Raising Schuurmans: 2 Weekends of Fun

Sorry for the delay (again) but... well, you know...life is busy with two small boys. Anyhow, here's the recap of our past two weekends of fun with these two fun fellas.
Seth and Rebecca Denton are very good friends of ours and Seth was in our wedding. 3 years ago he was diagnosed with lymphoma but praise God he has been cancer free for 2 years since completing all his chemo. Two Saturdays ago we drove to Mt. Holly for a fundraiser for the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society where Mark played in a corn-hole tournament. Their cancer team was called the "Chemo-Saab-ees" and everyone there had a lot of fun. Marcus played with the Denton boys (Luke and Benjamin) as well as the other children there. Titus enjoyed being snuggled by both Seth's and Rebecca's mothers. They are SWEET and genuinely SOUTHERN people. They have an even stronger accent than mine (hard to believe, huh?). :)
All during the week we studied the letter C, but it's tricky because we only studied words with the hard c sound like cat, cow, camera, computer, etc. C as in cinnamon and ch as in chicken will be a whole separate lesson. Our "field trip" however was to Chick-Fil-A because they have a cow mascot. Hey, some field trips are more elaborate than others. But since we went on Wednesday, our whole family went, Mark included, and that always makes it more special for Marcus.
This past Friday two things happened. We PRAISE GOD because Mark's wrist has been healed enough for him to play golf and throw a baseball again!!! The current medicine is working but we all know it's God and God alone who allows all this, so we're extremely thankful that he's feeling so well. Mark played golf with fellow UNCA Alumni most of the afternoon Friday while our very dear friends, Matt and Mary Clark Hauser came into town with their precious baby girl Madison. She's definitely not a baby since she turned 2 the week before. We LOVE them and have such a fun time when they come to town. And oh how Marcus loves her. We told Madison that she can choose either Schuurman boy as her husband one day, as long as she chooses one of them. We'd LOVE to be in-laws with the Hausers. ;)
On Saturday they went to a cousin's birthday party while I took the boys to UNCA to see Mark play in the alumni game. Unfortunately, it was more lame than ever and it was just a glorified scrimmage where it was coach pitch and they had bp (batting practice). It was still fun for Mark to get those juices going again and even more fun when everyone left becasue Marcus go to go out there. He ran the bases, played catch with Mark, and even got on the mound to pitch. It was SO CUTE! Coach Smith even gave him a real UNCA hat and it's SUPER nice. We ended the day back home with our beloved Hausers before watching the children play and enjoying each other's company. It was another great weekend in the South.

Marcus and Benjamin playing catch.

Mrs. Denton (Seth's mom) and Titus.

This was held at a survivor's home and was super nice.

Now playing catch with Daddy.

Practice round.

This trike was a real point of contention between Marcus & another child.

Mrs. Henderson (Rebecca's mom) enjoyed holding Titus as he slept.

Marcus & Benjamin "sword fighting."

Mr. Denton & Mark

Sweet Baby Titus

We thought a 4T would fit...nope.

Reading before bedtime.

This little fella is rolling and holding his head up like a champ nowadays.

Painting a pumpkin given to him by our neighbor, Lucinda.

Perma-Smile

The Cow train lead by "Cowboy C"

Seriously adorable for sure

So sweet

Sweet little redneck

This cracked us up!

He did so well putting the lower case lettered cars into the correct upper case lettered parking spots.

You can't see it in the picture but he was driving the lettered cars on the corresponding lettered path, led by stickers with the letters written on them. Clever little fella.