Wonderful Weekend

 

What a great weekend! We thought it was going to rain on Saturday, but it turned out to be beautiful so Ben and I went to watch hurling. Unfortunately Ben napped through Heath's game, but his team won so that was awesome! Here's hoping he's on a winning team this year (or at least not last place!). We spent the afternoon playing outside and after dinner we walked to the local ice cream shop. I love that we can walk places!

On Sunday we had no specific plans. Heath's parents' church is near our house, so they visit most Sunday afternoons. Nancy brought us an Easter basket and some delicious cupcakes and we had an Easter egg hunt for Ben in the backyard. It was fun, though Ben got distracted by each egg he found and was then reluctant to keep searching. He had an egg to fully explore, why would he want to find more?

We decided to have an impromptu barbecue so I headed to the grocery store for supplies. When I found that it was closed I had to think fast. What would be open? Whole Foods, the atheists' market! :) And they would definitely have Boca Burgers for Nancy, Don and Todd. So we had our barbecue and It Was Good.

Uncle Todd juggling eggs

Found it!

Licking violets 

(because he's a toddler, that's why)

Grandma's cute bunny cupcakes

Deliciously messy

Ben's first hurling match

Colin & Ben. Colin said that Ben looked, "awesome."

Ben's proud of Daddy even if his team loses.

Double Trouble

Wednesday night I watched Colin while Beth, Pat and Heath were at hurling practice. We've babysat Colin many times, but this was the first time I had two kids by myself. Since Colin's almost three and pretty independent, it was fairly easy. For example, when I asked him to take off his shoes before he got onto the couch he said, "Oh! Yes," as if he was remiss in not thinking of it himself. He was content wandering around Ben's room while I cleaned up Ben's poop explosion and even though he said he wasn't hungry for dinner and wanted to go outside, when I asked him to sit with me while I ate, he ended up eating most of his spaghetti.

There was one moment that had me worried, though. We'd already eaten dinner and then played outside. It was getting dark and cold, so we came back inside to "watch something," as Colin put it. I put disc one of The Weird Al Show into the PS3 because it's about the kid-friendliest thing we own, plus it's AWESOME. In order to do that, I had to take out the Rock Band 2 disc that was already in there. Then I made the mistake of telling Colin the truth when he asked what it was. We often play Rock Band when Colin's around and he loves it. So of course he wanted to play. But it was getting to be time to feed Ben and I didn't feel like moving all the toys to set up the drums, so I said no. This set off a bought of whining. And I don't know if it was because Ben spent all evening watching Colin in awe, or just because he was getting hungry, but Ben started whining at that point, too. I couldn't help but just sit back for a second, smile to myself and think, "This is my future."