Family Picture

Patrick & I had a night out last night to celebrate our birthdays ... Will stayed with YaYa and Pa. He is still getting over the crued. He was on the road to feeling better, but his cough got worse, and then this morning he woke up with a rash all over. I am not liking this daycare thing AT ALL. I am ready to find somewhere else for him to go if this continues!

Our First Days of School (and some funny pics from the weekend)

Will's First Day of School Last Monday ... our sleepyhead


After getting his hair brushed



And while I am laying in bed feeling like I am dying from strep throat this comes in to greet me:



And Mommy's first day back to being a classroom teacher!

LOOOONG Week

Will started school this week. Monday went great, he was ready to play. Tuesday he realized he had to go (and stay) again, and cried a litle when I left. Wednesday, he told me, "All done!" when he saw his teacher and started bawling .... and when my Mom picked him up Wednesday afternoon he was congested, VERY congested. So, YaYa took him to see Dr. Taylor on Thursday who said he had a sinus infection, and gave him some anitbiotics. When I got home his fever was up to almost 101 (and Will has never run fever). Needless to say he did not go back to school this week .... THEN Mommy felt kind of bad Thursday night, and woke up in the middle of the night running fever with a very sore throat. Felt terrible Friday morning, so I went to work, and left early for a dr. appointment at 2:00 - AND I HAVE STREP THROAT! Luckily, Dr. Laningham gave me a shot, and a ZPac and I already feel much better. Will seems to be on the road to recovery as well, but is still pretty fussy. Please pray that next week goes better with school ~ it is so hard to leave him crying :-(

Helping Daddy take out the trash

As we were winding down last night (obviously right before bath time for Will), I took the trash bag out of the trash can for Patrick to take out ... Will has apparently seen us do this a few times! He drug it all the way through the kitchen, down the hall and to the door out to the garage! Our little man!




Will starts "school" tomorrow as I go back to work ... please keep us all in your prayers (this is a very difficult transition ~ for Mommy!)

Mommy's "ot"

or something sounding like that ... it is definitely hat in Will's language, but does not quite sound like it! I wear my hats on the weekends when we run errands (and I don't feel like fixing my hair! haha!) Will LOVES hats! He goes into Pa's closet and tries to take his hats, he goes and finds Poppy's hats and wants to wear them, he takes PawPaw's hat and tries to put it on ... he LOVES hats!!!!!!!!!! So, he found mine today after I took it off, and this is what he did (he also likes to cover his face and run ... scary!)

Eating with a fork

Mr. Independent pretty much does not want anyone to feed him anymore. So, what we end up with is a MESS! And of course Riley hangs around the high chair while Will eats to see what he can pick up off the floor ... lovely!

Napping with Mommy

The day Tropical Storm Eduard rolled in the whole family was home for the rain .... Patrick managed to sneak a picture of Will napping with Mommy!

Our Little Climber ....

So ... when Will is in his playroom playing it is great; I can be productive. He will read his books, play with ALL of his toys (or take them out and leave them strewn about the room),and turn on the TV and pretend to watch it (since he changes the channels and it was on HGTV when I walked in the other day!)However I have quickly learned when it gets quiet, and every few seconds I hear something drop onto the floor I go in and find this...




Nice, huh? Any Moms of climbers out there who can help us out with this one?????

Will's playdate with the Shipley twins

The Shipley twins are the children of my college roommate, Lauren. They are a few weeks older than Will, and they all played so great together! I don't know why it took Lauren & I so long to get them together!!

Will, Caden & Brroke still warming up to each other ... and all wanting to go play with Riley (who was in his bed)!

Sweet Brooke

Caden was riding the truck and Will just went and hopped on with him!

The Silly Faces of Will

I am so enjoying my last weeks of summer home with Will ... I think this year will be just as hard as last year to back, if not harder (me starting at a new school and Will starting school himself). I have been capturing all of his silly faces in pictures, or the one silly face he now makes when I pull out the camera! He is one goofy boy, and we sure do LOVE it! He makes everything we do a little more fun!