Misc

Ok, so there is nothing specific for me to write a whole post about but there are random things so this is going to be a post about all the miscellaneous things going on in our life right now.

**Andrew is potty trained!! YIPPEE (I think) He has been in big boy undies for a month or so now and has been completely accident free. He was so easy to potty train; I need to count my lucky stars knock on wood or something because I know he will get me back 10 fold somewhere down the line. He is even napping in big boy undies. He could probably go diaperless at night but I’m not going to push that issue. I don’t mind buying a pack of diapers a month.
**Today at school Abby is putting up a Christmas tree in their classroom and they are having a Christmas Program and a Christmas Party. Not a Holiday party but a Christmas Party complete with a decorated Christmas tree. I love that Christmas has not been taken out of her school.
**Our Christmas tree is up and Marty is working on the lights outside. By the time he is finished, you should be able to see the glow of our house from Georgia. Last year he had 1500 lights on one tree alone. Hey, we have the Opryland Hotel to compete with.
**I have not forgotten about posting pictures of the kids’ rooms. In order to get a picture, I have to clean their rooms and that just hasn’t been on the agenda lately.
**I hope everyone had a good Thanksgiving and stuffed themselves full to induce a turkey coma.

Wordless Wednesday. . .yes he is about to run me over

ICE! 2007

I'm not even going to try to describe it because I wouldn't do it justice. The pictures speak for themselves. This year's theme was How the Grinch Stole Christmas. Just a reminder, it is all ice and all very cold. So fun!!

Andrew ice slideAbby ice slide

Keri, you have been forewarned. Abby really wants Ella and Evan to go when y'all come up to visit. All I can say is, dress warm.

Daddy's little girl

Like father like daughter. Marty has always had a love affair with rock climbing and it looks like the apple didn’t fall too far from the tree (yes, my heart has already skipped a few beats). No, not Andrew (well at least not yet) but Abby. Ever since she was about 2 and a half or so, she has wanted to climb the rock wall whenever we saw one; she had to wait until she was 5. Not my rule, but I wasn’t complaining either. Well, her wish has come true many times over. There is a party place that has one and just for the record we have gone to 5 parties there since school started in August. Can you guess where Abby wants to have her next party? Anyway, the first time we went, she put the harness on and went up a very little way. By the next time she was a pro and doesn’t want to do anything else when she’s there. I have to bribe her to go down the slide or play in the jumpy; all she wants to do is climb, climb, climb. Daddy’s beaming, mommy’s fainting.

7:00

Well, we bought one. Yep, we bought a clock for Abby's room, not because she has a need to know what time it is, well I take that back, she does need to know what time it is. She needs to know that anything before 7:00 in the morning is way too early to be getting up on the weekends. Ever since the time change (I think I complained about it last year also) she has been getting up way before 7:00 and that just doesn't work for me. I know she will get herself adjusted, but in the meantime we decided to buy us some time, haha. She is actually really excited to have a clock in her room and she thinks it's really fun to be able to play in her room until the first number turns to 7. For some reason I function much better after 7:00, and I'm even a morning person. Oh well, for now I'm happy!

Mispronunciations

I love to hear what comes out of my kids’ mouths. It is so cute to hear their take on things. The other day we were going to Home Depot to return an aerator that Marty rented and the kids were holding on to it to make sure it didn’t fall out of the car (it was safely staying the car but they felt like they were helping in a big way) Abby wanted Andrew to let go so she told him to hang off of it. The opposite of hang on is hang off isn’t it?
Also, the other day we saw smoke coming from the Opryland Hotel and I was explaining to Abby that it wasn’t actually smoke but it was from where the heaters were running. Later on in the day Abby was telling Marty about it and she said “we saw smoke at the hotel, you know the one that you do ballet at” Marty wanted to know what I was teaching our kids because he is not a ballerina, a clogger yes, but not a ballerina. Marty is actually a valet, very close to ballet. So cute!

Wordless Wednesday

Trick or Treat

We had such a great night last night, not just the kids but also Marty and I. We invited friends over (24 people actually) and had a small Halloween party before going out trick or treating. Marty and I had decked the house out complete with hanging spiders inside, a fog machine, a floating ghost and a strobe light plus many many pumpkins. The kids love Halloween, for them the gorier the better. We had a total of 10 kids that went out trick or treating and I won’t do it any other way from now on. The kids had so much fun running from house to house, little Andrew tried so hard to keep up with the big kids. Half way through TOT I was carrying his bucket and by the end of the night I was not only carrying his bucket but I was also carrying him. We were going over what to do when you go up to the door and I asked Andrew what he should say and his response was “Candy please” Hey at least he got the please part in there.
It was so cute seeing all the kids find their own little spot and dump their loot out when we got back to the house. It was even funnier seeing the parents trying to sneak a piece of candy, it’s not only mommies that have eyes in the back of their heads. Halloween 2007 was a huge success.

Alice and Spidey- I can't believe that I never got a picture with Andrew's mask on

Me and Marty
Abby and Mikayla