This past weekend we met up with family from my mom's side at the Wisconsin Dells. It was a blast getting to meet my cousin Amanda's baby Jade (born two days before Colton) and for Summer to play with my cousin Alison's two kids, Rowan and Cruz. I had so much fun catching up with my cousins as well! Here are a few pictures....(thank you to my mom and grandma for sharing them with me!)
Summer got to sleep in the special baby bear bed!
Gee-Gee (Great-Grandma Obermayer) got to meet Colton!
Gee-Gee rocked Colton to sleep at one of our dinners
Colton took a bath in the sink!
Summer taking her bath
My mom and my Aunt Nancy with Colton and Jade...born two days apart!
My cousin Alison and I with our two kids, Summer and Cruz. Cruz is 4 months older than Summer.
Teaching Summer how to swim
Mommy, Daddy, and Summer
Gee-Gee with her 5 great-grandkids: Rowan (almost 4), Cruz (2), Summer (almost 2), Jade (2.5 months), and Colton (2.5 months)
The gang (minus my Uncle Gary, Aunt Karol, and cousin Kendall, who couldn't make it this year)
At Hosanna, a nearby church, they have "mini" Vacation Bible School for kids 10-33 months old. Mommy's stay with their kiddos during the morning. Summer and I went last year, and were excited to go back this year along with 4 of Summer's friends, Addison, Adry, Sydney, and Lily! The kids start with 20 minutes of song and story time in a big room with all the "big kids" and then go back to a different room with lots of fun "stations" with things to do such as a water station, sand station, play kitchen, car station, musical instrument station, slides, book station, snack table, several craft tables, etc.
When Summer and I first talked about going to VBS, she kept mentioning "listen eye, listen eye". I finally realized that she thought we were going to CVS (The Pharmacy around here that has a minute clinic....we went there a month and a half ago when Summer had pink eye, and the doctor 'listened' to her eye!) That girl has quite the memory!
Because VBS was over Colton's morning nap, Grandma came and stayed with Colton while Mommy and Summer had a little date. Today, Grandma took Summer to VBS while Mommy stayed with Colton! Here are a few pictures of our week.....
On Monday Summer ate cereal with milk for the first time like Mommy does! (She normally eats cereal with her fingers and drinks the milk separately!)
Grandma and Summer
The water table
Shopping
Climbing
Slide
Reading....Summer LOVED the kid sized couch!
Cooking
Feeding Baby
Snack time!
Here is Summer's version of what she did at VBS....
While Summer has used the term "scared" for the past few months to refer to how she is feeling about a tornado siren or a sprinkler, last night was the first time her fear was really hard on her Mommy's heart. When we put Summer to bed, we didn't realize there was a fly in her room. When we heard her crying, we went in her room and she told us there was a "buggy" in her room. Unfortunately, there were two flies in her room and she saw another one a bit later. Even though we put that one in the trash as well, she kept waking up thinking there were more "buggies" in her room. She thought the nail hole in her window sill was a buggie, she thought the shadow on the ceiling of the fan pull when it wiggled in the breeze of the fan was a buggie, she thought the dots on her blankie were buggies....poor thing! Each time we would go into her room she would be hiding under her blankie crying. After we would tuck her in again, she would be talking to herself saying "buggie all gone. Mommy and Daddy threw it away", trying to reassure herself they were all gone. OUCH--my heart hurt so badly for her wanting to take away her fear. To top it off, we had one of our BIGGEST thunderstorms of the spring last night, so thunder was banging outside making it even worse, and a power outage made her nightlight, fan, and music turn off. What a little sweetie though. She just wanted to be held. I laid in bed with her for quite a while and we talked about the rain "giving the grass a drink of water" and that thunder "was when the clouds were bumping into each other". Over and over we talked about what was outside, and what we were going to do the next day, and that all the buggies were gone. While it was a night of little to no sleep for me, for some odd reason I will actually cherish last night....it was actually a really special time for the two of us, as we chatted away all cuddled up with the lightning flashing outside. It was the first time I experienced fear in my child and wanting to do everything to comfort her....I wonder if that is how God feels when we are scared. Sometimes it is so hard to trust Him that he has the "buggies" under control.....
**When I am afraid, I put my trust in you. Psalm 56:3**
