A Little of This and That

Whew, what a week. We spent Monday afternoon and Tuesday in Pigeon Forge with friends who also have two boys. There was time spent at the aquarium, eating pizza and ice cream, swimming, going to Wonderworks and a magic show. Riley thoroughly enjoyed the magic show and proclaimed "that was so so cool" and she is "going to be a Tinkerbell" (the magician assistant) when she grows up.

On Wednesday, Calen found out he got a huge part in the spring play at church. It isn't the role he auditioned for, but it is bigger none the less. He is playing the role of the Carpenter- Jesus! He was upset at first, but after talking with him and assuring him that this was because they knew he could do a larger part, not because he wasn't good enough for the other role, he is now very excited.

Jax has been very adorable. He had a scoop of vanilla ice cream with rainbow sprinkles. After taking a couple bites, he put his head in his hand and said, "I don't like the taste of the purple sprinkles." Who knew they had a flavor? He also spent several minutes curled up in my lap while we talked about fruits and vegetables that he liked. It was such a sweet time as he doesn't cuddle unless he is really sick. He also had a very big boy moment. Yesterday, he came upstairs and asked, "I won't get a spanking if I tell you truth will I?" I told him no. He then confessed that he had hit his sister because she had pulled the tags off his pillow. Since he was honest and turned himself in without Riley having to tell on him, he was punished by spending three minutes on the stairs in time-out. Then he had to go apologize to Riley.

We found out on Thursday that an elderly lady a few houses down the road from us went missing the morning before. Sweet Riley, when she heard, went to the window and pulled the blinds open facing the road so she could watch and "see if the lady walked up the road." Calen, the old soul, was very concerned about her well-being, even asking if she could have walked to the other property we own and if we should go there to search for her. Thankfully, she was found this afternoon, asleep in a pine thicket behind our neighborhood.

Calen has been playing on an indoor soccer team for the past several weeks. A few weeks ago the boys went up against two traveling soccer teams and won. A coach from our town's traveling soccer team made a comment that he would love to have that entire team play for their in their traveling league. We didn't think much of it since it was a passing comment and you have to try out to make the team and we know several good players that haven't made the cut in the past. Well, it has been mentioned again, as tonight, another parent asked Danny if we would let Calen play. Decisions, decisions. We have said repeatedly, that at least two Lewis' have to be on the same team before we would do a traveling team. It is lot of money and time, and we don't feel it is fair to the family as a whole. That being said, I foresee some serious discussions in our future.