Drinking and Driving

Jonas likes this little John Deere Buck Truck that Sharon got him. Here's a couple of pictures that I caught of him riding on it.

Look at that smile!!! Awww, I could just eat him up!!

And yes, here's the evidence of his DUIm (Driving Under the Influence of Milk)!!! We started him early. Hope we can break this habit before it shows up on his record. LOL

Check out what his shirt says...My Daddy's a Stud too. I love this shirt. I bought it even before he was born. I had to have it. I just knew he was going to be a cutie just like his handsome Daddy!!! ;o)

My Little Dancing Queen

Today was Maddie's first day in Tap and Ballet. As some of you know, she has been taking gymnastics, though she wasn't to happy about it. She was excited about it initially but when she started going she didn't like it. She does have 2 weeks left of gymnastics but we went ahead and started her in dance classes. So like I said, today was her first day...and she LOVED it. She left there saying she wanted to go back next week. I was so excited, she never said that about gymnastics.

Well here are some pictures of her all decked out and ready for class. Isn't she precious?!?!?!?!

She's really good at dancing on her tippy-toes!! Maybe we'll have a little ballerina, yet!!

Maddie in her tap shoes. (Courtesy of Sharon. Thank you, GaGa)

Here are her pink tap shoes. She's the only one with pink ones but she ADORES them. They are pink with glitter, it just screams MADISON!!! LOL

Maddie walking into the dance building. She was so ready to go that she told me that she could go all by herself. Already to big for her pink lil' britches!! LOL

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Maddie with her other dancing friend just as class was starting.

Maddie had a great time and loved it. She looked so cute all dressed in pink. PINK leotard, PINK tights, PINK tutu, PINK hair ribbons, and 2 pairs of PINK shoes...as Maddie would say, She was PINKILICIOUS!!!!

OMG!!!!

I can't believe it has been almost a month since my last blog. I have to fess up and tell you that I have been "sucked" into the Facebook world. It's been a month or so now that I have been a member and so now the newness has worn off. So a-blogging we will go....

I know that I have some catching up to do but I know that when I go back and catch up that my blogs always turn it novels so if it makes you feel any better, we haven't really had much going on so that means not so much to blog about.

I will tell ya a little about today. It has been a good day, an easy going day. It's just me and the kids today. Oh yeah, I guess you may not know but for the last 2 weeks Jason has been on his ED rotation at Bertie County Memorial (it's about an hour away from here). His schedule for this rotation is like this: Works Tues, Thurs, Sat from 8am until 8 am the next day. Then the week after that he'll only work one day and goes back to the 3 days. So he has an easy week and then a busy week and goes back and forth until the 6 weeks is over. So his first 2 weeks have been very slack but today was his first day of his first busy week. So he's been home a lot which in some ways are good but it's challenging too.
Anyway, it's just me and the kids today. While Jonas was taking his nap (he's pretty much just down to one nap a day now), Maddie and I worked on her Halloween outfit. She is super excited about it. I think she's more excited about her costume than getting candy. If you know us then you know that we ALL love to dress up for Halloween. So I'll be working on all of those as Halloween approaches. I"m not going to tell ya what we are planning on dressing up as, we love to keep it a secret. I don't know why but we do. I'll probably slip up at some point but I'll try not to. Anyway we started making it this morning, made a pattern and then measured and cut fabric and all that. Later, I started the sewing part. It looked so cute. I had Maddie try it on for me...UH OH!!!! It didn't fit. I don't know how I could have done that. I was so mad at myself. I wanted it to be fitted but I guess I just didn't measure right. So what does that mean? That means spending more money to buy more fabric. That makes me so mad. Well anyway, I"m not going to dwell on it.
Other than that, today was good. We played outside. We had great weather. It was nice and cool but not cold. I love it. Fall is here!!!! The kids were good today. Not too much drama in the house today. It was just a simple but good day.

Our busy month of August

Well our month of August begin with a trip to Fayetteville. August 1st was the weekend of Jason's birthday so we went to spend time with the family. We mostly just hung out and went swimming at David and Tresea's. Here's some pix...


Jonas and Maddie sharing a float.

Maddie has finally found that jumping into the pool is fun...as long as the float is there.

Jonas likes to jump too but you gotta catch him or he won't be HAPPY!! But here in this picture, he's happy...look at that smile.


Daddy cheerleading with Jonas and Maddie. This is Maddie doing her Lib.


Jonas likes to swim around for a bit but then he just likes to hang out in the float.


Maddie likes for Daddy to swing her around in the water and make big waves.


This picture was taken on Sunday morning as everyone else was getting ready for church. Maddie found these tanning goggles and snuggled up with Patches in Granddaddy's bed and was watching some TV. It was a funny site and it made us laugh.

The next weekend we hung out at home and played on the Slip N' Slide. We had a good time. I got on it too but no pics of that, thank goodness. Here's some pictures and videos too.


Jonas drinking the water that is squirting up. He was so thrilled with that.


You've gotta double click on this picture to see just what it is that I'm taking a picture of...Can you say "WEDGIE"!!! LOL


Daddy and the kids just hanging out.

Jonas sliding down with Daddy.

Ready, set, GO!!! SWOOSH!!!

Jonas making a SPLISH!!

Maddie making a SPLASH!!


Daddy making a SPLISH and a SPLASH!!

Here are the videos...They aren't anything special. I took it with the camera instead of the actual video camera so they are very poor quality but at least I have them.





Maddie's dancing cracks me up in this one.

During that same week we went to the park. It was a semi-mild humid morning, so we ventured out to the park. So here's just a few of the kiddos playing there.

Maddie likes to swing in these big swings.(They are actually made for handicap kids)
She also just had to play in the wet sand and get all nasty.



Jonas riding on the bug and alligator. I love the first picture. He just looks so excited!!


Maddie and Jonas sharing a ride with 2 other kids. Just so happened that these other kids were in Maddie's Pre-School class. Seamus and Claire are their names and they are twins. They are very sweet kids.


Jonas enjoying the bouncy ride that Maddie is giving him. Maddie likes that Jonas is big enough now to ride with her.


Jonas making some chimed music. He went crazy on this thing once he realized what it did. He was just beating them all together and laughing. He enjoyed himself!!!

The next day I let Maddie play outside with her finger paints and after I had finish putting Jonas down, I come out to see THIS...

First picture was the face of Opps, I got caught. And then she so proudly showed me her paintings on paper and herself. I'm just glad it was outside. :o)

Here's just some random pictures from through out that week.

Maddie being silly with a Mr.Potato Head mustache stuck in her nose.
Maddie playing with her LeapPad that GiGi gave her for her birthday. She plays with it a lot. Her favorite game is the princess one of course.

Jonas playing hair dresser while Maddie is trying to concentrate and do her LeapPad.

(Picture#1) Jonas sitting at Maddie's little desk working hard on a beautiful picture. Doesn't he look big just sitting there and coloring? (Picture#2) I bought these boots for Maddie but I think Jonas wears them the most. He just likes to play around in them as you can see.

The following week the kids and I went for a visit to my parents. I went so that I could go to a Open House for a friend of mine that had gotten married out west a few weeks before. I also got to see my BFF, Cathryn and we took the kids (her 2 and my 2) to Chuck E Cheese. Though I enjoy seeing my family and friends, it was not a good trip up there. The kids didn't even fall asleep until like 45 mins before I got there and it's a 4 (that turned into a 5) hour drive. After that I remembered why I don't drive there without Jason. Luckily, the drive home wasn't as bad, not good but not as bad. Here's 2 pics of Maddie playing dress up in my sisters old play stuff.

Silly Little Maddie, but a cute one.

We drove home the 4 hours on Sat and then on Monday was Jonas' appt at Duke so then I had to drive the kids 2 hours to Durham for that. On the way up there, I gave Maddie one of those Handi-Snacks Cheese and Stick things and she took the cheese and smeared it all over her arms and face and some on Jonas' cheeks. The appt took longer than usual so we didn't get out until after lunch time. So that means that they were tired and hungry. I stopped at a McDonald's and let them eat and play for a while. This made them full bellied and exhausted so they actually fell asleep in the car, which they rarely do now. After we got home, a few other things happened that caused me to lose all sanity. Maddie took her sippy cup and splashed her cranberry juice all over the floor. Then later while Maddie was going poopoo, she allowed her little brother to play in the toilet. This is the point of where I LOST it. I screamed and yelled and punched the wall, I was just so angry. Everything had just been building up over the last week or so that the POOP did me in. There was poop all over Jonas and Maddie and smeared around the bathroom. I knew that he was in there with her but I just never thought that I'd come to find that!! But we did all live through that experience...barely.

Here's some more random pictures of the middle of the month.

Daddy taking Joey and Maddie on a little ride around the back yard on the motorcycle.
In picture 3 is Jonas crying b/c he wasn't finished riding. This boy LOVES the motorcycle.


First pic is of Maddie with her sunflower that was planted on Earth Day (April 22) and now it's as tall as her. Second pic is of a weather confused girl with a summer dress and toboggan on.



The kids taking turns swinging on a tree branch here in the front yard.


One of very few pictures of me...but I was giving Jonas a piggy back ride. He enjoyed it. (Please ignore that I look like crap and a little on the WT side.)


Daddy helped our little monkeys climb the tree. Maddie climb up pretty far without much help but a little scared about coming down.


My handsome little fellow. First picture if you look close you can see that he has a paci in both hands and the obvious one in his mouth. And as you can see, he's already a Tar Heel fan too. Cute HUH?

First picture is of him folding his arms for the prayer. What a sweetie!! He has started mumbling too when we say prayers. He's trying to say his own. I''m sure the Lord knows what he's saying and that's all that matters. :o) Second picture is of him after we told him to close his eyes.



Here's Jonas playing in his room like a good little boy. I love the first picture, the way he's got his chin resting on his hand while he's playing. That's so cute!! Pic3 he's making his animals sounds.
After he was all done playing with his barn set he decided to read a book.

Well we are finally at the end of August Updates. The last thing that happened in Aug was Jason's Triathlon and I'm going to blog about that separately. And I'll just go on from there. Sorry this was so long but I don't want to leave anything out for my own future use. This is kinda like a journal for our family so that's why there's so much in it. Thanks for reading!!!