Wild Weekend, Part 2

If you haven't read Wild Weekend (the previous post), you may want to scroll down and read it first, this is the continuation.

These first pictures are from Saturday morning - I forgot to mention that our day started out with a visit from an examiner for our Life Insurance Policy. Will and i had to answer a billion questions about our health and give blood and urine samples - all without having eaten within 8-10 hours (which for me is a HARD task) and while keeping 3 rowdy children contained and quiet! I finally took them in the living room and we had a pajama photo session!

****Wilson's eye appointment went great (well, he wouldn't say it did - having 4 drops put in each eye, then having blurred vision for half the morning is not his idea of "great") he has "intermittent something" - I can't for the life of me remember the term, but in lay terms, one of his eyes drifts outward when he focuses on things at a distance, but his eyes are looking "together" much more than they are apart. So, at this time we will not do "the straightforward, simple surgery" to strengthen his muscles. We are just to watch him and come back if it seems that the eye "wanders" more than not. For now, NO SURGERY - thanks for any prayers, I know mine were answered!

Now, onto the rest of Sunday, after the end-of-year cheerleading/football party at Bryant-Denny we left early to go to Emma Claire's Fall Choir program at church. She did AWESOME - she scored a front-row position close to all her friends!!! This little girl sure loves to sing!

AFTER the hour-long Choir program, we got the boys out of the nursery and set up our tables at the TAILGATE PARTY (at the church). Will's dad picked up a pizza for us in between the cheerleading party and the choir program and we ate and chased the children around for nearly 2 hours. There were jump castles and obstacle courses and a huge rock wall. I couldn't believe Emma Claire climbed all the way to the top, but she did -- that's my girl!!!!

Daddy and brother cheering her on!

Henderson was quite content most of the time in his exersaucer - he's growing so fast!!!

Big Al made an appearance, which Emma Claire was exuberant about - Wilson, not so much, but at least he's not one of those who screams his head off the entire time Big Al is around - he just likes to keep him at a "safe" distance.

(I'm not exaggerating when I say she absolutely LOVES Big Al!!)

(notice the "clinger")

All in all it was an AWESOME, but busy weekend -God has blessed us so richly with great friends and family, a great church and a great preschool. Last night we went to the Fall Festival at the childrens' Dayschool. It was a lot of fun too - a post and pictures to come at the end of the week or Monday. Emma Claire gets to dress up at her Ballet class this afternoon and tonight we go trick or treating on Sorority Row! All I can say is thank goodness my brother-in-law is a dentist - b/c after this week, I imagine there will be lots of cavity bugs in our mouths - the candy bowl on our counter is filling up quickly - any ideas how to get rid of this without a particular 4 year old noticing????

Our Wild Weekend

The weekend started off slow and relaxing (after I turned down an outing to see High School Musical 3 with some of Emma Claire's friends and to use Parent's Night Out at our church), knowing what the weekend held, I knew we just needed to be at home! Will left Saturday morning to go to the Alabama game and the children and I went to my SIL Ellen's house to let the children play. The weather was awesome, so they played outside and had a blast. I left EC there while I took the boys home to nap. I went to pick EC up at 4:00 and she was in the shower with her cousins (because they had a little too much fun in the water hose and sand box =), so I threw (not literally) Wilson in there with them (got that done)! We got home a little before 5:00 and I began getting dressed for a wedding. Mallory, our babysitter got there at 5:00 and I was able to finish getting ready. I went to the wedding - which was fabulous, I wish I could go into more detail, but my time is VERY limited - it was at the brides' house, there were 3 huge tents and the food was out of this world - it was like a fairy tale (or at least a Hollywood movie).

Sunday morning I got myself and all 3 children dressed and we made it to church at 8:25. After church Will got home from the game and made a grocery store run =). Then the fun began......

At 4:00, Emma Claire's cheerleading/football team had their end of the year party at Bryant Denny Stadium - they got to meet Glen Coffee (an Alabama football player) and then they got to cheer the team on in a scrimmage! They thought they had hung the moon - having the stadium all to themselves - I have to say it was kind of neat!

Okay, I'm officially out of time - I have to take Wilson to the eye doctor- say a prayer for us if you read this before I'm back with another posting - NO SURGERY!!!! I'll post about the REST of our sunday evening when I get back!!!!! so long!