It's About Time......

Ya'll have been asking for these for a few weeks now I know. This is the best that I can come up with as of now. My camera has been broken and we were trying to figure out if it was worth paying the arm and a leg they want to fix it or if we should just get a new one. Hopefully I will have one in the next few weeks.

These are pictures from Jack's Parrain's wedding on May 30. He was the ring bearer and did a great job. The bride has some great pictures from her photographer, so hopefully I can get my hands on those soon.

This is Jack with 2 of the flower girls, Rose and Ava. He had such a great time with them the whole weekend and they all did really well, considering the full weekend they had with not many naps.

I'll post more as soon as I get them!

Fun in the Sun

I wanted to post these adorable pictures of the kiddos. Monday Mindy, Mary Molloy, Shea, Ann Rogers, and Sena came over for a fun day in the pool and with Jack's new sprinkler ball. It was a blast. We have not seen the girls in forever it feels like. We are so glad that Shea is out for the summer so that we can spend lots of time with her and Ann Rogers. I am looking forward to our summer playdates!

Jack's First Day of School

Jack had his second first day of school this Tuesday. Look how precious he is all ready to walk out the door and go to school. He was so excited! I was a little nervouse because the school he is in for summer does a carpool line, which means he is taken out of the car by a teacher and put back into the car by a teacher and I never have to get out. Great for me, but I was worried that Jack would freak out if a stranger took him out of the car, especially on his first day. Well, I was wrong. He couldn't wait to get out of the car and go to "cool". When the teacher took him out of the car he looked back at me and said "bye, love you". I was a little upset that he didn't care anymore than that, but very happy at the same time because I didn't want a replay of school last fall. He had a great report card at the end of the day and was very worn out. All he could talk about last night was "cool".

Day two, I was not so lucky. I kept thinking yesterday that there was no way this would be this easy, but I kept convincing myself that maybe it was. Well today proved me right. I took him this morning and he seemed excited, but not as excited and vocal about it as yesterday. When she came to get him out of the car he went nuts. He grabbed onto the buckle so that the teacher couldn't get it undone and started saying "hold you mommy, hold you". I felt so bad. The teacher reassured me that this was normal and that he had such a great day yesterday he would be fine today. He then grabbed onto the sides of the carseat and screamed as loud as he could. I let her take him because I thought it was for his own good and once she walked away from the car he was fine and had a great day.

On another exciting note, he is starting to use the potty. This is probably too good to be true also, because I don't think it can be this easy, but right now I am just going along with it. We haven't reached the point of him telling me when he needs to go but he is very persisitent in telling me when he has gone. He doesn't have school next week so I have bought him some choo choo underwear that we have had to put on for a little while each day and we are going to experiment with potty training next week. Wish me luck! This will be interesting.

Memorial Day

Jack and I had a fun filled Memorial Day week in Louisiana and Brandon was able to join us for the weekend. We stayed very busy as usual when we visit and had so much fun catching up with friends and family. We went to Baton Rouge for 2 days and were able to go swimming at my cousin's house one day and had dinner with my Aunts, Uncles, and Cousins one night.

Jack loved the pool, especially with his Cousin Gordie. It was his first time in the pool for the summer and with floaties so I was worried about the way he would handle it, but he did great. He stayed on the steps the whole time and had so much fun. He is a little fish!!

We picked Brandon up from the airport on Thursday night and I got to go to dinner with all of my girl friends. I feel so fortunate to have such wonderful friends. We have all known each other for so long and I think it is so great that we still keep in touch.

We headed down to Papa Doug's camp on Friday and Saturday for some sun and fishing. It was a great time. We had shrimp, crabs, and crawfish for dinner Friday night. I was in heaven. Saturday Mom, Jack, and I got sun on the deck while the boys fished. Jack loved digging through the ice chest and playing with the fish and the 1 crab that they caught.
The camp is a boys wonderland. There is so much to do or should I say "play with". Jack was obsessed with Papa's tractor and had to take at least 2 rides each day.

Sunday we went out on the Tchefuncte River with Cookie, Kim, and Raynah(a longtime friend of mine). This has kind of become our tradition over the past 3 years and we have so much fun. Jack loved it this year because he could walk around and not be uncomfortable in the life jacket.

He was so worn out from watching all of the action on the River that he took a LONG nap on the boat, in this life jacket. Look how sweet. I don't know how one bit of this was comfortable.

All in all it was a great week and weekend and we look forward to next year!