And finally…for today at least…here are some pictures of our adorable kids!

Again, a cheap find. I was able to find some really cute pjs for Zoe, Ace, and Liam at our children’s consignment sale this fall! Ace just loves “duperman” and Zoe’s a big fan of Cinderella. I just had to buy these pjs for them and I was so excited when I found a Superman costume for Liam! They looked adorable in these last night.

Okay, while trying to explain to Ace that we use our spoons to eat yogurt not our fingers…I snapped this picture! How cute is he in yogurt from head to toe. He smelled so good all day!

Bathtime for the three musketeers!

Liam loves his little lamb (LL). This is his cuddly thanks to Ge. Whenever he sees him, he will grab him and either hug him or stuff him in his mouth. Like Zoe with her cuddly, he has to have the ear to rub while he’s going to sleep. Too cute!

I just love looking at our adorable children. Notice LL is hanging out in Liam’s other hand.

This past weekend brought us to watch dad’s team again! They won this time and we were so excited! 49 to 21!! The Newnan record is 4-2. Ace and Zoe were set. They even showed dad how to play football:

Zoe: First, you put the ball down…then you pick it up and run and thwow it!

We quickly showed Ace how to “down, set, hike” and they were running everywhere before we went to our seats.

We also got to meet a college player, Sergio Martinez. Sergio is one of dad’s former players and now plays at Virginia Tech starting as a true freshmen! We hope they win some so he can go to his first bowl game.

It was cold but the kids were very bundled up and Zoe got to take a nap the fourth quarter with Ge.

Ace was very in to the game and also one of dad’s former players, and my “brother” Brandon who was there.

Enjoying some grandaddy time pregame. Ge got Ace “piderman” hat and gloves and Zoe, of course, received princess ones.

I think this is a great picture of dad warming up the guys before the game!

Some of Mom and dad’s students getting into the game…they really enjoy cheering the team on and have “themes” for each game…the first game they were doing a beach theme…this was Go Big Blue!

Zoe, Ace and Liam were invited to a “ball” celebrating two princesses’ birthdays, Aubrey and Lindsay. I lucked out and found this adorable dress at Goodwill just hours before the ball! I love shopping consignment. Zoe has several dress up outfits, but her Cinderella costume was getting shabby. So we were able to find this one and it fit her to a ‘t.’ You can tell they had a blast dressing up and their host, Naikia, was great with games, crafts, and cake! Naikia (Aubrey and Lindsay’s mom) was dressed as Snow White. So when we got home Ace said, “Now Mommy…I saw BIIIGG Snow White (arms spread out wide) and a little Snow White (shrinking down really small).” He was too cute despite having to miss most of his nap to attend his first “friend” birthday party for the year!

Waiting to find the “poison apple” before Snow White bit it…I guess they were the “dwarves.”

Birthday Princess #1, Aubrey

Birthday Princess #2, Lindsay

Princess Rilyn during a party game.

Princess Sydney as Snow White

It looks like Liam won’t be in Early Intervention until he starts walking. His pt and service coordinator both think that he should exit out of the program soon. We’re excited. Doing a rough evaluation, his pt said he is doing a lot of things on 9 mth and 10 mth level and is equal if not past what his peers are doing. They will be talking and deciding on when the best time is to exit. They are not too thrilled about exiting him out of the program because we have been good for them to practice the new coaching model on. He has essentially done what we had wanted which was to be age appropriate in his development! I’ll keep everyone posted on when we can exit the program!!

First time to pull up without mommy or daddy’s help!

Liam is doing unbelievably well! He is pulling up on anything that will stand still long enough for him to grab. He started staying “dada” sounds last week and picked up “mama” sounds this week. Unfortunately, the “mama” sounds are only when he’s mad. He’s getting quite the personality and thinks that Zoe and Ace are just tops. He’s cruising around furniture and today, he stayed standing for a few seconds until he realized I had let go of him. He’s going up our two stairs with ease. And he’s popping up on his hands and knees and crawling that way more than belly crawling (although he’s really fast on his belly). It’s safe to say, he’s right where he needs to be developmentally. We’ll continue with pt/EI until he’s met all of his goals…the last of which is walking (of course).

Now…enjoy pictures of the whole crew from the month of September.

Zoe thoroughly enjoys the last class of the month in ballet. It’s dress up time. She picked out this special hat (see a post in September) and wand and was clad in pink from head to toe!!! Our little princess…

Columbia County Ballet (where Zoe takes) presented The Selfish Giant. We took Zoe and Ace but since it was at night, left Liam with a friend (he was much happier trying to sleep than sitting through a ballet). We all loved it. Not only did they do The Selfish Giant, but we were able to see several other pieces including one that Mark and I thought was hilarious called Great Scot! Anyways, we had checked out a book from the library called Fancy Nancy about a little girl who gets her parents to dress up. So, Zoe picked out our “fancy” clothes and we enjoyed sharing a big brownie at the cafe during intermission…we had our own “fancy” night. Ace walked around with that book the whole week after talking about “ancy ancy.” By the way, Columbia County Ballet was named the resident ballet company at our Performing Arts Theater at the performance. We thought that was pretty neat.

Settling in to watch Alabama play! Liam was being such a cuddlebug…We broke out the camera and got Zoe an dAce to get in on the act!

Zoe and Liam decided they would have a commando crawling race. For those who don’t know, Zoe was an exclusive belly crawler…destined for the army, I guess! So this was extremely funny. They went up the hallway and back down. I think Liam beat her (maybe he’s heading to the army?!). Our kids are so goofy…we love it!

Proof that Liam, 9 mths old, beat big sis, Zoe, 3 1/2 years old!!!

This month on our menu, we had Manicotti (twice). The firs time we had it, Ace decided that he didn’t like it and didn’t want to try it, etc. He was pretty adament about it, too.

So, we took Dr. Dobson’s advice, wrapped it up and stuck in the fridge for breakfast the next day. The next morning, I heated up his manicotti and Zoe, Liam and I had our cereal for breakfast. I was prepared for screaming and yelling from Ace. No screaming or yelling, just the occasional comment that he wanted Cheerios. After about 5 minutes, he ate every single bite of the manicotti and never said a word.

Well, tonight was our last night of manicotti for a few months. We were prepared for anything. Ace not only ate the manicotti without complaining but he ate one and half pieces of manicotti (and that’s a lot)! Wow! Gotta love 2 year old power struggles!!!

Of course, it helps that he was pitching a fit through both snack times and only ate minimal lunch…he was pretty hungry 🙂

Today was a perfect preview of Autumn, so we loaded up our school book and went outside for school and to have some serious playtime. We loved the weather and we were even able to study a bee by the lantana…Zoe and Ace were fascinated with it flying from flower to flower. And we had to break out the bubbles, as well.

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This past weekend was my Ten Year High School Reunion! Of course, we jumped at the chance to go out and enjoy a night out without kids not to mention meeting “old” friends. We went to my high school’s football game. I think they won but I’m not too sure. I spent most of the time visiting and talking and catching up. Since we don’t live where I went to high school (or where Mark went) then I hadn’t seen or heard from most of the people for about 6 or 7 years (since I graduated from college).

Saturday was the reunion. I got to see a lot of old friends including my best friend from high school and the maid of honor at my wedding, Marla. It really was a nice chance for us to talk. After the reunion, Mark, Marla, and I headed to Starbucks and visited with another great friend, Chrissy who was unable to make it to the reunion. Then at about 1 (Georgia time) we headed to Mark’s parents house and slept for a few minutes before the chaos insued and we went to church, packed up, drove home, and went to church again. It was a busy but good weekend. And, we get to do it again next year for Mark’s 10 Year Reunion! Here are a lot of pictures for all my high school friends who are checking the website.

Vera and Seneca at the game.

Ryan and his wife, LaDonna, and Imogen (their two month old daughter) Ryan and I were youth interns at our church the summer after our senior year. Ryan also sang at our wedding!

This is me with my best friend, Marla. Brag moment: Marla is a pediatric doctor currently completing a fellowship in hemoc (I’m not sure if I spelled that right)…hematology oncology…at a children’s hospital in Texas…how cool is that?!

Neal and Stacy
Stacy was one of Mark’s good friends growing up.

Cindy
Cindy was a good friend. She also ran track for my dad. And helped us cut up in his History class!

This is Cindy’s husband! He’s a little goofy but oh so sweet.

Jeff, with his wife, Jamie
They were absolutely adorable and have some of the cutest kids (next to mine, of course).

Andra and Justin
Andra was a color guard with me. Justin was a good friend through high school.

Airon
Airon played football for my dad and he was part of our “group” that always hung out together. None of us ever had dates on the weekends. So, we’d all go to the movies, or just talk on the front porches of our houses. Or rent really stupid movies!

Our “after-reunion” visit with Chrissy and Marla and Chrissy’s husband and Mark (got to include the guys).