The kids & I were finally to meet our niece/cousin Saylor at the state volleyball tournament in Cedar Rapids. Saylor's Aunt Whitney was playing for my hometown team. It was fun to watch them play and win their first round match. They are WAAAAY better than we ever were in high school!
Lincoln thought it was great and loved clapping and cheering and screaming regardless of what was going on. However, he didn't have a long attention span and spent most of the time crawling over chairs and people. I kind of forgot that Emily doesn't like loud noises and chaos. She spent most of the time cowering in her seat and telling people, "Shhh!" We are obviously not a sports spectator family!
We were cheering really hard for the Comets, because if they won we got to go back to Abbie & Wade's hotel and go swimming! The kids had a great time with Uncle Wade in the water while I hung out with Abbie & Saylor.
The kids liked meeting Saylor, too. Lincoln was VERY intrigued by Saylor's bottle and pacifier. Emily thought it was fun holding Saylor, but spent more time writing notes to Abbie & Wade on the hotel note pad.
I'm so glad it worked out to finally see Saylor after we missed her Labor Day weekend when she took her sweet time arriving into this world! We can't wait to see her again at Thanksgiving! (Oh, and Abbie & Wade, too.)
Emily has become very interested in crafts lately (and I am NOT a very "crafty" person). This has been partially spurred on by the "Make and Do" Child Craft book from my childhood (circa 1986). Today she came across the costume pages. I vividly remember this section because we made the butterfly costumes out of poster board one year for Halloween. She was intent on making the ladybug costume to be like her Happy Napper "ladybug beetle". Unfortunately, the directions called for large pieces of felt, elastic straps and lots of sewing. Not gonna happen with this momma. I encouraged her to try and think of something else she could use. She found a perfect-sized cardboard box, but broke down in tears when I explained that it couldn't be cut into a round shape. After a teary-eyed discussion about round vs. square shells, she finally acquiesced and the project continued. She did a great job decorating the box, and we found some shiny silver curling ribbon to use as straps. In the end she was very happy to wear it and okay with the fact that it didn't look exactly like the picture. She is just like her first-born momma and wants to follow all the directions to make it look exactly like the picture. I'm proud of her for having such a good attitude about it after realizing it wasn't going to happen that way. It took me a LOT longer to reach that point growing up! She is our cute little ladybug no matter what!
The kids & I were finally to meet our niece/cousin Saylor at the state volleyball tournament in Cedar Rapids. Saylor's Aunt Whitney was playing for my hometown team. It was fun to watch them play and win their first round match. They are WAAAAY better than we ever were in high school!
