Mondays with Crosby and Jane Claire

At 11:24 am, Crosby Fox turned 4 years and 19 weeks old!!!  At 1:03 pm, Jane Claire turned 1 year and 7 weeks old!!!  Crosby's age hit hard this week.  Almost to the 4 and HALF year point.  Crazy.  Thursday was his last day of school at Otter Creek.  Another year behind us.  Only one left to go.  I must stop here for now and take break or I might drown in a puddle of tears just thinking about that last statement...

Ahhh.  There is this picture that will melt anyone's heart...

I snapped this picture and the one above with my phone.  So the top one may not be the cutest of Jane Claire but it is sweet of them together.  And Crosby looks pretty precious.  Then I got this one of little bit.  Oh my goodness she is such a little doll.  Right?  Her and her new, TINY, size 2 Sea Wee sandals.  Presh.

So we are back to this topic a lot faster than I was hoping.  His last day of school...

Sigh.  Is it just me or does the school year go by faster each year?  It took forever when I was growing up.  Summer was the slowest season to come around.  How is it that time keeps speeding up.  You blink and a year is over.  It is just not fair!!!  I need these little years to drag on a bit.  Sigh.  

Here he is at drop off.  Walking through those red doors one last time...

Headed in to great all of his favorite teachers!

And I say "ALL" because apparently he makes stops along the way to say hello to every teacher!!  Even the ones he has never had!  Too funny.  He is definitely a social butterfly.  My child for sure.  The school had a popsicle party for the kiddos and parents.  Blake was working so I was flying solo.  I didn't any pictures of the actual popsicle part because it was just too hectic with little bit on my hip but I managed to snap a few in his class room.  Jane Claire is still a favorite show and tell object for his classmates.  Most of them just love babies!  Gracie, Addy and Crosby stopped to pose with her.  She looks less than thrilled...

Sitting in his spot on the bench, listening to Mrs. Fisher talk...

Loving on his best little buddy, Sweet Addy...

Little Bit just hanging out on the floor while I attempt to snap pictures...

Crosby and Miss Fisher...

Standing in front of the red doors...

The before and after.  Why do I do these things to myself???

One of Crosby's classmates was sweet to throw a end of school swim party at his house.  So we headed to our very first swim date of the year.  Again, I was solo so I knew it would be interesting with both kiddos. As you can guess, pictures were virtually impossible!!!  But I managed to get a cute one of this little bathing beauty...

And one of the fish swimming away with Gracie!!!  

We were invited to a surprise party on Sunday night and were asked to submit video or pictures for a video that was planned.  That was easy...

He is so funny.  Loves looking at himself in the phone.  Me on the other hand, not so much.  I had to submit  one of myself talking.  That was horrific and has been deleted.  I am pretty sure it took me at least 10 times to take one I was remotely okay with.  And I shot one in just about every angle of every room so I could get just the right lighting to minimize the fine lines and zits I am sporting these days.  What is this I am hearing about the FaceTime facelift???  Hmmm... ;-)

On Saturday I made a trip to Louisville to shower a sweet friend and her baby with lots of love!  My dear friend from OT school, Elizabeth, is expecting her first baby.  A sweet little boy!  It was so fun to see her face when I walked in the door.  Maybe I didn't exactly let her know I was coming!!  ;-)

My OT gals:  Me, Elizabeth (and JMS ;-) ), and Kellie...

Me and Elizabeth...

Meanwhile, Blake was holding down the fort back home.  Or should I say his entire family held the fort down.  It was a rather nutty day.  And Blake got off rather easy!!  ;-) Originally he was off this Saturday.  But that got switched around after I made plans to go to Kentucky.  So, Lulu and GranBuddy came up to watch the kiddos as I was leaving town.  They took Crosby to his soccer game and Blake met them there.  THEN, Blake had a soccer game (which he sort of failed to mention until the last second!!) and the Malones got to keep the kids at Anne Claire's house a little longer!  What would we do with out family!?!  

Crosby had a soccer party scheduled but it was cancelled due to a rain threat.  That allowed me a little more time in Kentucky with Kellie.  I was thinking I had plenty of time to visit because I didn't have to rush home to his party.  Except I forgot about Blake and Crosby's date to the Avett Brother's concert.  Luckily, I just happened to jump in the car when I did because I made it back just in time to meet them in downtown Nashville for dinner!!!  Yikes.  Told you it was a hectic day! How could I forgot the concert?!?  No worries!  We stuffed our bellies at Cori's Dog house (relish) and headed our separate ways.  I got these pictures on my phone throughout the night...

Crosby standing in front of the stage..

Crosby took this picture while sitting on Bake's shoulders!  I cannot believe they were down on the floor!!!

When he took this picture!!  I know Blake looks like he was in pain but he says he wasn't! ;-)

Okay.  Could they be any cuter?!?  Love these boys...

Believe it or not, they stayed for the entire concert!!!  He and Blake got a little tired of standing so they found seats about half way through and enjoyed the rest of the show from their bums.  What a fun and jammed pack Saturday for our crew.  And sweet Jane Claire was just along for the ride all day.  Good thing she is a super easy and flexible baby!!!

Crosby had a makeup soccer game on Sunday afternoon.  The same makeup game I thought he had 2 weeks ago.  Yet, when he an Blake arrived to the fields, they were the only ones out there.  Umm. Yea.  That would be because the game was THIS weekend!!!  And to top that off.  I drove to the Shoemakers so Jane Claire and I could ride with her, we were yacking and missed the exit AND Blake and I got to the garage before we remembered I had driven his car to the Shoemaker's house!!!  Yep.  It was THAT makeup game. Heaven's to Betsy.  Any whoo...  

I didn't get to stay for much of the game because I had a surprise party to attend.  Did I mention the weekend was hectic?  While we were watching the game, I looked over at Jane Claire and noticed this... 

Do you see what I see curling up at the base of her head???  Her hair has curls in it!!!!  Oh my goodness I am so very excited.  I mean, Blake and I have always been the stringy, straight haired type.  Clearly Crosby got those genes.  To see curls on my baby girl's head thrills me.  I mean, I am not imagining this am I?  Those are curls, right?

I hated to leave the game but I had a little Surprise 30th to attend for my sweet friend Kara.  It was a lovely evening with great food, lots of laughs, a few sweet tears, a fun video (including my lovely non FaceTime facelifted, zit face video blown up to about 8 feet on a wall :-/ ) and THESE dear, dear ladies...

Anne Claire, Me, Kara the birthday girl, Heidi, Jenny and Courtney...

Fun times with a great group of gals!  It was so fun to celebrate you Kara!!! :-)

When I got home from dinner and put Jane Claire.  Something was still there...

 From every angle, it looks like a legitimate curl...

 Right?!?

Oh fingers crossed!!!!  I would love for my sweet thing to have a little curl in her hair.  I guess I should stop talking about it and maybe it will actually happen.  Kind of like her eyes.  They still have a tad of green in the center which makes me think the baby blues won't last much longer.  Crosby's did the same thing.  So maybe if I just stop mentioning it, they will stick around.  The curls AND the baby blues. That is how these things work, right?!?