Monkey See, Monkey Do

Having three boys less than two years apart means that there is a LOT of copying going on at our house. If one jumps off the couch, two are sure to follow. If one want to be held, they all want to be held. Wyatt is particularly famous for copying everything that his big brothers do.

Last week while I was making dinner, I busted Andrew sneaking chips. (Notice the batman mask and Cookie Monster undies!!)

Less than five minutes later, another little monkey was in the chip bag too!

Getting Ready for Halloween

October has been a big month for the boys. They sang in big church, attended a couple birthday parties, went to a Halloween carnival at their new school and picked out pumpkins. Tomorrow they go to Harmon's with their school friends and Nana is going along for the field trip. So exciting.

Here I am with a little Lion, Diego and Batman. I am pretty sure Batman is picking his nose in this picture.

On October 11, the boys sang in big church. Our whole family was beaming with pride. As long as Ashley and I have been coming to FBC, I have been dreaming of the day when our child(ren) would be performing in church. It was so unreal to see them singing the songs that they have been practicing every week.

We were not sure what made Andrew decide to sit down, but we were just thankful that he stayed on stage.

The boys picked out their own pumpkins.




Here they are posing outside Granny Meg's house...it's so hard to get a picture of everyone smiling.

(Check out John's McQueen boots...those will show up again in another post)

First Carolina Game

Saturday night we took the boys to their first Carolina game! Go Gamecocks!!!

Driving Lessons

Uh-oh! I fear that this is just the beginning...

Our Cubbies

Two verses down:

"God is Love."
"God created the Heavens and the Earth"

Many more to go...

Preschool

Two and half years ago, Heather started keeping these two boys.

A year and half later, she added one more to the bunch.

Friday the boys leave the only non-family member who has ever kept them and start "big boy school" for the first time on Monday morning. It's exciting and scary all at the same time.

All three boys will be in separate classes...the three who have spent no more than a day apart here and there when sickness kept one or two home with Nana or Granny Meg.

It's so hard for me to imagine them walking into different classrooms when I am so used to seeing them walk up the stairs to Heather's house...together.

It's even harder for me to find the words to thank her for all that she has poured into our children.

All the fuss

Today I went to CNN.com's "Latest News" and started going down the list of recent newsworthy events.
# 2 and 3 of the list of 20 or so things were related to Obama's address to students today.

A couple of quotes caught my attention:

In the past week, news of Obama's speech had upset some parents.
"Thinking about my kids in school having to listen to that just really upsets me," suburban Colorado mother Shanneen Barron told CNN Denver affiliate KMGH last week, before the text of the speech was released.

Florida Republican Party Chairman Jim Greer accused Obama last week of trying to "indoctrinate America's children to his socialist agenda."

I do not understand all the fuss BEFORE anyone even heard the speech (or read it). I think that this sort of flippant attitude and disrespect for our country's President is ridiculous and embarrassing.

The speech turned out to be a call to study hard, do well in school, and do your best...certainly things that Obama has done...as painful as that may be for some to admit.