The Tooth Fairy Cometh

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As you can see, the tooth fairy has been very busy at our house this week. Jacob pulled one tooth on Tuesday night. I thought it was going to be a struggle because it was barely hanging on and he didn't want to touch it, but bribery works wonders when "pop-pops" are involved. Then last night Jacob was laying on the couch, minding his own business, when Madison decided that Jacob wasn't paying her enough attention. So she grabbed his face and in the process she grabbed his tooth too. Maybe she will be a dentist...who knows! I am just so glad that I got some really good pictures of his smile before all of this took place.

Been a while...

WOW! It has been a while. A lot has happened since I last posted. I won't try to post every detail, I'll just hit the "high" spots. Christmas was lots of fun. Of course with kids every day is fun. We all got lots of stuff, we are truly blessed not only with material things but with the things that count... family, both blood and church, friends, and so many other things!

Jacob is playing Upwards basketball. At first he was very excited. Now, not so much. What is sad is that he has the ability to be a good player but I think he lacks the enthusiasm. It's just not his LOVE, not like baseball. Either way, I still enjoy going to his games and practicing taking pictures. Here's one that I took recently.


I love how everyone is blurry except Jacob. Which is what I was trying to do. I took a photography class at church this past fall and this is one of the techniques that we learned. I took him a couple of weeks ago to a park here in town to get some pictures before he loses any more teeth. It was just me and him and I got some really good pictures, so much so that I had American Shutterbug print a 16x20 of this


And it was just in time. He lost another tooth Tuesday.

Madison is getting so big. She has tee-teed in the potty several times and sometimes she will volunteer to go on her own. Which means that she is running thru the house pulling her clothes off yelling "I tee-tee in potty" then followed by "I want candy!". She has started talking more in sentences now. One of my favorites is "I hab it" (translation: "I have it" or "Let me have it"). She still loves Jacob and plays just as rough with him as he does her. I wanted to take a picture of Jacob the other night after he lost his tooth and she had to have her picture taken, too.

As you can see, I am working on the look of the blog. That was one of the reasons that I haven't posted in a while. I know it sounds crazy but everytime I thought about posting all I could think of was how I didn't like it's looks and then I would get distracted. So I figured if I could design a Christmas card then I could design a banner, too. So here it is. I am still trying to figure out how to get the picture to not look so pixelly( if that's a word). I think I have a program that will help but until then this is what I will stick with. Maybe later I can try to design my whole page. I have it in my head but just don't have the know-how to produce it.

Thanksgiving Feast Celebration!

Today was the annual Thanksgiving Feast Celebration at Jacob's Preschool. The program was funny and the food was great, as usual. Here are the pictures from the program. For those that want to download the pictures, you should be able to right click on the picture and click "save image as" to download them to your computer. If you have trouble just let me know and I will do something different.

A Jacob Funny

Wow! I know...two posts in one day. But I just had to write this down before I forgot. Yesterday while picking up Jacob and Jack from preschool I hear that my 5 year old son is getting married! Yep, seems that Jacob has a girlfriend and they are getting married. Her name is Morgan. And not only that, after they get married they are going to have a baby. And it's a girl. What's even funnier is the length to which they have planned. You see Morgan has a sister named Madison. So the baby will have two Aunt Madisons. But have no fear they have already figured out that one will be called Aunt Madison and the other will be called Aunt Maddie! I asked Jacob when they were planning on getting married and he said they would wait until they had "grown up". I was glad to hear that! This morning I was telling Michael about the whole marriage thing and Jacob looks at me and says "we're just practicing right now"!

Halloween Happenings

Halloween has come and gone. The kids had sooo much fun! We started out the Halloween festivities (I refuse to call it a holiday because it is not a day I normally get off from work, therefore it is not a "holiday") by carving our pumpkins. Jacob decided he wanted a Captain Hook pumpkin. He then "helped" Madison pick out Pablo from the Backyardigans for her pumpkin. Here are our pumpkin pics...

I also carved an "Old Smokey" pumpkin for our neighbors that I didn't get a picture of. I know, I know...it goes against everything in me as an Alabama fan. But they are HUGE Tennessee fans and they are really good friends. I do have a confession...I don't think I could have carved that pumpkin if we hadn't beat them the weekend before. (Roll Tide!)

The next night we had our Trunk or Treat at our church. Maddie was "Big Al" (or I guess I should say "Little Al") and Jacob was "Captain Hook".

My favorite "trunk" was the Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe". Christie was the witch, David was the lion, and they had their trunk decorated as the wardrobe. Best part...they served hot chocolate! Here's a good picture of David. Unfortunately I didn't get one of the witch or the wardrobe.

Jacob decided Wednesday morning that he didn't want to be Captain Hook anymore. He wanted to be Darth Vader. He eventually decided to be Red Power Ranger after realizing his Darth Vader suit was still too big. Maybe next year. Then that night we had our annual hayride through the neighborhood. The kids had fun trick or treating. Maddie even got the hang of it, although her favorite part was the "ride".

I Don't Dance - HSM2 (Movie Version)

Just call me Chad...

At our house High School Musical 2 is BIG! Jacob and Madison both LOVE IT! Jacob is really into Troy, even wants to dress like him in his black wind pants and black shirt. Maddie loves to hear the music and dance. Jacob even knows some of the moves to the dances (Maddie tries to follow along, too, which makes for some great entertainment at the house). So needless to say we watch HSM2 a lot! My favorite part is the baseball scene when Ryan is trying to get Chad to be in the year end musical and Chad refuses, saying "I don't dance".

I love the song. Like the beat, like the lyrics, and it has a baseball theme. Why wouldn't I love it? It's one of those songs that you can't sit still when you hear it. Michael, being the one who has to find fault with every TV show or movie, is not a big fan of the scene. Too many errors in the scene. I'll have to admit there are some aspects of the scene that are a bit "off". Besides the obvious ones, the fact that all through the movie Chad dances but all of a sudden he "don't dance". Cracks me up. But never would I have ever dreamed that I, too, would share Chad's sentiments. Not with dancing. With singing. Sunday morning after church, our worship leader, Tom, made a comment to me that I should start singing with the praise team at church. My reply was, you guessed it, "I DON'T SING". I couldn't believe that those words came out of my mouth. I mean I sing, but I don't SING. I don't read music. I'm not an alto. I'm not a soprano. I am a follower. I sing whatever I hear. Sometimes its alto, soprano, tenor, harmony, whatever. A lot of times its all of those in one song. I just follow along. And I'm not saying it's good (just glad that God's ears aren't like ours.) Obviously Tom has never sat in front of me at church or he would have probably agreed with me.

As many times as I have seen the movie I never understood what Chad was saying...until Sunday. Now I totally get "I Don't Dance".

Homecoming

For those of you that don't get to visit the Capstone very often...This is especially for Andrea. I know how she loves the University (and photography) and lives in Vol land! So here's your fix...




I was talking with a friend today about living here in this college town. I don't know what we'd do if we didn't live here. Seems like life would be boring! Until next time.....ROLLLL TIDE!!!