BIG News!!!

Nathan lost his first tooth tonight!!! After being whacked in the nose with the rinsing cup in the bathtub we did a tooth check. I really thought his loose tooth might have been knocked out from the whacking in the tub, but no it was just barely hanging on. I tried to get him to yank it out, but that was a no go. So mom to the rescue. I yanked it out and we did the tooth dance!! He is very excited and could hardly stop smiling tonight before he went to sleep. He is very eager to get to school tomorrow and show his friends.

We Have MOVED!!!

We have been in our new house for 2 weeks now and we are loving it!! After a crazy time getting to the closing table, we hurriedly got one set of contractors in to scrape and re-texture the ceilings and and then another set of contractors in to paint from head to toe. Then we hurriedly moved in our stuff. The painters were still painting as we were walking in with boxes and furniture. It was a hard moving weekend and week to follow, but we are starting to come out of the moving fog. All the boxes in the house are empty, but we have a garage full of boxes to go through and clean out.

The kids are having such a great time. They each got to pick the paint color for their rooms. Nathan's room is blue and Abby's is pink. Do they fit the typical sterotypes or what!?!

This weekend we have been recovering from the severe storms we had here last week. We lost a tree in our backyard and some shingles off the roof. Great welcome to the neighborhood.:-)

Fun times with the chainsaw!

Glamour girl of the block!

Muscle man hauling branches out to the curb.

Easter Weekend!

The kids and I had such fun Easter weekend at my mom and dad's. We are in the middle of trying to move. So Clay stayed here to clean, mow, pack, make the pool presentable, & do fun stuff like that. We are going to be leasing our current house. So we feel like our house needs to be somewhat clean for the tenants once we leave. My sister was also able to come with Mallory. So it was a super fun time. The kids are so in love with Mallory. Abby needs to learn a little about personal space, I think. She likes to get right up on Mal. She even tried to climb in the carrier with her at the mall on Saturday. Marcia did a great job with the slideshow on her blog. Check it out to see all our fun!

Oh Abby!

Our dear sweet Abby is 2 1/2!! This milestone has been somewhat overlooked due to her big brother turning 6, but we sure don't want to forget our girl. Here are some funny things she does right now.

• One of the sentences we hear her say ALL the time is, "I want sumpin to eat." I can't tell you how many times a day we hear this. She is a busy girl, though. All the eating doesn't seem to be packing on the pounds. She barely weighs 26 pounds!


• Last week Abby had a terrible stomach virus that lasted off and on for about 5 days. Due to the virus, she ate alot of toast. Now toast is one of her favorite things to eat. She asks for it at every meal and likes to eat several pieces. She also loves Nutri-Grain bars. I think she ate 4 yesterday. She says, "I want bar."


• Abby LOVES to talk. She just jabbers all the time. Tonight at dinner her mouth was just going constantly. He voice is too cute and we love to hear her talk, but sometimes quiet might be nice. She has a hard time going to sleep at night because she can't stop talking. She will lay in her bed and just chit-chat with herself about all kinds of stuff. So different from her brother. When he hits the sheets, he is out!

• One other thing we love to hear her say is "yours". If she wakes up during the night we have to be prepared for her to sleep with us. Whenever we go in there she says, "I go yours bed." It's just too cute and she ends up with us every time. I know she has already slept in our bed WAY more than Nathan ever has. We just love our sleep too much to have the battle of making her stay in her bed right now.


• Abby also still enjoys her pacis. I use the word enjoys, but a better word might be addicted. When Nathan was her age, we forgot them one weekend when we went out of town and he never asked for them again. I don't think she will be that easy to break. It has to be done and soon. Anyone have any tips!?!


• Tonight after Clay had tucked her in bed and started to walk away, she told him, "You come back here right now!" Wonder where she hears that.


• She also loves to pretend. Her teachers tell me she likes to pretend she is taking everyone to Sonic for French Fries.


• She is also very excited about the Disney Princesses right now. Especially Cinderella. "I watch Cinderella in the payroom!" is one of her favorite things to tell me.

This post could go on forever. Abby is just an absolute hoot. I forgot how interesting the 2-3 year is. It's definitely full of some frustration, but ALOT of laughs. We love our Abby.

She loves her daddy to pieces!

She also loves cake and ice cream.

Even though she's only 2, she's styling hair already. Maybe she's destined to work at Pizazz, Kim?

So proud of her new Dora nightgown.

This is how Abby organized her panties and some of Nathan's underwear one day. I guess that's why the makers of the step stool put all those little compartments in the underside!

What an accomplishment!

Happy 6th Bday to our Nathan!!!

Last Tuesday was Nathan's birthday. The BIG 6!!! We pretty much had a week long celebration. We started on the morning of his bday with new BB gun and then a family donut breakfast on the way to school. That night we celebrated with taco dinner at home, with Rosa's rice, and Red Velvet cake. These are all his favorite things. Then on Thursday we had the blizzard of '08, at least for us Texans! We welcomed Parsh and Mallory here that afternoon. It was Mallory's first snow. I don't think she was near as excited as her cousin Nathan. Saturday we had a big swim party for Nathan. We had lots of school friends and all of our other special friends at his party. We did miss our Atlanta friends, though. Crazy that a snow storm in Texas would keep them from getting a flight! Anyway, the party was great and all the kids had so much fun swimming.

Happy 6th to our Nathan. We love you, buddy!

And So It Begins...

Nathan got to go to the shooting range with Clay for the first time yesterday. This is an activity that could have gone either way for Nathan. He has been wanting to go with Clay for several weeks now and has been very eager, but I still wasn't sure how it would turn out. He LOVED it!!! Both of my boys were on Cloud 9 when they got home. I think this will be a hobby for years to come for these two to do together. Last night when I was tucking Nathan in he told me, "I am ready to go hunting for a deer!"

Happy Valentine's Day!

We started our Valentine celebration a few weeks ago, when one Monday Abby was insisting we make a cake. So being the good baker that I am, I pull out the heart pan and we made a strawberry cake complete with candles. Not only did she insist on the cake, but she insisted on the candles. "I blow it!" She repeated all day. So we sang Happy Valentine's day to ourselves as she and Nathan blew out the candles.

Happy Valentine's Day 2008

Love to all our friends and family!