My hard work with Rick paying off

Richard playing at the W.Va Vandalia Festival on Saturday in the Youth Fiddle Contest(15 and under).

Waiting on Baby

Trying to stay busy till the baby gets here. Got up early and got Rick up with me this morning. We sat on the porch and had tea and talked about what makes plants grow back when you cut them and what makes squirrels think something is a nut...
Becca stayed in bead because the pregnancy is getting even more tiring so I just took Rick to church with me.
We got home and had a relaxing few hours and I got some reading in while the children did chores - very nice! Then Helen and I got in a reading lesson before we left again.
We all piled into the family van and went over to a park in Teays valley and met with all of Rick's fellow violin/fiddle students. There was a picnic then a jam session. Sophie got to participate a little with her guitar.
We stopped in the way home at the improvement store to buy stuff for the next house project. I got in a Bible reading with the children while Becca was inside picking out a paint color.
We put everybody to bed and then I have been painting the bedroom

Follow the Boy

Becca left the boys with me while she and the girls ran an errand after I got home from work. Jack wanted desperately to go wandering down the street in search of his mom. I allowed him to go down to the end of our street but made him turn around and come home because I could not leave Rick alone at home. So he was heartbroken and distraught from being made to turn around. Rick came to the rescue with a big sunny smile and a hand full of helicopter seeds from the neighbors' maple trees. We walked up and down the street in front of our house picking up handfuls of helicopter seeds and tossing them in the air and watching them spin slowly back to Earth.
Becca made it home and we all went for a family walk, allowing Jack to lead the way this time to go wherever he wanted, unhindered by interruptions from us. We wandered for a good long while, following his two-year-old whims at each intersection through the neighbor hood streets till we were all finally worn out and trudged back up the hill toward home.