Football is Over

The kids had fun cheering for Clemson this Fall. They wore their Orange and Purple every Friday to school. Mack loved that him and his friends would all have on the same jersey. Mack also got to go on the field before a game with Daddy. I think he was a little intimidated. Until next Fall!

Henley's First Haircut

Henley finally got her first haircut at 23 months old. She did great!

Polar Express

I know Christmas is still a month and a half away but we started our celebration a little early this past weekend. We took the kids to Bryson City, NC to spend the weekend in a cabin and ride the Polar Express on the Great Smokey Mountain Railroad. We had the best time and the kids loved building campfire and making smores and just spending time playing outside and of course, the highlight of their weekend was riding on train. Mack has been watching the Polar Express movie this past week and when he sat in Santa's lap before we rode the train he told him he wanted a bell from Santa's sleigh (just like the movie:)
He was so excited when Santa came through the train at the end of the ride and gave all the kids a bell. Henley on the other hand was terrified of Santa, but loved the train and eating cookies and drinking hot chocolate.

Climbing Trees

 Campfire and S'mores

 On our way to ride the train

 Henley was so scared of Santa

 She eats everything in sight

 She was dipping her finger in the hot chocolate and licking it, this occupied her for quite a while

Weekend with Lainey

Our Lainey came to visit and that means prizes, fun, eating out, rest for Mama, and generally everyone at our house getting spoiled. This trip we hit up the zoo, the park a few times, the downtown saturday market, and the Children's museum.

Accidents

I don't know what we are going to do with our little tom boy who has no fear of anything. Almost everyday when I get to daycare they tell me something she has done to injure herself. It all started two weeks ago when I picked her up and saw one of her teachers in the hall she said, "have you seen Henley's face?", I thought oh my gosh what has she done now. Well she fell over the top of a riding toy while outside and her face looked like this...


That weekend while visiting friends to watch football on Saturday afternoon she fell in their kitchen and hit a cabinet pull. Jim quickly picked up and held her just thinking she would have a bruise but when he moved her back to look at it, blood was just running down her face. Poor thing had split her head open and it was bad. We knew we had to go to the ER. We are so lucky that Jim works with so many great surgeons and one of them met us at the ER and sowed her up for us. It was so nice to have a familiar face because they had to sedate her and it was awful. She got four stitches and after being sick all night from the meds she was back to her old self again the next day. It did not phase her one bit.

Just that next week the day before her stitches were to come out, she fell again at daycare!! This time running to the playground because she was so excited to be outside and a little boy fell on top of her and smashed her poor little face in the concrete. So now her face looks like this.

 I have invested in some good scar scream and lots of neosporin and baid-aids for this little dare-devil. She is rough, tough and independent. I don't think pageants, princesses and frilly dresses are in our near future.

Overdue Post

It has been over 3 months since I last updated this blog. I thought about giving it up, but realized it is the only good documentation I am keeping on our little family and it is lots of fun to look back on. So here goes the last three months:

We sold our house, have moved twice and are anxiously awaiting our new home to be finished. We hope to be in by Christmas. Mack started 3K and Henley toddler room. Jim won a trip to Hawaii for work and we spent an amazing week in Maui. We went to Mississippi for the 4th. We went swimming, to the water park, went for yogurt too many times to count, had a few cookouts, and spent most Saturday mornings at the downtown market.  We went fishing, to the beach and the mountains.

Mack is almost 3 and half. He is into all things superhero, spiderman and batman are his favs. He loves to watch one movie over and over until we finally convince him to watch something else. Right now we are on Little Rascals. Which promted him to tell me "Sometimes I like girls and sometimes I don't". He loves to tell that his best friends are Hunter, Weston, Will and Tyler Murray.  We went through a few days when he was sneaking toys in his pocket at school and bringing them home, he said "It's ok, Mama, the teacher did not see me, I did it when she was not looking." We have since explained stealing and now he just brings home mulch from the playground in his pocket everyday. He also loves a stick, I find them all over the house.

Henley is almost 20 months and as wild as ever. She is a fireball. Everyone at daycare knows her as she makes her presence known wherever she is. She has no fear, she will do things Mack still has not thought about doing. She wants to do everything on her own and is in a big independent phase. She never sits still, will not watch tv and rarely even wants to sit and eat although she loves to eat. She is talking more and can put two or three words together. She says "Me, Me, Me" when she wants to do something by herself.
She weighs 27 pounds (84%) and wears a 2T and size 5 shoe. She still goes to bed between 6 and 7pm.

Hen consumed some calories this summer

Superheros

Mack had a big Summer, he spent a week in Mississippi, went to Atlanta with Daddy and had a ball getting in the water as much as he could

First day of 3k

Lots of Sibling Time

A Little Adult Time

Now time to bring on Fall!