This past weekend, Matthew, Philip and I drove up to Monroe, NC to visit some long time friends. Steve (our former youth pastor), Tracy, Vassar and Mathis have been our friends for about 7 years and we even kept the boys for a weekend several years ago. They just moved to the Charlotte area a year ago so I had been wanting to see their house and visit their church and a weekend finally arrived in which we could go.
We arrived Friday night at 8:30pm and Philip was somewhat shy and clung to Matthew for a while. That quickly passed as he realized how cool the boys' toys were. Vassar (age 10) and Mathis (age 7) were more than happy to show Philip how the remote control cars worked. Saturday morning, we enjoyed going to Mathis' Upward basketball game, breakfast at Bojangles, and then Vassar's Upward basketball game. It was funny watching Philip watching the games as he cheered, "Go boys!" He doesn't have the whole pronunciation down yet so he says, "back-et-ball." Cute.
The rest of the day was spent going for lunch (a yummy, Mexican restaurant), hanging out around the house (Philip took a good nap on his travel airmattress which he slept well on on weekend), eating great homemade chili for dinner, putting Philip to bed (Mathis read him before bed books; it was amazing watching a new reader sound out the words and even funnier when Philip would shout out the word if Mathis couldn't figure it out! Guess we're doing a good job reading to Philip!) and then watching "Facing The Giants" before going to bed at 10:30pm.
Sunday morning came early as we would be attending Sunday School with Tracy at 8:00am and service at 9:30am. I told her we could do whatever they normally do. I'm somewhat glad that's not our schedule every Sunday! Their church, First Baptist Indian Trail, is awesome and big. The people I spoke with were all so friendly but being new, I felt pretty lost the whole time. We dropped Philip off at 8:10am in his nursery class and for the next few hours, I really couldn't have told you where he was. He did look a little worn out when we picked him up at 10:45am (red, splotchy face), but after getting back to Steve and Tracy's house, he was back to his normal self. He and Matthew had fun walking around the yard with the boys and Philip learned how to climb on a rock pile and get dirty!
We left at 2:00pm as Steve was really busy and had to get back to church to begin preparations for his Junior High Superbowl fellowship. It was awesome seeing them again and so great having friends who you can pick right back up with after not having seen for some time. We'll definitely have to visit again sometime.
Switching gears... after arriving home, we headed over to our current youth pastor Jason's house as his wife and my friend Julie had invited us to watch the Superbowl. It was a good time, but I didn't get to watch much of the game or my favorite part: commercials (the ones I saw, weren't that impressive). My mind was too much on keeping up with Philip and his "girl" part of the weekend. Jason and Julie's house is just the opposite of Steve and Tracy's as they are parents to Sara Beth (age 7) and Brittany (age 5). I didn't think to bring toys for Philip so he made himself at home playing Barbie (a.k.a. lots of tiny pieces; Barbie shoes had to go on top of the dresser), baby dolls, and tea party. I wish I had brought my camera as he came running into the livingroom with a flowery headband pushed back on his head and blonde hair sticking every which way. Again, cute!
We had a great weekend with both sets of friends and I'm glad to know my son is so adaptable.
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Glad you had a fun weekend. I can't believe that Vassar and Mathis are 10 and 7 years old. How's that for making you feel old?
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