Whew.... It was a Close one!

Well, the Tide has another victory under their belt, but that one was too close for me - I like to win BIG!!!! We had a great time (again) on the quad. This time my SIL, Ellen and another friend thought to bring riding toys (skooters) and we let the kids ride them on the side street (it was blocked off to all but the occasional bus). It was great weather and so much fun - we had so many children at our tailgate! You could find us just by looking for the tent with all the strollers parked by it!

Emma Claire absolutely loves dogs - she kept coming up missing (no telephone numbers on their arms with a sharpie this time - I forgot =( and we would always find her at a nearby tent playing with a dog - I think I'm going to subtly push Veterinary Medicine for her, though that would probably mean a stint at Auburn so... maybe not --j/k=)!!! I mean, there were a lot of dogs out there on the quad... little bitty ones, like the PIT BULL puppy in the tent next to ours that was only 6 weeks old (thank goodness), or EC WOULD NOT have been holding him and letting him lick her. There were some BIG ones too - I mean 150(+)# mastifs and great danes - Wilson calls them horses!!!!. It was crazy, none of them seemed to bark or poop (or maybe their owners were very respectful and picked up after them)- b/c believe me, had they, my children ( Wilson) would have stepped in it or played in it!!! =)

My parents came in town for the game and my sister and her boyfriend and his parents and brother and friends of friends of friends - it was such a great time of fellowship, fun and food (oh it was good food!)! My parents were a great help with the little ones! Thank you mom and dad!

Wilson had a great time playing with his cousin, Mills, and his best friend, Lee. (Mills and Lee's shirts courtesy of http://www.thepattonpatch.com/ ) Check it out! Wilson had his dump truck out there and was running (and when I say running, I mean running - man he is fast) it up and down the street fully loaded with chips, so he could re-energize every now and then - at least he was eating something! Grandaddy Bud was doing a great job keeping up with him!!!

You can see 2 of the 6 strollers in this picture!!!

It's Halloween!!!

Dressed and ready for church on Wednesday afternoon - OCTOBER 1st - we don't waist any time around here!!! Is it wrong that my chidren have as many Halloween clothes as they do Christmas??????

Wilson would NOT look at the camera - so frustrating!!!!

Note the big boy clothes again - the day after Wilson wore his first "big boy" outfit to school he wore a Pirate Jon-Jon. On that same day I got a note home from his teacher asking all the moms of the 8 little boys in his class to please send them in more diaper changing friendly clothes b/c during diaper changing times is when all the biting (of which my son has been bitten 3 times in the last week), pushing and hitting occurs. So, while it's easier for me ironing wise, I still don't like it. Not to mention I have already purchased all of his fall and winter clothes, which consists of about 40 (no kidding here) longalls that all button or snap in the crotch =). I completely understand where she is coming from - I would not want to be the sole teacher of eight 2-year old little boys during diaper changing time!!!!! I politely told his teacher I would try my best, but that we only own 2 pairs of pants (no kidding here either)!!!!!

Weekend in Review

My sister Katie came to visit for the weekend while our "big boys" went to the Alabama game! She brought her dog Tyson and the children had a blast! He is only 4 months old, so I was a little nervous about what he would "do" to my house, but he was great - only 1 accident. She brought his crate, and sure enough, within about 5 seconds, this is what we saw...

Bless his heart, the little rascal just can't help himself - he is a curious little thing!

Big Sis had to follow suit and "prove" she could fit in there too!

We went to the park with cousins Saturday morning (it was hotter than I thought it would be) and we had a great time watching some awesome football games (can you tell Katie is a little discombobulated???)

We celebrated Wilson's birthday (kind of) and Katie gave him his Halloween costume - a PIRATE - isn't he the cutest thing you ever did see?

This is a picture of Wilson wearing his first "big boy" (as I call it) outfit to school on Monday. I'm just tired of ironing so much - it really adds up when you have 3 chidren wearing smocked outfits every day to school - 15 a week!!!! So I'm giving in and allowing Wilson and Henderson to wear "boy" clothes to school at least one day. I know, I'm a little obsessive compulsive - but they're only little for such a short time and when they get big they wear the "boring" stuff everyday! Don't worry, he wore his new smocked Pirate jon jon today - no pictures though, it was rush rush after I woke up insanely late (6:00) thanks to my turning off my alarm to run at 4:30 when Henderson woke up to eat at 4:00 - so so tired!!! =(

We had a great weekend - thanks Katie for the fun visit and "extra hands".

Roll Tide

Roll Tide!!!!! - that's all I gotta say!

The Patton Patch

This is what Henderson wore to school today - no, that is not Henderson in the picture, that is his cousin, Matthew, whose mom owns http://www.thepattonpatch.com/ where I ordered this outfit. The one he wore is a red long sleeved romper with the elephant and the white roll tide (I don't do white shirts much b/c he spits up all the time!!) Anyway, there are soooo many cute things on her website, she does them from home and they are reasonably priced. Check it out. Yes there are Auburn things too!

Just for Fun!!!

I found this website, http://www.dumpr.net/sketch.php that changes your pictures to a pencil sketch - it was so much fun - here are a few (many) that I did: (can you tell I had a slow afternoon?) =)

A Busy Day

Well, yesterday was a busy day to say the least. I went to work, as usual, after getting all 3 children up extra early to bathe and fix hair and get dressed for SCHOOL PICTURES!!!! I know normally school pictures aren't really a big deal, but b/c I have yet to have any "professional"p portraits made of my children (besides school and church pictures) I am always hoping they will turn out great! So I dressed them all in light blue and off they went. I had a meeting, so I couldn't be there like I wanted to be, to make sure everything went just right (I am kind of a picture snob - I don't like any props or waterfalls or any of the like in my pictures - just a traditional background and my child!!!) There teachers said they did great, when it was time for all 3 to be in a picture together, they said that Henderson was really flirting with the camera - he wouldn't stop smiling, but Wilson (being 2) was being stubborn and they could hardly get the little man to smile, but finally he did (so they say), and Emma Claire had her fake, cheesy smile plastered on her face! Emma Claire did mention at some point that she was a pretty bride!!??? And I said you were what????? "It was my wedding" Apparently she was holding some kind of umbrella and standing by some sort of "column" in some of the pictures - Lord help us, We'll just have to see when they get back, if they're terrible, I'll order the minimum amount, if they're great, I'll order alot - maybe the one with all 3 children will be good enough for a Christmas card!!!

A good example of EC's cheesy smile and Wilson "zoning out"

After school I took Emma Claire to her ballet class, then the fun began. Wilson and Emma Claire had their 2 year and 4 year old check ups. I took Wilson and Henderson and then Will's mom, Di Anna brought EC after her dance class was over. It was a busy day at the Ped. office and the doctor didn't come in for like an hour. Then he finally came and spent a whole hour with us! Here are the stats:



Emma Claire:



Height: 40 1/2" (55%)



Weight: 36# (55%)



So she's pretty average!!!!



Wilson:



Height: can't remember, but 20%



Weight: 22# (minus 5%)



Head: can't remember, but 10%



So he's improving on height and head, but still at his own rate with the weight! But the good news was our Pediatrician, who like I have said before, I LOVE and IS AWESOME and THE BEST did not freak out like I thought he would! We are just to continue trying hard, offering Pedia Sure, giving vitamins - he didn't even seem to mind that Wilson still takes a bottle twice a day - that's the only way to ensure he gets ALL his whole milk in!!!!



Wilson does have fluid behind one ear (we have tubes still {the good news} one is working, one is not) and he is on an antibiotic. Also, the VSD heart murmur that he had as a newborn, that we saw a cardiologist for (that said it had closed by the way) is still there, so we have to follow up with our cardiologist at UAB soon. Wilson got 2 shots (hep. A and flu) and Emma Claire got 5!!!!!!



5 shots ????- I don't want 5 shots and I'm not afraid of needles!!! Bless her heart she was pretty sore last night and this morning. She has a field trip to the hospital today, so on one hand - lots of walking on sore legs, but on the other hand, she'll have a great time telling everyone about her doctor's visit and her shots and what a BIG GIRL she was - she didn't cry unitil the 4th shot - she was trying soooo hard! It was actually quite humorous - the sweet nurse told her to blow out when the needle was going in and you would have thought she was having a baby - she was blowing out so hard!!!! =)

Henderson was a jewel, he even fell asleep in his grandmother's arms! Thank you Di Anna for all your help - I couldn't have handled it without you and (m&m's of course)!!!



Well, 2 1/2 hours later we left the office and went home for the night (thank goodness we had no more activities for that day!!!)