Bring on Football Season!

Let me say that Mason just cracks me up!! He gets all nutty about the sport of the season. For the past several months it has been baseball. He is quite the collector. He felt the need to own about 20 bats, many balls, glove, batting glove, bases, batters helmet, and catchers helmet all for play. So here we are on night one of football season and all the stuff comes creeping out of the wood work. The picture of Mason in the football helmet is when he came upstairs after retreiving the items he needed to watch the game. The one in front of the couch is when he had all the teams layed out picking who was going to play. And the other one is him "taking a knee" in the middle of his "field" (notice the teams on each end). I just had to share the humor of my evening.

My Favorite Time Of Day

Now don't get me wrong, I am enjoying a little "freetime" these days, but I look forward to the arrival of the bus at 3:15 like no other!! At about 3pm I start watching the clock so I'm not late for my appointment. I go to the porch at 3:10 because I wouldn't want to not be there should the bus be on the fast track or something. I promised the boys I'd always be there waiting for my "big hug" and that is just what I plan to do! I just had to share a video of my little sweeties getting of that BIG yellow bus and running all the way home. My, oh my, they are so big!! Yet, so little!! I love getting them in and talking all about the exciting things they did at school, getting snacks, and lots and lots of love!! For those of you who know me well will enjoy knowing that I no longer feel it neccesary to go to bed the minute the boys do, because I'm not as worn out at the end of the day as I have been for the past five years. Time does change. And it has brought me to another special time in life. And in all the things I am accomplishing now the bus's arrival is BY FAR my most precious time of day!!

Kindergarten Here We Come!!

What a big day in the Williams' home. Nathan and Mason started school today. I just had to show some of the pictures from the photo shoot this morning. They had a great day. They are in separate classes and it didn't seem to phase them. They said they saw each other a few times, but didn't talk to each other!! But each of them had many things to talk to me about when they got home. I was going to get a picture as they got off the bus, but they were running so fast for my long awaited "big hug" that I couldn't get the camera to focus. I am sure I will have many more posts soon about this exciting time in our lives.

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Our pretend beach day

Our outing of the day today was a visit to Oak Mountain State Park's "beach". It may not be the real thing, but we had a great time. I just wanted to share a few of the pictures of our fun. The picture of Nathan being covered in sand is the perfect example of his personality. Completely laid back, and go with the flow (usually). Mason fell asleep on the way home and after THREE hours we finally got him awake. I think he was catching up on sleep from the weekend.

Tomorrow will be another fun day for the boys. David and his grandparents are taking the boys to Tuscaloosa. They are going to the Bryant museum (to see trophies), visit the athletic facilities, maybe the baseball field, and eat at Dreamland. I really didn't think Nathan would want to go, but he does so hopefully he will have fun. Mason will love every minute (maybe not the driving minutes)! Hopefully they will get some good pictures that I can share.

Quick Funny

I just wanted to share a quick story from tonight. The boys and I were at a friend's house and we were talking about how Nathan had a chest xray yeasterday. My friend asked Nathan if the doctor saw his heart, lungs, and ribs. His response was..."No, I don't eat ribs". She and I were rolling and he just continued what he was doing. Kids just crack me up being so matter of fact!!

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What in the world?!?!

That is exactly what we were saying on Saturday night when both of our boys were getting in the tub and this is what greeted us!! This "rash" was all over the boys upper legs and bottom area. I immediately called my dad, the nurse, to get medical advice. He said to apply hydrocortizone cream and give them benadryl. By that night, Mason seemed to be responding to the medicine and improving a bit. Nathan, however, was covered!! I called after hours just to make sure I shouldn't take action. The nurse said it was probably just an allergic reaction to something, but I couldn't think of anything "new" that would have caused this. Well, the boys have had a cough that I thought was allergies for a couple of weeks and I wanted to take them in for that anyway and now this so we made an appointment for Sunday morning. David took them because I needed to go to church, and come to find out they both had walking pneumonia!! I had no idea. Speaking of having no idea...Mason also had a double ear infection!!! They are responding great to the antibiotic!!

Funny story - today we were in the car (I had to go turn in a utility bill to the school to prove we still live in this house) and I mentioned that a friend of mine was taking her little girl to the doctor. The boys had to know why of course and I tried to give them the easy answer by saying she has a big cough like you and her mommy wants the doctor to check her. Mason said, "you mean she has walking pneumonia?" Too big for his britches I tell you!!

The Foam Zone

The weather here yesterday was beautiful and I decided we'd head to the zoo. We are used to visiting the Knoxville Zoo, which we love, and I had been procrastinating taking the boys to our zoo because let's just say it is lacking. But the boys have been asking and when the weatherman said we were looking at 80 and low humidity, I figured it's now or not!! They did have a new area called the "foam zone" which the boys LOVED!! Unfortunately, it was priced separately from the zoo and they could only play for a few minutes per token. It made fun pictures though!!