Today is the first sunny day we've had in over a week....and there is no rain in the forecast for the upcoming week which marks the first time that has happened since the middle of April. Seriously. After a terribly dry April....it has been a rainy and gloomy and chilly May. Now, I'm a desert rat and LOVE the rain...but even I was waiving the white flag and calling for an end.
April was a very busy month. Jakob...our little somber and serious Jakob...has grown into quite the comedian. The kid is seriously funny and does things on purpose to get a laugh out of the people around him. He can still become somber around large gatherings of people but he makes us laugh so very hard and is already quite a force to be reckoned with.
My parents (Oma and Papa) came in the middle of April. They are coming back in the beginning of June but not seeing the boys from New Years to June was just going to be too long for them...so they came in April too. :) Of course...they checked with us as to what weekends we had open for visitors and that turned out to be only one weekend in the entire month...which just so happened to be the same weekend as the Richmond NASCAR race. Funny how that happens! :)
So they came for a week and we had a blissful time with them! The boys especially loved having people to play with them in the backyard. There was a lot of soccer and a TON of baseball going on during their stay.
Dave adjudicates choral festivals every weekend from April to the beginning of June. So...on a very rainy Friday, Oma and Papa and I took the boys to the Richmond Children's Museum. It was our first time going and the boys absolutely loved it. They're already asking to go back when Oma and Papa return. :) They got to drive cars.....
.....rescue people in an ambulance......
....play dress-up and put on a stage production (my dad took the stage and went into his "Cornelius" character from the musical "Hello Dolly"....a part he played in high school...and started singing. It was impressive!)....
....deposited money at a bank (my mom harkened back to her days as a bank teller and slipped back into the role quite nicely)....
....and fixed a car and changed its tires. It was such a great day!
Jeffery started soccer at the end of March. He was with FC Richmond in their U4 division. The program, which lasted 6 weeks, was more of a soccer clinic with little scrimmages at the end. He loved every minute of it and he is really excited to move up to the U5 division come the fall. He was very excited that Oma and Papa got to come to one of his clinics.
I mentioned that the weekend was the Richmond NASCAR race. Dave and Papa and Jeffery went to the X-Finity race that weekend. It is a shorter race than the Sprint Cup race...and Jeffery was free...so very doable for someone his age. They all had a blast.
And then next day, it was my turn to go to the races with Dave and my dad while Oma stayed home and put the boys down for naps and the such. The boys and I went to the early Mass and then raced home. Dave raced out of church (he actually left before the homily, having gotten the choir through the more difficult chants...and having already been through one Mass that morning) and met my dad and I at the track...and we had a BLAST!!!!!!! It was such a gorgeous day (one of the very few we would have for over a month) and it was fun to be with my two favorite men!
Dave and my dad picked up Buzz & Ned's BBQ (a must if you visit VA) on their way home from the race and we had a lovely dinner outside and then enjoyed a fire in the fire pit afterwards. It was a great day!
Another must if you visit Richmond, is a trip to Bottom's Up Pizza. So, of course, we took Oma and Papa there. We sat outside, right next to the train tracks, and had 4 trains come by while we had our early dinner. The boys were in train heaven!
And then Oma and Papa left. The boys were so sad (the trip home from the airport was just depressing) but Jeffery was buoyed by the fact that they would be returning in short order. To help his understanding of that, we've circled their June arrival date on his calendar in his room and are crossing off days. He and Jakob know that they're coming again.....but they have NO idea why they're coming and when they figure it out....their heads might burst! :) We're taking a combined vacation with them to a very special place that the boys love. It is going to be EPIC.
In fact, this whole summer is going to be EPIC! We have that vacation to look forward to with Oma and Papa, Jeffery turns 5 (how is that even possible?!?!), we have a lot of day trips planned, Jakob turns 3 (again....where is the time going?!?!) and will get his trip on Amtrak with Daddy down to Williamsburg like Jeffery did when he turned 3, and Dave recently surprised me for our anniversary with a future vacation that is already all arranged....one that is just for him and me...and one where Oma and Papa will be coming out again to watch the boys for us while we're gone!!! I can't tell you how excited I am about that! But....details and that story will have to wait for another time. :)
For now, I'm going to go enjoy this beautiful sunny day and hope that the sun sticks around for a little bit. If not....I may have to build an ark. :)
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