Weekend Wrap Up

Here is our weekend through a lot of pictures & not many words b/c I'm not feeling very wordy.  I actually took several pics this weekend, so this should work out nicely.  Here we go...

Friday night, Miles spent the night at Granny & Pa's house with Ava & Olivia.  He was beside himself with happiness...

We spent our childless night furniture shopping & eating dinner at IHOP.  I see fancy people, on their fancy blogs, eating at fancy restaurants.  We are not those people.  You don't have to be fancy to wear lip stick though.  Better luck next time...

We consumed every last bite of this spread...

Then, we went to Books A Million so Darrin could get coffee & I could look at games.  He reads ebooks and I never, ever read. So, a book store is somewhat futile for us. When we were checking out, the guy made fun of us b/c we bought coffee and a frisbee for Miles.

Miles was all smiles when we picked him up on Saturday.  We went straight to the country club for a little swimming...

This was Miles after swimming, on the way home.  Apparently a wild night with his cousins caught up with him. He slept for two hours.

After a couple hours at home to rest, we went to hang out with some friends, Daniel, Erica, & Thomas, and Rachel & Travis.  Daniel & Erica fixed a great dinner for everyone...

The boys swam...

The men hung out...

Then, the boys played a little baseball.  I'm not sure it gets any cuter than this...

We never play baseball, but Miles loved it...

He was pretty good at it too...

We may have to rethink no tee ball.  I'm not into being at the ball park every night, but if he really wanted to play, I'm sure we would sign him up.  It might be worth it for the cute outfit & photo opportunities.

We had a picnic in his bed.  My big boy usually just wears boxers to bed now.  I'm having cute pj withdrawals, but I knew this day would come.  He indulged me longer than I expected actually.

Today after church, Miles assembled our 'make your own' frozen pizza...

Then, he & Darrin went to play golf while I helped throw a baby shower at church...

After golf, Miles played outside with his friends before it was time to come in, take a bath, and get ready for bed...

That's our weekend. It was busy.  But, it's V-A-C-A-T-I-O-N week for us!!!  It's a staycation for the first half of the week and then off to St. Louis for a few days.  I have a few home improvement projects planned for the staycation.  I'll let you all know how it goes.  Have a great week everyone!

Terrible No Good Day

Isn't that how the saying goes? Miles had one of those days today.  It was a rough, rough day for the little guy.  When Darrin picked him up from school, the teacher told him that Miles' behavior was so bad that he isn't allowed to go to swimming lessons tomorrow.  That was the only punishment that she could think of that might get to him and even that didn't seem to faze him.  He was play fighting with another boy, not listening, and being disrespectful in general.  He's had bouts of bad behavior at school, but even his attitude after he got home was very out of character. 

His punishment from us was that he couldn't play outside, which is his favorite thing to do.  That really didn't seem to bother him either.  We had to take some books back to the library b/c they were very late.  If they weren't so late, and Thursdays weren't the only day they stayed open until 8pm, we probably wouldn't have gone there either.  We returned nine books and checked out nine more.  You can check out ten, so I'm not sure why we always stop at nine.

We came home and read all nine.  I think some time hanging out together inside was probably good for him.  He's had a long week of swimming lessons and we've let him play outside later than usual.  It's so hard when it's still light outside and all the other neighbors are still going strong.  We just have to be better about making him come in at 7pm, which is our rule.  Clearly, he can't handle anything different.

After our book reading extravaganza, he took a bath where he got in trouble for not listening and lost his 'one show in the TV room' privilege for the night.  That was the most traumatic of all his punishments for the day.  Note taken.

He's fast asleep now.  He was so tired and I know a good, restful night sleep will probably work wonders. We said prayers before bed and asked God to help him make better choices tomorrow.  During our prayers I felt something in front of my face.  When I opened my eyes, he was waving his hand in front of me.  Very much in keeping with today's behavior. 

All three of us are done for the day.  Completely checked out.  Tomorrow is a new day.

Weekend Project

I'm not sure I can remember a weekend where we worked harder...maybe when we moved in our house.  We are so exhausted and we can't stop talking about how tired & sore we are.  So, here's what we did.  A couple of weeks ago, a friend randomly FB messaged me and asked if we wanted to sell Miles' water slide.  This one...

My reply was, "I don't, but Darrin does."  As much as I really loved the slide, Darrin really didn't like it.  It was kind of a pain to put up and then dry out after Miles was finished with it, which was usually like 10 minutes.  We told Miles that if he sold it, he could have a tree house, a new ride on toy, or new golf clubs.  I'm not sure if that's good parenting or not, but it was his slide, so it makes sense that he was able to get something else if we got rid of it.  I wanted whatever we replaced the slide with to be an outside toy.  He picked the tree house.  That's what we wanted too. 

Darrin & I did some research and designed a plan after looking at several tree houses on Pinterest.  We wanted it to be sturdy, simple, and be able to add onto it in the future.  We did some measurements and laid out a rough plan on Thursday night. 

Darrin and his dad set the posts in concrete on Friday.  Then, we started working on the floor on Saturday morning.  Darrin & his dad did most of the work on Saturday.  Darrin did an excellent job designing it & they both did a great job building it.  I worked in the house most of the morning and then helped them outside for the rest of the day.

Granny helped rake the yard and occupy Miles some too.  He was so happy to have Granny & Pa here all day.  He was waiting for them to arrive bright & early.  We enjoyed spending time with them too.  We just don't get to do that very often. 

We starting getting a little delirious towards the end of the day.  We didn't wrap things up until 9pm.  We were having to use a flash light to make cuts and to drill.  I'm sure our neighbors were thrilled with us.

Darrin, Miles and I worked again today...

...until it was finished.  As soon as everything was cleaned up, we all went inside and took showers.  Miles has been outside with us for the last two days.  He wasn't even in the mood to play with it when we were done.  I couldn't blame him.  

After dinner, he caught his second wind and played in it for a while with the neighbors.  

It was a lot of work, especially for just 3 days, but I think he's going to have lots of fun in it.  He loves to be outside and we'll do whatever we can to foster that.  I'll be glad to go to work tomorrow for a break! 

Career Days

They are having Career Days at daycare and several of the parents are visiting to talk about their jobs.  Avery's dad showed everyone up when he brought a firetruck to school.  Who can top that?

Wordless Wednesday

VBS

The theme of VBS this year is Weird Animals.  I thought that would be really cool for a kid, but Miles informed me on the way to church tonight that he didn't want to talk about Weird Animals anymore & that he only wanted to talk about Jesus.  Then, he proceeded to tell me the Bible story from the first night word for word.  Part of his detailed account included that four friends had "leopard seeds" (leprosy).  The kid has a steel trap memory.

This year, VBS is kind of like the Miles & Avery show.  Their teachers told me tonight that they are inseparable.  Just more pics for the wedding one day...

Miles & Avery with one of their teachers, Ms. Mallory...

During the Bible story tonight, the kids were told to walk up to the cross and make a make to represent the bad things they do, b/c Jesus died on the cross to save them.  Miles told Ms. Crystal that he needed to make several marks b/c he does lots of bad stuff, and that one time he even hit his dad with an upper cut. Tru dat.

Snack time was ice cream sundaes.  They were a big hit...

 

They got to see some weird animals at the end.  I prefer to call them terrifying.  Snakes make me almost have a panic attack.  I couldn't even look at it at first, but then I was taking pictures b/c the blog is more important than my deepest fears...apparently. I thought Miles would be climbing over people to get away from the animals, but he was kicked back watching the show instead...

After touching the animals, Miles felt like everyone needed hand sanitizer.  Completely on his own, he got it out of my purse and began sharing with friends...

I'm working in the nursery this year.  I usually work with the older kids.  It's been a nice change of pace.  Miles is loving every part of VBS this year.