A Weekend Review

This weekend Jason went spelunking on a research trip with his lab professor and lab group. They were looking to collect some bat parasites for research but wound up having fun and not capturing anything due to a bat fungus.

While he was a way:
Abygail had her first hair cutand re-potted the cherry tree, which was in dire need of it.
Considering this was my first time with the kids all by myself for 2 days and the first time Jackson has been away from daddy for a few days, I think we did pretty well.

I prepped Aby before hand so she knew daddy would be gone for a few days and that he would be back after church on Sunday. She kept saying "Daddy be back in few days". She did really well until after church on Sunday. Then she was pretty much upset until he got home.

This morning Jackson started saying "bye, bye" while waving. This video isn't his best but it shows his shy 'bye, bye wave'.

Pacifiers And Cherry Trees

Yesterday afternoon I could not find Abygail's pacifier for her nap time. She always sleeps with it and if she doesn't have it we have to wait until we can find it. Well, I LOOKED EVERYWHERE and could not find it so I made her take a nap anyway (mean mommy). She finally cried herself to sleep. Last night we went on the search for the 'paci', as we call it, again. Neither Jason nor I could find it so, she had to cry it out again. She woke up several times through out the night waling for it and there was nothing we could do except go and get a new one, which we refuse to do. This morning she woke up screaming for it and we were finally able to calm her down enough to get here to start the day and she was happy after that. Well, it's nap time again and now it's a mission. We've gone 1 whole day with out it and there is NO WAY I'm going to turn my back on that progress and give it to her now (even if it does ever reveal it's hiding place). So, we probably have another day and a half of hardcore sleep tantrums but, it's all or nothing now. Thank goodness for the weekend.

On another note, our cherry tree has been blossoming for the last month and it is so fun to watch and to see how big it's gotten! I gave Jason a cherry tree for Valentine's day this last year. It's a tree that will grow indoors and after a few years it should start producing edible cherries, YUM! When it arrived in the mail in March (it was too cold in February for it to ship) it was the size of my thumb (that's leaves and all). Now look at it, almost 2 feet tall. (it looks a bit sickly right now because it needs water - I just watered it)