I'm pretty behind on blogging, but we were just making it here and honestly, blogging was the last thing in line of priorities. Travis was working out of town for pretty much the past 2 weeks. He had two different shoots (one was Bonaroo--which is also a modern day woodstock basically--people camping out for 5 days hearing every band imaginable all while smoking pot around the clock), and he came home after five days for a day and left again for the rest of the week. It was TOUGH. I certainly appreciate the help that he offers, but I also like an adult to converse with! I don't think that I could be a single mother. But we made it. Thank GOD, we made it. I can finally say that after this weekend (he had a wedding Saturday) that I think we're through with extras for a while. I tried to make it fun for the kids because while it is hard on me, it is also really hard on them. Jaggar doesn't even understand. He didn't mind until Travis came home for that one day and then had to leave again the next morning. Jaggar kept saying that night before Travis left again, "Can I sit wif you, Daddy? You don't go to work tomorrow. It's raining. You have to stay here." So sweet. And Sage ALWAYS has a hard time when he's gone. But he's back and we are trying to regain strength after it all. :) So here's a few pics of our time.
I'm not even sure when EXACTLY this was. I know it was when Travis was at Bonaroo. Sage needed new paint, and I wanted to introduce Jaggar to painting. They loved it, of course, and Jaggar did pretty well. Crayola washable paint is the best. It literally just wipes off of anything.
The next week (last week) was VBS at Golden Springs Baptist church. Sage looks forward to this EVERY year. They truly do an amazing job, and I am so glad to send her there. She comes home talking about God and singing songs. I even found her one morning reading her Bible on the steps. I'm loving anything that encourages that. Their theme was amazing wonders aviation (the theme of pretty much every vbs across the country this summer--same program from Lifeway, and that's cool), so they had a plane and parachutes all in the sanctuary.
The only bad part is that Jaggar wasn't old enough to go, and he cried to "stay with Sage" every morning that we dropped her off. He even tried to swipe other kids' name tags off the table, thinking that was his ticket to get to stay in the line. They were kind enough to give him a blank one because they thought he just wanted a name tag. He put it on and ran to get back in the line. It was as I thought. :)
As usual, we went back on family night on the last night where each grade performed a song that they'd learned. After that, they went to the "redemption center" in the gym where they spent their tickets that they'd earned for the week and picked up all the goodies they'd made at their classrooms. They really do so much with them. Sage was so proud of this candy airplane that she made, and she wanted me to pin this on pinterest. :)
She also made this and another similar magnet out of bottle caps.
In between the two shoots, I asked Travis to go Walmart and pick up a "baby pool" that I saw that I thought would be fun for the kids, since, as usual, our pool is still green. Um...btw, in case you're wondering, baby pools are crazy expensive these days. It didn't have a price on there, so I thought I was being generous in my assumption that it was probably around $25. It was $35! I'm sorry, but is plastic REALLY that much? They do have a blast in it. They usually have a routine of crying/complaining/fighting for the first 30 minutes or so depending on if it's fresh water from the hose (then it's too cold) or if we left water in there (then it's too dirty), but after that, they have a blast. So we did that pretty much every afternoon. Jaggar, in particular, loves it.
So while they were swimming, I'd open up all the blinds in the kitchen so that I could see and I'd cook dinner for them to eat outside. This worked out great each night. They were hungry from swimming, and my kitchen wasn't destroyed as they ate dinner in it. I thought this was a cute picture.
Jaggar is in full Christmas mode around here and has been that way for weeks. You know he loves his Rudolph toys, and they go up and downstairs, depending on where he is, all day long. And they are strategically set up where he's at. My new favorite thing that he's doing is when one will fall over that he's trying to sit up. He will pick it up, put it in his near his face so that he and the toy are eye to eye and scream, "YOU SIT THERE!" or "STOP IT!" Because that toy is deliberately defying him. It is hysterical, only not to him. He is serious.
This guy also has a new big boy bed, which I need to chronicle but I want his room perfectly clean before I take pics. With Travis being gone, I've just been trying to make it, so maybe this week I can get that done. He also got a new bookcase for his room, and here he is IN that.
Moving along, this past Saturday, the kids were invited to two birthday parties: Paisley and Kylie. Paisley's party was at the church, and they had a blast playing in the bounce houses and running through the gym. Kylie's party was a pool party, and since Travis was gone for the day AGAIN, my mother-in-law was gracious enough to take Sage for me because I really didn't think I could handle Jaggar in a big pool by myself. Jaggar and I went after he and I BOTH took naps. Here they are with Paisley.
And last but not least, Jaggar graduated to a new pair of glasses. :) Only it was very short lived because they are broken already, so it's back to old faithfuls, but he sure was cute for a picture. Notice that they are upside down. Phew! I think we are current now, minus Father's Day, but that was just yesterday! That's next.
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