Things Kids Say

Spencer came home from school and said that he like having the bus seat to himself. Carrie asked him where was Sam? Spencer said he was home with the "sharts". a couple days later he said Sam was back but he didn't sit too close to him because he had had the sharts and didn't want them again. Nash's favorite words are "mine", NO, Stop, get it, and go. He loves it when his brothers get off the bus. Candy is another favorite word. At dinner he loves to mimic what his brothers do. spencer will fake chew, Nash will follow, hadden will laugh, Nash will follow. hands in the air - Nash follows. this make dinner time entertaining for sure. Hadden and spencer have basketball games today. both their teams are undefeated and both are playing well and enjoy it. Carrie and I are going out for some friends birthday’s tonight. it has been cold in Nashville and rainy for weeks. Maybe we will get a break from that tonight.

January 14 - Geno's 61st Birthday

61 years old - my dad is today. happy birthday. he is spending it in Ohio which is probably colder there than it is in Nashville. Today it was 30 degrees with a nice 10 - 15 mph wind. it made running at lunch frigid. When I was coming in from running with guys (jimmy, Hugh, Steve) someone commented that my hat had ice cycles forming from sweating with it freezing outside. it is funny. we see people coming in from smoking outside that say - you guys are crazy for running when it is (hot, cold, raining, snowing) and yet they walk to their car to drive around the corner to smoke. mmmm..... on days like today I have a blue long windbreaker (rain jacket) that I wear and have been for years. folks have called this the blue tent, smurf, the parka, - but you know what - i would rather be hot than cold. who is ready for spring.... hadden and spencers basketball teams continue to excel. i think the scores were hadden 38-13 and spencer 44 - 4. They both are playing with a good group of kids and having fun. Nash is talking a little more each day. he knows where is belly, toes, knees, head, eyes, ears, nose etc are. He sometimes says No No No. when carrie and i try to sing him a song when we are putting him to bed. He loves it when his brothers get home from school - he runs around and chases them.

Report Card Day

hadden is in 3rd grade and made all A's for this semester. Spencer is in first grade recieved all 3's and 4's and his teacher commented he is a good leader. 3rd grade is the first grade where our kids get grades. nash has stepped it up a level. the other day wehn i was going to change his diaper i thought he was doing his typical run away move but he was going to grab a kroger sack for his stinky diaper. then he laid back down and we made it happen. count down is on for Carrie and our trip to punta canta with some friends in Feb. School started back yesterday. They have been out of school since December 21. It was a great break with lots of good memories....The tide has won their 2nd National title in a year with QB chesty at the helm.....and they beat the team i have never liked growing up or now - ND.

Happy 2013

Well it has been since march since i have posted. It is my goal to post at least weekly with a few funny stories or things that have happend over the week. Christmas was a whirlwind. Time in birmhgam with the family and time in Centerville and Bon Aqua. what a great tine to hang out with our parents and the kids to play with their cousins / grandparents. Hadden and spencer borh got Kindles and airsoft guns. Nash big gifts were a playhouse, roller coaster. I just got back from the sugar bowl with my dad and brother in law paul. Florida got whipped by Lousiville. it was my first time to the commanders palace... the bread pudding is the best in the world. this makes 5 out of the last 6 years i have attened the sugar bowl. Spencer tonight - Seven kids in my class got kindle. But i am not really sure because some of the kids are liars. probably more like 5 kids. one kid said he was on the titantic - he is probably lying about the kindle too

March is almost Over - Spring Time is here

Spring time is here. It is filled with soccer games, baseball games, and practices.

Spencer has had 3 soccer games and has scored 5 goals, 1 goal and 3 goals in each of the first 3 games. Hadden has played his first baseball game and went 3 for 3 with a triple and 2 singles. Hadden has practiced a lot of baseball this year as the season begins and is enjoying playing and haning out with his buddies. Spencer likes soccer and still does not express an interest in baseball.

Nash is getting big. He has started saying mama, dada and his new trick this week is starting to wave bye when he is leaving or hi when coming into a room. he is a lot of fun and both hadden and spencer like him much as older brother can young babies. they are both helpful and will pitch and and watch and help us when needed.

Carrie and I continue to enjoy watching the kids excel in school and the random things kids say and do. some are just not appropirate for this blog. but i do need to keep a list somewhere. Hadden's easter bunny story this year seemed a fit exactly like carrie's trip to Maui - pretty funny.

We are going to b'ham this week and then on to the beach for a week. Spencer is turning 6 on Friday march 30 - hard to belive. I took 6 boys for pizza and skating for his birthday this week and everyone had a great time. That is definatly the first time i had skates on that i can recall. The boys both skate in school some in gym so they are both pretty good on skates.

Almost Spring

Hadden mowed for the first time this season. the only thing i did was get it started for him. Spencer is next to start mowing after he turns 6 which is coming up at the end of this month. It is nice to not have to mow - i worked in the natural area's while hadden mowed. He beat me but it sure beats doing both. Spencer helped me with the weeds.

Hadden and Spencer went to a skating party yesterday for the cousins Liza and Cooper's birthday and had a great time. I hung here with Nash and he has learned a couple new tricks

Nash now weighs 21 lbs, spencer 52 and hadden 66. Nash has 4 teeth and has started trying to bite us on everyone. He is all around the house now pulling up and crawing everywhere. He has not figured out the stairs yet and does not like the stairs. His latest trick is to stand up in his bed. Now this would not be a problem except he has not figured out how to bend his knees and sit back down. so the crying at nap time / bed time because he gets stuck standing up is currently in process.

Basketball is over and now we are on to spencer playing soccer which i am coaching and hadden playing baseball. we will go see my parents at the end of march both before and after our trip to the beach for spring break. i know the older kids can't wait to go so we will see what traveling with a 9 month old baby goes that week. Easter will be in b'ham this near.

Maui and basketball

carrie had a chance to go to Maui with some girlfriends for 5 days last week. She had a great time. the highlight was the sunrise 10,000 feet above on the top of the volcano, followed by a bike ride down the volcano and then lunch in a small local town. heather, kim , jenny and carrie had a great time. laid on the beach, by the pool, went lu ah(no idea on spelling)

Nash started crawling last week as well. it is kind of an army crawl at first but now has turned into a good crawl. he had been rocking on his knees for a while and scooting backwards... it will be hard to keep all the little pieces of toys from the older brothers from him.

Spencers team. there were 15 teams in the league - he ended up having a good year. they play the #2 team today to see who gets 2nd place. Spencer was on Walling team.

Place Team Win Loss Tie Pts Ref S Pts Games Points For Avg Points Against Avg Point Diff
1 Mora SHS 6U Boys Rec 9 0 0 18 9 150 16.67 70 7.78 80
2 Durrough SHS 6U Boys Rec 8 1 0 16 9 192 21.33 75 8.33 117
3 Walling IHS 6U Boys Rec 7 1 0 14 8 164 20.50 66 8.25 98
4 Oliver IHS 6U Boys Rec 7 1 0 14 8 162 20.25 89 11.13 73

Haddens team (Kincaid team) - they are in the semi finals today. the league tried to make it so the 2 high school gyms played against each other in the finals. bottom line is that you had the top 3 teams on one side of the bracket. We play Wade who is the best team by far. The other 2 teams on the other side of the bracket in the semis we blew them both out. Only the top 2 teams go to the county tournment. the other team that will make the finals was 10 and 13 out of 18 total total teams in the tournament. Oh well. today is really the finals.

record pts for avg pts agaist
1 Walker IHS 8U Boys Rec 9 0 0 18 9 199 22.11 91 10.11 108
2 Wade SHS 8U Boys Rec 8 0 0 16 8 268 33.50 36 4.50 232
3 Kincaid SHS 8U Boys Rec 8 1 0 16 163 18.11 69 7.67 94