Carseat Talk

From now on "Carseat talk" just means anything funny said in the car. It seems like that's where all our meaningful conversation occurs. Today as we drove past a church, Allie must have noticed a fairly pointy object at the top which most would call a steeple. She said, Boy mom, if I every decided to crawl to the top of a church, I would not poke my belly button on that thing. It would for sure hurt.

Sweet little "Butt"erfly

Some day Mary will kill me for this, but I can get away with it for now. Here's THE issue with her around our house. Everytime she goes to the bathroom, she doesn't put her panties back on or ask anyone to help her. (It seems that she only needs to go when I'm feeding Garrett). So she runs around without a stitch on her bottom. Today Em and Adam came over, and Mary ran up to Adam with her butterfly wings on....and well that was about it! Sorry, I just had to snap a pic...I did censor the pic..don't worry..but it was too funny not to share.

OH MY GOODNESS!!!!

The reason I entitled this post OH MY GOODNESS is because I was really surprised when Allie did this. Her uncle Adam taught her how to dive last summer at the beach, and she showed her swim teacher she could do a dive off the side. She then did it off the diving board, and it was so pretty...for a 5 year old anyways. The instructor said, who taught you to do that?? Allie said...Oh my Uncle Adam taught me! THANKS ADAM!!!

Bombs away!

Allie made water balloons yesterday afternoon to throw at the neighbor boys. Mary of course wasn't having any part in this, but the rest of them sure had fun. You will notice a new structure in our back yard! Apparently, as soon as I pulled out of the driveway to go to Crossett on Friday, Faber went to Sam's to get this playset. He had measured everything and had planned to get it built while I was gone. He worked literally ALLLLL weekend to build this for the girls. He will need to attach the swings and the slide still, and then it'll be finished. They LOVE it! I was so surprised. OHHHHH..and my biggest news for today. GARRETT SLEPT THROUGH THE NIGHT! It could've been a fluke, but he slept from 11pm to 6am!!! Party on party people.



Just a random video of Garrett smiling from a few days ago!

A letter to George

This morning on the way to swim lessons Allie was just talking away as usual. She started talking about George Washington, and wanted to know where his parents lived. I said, Allie we went over this; George was our president a long long time ago, and he lived a long time ago. She said..."so that means his parents are dead too". I said yes, people don't just go on living forever. She said, "Well that's too bad; I wanted to know his parent's address, so I could send him a letter and tell him I'm sorry that he is dead." We'll get that letter out today sometime:)

Meet my Grandparents

I just wanted to write about my grandparents today. Many of you know them or have met them. We had a great visit with them this past weekend, and they enjoyed getting to see and to hold Garrett. They have held many many babies in our family; they have 7 grandkids and almost 9 great-grandkids. I was very fortunate to have grown up in the same town as them, and spent many many many days growing up at their house. Some of my fondest memories are from their house: going to the garden with Granddad, learning how to drive in "old blue" (he taught everyone of us how to drive), learning to cook from Memaw, and playing board games with her....the list could go on and on. They are without question two of the most remarkable and influential people that I've known in my life. They are full of wisdom, grace, mercy, and love just to name a few. They have prayed for each person in our huge family every day for years and years. I have a stack of little yellow post cards from college that Granddad wrote to me. He would write me every Wednesday to let me know he was praying for me and to share something funny from his week. They are truly heroes in my life. I love you BOTH!!!!!! Thank you for blessing our families.

Goodness "Grace"ious

Garrett and I came to Crossett for the weekend to see baby Grace. I wanted to come for my friend Melinda's wedding, so Faber "grace" iously kept the girls for me. I miss them, but my ears have enjoyed one child...who doesn't talk yet! Grace is a big sleeper, and we haven't seen her "peepers", as Anna Kate calls them. Here a few pics from today. Abigail, (cousin to arrive in a few weeks) you keep growing, and we'll see you at the beach!
Adam still learning how to hold a newborn
Grace whispering in Garrett's ear
Catching some lap time after the wedding
What a difference 4 weeks makes...wake up Grace!
Oh..such a hard life.
Sleepy babies!