Funny Abby!

This is Abby's new face that she makes when you try to take a picture of her. This was during her first trip to the waterpark this year. She's definitely alot harder to manage there this year than last. Since now she's mobile and all. She wants to go go and keep up with Nathan and all the other boys.

Abby had pudding one night after dinner last week for dessert. She obviously enjoyed it and can say chocolate now. She calls it, "sha sha". Which sounds an awful lot like what she calls her sweet friend Charlotte who lives in Atlanta now. It's funny because chocolate is also one of Charlotte's very favorite things.

Happy Father's Day

Feb. 2007

I'm totally playing catch up today with all my blogging. Happy Father's Day to Clay! What a great dad. Nathan and Abby LOVE their daddy so much. Nathan loves to go to the driving range with his dad and pretty much anything else Clay will take him to do. Cabelas is one of their favorite hangouts. Abby asks me all day long about daddy. Today we were going to go shopping and I asked her if she was ready to go bye bye and she says, "Daddy!" So of course we had to go meet Clay for lunch. She's a daddy's girl. Thanks Clay for being such a great father to our babies.

An Etheridge Family Tradition

Nathan and I carried on a family tradition that we always did when I was growing up. Watermelon! My dad brought this to us last weekend when he and my mom came to celebrate my birthday and Father's Day. So last week one evening Nathan and I cut it open and just ate straight out of the middle of the melon. This is the only way we eat watermelon at my parents. This tradition was started many years ago when my dad was a boy. His parents ran a grocery store out of the front room of their house while he was growing up in east Texas. So on hot summer days my Me-maw would bring a watermelon out under the shade tree and cut it open where they would just dig in. Most with spoons, but she always just used the knife that she cut the watermelon open with. This is how my dad grew to love watermelon and Nathan seems to be following in his footsteps.

The Johnson Men are on the Web!

Check out our church website. My boys are famous, again! This was on the cover of the church bulletin on Father's Day last year. Totally caught Clay off guard. Now they are using it on the website this year. I think Nathan may have just turned 4 in this picture or may still be 3 since he doesn't have his glasses yet.


http://www.rhchurch.org/index.cfm?pg=event&id=108

Couple More Funny Stories

I have to add these stories before I forget. Perhaps the best thing about this blog is that it's an easy way to document all the funny things that happen everyday that I will want to remember years from now.

1. Nathan and cheeseburgers. Nathan is loving cheeseburgers right now. Everywhere we go he wants a cheeseburger. Doesn't matter where we are, it's cheeseburger. Last weekend while we were on our vacation, Nathan was just swimming and having a grand time in the pool when a waiter walks by with a big cheeseburger for someone else. All of a sudden Nathan pops his head up out of the pool and says, "Did I just see a cheeseburger!?!" It was so funny. Luckily he got distracted with something else and forgot about it right then.

2. Abby is getting too smart. The other night we all went to Sonic for the free Root Beer floats. Just as we turn into Sonic she starts yelling out from the back seat, "Slush!" So of course she has to have an apple juice slush. Well then this afternoon Clay, Abby and I were headed home to eat lunch and we turn right in front of Sonic and she blurts out, "Eat!" and was shortly followed by, "Slush!" Well that just melted her daddy's heart and he just turned right into Sonic to get us lunch. Thanks, Abby and Clay!

San Antonio Weekend

Last weekend Clay and I took Nathan to San Antonio for his own vacation while Abby stayed here. We went with our friends, Mr. Tim, Mrs. Shelley, Marshall, and Drew. The boys had so much at Sea World and swimming ALL weekend. I think the grown ups had a great time too. It was very relaxing just having Nathan since he is so independent and such a sweet boy.

Abby's Weekend at Grandma's

This past weekend Clay, Nathan, and I went to San Antonio for vacation. We left Abby here with Clay's mom for 3 nights and 3 full days. We were so nervous to leave her. This was the first time that she stayed away from us all by herself. Usually Nathan is with her. She seems to have had a great time and to have done just fine. She slept good, ate good, and was just really sweet for Grandma and Grandpa.

She seems to have had fun playing in the little pool, but she does not seem too sure about these ducks.