busy week and weekend.

Last Monday(Memorial Day) I took the kids to the pool for the first time of the season. Xavier had a great time after he took some time getting used to the water.  Derrick got bored after about 30 minutes because there wasn’t anyone to play with, all his friends were out of town for the long weekend.  Here are a couple picture of Xavier -

Derrick had his orthodontist appointment on Wednesday. What was supposed to be 30 minute consultation turned into an hour and a half!  It turns out Master Derrick still has 12 baby teeth. The majority of those are molars so he won’t be getting a full set of braces anytime soon. If he had only 4-6 teeth that were baby then they would just pull them but they won’t pull 12, which Derrick is thankful for.

So I will be talking to Geno and probably be scheduling a 4×2 treatment. Since his front 8 teeth (the top 4 for sure) are the problem right now they will just put 8 brackets (4 on top and 4 on bottom) and straighten out the front. Then hopefully, once those are straightened the rest of the teeth will come in the way they are supposed to be and he won’t need a full set.

The rest of the week was pretty uneventful - then the weekend came. Friday night Derrick spent the night at his friend Austin’s house.  He had a soccer game on Saturday and Saturday was the Manna in Motion 5k - yup it was this weekend.  My co-worker/friend Sharon came over bright and early at 7a and accompanied Xavier and I to Southern Pines for the event.  There were quite a few people - I’m not sure about the exact number but 160 people had preregistered and there were quite a few that showed up and registered there.  I did the 5k(3.1 miles) in 30:19 (30:31 was the OFFICIAL time but I made a note when I went through the timer lane).  I wanted to do it under 30 minutes but Southern Pines is NOT a flat area. There were MANY hills so I’m proud of my time - especially when I’ve only been training for a month.  I had some pictures but they were horrible so I’ve chosen one from after the race. It’s still not the best but as you can see Xavier was happy to see me.

Xavier also chose this day, at this particular time to decide to start potty training. He came up to me and said “Mommy, I potty” so off we went to the portapotty.  He was a little leary of the portapotty but after a try or two I was able to convince him to sit and go - AND HE DID!!!  Since then he’s come up to me about a half-dozen times and stated he’s had to go and 50% of that he has. The other 50% he just wanted to use toilet paper :-)  I had him in big boy pants for a couple hours today but he soon decided he didn’t want to wear them and wanted a diaper, but it’s a start.

Turned out Derrick’s team won their game 2-0.  Derrick didn’t score any points but he said that a player on the other team scored one for them…poor kid!

I took the boys to get their hair cut and Xavier was such a big boy.  Here are a few pictures of that…

Before

During

After

Today we just went to church and hung out at the house.  Laundry is slowly getting done - not exciting but necessary…

I hope everyone had a great weekend and thank you to all those who wished me luck with the marathon and called to pat me on the back afterwards!