Ginny's Choir Good-byes

The other night as I was finishing Sanctuary Choir practice, Sharon brought Ginny to say goodbye to me.  However, after she finished that, she wasn't satisfied with just saying goodbye to me, she had to go around to every individual choir member who stayed for prayer time and give each one of them a hug, each individual person.  It was a very cute moment, so I quickly grabbed my phone to shoot video of the last half of her rounds.

Lake Norman Fun & Fishing Outing

 Nathan's been a busy young man his past week.  He got to go along with Mommy to an end of year school party at Lake Norman, where he got to ride a jet-ski for the first time.  And yesterday, the little guy and I went with the church RA group to Tommy & Phyllis Caldwell's pond for some fishing.

One of the two turtles Chris caught

Double catfish!

End of School Fun

As the school year comes to a close, Nathan has had some opportunities for some fun activities. Recently, his class took a field trip to Tweetsie Railroad.  This especially warm spring has also given us much opportunities for just hanging around outside and trips to the park for the whole family.

Nathan "in jail"

Sharon also got to go on the "field trip"

GInny "helps" Dad fix his new bike

New splash pad at Hope Park

Nathan buys a vintage Transformer from the Comic book convention

Monkey see, Monkey do.

Happy Happy

Ginny has a new little fixation.  It's cute, but she can be a bit bossy about it.  I figured she may enjoy watching some old home movies of Nathan, so I started letting her watch the digital ones I had in my hard drive on the computer recently.  Her favorites are the ones where Nathan or his cousins are having birthday parties and we sing the birthday song.  She will attempt to sing along, pretty much just singing "happy" over and over.  When the video is over, she will angrily call out "Happy Happy!" until we find another.  So, today I made a little compilation which I uploaded to YouTube and here so I can have quick access to them so to avoid the wrath of "Happy Happy!" demands.  Here's the little compilation:

Woops....

Ginny decided she wanted to try to give herself a haircut today.  Fortunately she only got one cut before we realized what she was doing.  Still, she's got a good swipe in....

All smiles

Ginny enjoys the slide at McDonald's.

Berry Good Weekend

This weekend was a great one.  Saturday the little guy and I started it out with Free Comic Book Day in Salisbury, and later the rest of the family went picking strawberries at a nearby farm.  That night, I made my first ever strawberry pie.  I haven't tried it yet, but there's a missing piece where Sharon did, so I'm waiting to hear the verdict.  This morning, for Mother's Day, Ginny participated in her first ever preschool choir performance, and despite what we thought she'd end up doing (crying, leaving the stage, wandering around, waving or calling out our names), she actually made a valiant attempt at singing and dancing along with the music, and was well-behaved.  And finally this afternoon, we met my mom and dad in Shelby for dinner at a nice Japanese restaurant and ice cream afterwards.  Sharon's mom is in the hospital and she got to visit her there over the weekend a few times, which made Mother's Day a bit different, but for our first Mother's Day weekend with Ginny, it was a good one.