The Crowd

(This post will only be meaningful to those of you knew my Papou, Marcus Stephanides.)

The other day, while we were leaving swim lessons, we passed by a cemetery and Zach asked what it was.  I told him it was a place where people who had died were buried and that loved ones then put a stone above the spot to remember them.  This led to the question of how a body could be buried but also go to heaven.  So I tried to explain that our bodies stayed here but our spirits went to heaven.  So he asked where Papou was?  I said that his body was buried at a cemetery in town but that his spirit was in heaven.  "Can we go see it?", was his immediate reply.

So...we went to the cemetery.

Papou's burial site is in a large cemetery but his particular spot is very isolated by the water.  Most of the sites are very close together but I guess when my grandfather bought his they had opened up a 'new' area and he is one of the first buried there.  So Zach, Eli and I went to see the spot where he was buried and I read the tombstone to them.  Zach accepted all of this as very matter-of-fact and we loaded back into the van to leave.  As we left the isolated sectioned and drove through the very full part, Zach asked,

"Why was Papou buried outside the crowd?"

Little League

  Little League started on April 14th with a parade.  Zach is loving the whole experience!  He wears a big grin on his face the whole way around the bases.

 

At bat

Running to third.

On third base.

Taking the field

While Zach is playing in the real game, Eli has his own pretend game going on the sidelines.  

Every game he asks if he can play today?

32 weeks....and counting

On Easter Sunday I was 32 weeks pregnant.

Easter

Goodbye Hall Drive

 At the beginning of this month we sold our first home!  Looking back I'm not sure how all of the packing and organizing happened while still functioning as a family, but it did and I am glad it is behind us.  Thankfully the weather was beautiful for the month of March and the boys were able to be outside all day while I packed inside.

After we moved out and before settlement, we took the boys back to the empty house to say "goodbye" because Zach was expressing some confusion as to why we couldn't go back there.  He helped us go through the house and pick out a few last minute bits we 'forgot' (such as a washcloth, baby spoon, garden shovel, plastic bags and other treasures).  Zach collected all the items and then said, "Goodbye Hall Dr!"  He hasn't expressed any anxiety about leaving the house since then.

We are currently living with my parents while we look for our next home and await the 8 weeks left until the baby is born.

In the midst of packing we managed to have a picnic lunch!

This was taken at 27 weeks pregnant.