DADDY'S HOME!!!

The boys were so thrilled to see daddy this morning when he got home from his morning practice!!! (They were long asleep when he got home last night.)

Oh, and the second I put the last boy down last night I conquered the bathroom. I could not live with myself any longer, let alone even try to sleep with that lurking on the other side of the bathroom door! Proof:

This is one reason it gets so darn cluttered. He loves to pull EVERYTHING out of the cabinet and drawers and saying NO PLEASE a thousand times still has not gotten through to him. So I just throw it all on the counter or in the sinks!

Someone is in a pickle:

Waiting for daddy this morning:

FORGET CHICK-FIL-A...

Ya, you heard me.
Never thought I'd say that. I love the food there buuuutttt BURGER KING has a WAY better INDOOR and AIR CONDITIONED playground, and my child will eat their apple sticks AND their chicken nuggets! Plus, I am not tempted to eat everything on the menu and shove my face like at Chick-Fil-A. Just I little iced coffee was the perfect treat. So that is what we did this afternoon for a good hour. Now we are back and The Lion King is in and Ben is yawning....sleep sleep time.

I'm surviving the weekend way better than I thought I would. It is crazy how I went from such SEVERE pain to feeling so great in a matter of 3 days. I still have a really tight knot and an occasional "twinge" but I feel better than I have in months and have more energy...thanks to the few adjustments I have gotten and needed. I forgot how great it is going to a chiropractor. I has been too long!

Yesterday we went for a 30 minute walk to a great SHADED playground (all about the shade and air-conditioning down here) and then came back and had lunch. Then, get this: I took the boys all by myself to the pool! CRAZY. A friend at work gave me this great float for Connor it even as a shaded roof and Ben has his little floatie thing so I got to be hands free :)   The only hard part was leaving the pool, which I had anticipated already.
Park pics:

Being is "soccer widow" is not easy, espacially with two youngins but I think I am finally getting the hang of it. Now don't get me wrong. I am not Mrs. Perfect with the crown and all. See:
Here is my bathroom counter (cant believe I am posting this):

And the "lived in" living room (I did manage to vacuum it this morning before it blew up):

But the important things are done, clean kitchen, beds made, laundry done, and my legs are shaved!

Here is what happended to Connor while I was doing this last post:

Cannot wait for Daddy to get home tonight!

SHE'S BEAUTIFUL!

BANANA NUT BREAD

This turned out so perfect that I just had to post a picture. 

I was going to clean today because the house is literally disgusting. If the food inspectors were to come we would for sure not get an "A". But I woke up with a "nagging" pain in my back and after getting the boys going the pain was so bad in my back I could hardly breathe. Ben had to come home and bring the kids in to the day care.  I in turn made a chiropractic appointment (because I know that the ER just x-rays you and gives you narcs and muscle relaxers). Turns out I popped a rib out ... random. I swear it, the pain was paralyzing, worse than labor! It even made me cry it was so bad! They got me to the point of functioning again. Sooo no cleaning for me today.

Bad news: Ben leaves today for the next 4 days and I have 2 kids to take care of. Good news: I get the banana bread to myself! Well actually, since it turned out so nice I think I will share it with a neighbor :)...or would it be wrong since my kitchen is so gross right now? It is actually just the floors that desperately need a good mopping but when they are this bad then everything seems dirty to me. There is just no way I can mop in this condition!

LABOR DAY WEEKEND

We were actually all home! How rare is that?! (with the exception that I did work on Sunday). Lita AND Poppy came to visit for the whole weekend! It was so nice having them down, especially to have my dad here too, and it is NOT because he has perfected home made ice cream making to a "T" and has invented a few creative recipes of his own. YUMMY!

We all hung around the house on Saturday morning then took a drive to see a house that we found on the Internet for sale, that we will never get because or house will probably never sale in Virginia. Granted, we just decided to put in on the market Friday. We have not been too stressed because we have renters, who want to buy it...but have to sell their not one, but TWO houses in North Carolina. We don't foresee that happening any where in the near future (sorry guys)  so on the market went good ole' 40 Faircrest Rd. We are paying $400 of the mortgage ourselves and we are willing to "take it up the rear" and just sell the thing way below what we put into it...so holler if you know anyone moving to Lexington!

Anyways, then we went to Chick-Fil-A where our child is probably the only one who will not eat their chicken nuggets or fries, crazy (so guess who gets to...) BUT he WILL eat an entire carrot raisin salad! Then we laid low until Georgia Southerns Football season opener.  I probably saw all of maybe 3 plays. But we all had a great time. Connor especially did because he snatched up one of Ben's "pig in a blankets" when he was not looking and insisted on eating that instead of a cold processed jar of baby food-smart kid.

 I worked Sunday and Ben had a 10:00 am practice so my parents snatched up the boys and went to Savannah for the afternoon (without a camera, bummer). There is this great little park area they developed with the water fountain things that shoots up out of the concrete that Ben loves, so off they went. I was shocked that they were willing to brave it "2 on 2" alone down there. But they said the kids were soooo goood and soooo happy. Even in the car...another HUGE difference between Connor and Ben. I remember we would have to sneak off at night time so he would sleep if we wanted to go on any car trip over an hour with Ben otherwise he would throw a fit!

Monday was relaxing and just walked over to watch Daddy's practice while Ben played with a water hose (thanks football budget, your water bill may be unusually higher this month!). Then my parents left :( ... and I picked up a few hours at work :( that turned into me coming in at 1 in the am due to a brain bleed I had, a GI bleed, a chest pain, and a bunch of other crapola...While Ben put the boys in the stroller and walked to Hanner Fieldhouse to watch the Girls Volleyball game...Fun, no fair!

~THANKS AGAIN FOR VISITING POPPY AND LITA~

9 MONTHS OLD

NONNERBABAJIGGAWAGGA

(one of his wonderfully creative names given by his father)

The kid is already 9 months old. It is just plain crazy how fast time has flown by.

Stats: 30 1/2 inches

22.5 pounds 

He is a solid happy healthy kid. We are so thankful.

His is standing on his own.

Says "dada" and "baba"

Likes to do the "Cinco Lobitos" and "Pat-a-cake"

Will eat anything, he was even nawing on a rib bone on Sunday

admires his Big Brother

and turning into a mama's boy.

He is just such a great baby.  I'm not used to hearing people say what a "sweet" boy, so I reply by saying "I know, isn't he!" Because when Ben was this age, we had just gotten pregnant with Connor and friends were like "wow, what are you going to do, he is such a handful and so busy and sick all the time and ...  and... and then with two..." Our only reply was, "well, it cannot get any worse can it?!" Now, I don't think it can get any better! (except for the sleeping through the night issue). Don't get me wrong, Little Xangi is awesome and an out going energetic ankle biter that a brick wall cannot even stop, we wouldn't trade his personality for anything! It is just so nice to now have an orange. I hate comparing the two, you just cannot, they are so different from each other at this age. Like for example Ben was 4 lbs lighter and 2 inches shorter too! He almost makes us want to go for it and have number three....but then you about reality and how hectic our schedule is and how we are dropping a whopping $900 a month on child care for 2 already (ouch! I know).  Ifffff we could have Marmie or Lita living by us there would be no question about it!

The day we brought him home: