William visit Day 14

 Oh oh, I have to catch up with 2 days now. 

Saturday

William could not sleep last night. He just could not make his brain stop working. Early in the morning he came into our bedroom and said he doesn't think he had slept at all. But of course he had since he didn't remember that I had checked on him. And then he fell asleep in our bed. 

So, we let him sleep and I went to the church for the St. Martin's project by myself. James and I volunteered several years ago to help make sandwiches/bags when it is our group's turn. William actually looked forward to it. He had said he likes to help to do something for God. Turns out that he woke up not too long after I had left. But waking up naturally is always a good thing. He and James did some errands.

I had to do one too but can't remember what else we did before lunch. Except one of us suddenly noticed that we had butterfly # 3. It seems that the hatching doesn't take that long because we had checked just shortly before. 

After lunch we decided we had to let it go. We were leaving for a while and thought it wasn't fair just to leave it when it would soon be ready to fly. 

This one was a lively one. I couldn't catch it easily in the house so we carried the whole thing out. William was the photographer with my phone.

Butterfly # 3 out-smarted us, slipped out, fluttered away and landed on top of our neighbors' sun-umbrella.

This weekend was a bit complicated. Sarah and Wade were celebrating their 10th wedding anniversary and had gone away for a long weekend. The cousins 'other grandparents' were staying at their house during this time. They are leaving again on Sunday and taking Caleb with them for the week because he will attend a horse camp there. This means that William and Caleb will not see each other for who knows how long.

So we arranged to pick Caleb up for a sleep-over. Both were so excited. Here just a few things they did to occupy themselves. 

The dominos had to be experimented with since they just had experienced the cereal box domino run.

William 'borrowed' my phone (camera) und did all sorts of slow-mo videos. It was rather cute.

We ended up playing several real games though. Much fun.

Of course there were other games to play too.

Around 5 pm we checked and it was not so very hot outside any longer. We decided to all take a walk in the neighborhood together. 

And what did Caleb discover this time? A broken birds' egg followed by a cicada around the corner!

We did not get very far though. The sky started to get darker and darker. And then ... can you see the first very large drops of rain?

Oh well, back to the house. William wanted Caleb to learn his new game. Caleb liked it as much. He has the same problem holding the many cards towards the last rounds.

The boys were very good going to bed. Yes, another great day.