I will try to get another post in this week about the trip. We are suuuper excited!!!
Okay, so here is a look at our (rainy!) weekend!!
Starting on Friday.... I signed up to chaperone Andy's class on a field trip to Duke Gardens. I got a text Thursday night from his assistant teacher asking if I could sub for her also. So I ended up subbing on the field trip and it was a lot of fun!!!
This was in the class room while we were waiting for the rest of the class to arrive. They were some excited little squirrels! They were so stinking cute.
There are a lot more kids in the class, but these were the first ones to arrive. My friend Sara also volunteered to chaperone so she and I rode together with Andy and Charlie. They were SO excited to be in the same car! They were seriously giddy.
More of the class.... not everyone yet, but close enough!
Andy has a sweet little friend in his class and they adore each other. I love seeing them together-- Andy is a happy, happy kid when he is at school and for that I am forever grateful.
They got to dig in some dirt looking for worms...
And plant a few little seeds in a tiny container... his face in this one cracks me up.
CalBoy didn't have a field trip planned for Friday, but he was still having a GREAT time at school...
It was DADS and DUDES day at school-- all the dads (or special friends) came in and they participated in relay races with the kids and then the kids sang them some songs. There's no moms allowed or else I would have gotten more pictures. When we pulled back in the parking lot from the field trip, we could see them all in the courtyard running with hula hoops-- and the quick glance I got was adorable! I love this preschool so much.
Eddie and Cal went out to lunch after school and when I picked Cal up, they had a quick hug in the parking lot-- this warms my heart.
We came home from school Friday and everyone was falling apart. Cal cried like 5 times in an hour- which he never does- and Andy asked for a nap- ha!
Cal did some serious resting with Hank-- more on this picture in a later post!
And Andy was a man of his word and passed out. He slept HARD.
We had a last minute birthday party popup that was supposed to be on Saturday, but because of the rain, they moved it to Friday night. Thankfully we didn't already have plans and we could make it! I had to wake Andy up for the party and he was not quite ready to wake up. But seeing Charlie there made him cheer right up...
Saturday morning we had a 9am soccer game. Eddie and I both ended up coaching the fields so I don't have any pictures from the game. The other team didn't have a lot of kids there, so we ended up doing a scrimmage on one field while the other game was going on. It worked well for the most part. Andy scored a few goals on the scrimmage side, which bumped up his confidence when he went into the real game. Cal scored several goals in the real game too, and was excited.
We came home and it was a rainy, cold day. I did laundry and the boys did some of this....
Saturday night, we got a babysitter and went out with friends for Susan's birthday. We don't go out like this very often (and I felt it on Sunday....), and it was SUCH a fun night!
We went to dinner at City Kitchen and had some yummy sushi and then went to a bar on Frankin Street.
I look like I am pregnant in the above dress. I am not. But, funny story- when I got dressed to go out, I originally had on another dress and when Andy saw me, he said "mommy has a baby in her belly!" Yes. He did. Might be time to start up the weight watcher train again. #sigh #thestruggleisreal. So I switched to this dress, which looks terribly unflattering in pictures. Clearly.
We were taking a selfie in the alley when this dude photobombed us...and it was Tommy! Tommy and Tricia met us out to celebrate the birthday girl!
We had so much fun and I took a million pictures.... and I stood really weird too... what is happening in the next picture...??
A blurry selfie...
Tricia and I took a picture together to send to her parents and sister saying heyyyyyyyy
And Sally and I took some selfies in the bathroom together. Because, why not?!
We got home late and as our sweet sitter was leaving, she goes "oh yeah...Andy is asleep on your floor!" hahahaha He woke up and told her he wanted to go in our room, so he did! We weren't even in there-- but whatever, kiddo! He slept great in there and didn't make a peep until the morning. Just what we needed.
Sunday morning came around and everyone was a little slow moving. We went to breakfast downtown since we had to retrieve Eddie's truck and then came home and cleaned house. It was a mess this week and I needed to devote some serious time to cleaning and laundry and all the other really fun things we get to do as adults.
Are y'all familiar with Air Bud? He is a golden retriever who plays all kinds of sports with his owner. We own the soccer movie and it is super cute. We have been watching it on repeat in the car for weeks. I told them that there are many more Air Bud movies and they begged me to order another one. So, I ordered one from amazon and Sunday morning around 11, the doorball rang and it was the mail man-- the actual mail man...not UPS or FedEx... and he left the envelope with Air Bud football! I thought Cal Williamson was going to flip out. I am not sure I have ever seen him so excited!
We immediately went upstairs and the boys got all set up for the movie screening:
I ran to the store and got some groceries for the week and came home and did more cleaning-- it's a glamorous life, y'all. Andy randomly asked if he could take a bath and I didn't blame him one bit. It was a cold and wet day and a warm bath sounded great to me too! He had fun playing in there for a long time.
Once he got out and clean, he
I mad some yummy homemade spaghetti sauce which Cal gave a big thumbs up. I will share that recipe this week too!
And I spent forever sewing up some of Bruce's favorite stuffed animals...which he then tore apart. He loves these things...and loves ripping them to shreds.
