The hit of the weekend- the sandbox!

All the little cousins.... Claire, Madeline, Matthew & Blake.

Getting ready for a boat ride!

'Tooning' on the lake

The waves on the lake had Matthew, Claire and Madeline all asleep.

Aunt Nancy got one load......

And Uncle Bobby got another.

Love this picture of Matthew with Pop!

Mama Rene relaxing on the deck.

TV out on the deck in preparation for the Auburn game that night.

More swing time..... not sure why she still has on her floatie though.

Saturday night Matthew took a few falls trying to master the step down on the deck....

by Sunday morning he had a routine and learned to use a chair arm to get down. After that he was home free. Must have gone up and down that little step a hundred times!

Sweet cousins playing sweetly.

Caught One!- No, Two!!!

2 fish caught on the Barbie fishing pole!

in the sandbox again...

sandbox yet again.

.....wishing he could get down to the sandbox!

grilling sausage for breakfast! Yum!

2 great new Madeline quotes:

• "There's nothing like the smell of french toast sticks in the morning!"
• "A great big fresh glass of milk and Oreos to go with it are surely delicious!"

It's gettting there

Today Madeline helped me transplant Mother's tiger lilies (Jeff dug the hole for us). I'm leaving the ones in the planters as is until next Spring when I can make sure these took. Now, where to plant Dee's Iris.... since this yard was landscaped they have this thick paper under all the mulch everywhere. Keeps out weeds but makes it hard to add anything new in.

Roses Roses Everywhere

Madeline loves the roses growing in the backyard, she helped prune them today. These were two she picked to keep on her 'desk' where she plays teacher/principal. Matthew also got acquainted with the roses, the thorns that is, today. He fell on one and got thorns stuck in his shins and scratched his ear. Can't seem to keep him from getting scratched up!!

My new purple cast- 2 1/2 more weeks to go.

ugh

So we went back to the old house for the last time and Jeff got all out of the attic..... and here it is in all it's glory taking up most of the garage. Let's see, boxes containing every note I exchanged with friends from 8th-12th grade, Daddy's old Stetson hat, Mother's wedding dress, trunks of high school stuff, countless (seriously) boxes of Elvis Presley parafanalia that is quickly going to be sold on ebay.... and on and on.

Toothless grin

Beautiful sunset tonight

Madeline took this one....

All I Want For Christmas Is My Two Front Teeth

Tooth Fairy is coming to the new house tonight!!

major owies

my broken arm

Who knew a carpet burn could look so horrible!!

new room

Madeline made herself a little pallet on the floor of her new room- and then fell asleep!

6 going on 13

1. "MO-THER! You are totally FREAKING me out right now!" (insert eye roll)
2. "Mom, this is so not stylish. Don't you know what STYLE is????"
3. "You are not understanding what I'm TRYING TO SAY!!!"

Sigh.

War Eagle=free lunch!

Today we went to Chick-Fil-A for free chicken sandwiches to anyone who wore their fave team clothes. Madeline, Matthew and I all were in Auburn of course. Jeff had to be odd man out in FSU, we can't seem to convert him.
The crowds were so crazy there that we likened it to eating with the crowds at Disney! =)

and I told a semi whopper of a lie to Madeline.... she wanted to play in the playcenter they have in there like we usually do but the crowds were so bad and we were soooo ready to get out by then...... I told her that they weren't allowing anyone else in there right now or the firemen would come and make everyone leave, and then kept digging deeper as I went on to explain about every building have a limit on how many people could be in there before the firemen would come, maximum capacity and all that. I know, bad parenting.

and then home in time for some quick chalking in the driveway before going to a Labor Day cook out with some of Jeff's work friends and their kids.

Guess Who's Coming To Our House Tonight......

......the Tooth Fairy! Madeline lost another tooth tonight. It has been loose for over a week and she has worked it and worked it. This one bled some but she was oblivious, she was so excited!!
First thing she did was stick her tongue in it, so no gold tooth again. She's going to try hard next time! ha ha



This is her Tooth Fairy doll. The tooth goes in her little pouch she holds and the doll can be placed wherever to await the real Tooth Fairy. Madeline already has her tucked securely under her pillow for bedtime. (Matthew has one as well that is a little pirate and the tooth goes into a treasure chest he holds. Too cute.)