Last Week & Mother's Day

The weather was so nice last week, and we're finally getting the rainy days that May is supposed to bring now. Lila & I decided to walk to dance class on Tuesday. Or I walked, she rode. My sweet little dancer. Hard to believe this stroller is almost 10 years old. I've only about given it away 6 times already, but yet it's still here and still in use for a few more months. 

Scott took Lila to Solar Day in Charleston on Friday. Solar Day is like a field day for the 3rd & 5th graders at Hearnes Elementary (the only elementary school in C-town) and is held in my grandparent's, now Hamil & Sarah's, yard. My parents both speak about their respective areas of expertise, pond life and snakes, and there are many other outdoor experts as well. It was held for the first time when I was in 3rd grade, so it was kind of neat to think about that now that I have my own 3rd grader.

Since Nate & I were on our own, we went out to dinner at Bread Co. While we were there, he nonchalantly told me he was the only one in his class to pass his multiplication challenge LAST WEEK, and therefore he was the only one to move up this Friday. And he passed this week's challenge too, making him the only one in the class that has the chance of passing all of the challenges before school is out. He said his teacher and the whole class clapped for him.

Now, why it took him a week to tell me about last week's good news, or a full 2 hours of being together on Friday afternoon to tell me his class CLAPPED FOR HIM, I'll never know. Boys. You gotta drag it out of them.

So we promptly went to celebrate over at Orange Leaf for frozen yogurt after we finished up dinner.

I'll pause to say we had a very special visitor at our house over the weekend. Sadly, I didn't get take any pictures of her! Miss Jane Ellis came to visit and we were all so very glad to see her. The kids absolutely adore her and well, ya know, I do too. Miss her already.

My sweet boy and me on Mother's Day morning. The other yahoo was not in the picture taking mood.

As evident here. But I still love her and her scowl.

Happy Mother's Day to all the moms out there. I am blessed to have a wonderful mother and as well as a wonderful bonus mother in my mother-in-law!