Thanksgiving 2011

The family loaded up for our 2nd road trip with Nash since he has been born. He had a great trip down to b'ham. He is really starting to grab at things. When you feed him you have to hold his hand back or he will try and swat at the spoon. it is making us remember that the time is coming soon when he will start throwing his cup down time and time again because he thinks it is funny. both hadden and spencer already think it is funny to see him grab our food if he is sitting with us when we are trying to eat dinner.

Birmingham was a great Thanksgiving. My mom had been in the hospital with pneumonia since November 13th - she was able to come home November 21 right in time for thanksgiving. i know she was not as active as she would like but both hadden and spencer enjoyed playing cards with her and she got to roll around with Nash some and he gave her lots of smiles. Spencers favorite part of the trip was playing board games with Nini and haddens favorite thing was frying turkeys with papa me and paul. we had all the normal things - pretzel salad, mash potato's, sweet potato's - everyone's favorites.. i was in charge of the gravy this year since mom was not feeling great... uhhh.. needed a little work.. so dad tried the next night and added about 2lbs of salt too.. needless to say it didn't make it through the night....Spencer and hadden got to show papa their dribbling skills with one of the balls going off the cliff near the side of the driveway... that was an adventure to find but they did.....carrie and i got to catch up with jena and paul and the twins...they are both getting big and love to hang out with their cousins....lots of questions....each got to sleep a night at their cousins house with spencer sleeping in the same room as cason and hadden sleeping in the same room as kiley.

Carrie's family went to the beach this year for thanksgiving - this is the first year the kids were off for the whole week of thanksgiving from school... with Nash being so young we decided to wait until next year to attempt a few days at the beach before Thanksgiving...

Oct / November

Soccer has wrapped up for the fall. I am proud of both hadden and spencer. spencer broke his record for goals with 7 goals in his last game. he averaged around 3 goals a game. Hadden's team beat the 2nd best team in the league around 10-2. He had 3 or 4 goals and his game high was 8 goals.

we are starting basketball and i am helping coach both teams but not the head coach. Nash is really starting to talk/babble to us and started spitting. he is getting big and loves for you to talk to him.

School is going great for both kids. hadden continues to love to read while spencer is blowing through all his sight words and even has made it through all the 2nd grade words....it is nice to see them both do well in school.

Carrie and i went to a wedding a few weeks ago - our first night out since having Nash. it was fun and in downtown nashville in a great little spot with good food and catching up with some friends of carrie's we don't have a chance to see very often.

it has been a long time since my last post-- i need to do better.

Soccer / Weekend

Nash has started to sleep through the night.....he is laughing more and more. today i was looking at a picture and my co-worker said is that Nash? i said no that is hadden....i had an old picutre of hadden at my desk and the 2 of them looked very similar..she said i would have thought it was the same picture. but than carrie showed me one today of spencer and it is pretty close too.... i think you will be able to tell they are all brothers. Saturday was history in the making on the soccer field. Hadden had 8 goals at the 9:00 game.. followed by Spencer scoring 4 goals at the 10 game. Home after that to watch bama whip the hogs and then grilled out steaks/chicken. fall weather is upon us now and i see some chilli in our future weekends.

Halloween......

This time of year the kids begin to get Halloween magazines... this becomes a battle between hadden and spencer on who gets to look at which magazine or as they both call them .. masagenes....also creates a debate and decisions on how who am i going to dress up this year... it normally changes several times from august to September... lots of what they both think about is Halloween. spencer and hadden want me to take them to the haunted woods. the fact that spencer still sleeps under the sheet... i said we may need to wait another couple years....while getting called on this week in school spencer teacher was asking them to say what they would draw starting with certain letters... spencers to answers:
B - Butcher Knife
V - Violence.
now he claims the teacher laughed but i am not so sure. Nash has started sleeping though the night this week. he is 11 weeks old today. he is beginning to try to talk and chatter and smiles and laughs at you when you are talking to him. he is still pretty bald.. blue eyes so far...

School, Soccer

Hadden and spencer are both doing well in school. The first progress reports came out with great reviews. Yesterday Hadden came home from school and told me that 3 girls told him they liked him. i asked him what he said and he said " i ran away" spencer than chimed in that a girl in his class tried to kiss him on the playground yesterday and he ran too. Funny stuff. The soccer season has started again and i am coaching spencers team and helping with Hadden's team. Spencer in his 2nd game scored 4 goals in a losing effort. Nash is doing well. he is 10 weeks now and is battling with reflux. Carrie is doing good and is great with helping the boys with homework and keeping nash on a schedule. A couple more weeks until she goes back to work. i am taking off the first 3 weeks tuesday/thursday and then carrie's mom will keep nash through the end of December. this is great news so that daycare is delayed a little longer.... soccer practice today, then a birthday party this afternoon....

First Trip - Bham

Went to b'ham last weekend to visit my parents and sister for the first time since nash was born. the drive down to b'ham - spencer and hadden both said-- is he always going to scream the whole time in the car? but they both had there ipod touch's so it was not a big deal for them. Carrie was stressed out and her nerves were shot by the time we arrived. the older boys planted some trees with papa and both had cason and kiley to play with and follow them around while they were there. everyone had a good time and the weekend went fast. spencer played cards with nini but he quit when she won ever game ( come on grandma ) .........soccer is going well .. i am coaching spencers team and helping with haddens team. they both seem to enjoy it.. spencer always says - i am so hot...... hadden's birthday is in the morning.. we plan on taking a few of his friends to play laser tag and get ice cream saturday afternoon.

Spencer 1st day of school

Carrie took him to school. he was fired up. he told her on the way that he already saw the not she put in his lunch box which said " i love you spence, mom" he told her that if got lonely at school today he could look at the note and be happy. he brought the note home and was thinking he could put it in his room. quote from school from spencer. this was the best day ever. he road the bus home today and told me: i rode with 2 girls and they tried to kiss me. so do you believe a 5 year or what... the girl that tried to kiss him is a neighbor of mine and i know the dad pretty well. i texted him and she said no -- spencer tried to kiss me.. a pinky swear later and the first grader caved and said i tried to kiss spencer.....the dad has told me to have fun with your 3 boys while i go through this for the next 10 years....both kids homework is done for the night.......weekend soccer practices here we come....