Beautiful Music

Aaron and Caleb's first duet:

Caleb plays with spunk!

EATING!!!

This is one of the happiest pictures I've taken! It's an almost finished yogurt. To be more specific, it's Aaron's almost finished yogurt.

Yes, my extremely picky, only wants to feed himself, snacks but not real food child FINALLY let me feed him! I was eating my yogurt yesterday and he kept acting like he wanted some. After a few tiny tastes of mine, I opened a Dora yogurt and he ate part of it. At lunch today he almost finished his yogurt!

On top of that, he's been eating little pieces of chicken, pasta and veggies at lunch and dinner. Real food!

This Momma couldn't be more excited that Aaron is eating real food!

Fishing!

As Sarah and the girls left last week, we had more family arrive in town! This time it was my side of the family. My Aunt Wanda and Uncle Joel came from a visit from South Carolina. We went to my grandparent's house for dinner on Tuesday to spend some time with everyone and were surprised that Derrill was ready to do some fishing. 

It was pretty warm outside and, besides occasional gusts, there was no breeze. We didn't last long out fishing, but did manage to catch a few small catfish and croaker. We then cooled off and enjoyed dinner inside! Unfortunately, I didn't think to take any pictures after we went inside, but I got quite a few outside. 

Caleb and Pops started fishing while Derrill and Joel got ready

Caleb and Pops

Pops held the pole as Caleb took care of the reel!

Joel with the cane pole

GG and Aaron watching the fishermen

Derrill and Caleb with the first catfish of the day

Jonathan and Caleb

We enjoyed the afternoon with Wanda and Joel! I'm glad we've had so much family here lately! It's been great catching up with everyone.

Lost Videos from Sarah's Visit

Ok....maybe these videos weren't lost...I just forgot they were on my camera!

On their last evening here, Sarah and the girls came over for dinner and more cousin play time. We got some cute videos of all of the cousins having fun!

PWS Water Day

On Wednesday, Grandma Deb came over to watch the boys while I had my end of the year work day at school. I spent the day cleaning chairs, emptying cabinets and drawers and getting my classroom ready for summer. It was a busy day, but so gratifying to clean it all out! 

On Thursday (yesterday), Grandma Deb came over AGAIN to watch Aaron while Caleb and I went to Water Day! I could have brought Aaron with me, but it would have been a long day out in the heat and he would've wanted me to hold him the whole time.. not so much fun for mommy! Grandma Mal came over at 11 to trade out with Grandma Deb so she wasn't there all day two days in a row. (Thanks Grandma Mal and Grandma Deb for taking care of the boys this week - you were both lifesavers!) 

As for water day... Caleb had a BLAST! He climbed up the big water slide first thing and froze up top. Luckily, one of my 5 year olds went up and held his hand to go down! He needed Evan to go with him a few times and then he was good on his own. I'm so thankful Evan went up so I didn't have to get wet before water day officially began! 

Soon after he got comfortable on the water slide, his best bud, Samir, found him. Those boys went down the water slide about a billion times before the day was over! Forget the little kid stuff, they are both big kids now! 

(Samir & Caleb)

Around 11, Caleb came to find me at my monitoring post (teachers had to monitor the different "rides"). He kept saying, "Mommy I want wunch!" Lunch wasn't ready yet, but luckily I had been given a teacher gift that morning with dried fruits...he ate almost the whole thing and then ate a whole hot dog and bag of chips when lunch was ready! He played so hard he worked up an appetite! 

Caleb taking a break and eating Mommy's snack

After he ate lunch, he was ready to play again! He found one of the other slides and stayed on that one for the rest of the day. At 1 we sent all the families home and started to clean up from the day. Teachers were given the opportunity to go on the slides before the company took them down. I was talked into going down with Caleb! It was a lot of fun, so much so that we went a couple times before leaving! I was soaked by the time I got in the car, what a great way to end a fun morning!

When we got home, I gave Caleb a quick bath and put him in bed for some down time (the stinker never actually fell asleep, but did have some quiet reading time). I got the chance to take a shower and get into dry clothes before Mal went home. It was so nice to feel clean after baking outside for 4 hours! Caleb and I are now sporting some great tans!

Yesterday was Sarah's last evening in town, so we had Mal, Sarah and the girls over for dinner last night even though we were so tired from water day! The kids got to play a little more and we talked before they left to go back to Mal's house. I'm glad we had the chance to visit one more time before they flew out today!

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I'm finally caught up on the blog! If you're just checking, I did about 6 posts today...so keep scrolling down to see all the fun we've been having the past two weeks!