Skip to main content

Jumpy McJumperton

Image
By
What a great start to summer! Last weekend was perfect, full of plenty of fun activities, as well as the great joy of being able to check things off the to-do list! We finished up all of the planting for the summer, including laying down the sod in Lucky's dog run area. It's great to see all of the life and color coming back into our yard.

G was so proud of himself when he discovered our "name rocks" in the planter (Ava's is hidden in this pic, but it's there!)


Our baby lilac tree survived the first year and produced heavenly scented blooms this year. I took a few extra minutes each morning to stop and smell the flowers before they are gone!


And, in one week, we will finally have the long-awaited irrigation system. Scott never minded managing a sprinkler for the yard, but I think he finally reached the point where he doesn't always have time to do it, and he doesn't like seeing a dry yard, so...problem solved! Hooray!

G moved into his big boy bed this past week, and he loves it! I told him he needed to be careful not to roll out of it at night, and he took that to heart. Almost every night this week, he tells me he will stay in his bed and won't fall out!

Ava was one of the top 25 fundraisers at her school for the Jump Rope for Heart fundraiser this spring. With that, she earned an hour of free jump time at a new trampoline park (complete surprise to all of us!) She had so much fun, and was absolutely pooped by the time we left on Thursday night. She managed to talk me into stopping for some yummy Italian ice on the way home. Everyone else had the same idea...it was packed, but well worth the wait!






We thoroughly enjoyed our cool treats outside until a really creepy bug flew down my shirt. Party over!



We've had lovely, sunny weather the last few days, so I spent some time outside on Friday afternoon, enjoying a local nature center. It was all good until I almost swallowed one of those worms that hang from trees...yuck. I seem to have issues with bugs...can't imagine where G got his fear from...


Last night we had a great night out as a family. We enjoyed an early dinner, and then an unexpected shopping trip. I think Scott had the most fun! Ava even ran into a friend while shopping, so I overheard some of their discussions about the clothes in the girls section...pretty cute.

This is NOT food on G's face. This is what happens when a three-year-old has syrup on his face, and his father tries to wipe it clean with a black linen napkin. In person, he looked like he had a goatee, much like Scott. Perfect since his shirt says "Like father" at the top!


Ava and Scott were up to some shenanigans while shopping. G and I laughed quite hard when we finally caught up to them in the store!


We're looking forward to a low key day at home today...the perfect way to end the weekend! G and I have a fun day planned for tomorrow, so our weekend will be extended by one day. More to come on that event!

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Goodbye Sweet Spanky

By
This is a post that I'm not very excited to write.  As you probably know, our oldest dog, Spanky, had struggled with health issues (ear infections, seizures) his whole life, and recently, his health had severely deteriorated.  He hadn't been eating, his ear infection was so severe his face was swollen, he had a hard time getting up the stairs, and he very rarely wanted to play.  Last week we got a few tail wags from him, and he ate a few bowls of food, but it was a 50-50 chance that he would actually keep the food down. On Thursday, we made the decision that if he wasn't any better by this weekend, we were going to put him down.  I know Scott didn't want to make that decision as Spanky was a very special dog to him - he truly was his little buddy, following him around everywhere, wanting to be wherever Scott was, and howling his sadness whenever Scott would leave him. Throughout Friday night, it became clear that Spanky wasn't going to have a miraculous recovery...
2 comments
Read more

Happily Ever After?

By
Lately, I've been adding to the Disney Princess movies in our collection.  Last week I bought Beauty and the Beast for Ava.  That was never a favorite movie of mine, but now that I've seen it several times in the last week, it's growing on me.  I figure this is a good chance for me to catch up on some of the stories that I missed out on! Watching all of these princess movies has me thinking about fairy tales...why is it that it's always the evil stepMOTHER?  Or the mom is dead, and no one has taken her place?  Very rarely is it the father who is evil, or dead.  This has actually come up as a topic in more than one conversation lately, and has me a bit intrigued.  Fairy tales are often not very happy - and usually someone dies at some point.  I was a giving an overview of Snow White to a friend of mine, and as I was going through the story, both of us were horrified at the message - mom dies, evil stepmother wants to murder her pretty stepdaugh...
3 comments
Read more

26 Hours in a Day

By
Just yesterday morning, I was thinking to myself that I could really use a few more hours each day.  We don't sleep a whole lot, both work long hours at our jobs, try to play with Ava as much as we can at night and on the weekends, and then we have to do all of the adult-stuff...paying bills, grocery shopping, cleaning, work on side jobs, house projects, etc.  If there were only 26 hours in a day, we could: *Sleep just an extra 30 minutes - we need it since the dogs have been waking us up each weekend day at 5:30am.  What could be SO urgent that they need to get us up then?!?  You'd think we only feed them once a week, or something. *Spend an extra hour with Ava...we could go to the park every night, take an extra long bath, read a few extra stories, and just enjoy the giggles and chattiness. *Take 30 minutes to talk to each other about how things are going.  With Scott leaving for work each day before 5am, and then all of the craziness that ensues wh...
4 comments
Read more