded that question a little differently, but her children’s message won’t be soon forgotten thanks to Ben.

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