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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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!
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.
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.