Artists, Soccer, and a Non-Moving Day

We've had a pretty nice week.  Paige is still happy to be back to school.  We get lots of cute work sent home each day.  While she's gone, the other two have done lots of coloring.

Neely drew a rocket ship "bwasting off".   

Great Grama even joined in.

Saturday Cason had his first soccer game.  He did such a good job, hustling just like at practice.  He looked kind of upset/angry half the time though.  He did fall and get trampled once, so I'm sure that was part of it, but later he told me it was because the other team scored.  Ha!  Apparently he's got a competitive side.

 

He scored at least three goals that I know of.

We had a couple of hours before Paige's game, so she and I had a Starbucks date.  She got a chocolate milk, and I got a decaf pumpkin spice latte, which happily tastes exactly like the regular version.

Then we went home to get ready for her game.  Right before it started the ref informed us she'd have to take her earrings out.  She was freaked out.  She's not supposed to leave them out for a full six months, and she was also scared because at the six week mark we changed her earrings and it was a traumatic experience.  The new ones had shorter posts and a few days later I saw blood on her ear.  She told me it had been hurting for a couple of days, but she hadn't wanted to tell me.  We realized the posts were too short for her ears, and one of the earrings looked almost embedded in the back of her ear, and it was all red and puffy.  :(  It was a hard day of convincing her to let us get them out, clean them, and finally later that night, after lots of tears and a bit of yelling, we got the old pair back in.  Her ears look good again, but she thinks changing her earrings will always be that awful.  So she says she would rather never play soccer again than take her earrings out.  :/

So, her career may be over.  

We were supposed to be in our house this weekend.  The renters asked for an extra day, which we said was okay, since we still had Monday(Labor Day) to move.  So Monday rolls around, and our storage unit is closed for the holiday.  :(  You use a keypad to get in, it's not like they have to be there, but they had it set so the gates wouldn't open.  Lame.  Or I thought so at first.  THEN I realized we could just use the day for painting.  I figured our helpers would bail since we couldn't even move, but instead Chris, Sarah, and Uncle Tim all helped paint!  Not JUST paint, but paint popcorn ceilings.  Sarah painted the baby's room grey for me too! 

It look so good, and the ceilings looks SO much better and cleaner now.  They are awesome, and so is Grama, who watched our kids all day long, with only a few popins from me to check on everyone. 

We're having some carpet put in hopefully on Friday too!  I can't wait.  

Also, 5 weeks left, I was 35 weeks on Sunday.