halloween

Maddie the Butterfly, Seth the Cow, and Luke-Joe from Blue's Clues

Luke and Seth before "Trunk or Treat" at Plainview

we've had our turn

last week was a doozie. luke and seth had their 4th and 2nd birthday parties, respectively. we had a spiderman-slash-blues clues party. one of my cousin's had died the previous week, so "pop" didn't get to come, but mimi was there. and nana and papa got to come for the first time since seth was born so that was a treat. we had friends and family and plenty of cake and treats and plenty of gifts...at least until christmas!! saturday morning when micah got up, he didn't feel well, so i sent him to bed at the end of the party. luke had not felt well on friday, but was back to normal on friday night after a week of hardly eating. micah, turns out, had a bit of a stomach virus...which by tuesday he had given to sethy in the form of both diarrhea and vomiting. that is sethy's first time. he was a super trooper. he was a little clingy and broke out in a horrid rash, but by saturday, all was back to normal. and let's not forget that friday they both had their annual check ups. they are both in the 90% of weight and luke is in the 93% for height and seth is in the 75% for height. so i have biggo boys!! but i'm just glad they are healthy. seth got 2 shots and luke got all his boosters so he got 4!!! next up...the dentist. at least he has about 6 weeks to recover before completely embarrassing me there. i already know it will not go well. the joys of parenting!! i'm trying to be better at updating more than once a month...but i'm pretty bad at remembering!

oh--our friends the Griffies' had their twins jonah and claire. they are doing well and are healthy. we have faithfully prayed for them for years and it is truly amazing to watch God's perfect plan and timing work out. getting to watch an answer to prayers unfold over 9 months has been truly wonderful! we love you guys and are praying that you all go home and recover soon!! i just wish we could greet them at the door!!

Birthday Party

our Spiderman "thinking chairs" and part of the haul


our 1/2 Spiderman 1/2 Blue's Clues cupcakes

We had a 1/2 Spiderman and 1/2 Blue's Clues birthday party this year. We had really beautiful weather and plenty of folks there, even though we certainly missed Scott, Sherri and the boys and Pop. The boys got a ton of stuff and hopefully it will last them the 2 months until Christmas! I can't believe Sethy is 2! Luke seems like he should be 4, but now Seth is the age Luke was when we brought him home from the hospital!! Time flies when you're up to no good!!

Luke-isms

we started back to preschool a couple of weeks ago. Luke's teacher is the one who first taught him when we started going to Madison last year. so he already knew her and loves her. he just gets out and runs to class. it is NICE!! he loved school last year and this year he is going 2 days a week. so we are driving 200 miles just in back & forth to church (meaning for church and school) every week!!

anyway, these are a few things he has said lately:

i had been telling him something, like what all we were about to be doing i think and at the end i said "ok, Luke?" and he said "whatever you say, mama." (bored sarcastic tone and all!)

today we were leaving the carwash and they love for me to use the big "vacuum hose". well, i didn't need it today and when they had asked me for the 10th time in a row, i just quit answering. the next conversation was this:

Seth: use a 'macuum hose'?
Luke: no, seth...not today.
Seth: not today?
Luke: that's correct...not today. (same tone as above.)

and sunday was the best. we were on our way home from church and seth was whining about who knows what when micah and i had had enough. but before we could say anything we hear Luke say "Sef, I'm ready to put you in the bed!" and before we could even get home, he changed his mind and said "Sef...you are going STRAIGHT to bed!"

mama and daddy laughed alllll the way home!

Gulf Shores in August

Tim McGraw & Faith Hill-Atlanta

whoops!!!

i was checking my blog and i was starting to think nobody loved me because i never had comments. turns out that i forgot to turn on the comment thing. what a jo-jo!!

dana-if you are reading this, when all of our kids get to camp, and when emma hooks up with maddie reed (ellen's little girl--she used to go to college ave but has just moved up here) and then "the wreckers" (which are obviously my boys)...they will just wish a tornado would hit!! i have a feeling the girls will need to start "the little princess" group! poor camp wiregrass. good thing they are slowly updating things because some days, i have a feeling that after all of ours go through, nothing will be standing at the end of the week!!

we have 5 weeks until we go to the beach and we are so excited. luke has been asking for over a month to go to the beach. micah has been counting the days since march! and i need a tan...but i gotta find some time to work on that before i go so i don't fry. work has NOT allowed me to get all toasty brown this year.

i DO have a few cute things that luke has said lately, but that will have to wait for now. it'll give yall...probably all 3 of you...a reason to check back in!