Saturday was another busy day. It started with Kevin getting up and pressure washing the front of the house. Our house is now a shade brighter! While he was doing that, I got Jameson up and ready for Ramona’s birthday party. It started at 10, but we were a little late since J-mo slept till 9:30. The party was a painting party, which was a really cute idea. They put paper on the wall and plastic covered the floor, and the kids could go at it. I was a little concerned Jameson would come home wanting to paint the walls, but fortunately he was not that interested. He stole the sidewalk chalk, and carried that around the whole time. Here are a few pics…

   

   

Rams loved it!

   

Jameson stood ON the kitchen. (And fell off once.)

 

And Tom Tom hung out the entire time.

 

We left the party around 11:45, and got home in time to get cleaned up and changed. Then we headed back out the door. Our brother-in-law, Josh, graduated Saturday morning, which we missed, and was having a party. So once cleaned up, we headed to the party to celebrate. Here is the fam and Josh’s friends at the party.

 

Jameson and Meadow started to play together not long before we left. It took a while to warm up to each other, but then they were best friends. She even gave him a little hug before we left, and I’m pretty sure he was trying to push her away, not hug her back.

   

If one fell the other one copied. It was pretty funny.

We got home and changed, again. Since Jameson hadn’t had a nap all day, he fell asleep on the way home. While he slept, Kevin went and picked up sand, while I stapled weed repellent plastic in the bottom of the sandbox. Well, the  wheel barrow we borrowed had a flat tire, and we were told it had a SLOW leek. Wrong! We filled up the wheel barrow and by the time Kevin could wheel it to the back, it was flat. So, I stayed in the back moving the sand around while Kevin pumped up the tire each time, and the neighbors helped shovel sand into the wheel barrow. Then, when the wheel was full, Kevin would run the sand back. It was pretty funny, and very tiring. We were trying to finish by 6 in time to go pick up rock to finish the front yard. Well that didn’t happen, but the sandbox is complete.

   

Here’s my story about the rock for the front yard:

We found out our neighbors we leaving back to Romania. Apparently he was frustrated with his job, and she was on maternity leave, and instead of going back to work, she went back to Romania. He stayed and finished selling stuff in the house. So I asked if they were going to sell their house or what. Nope, they were just going to let it forclose. GREAT! Just what we need in the neighborhood. But since he didn’t care about his house, I asked if I could have the rock they put in their backyard. His answer, “Sure, I don’t care. Take it all.” Works for me.

So I borrowed a friends wheel barrow (this one had a nice wheel on it) last Thursday, and headed over to get my rock. Do you know how heavy a load of rocks is? Then, add your 27 pound kid on top of that?! Jameson luckily slept for most of my loads. After about 11 loads, and all day shoveling, and hauling rock, I was spent. Only half my front yard was done, though, and I don’t have that much dirt to cover. I’m sure the neighbors were wondering what the crap I was doing. Oh well, so needless to say, were just going to buy the rest of the rock, and have it on a trailer, rather than having to haul it down 2 housed and then down another 3.

So Saturday we didn’t finish the sand in time to get my rock, but I did get all the plastic laid and flowers planted in the front. Now all I need is the rest of the rock.

Jameson woke up just as we were finishing. We brought him outside to see his new sandbox and…

   

He hated it! See his face?

   

He was trying to touch the sand as little as possible. He would place his feet on the toys we gave him, and hold his legs above the sand. He kept saying “Yuck,” and wiping it off his feet. We finally gave him a shovel and showed him and he started to come to terms with the sand.

   

Kevin started to dig holes and showed him how to bury his feet. Then he was alright with the sand but still didn’t love it.

 

We moved to the front yard to finish up, and Kevin had the water on. (Some gas was leaked on the lawn, and Kevin was trying to dilute it at much as possible to save the grass. Well, Jameson found the hose.

   

   

He loved the hose, and was soaked. He thought it was hilarious when he stuck his finger in and it sprayed everywhere. Finally, he let dad have a drink.

We finally got inside for dinner about 8 pm. It was a long, busy, but productive day.

P.S. Pretty sure we have a dead patch of grass.