Spring Break 2011-Part 2

Hard to believe it has already been a week and a half since my mom and Bev were here. We've had a lot of stuff going on lately. Even though we don't have anyone out on the water, we have a ton of work to do in prep for stuff coming up. The Lord has answered our prayers already by giving our summer calendar a little more color (highlighted dates=trips in my planner) than last summer. And we're still praying!

A verse came to me yesterday morning after I woke up around 5:30am and couldn't go back to sleep because I was thinking about stuff I need to be getting done NOW before next month's big trips. The verse was Philippians 4:6, and it says "Do not be anxious about anything, but in every situation, by prayer and petition, with thanksgiving, present your requests to God." This verse is always on my heart my right. When my heart starts to race and I start thinking how can "I" fix this.... the Lord is good to gently remind me of this! Thank you, Father!! You know I am a stubborn and easily stressed child.

One of the little Joss-isms from the week my mom and sis were here that I don't want to forget is his little beach outing. It was a normal afternoon and we were all getting ready to head down to the beach to get out of the house. Daddy was working, but the rest of us were getting set to go. Well Joss didn't want me to go to the beach. He said, "Mommy, you stay here and work. We go to the beach without you!"

I'll be honest... I don't like it when my little man doesn't want me to tag along. I was trying to get work done, and it was actually a good time for me to make a few calls and respond to some emails, but he still hurt my feelings the way he didn't want me around. I made it clear to him that I didn't appreciate the way he told me to stay behind, but if he didn't want me to go, I wouldn't.

They were only gone about 30 minutes (I only know that because I was on a call that WHOLE time frustrated that it was my only accomplishment). When Joss walked in he came up to me and gave me a hug and said, "I'm sorry I didn't want you to go to the beach, mommy." And gave me a few sweet minutes of loving.

A little later, I made some kind of comment like "I know you guys told him to apologize..." and my mom and Bev both said they hadn't. They told him he hurt my feelings, but that was it. That made me very proud of my little man to know that he knows how to apologize when he's done something to hurt someone. Baby steps...and we'll get there :)

 Dallas was reading bedtime stories to Joss the other night on our bed and Joss started singing a random little song he made up. Dallas said it went a little something like this: "Good night DUCK-EEEEZ, DUMP TRRUUUUUU-CK, MY BOOOOKS, MY PAAAANNNNTS!" Dallas and I both love how he'll just sing silly, crazy, songs whenever! We both inherited that from our childhoods and still do that today.

 Little Man Emit... he LOVES giving High Fives! He'll run you down across the room just saying "figh, figh, figh" and looking at his palm before you put your hand up for it. Then he'll run to the next person in the room to get another one. So.. if you ever meet Emit and want to 'break the ice' just ask him to give you a five!

 Emit also loves making tunnels out of things or pretending we are tunnels (or our legs anyway). He'll come running up to us saying "ton-na, tun-na" until we make a tunnel of some sort with our body or legs for him to crawl under. I'll find he has quit asking sometimes. If I'm standing near he'll just make a "ton-na" of my legs and start weaving in and out of them.

 Emit is my little 'momma's boy' through and through right now. I was in the bathroom brushing my teeth this morning and Dallas was just trying to keep him in his room to give me just a minute to do something/anything without a little man attached somehow and you would have thought it was the end of the world! The doors were open and their room is right next to the bathroom, but he couldn't see/touch me and he was going crazy.

 When I came into his room he did this deep and dramatic sigh, tipped his head up and me and came walking to me like he was about to collapse right there on the spot over the exhaustion of the 'separation'. I squatted down and he crawled into my lap and gave out another deep sigh. Dallas and I were both laughing like crazy over our little Drama Dude!

 As you can see from these photos, the boys had so much fun with their Grammy CC & Aunt Bev. This particular beach day was a blast. The boys were running all over the place playing and jumping (or being jumped over) :) and just having a good ole time.

 I'm sure the boys go through little withdrawals every time my family comes and goes. They go from constant love, attention and playtime to....well, the same thing, but it is different when it is just mommy and daddy.

 CC got him on this one above... he didn't even see it coming :)

 Bev was jumping over him for the longest of times, and he was loving it!!!

 This is about the space Emit likes to give me when we're out and about. I might get a couple more inches here and there...but he usually comes right back wanting to sit in my 'WHAP' (lap). It is sweet, and I love this little man to pieces!!

I have more stories, more photos, and more of our life to share, but once again, I've gone on long enough for one post :)

 Thank you for sharing this all with us....

As I mentioned before, there are more photos from this week on my FB page if you want to seem some there too!