Big day!

It has been almost two years since Ansley was born so....we finally got a haircut!!

This is an after shot

This shows you how long it is now....she got about 2 inches cut off

She was happy to pose for the camera

This was taken before we went to get it cut, so you can kind of see how long it was....but this last picture has more to do with the idea of nature vs. nurture....we do not encourage her to play with dolls, in fact, most are up so high or tucked away so that she cannot play with them, not on purpose so much now, but before she was just too little to play with the ones she had been given. But this last picture shows her new favorite past time, it is taking a towel/blanket and covering her baby doll and patting her on the back. I am sure she sees the teachers at school doing this for her and the other kids in her class at nap time, but she has just starting doing it here with this doll. Mind you there are NO other dolls or girl toys down at her level, most everything is boy based, like trucks and trains and cars, etc....so I am a firm believer in the nature idea that girls are more nurturing. Just my two cents ;)

Hard day at work....

Don't ask me why, but a publishing company had a marketing event at the Atlanta Motor Speedway today, so we got to go there and preview their new textbook line and....go for rides in pace cars!!!

This is just one of the "pit" cars that we got to take pictures by...but we got to go for rides in a 2010 Chevy Camero at speeds of up to 115 mph!! It was so much fun!! Not a hard day at the "office!"

Happenings around here....

We came home from Tybee Island today....wish we could have stayed a little longer, as we had a blast!!

Eric had fun making sand castles ;)

Ansley had fun playing with our rubber mallet that we took with us to hammer in the umbrella to keep us shaded (of note, only Eric got a sunburn this whole trip, and that is because he did not wear any sunscreen!! Silly boy). The rest of us pale people wore plenty of sunscreen and some of us (Ansley) even got a little bit of a tan!! Ansley continued to hate the water and generally just wanted to play in the sand box (beach).

Austin & Eric played in the water with a beach ball, Austin had SO much fun!! I think this is a pretty cool picture with the way the light reflects off the water...it was early on Wednesday morning, and we were almost totally by ourselves on the beach.

Austin & Ansley really started playing together like brother and sister this trip; they slept in the same room and would talk to each other in the morning when they woke up before Austin would come and get us up too.

Uncle Bunny gave Austin a new truck before we left, and he loved playing with it in the sand and water....we lost the doors to in the first day in the surf....look how empty the beach is!!

We came home to rose bushes in full bloom; this is how Eric gets out of buying me flowers, he buys me rose bushes instead; the gift that keeps on giving!

Hot fun in the ocean!!

We came to the beach for a few days between semesters..............lots of fun!!

Austin & I playing in the water.......ignore the blindingly white bodies!!

Austin is concerned that you all might think he is having fun

Austin & I are having a water fight!!

Ansley keeps calling the beach a sand box....but, rest assured, she HATES the water!! She does not like to be in the water at all!! She cries and fusses and screams.....she just wants to be held or to run around in the sand.....when she does walk, she will go to the waters edge with us and walk, but she deliberately avoids the wet sand...prissy!!

But at least she is having fun in the sand box!!

Happy Meerkat Mom Day!!

Today, Austin asked me if he could give me a meerkat kiss...sure!! So he came over and licked me on the cheek!! eeww!! But I'll take it!!

Today, the kids & Eric gave me a cool card that sings; before Eric gave it to me Austin told me it was a super hero card....turns out it was! It was "Mom the Superhero" card ;)

Happy mothers day; I hope you got some licks (kisses) too!!

Really bad sign

Tonight while Eric was making Austin's bed with clean sheets, he lifted up the mattress to tuck in the top and look at what he found!!!! That's right it is a Bruder toy truck magazine!!!! When asked why he had it under his bed, Austin responded, "that is my hiding place".....well at least we know he already thinks like a teenage boy .... hahahaha....look at the look on his face

BUSTED!!!

p.s. Eric did not pee in his pants, it was bath time....all of the boys in the house are potty trained!!

Even sicker

When I went to get Austin from school yesterday they had him in the front office with a towel around his neck....said he had a 103 fever.....so since it was 4:30pm the pediatrician's office was closed already so we had to go to a minor emergency clinic....after smelling his breath, I knew what they were going to say....Strep Throat part II. Seems strep throat is being spread around our neighborhood like a good rumor ... so back on antibiotics.

If you are keeping score, that is two sick kids on two different antibiotics and ibuprofen in our house. Both have fever, both are cranky, both want to just be held all the time or lay on the couch eating popsicles or run to the bathroom because they think they are going to throw up or yell at the other for looking at the other or ..... who wants to come take a shift so I can get some sleep??? I know, I know, it is always all about me ;)