Co op and Lego League

green belting ceremomy

 Fun while it lasted.  G's team made a house that could be raised by pulley out of a tsunami style flood.

How to Be a Princess

Learn how to play Chess with Friends

Grind Coffee...

Get someone (your Mommy) to braid
your hair every day

and Enjoy the smell of it brewing.

Buy beads and share jewelry making
with you brother. 

Know what you are made of, even in a dress.

Wear hot pink...

Wear hot pink head to toe on the same day as your friend... without planning to.

C.Bird's Mural

I have successfully bartered with my talented friend Courtney.  I am working on trimming her landscape and in exchange she painted a mural in C Bird's bedroom.  It all started when I saw a branch on her roof and shortly thereafter showed up with a ladder.

The painting is from the inside jacket of the book "A Snowy Day".  Cora and I picked it out together because it was so pretty. It brought all the color of her things together. C.Bird had a special request for silver snowflakes and though you can't see all of them in this shot, she asked for four of them because she is four. My girly girl may have the perfect bedroom now. I know it was a lot of work for my friend but she truly loves to paint so I think it was a win for everyone, though I know she is glad to be done. Check it out!

Spring in Our Front Yard

Grady has a new playmate from the neighborhood.  A very typical, sweet boy, I'll call him Larry.  Check this out he is about 2 months older than G Man! I think he has about 6+ inches on my boy.

I snapped a nice little shot of our N. Chuck Town home..

See C Bird on the swing hanging from our "little" live oak.

Much of October

Much of October. Life in general has been same old same old, with some homeschooling, bike riding and costume making thrown in.... oh, and lots of whining.

Grady (and training wheels) with a new friend Bryan.

Here Cora gets a moment to shoot everyone with the Storm Trooper gun. You can see the grin from the back of her head.
I took the kids Crabbing for four hours one Friday. The guy next to us caught 13 crabs while we caught two, so it was a slow day. Surprisingly, they loved every bit of it, except when the wind blew really cold. I cooked up our catch Maryland style and melted some butter.... and they all looked at me like I was crazy. More salt next time, but they did come around and eat 'em.
We refurbished a bike for Grady, and though the bike may not have been worth the paint and tires, Grady was worth it... and the family learning time was worth it. It was the process... and this bike fits him better than his starter 10" bike.
A Friday School lesson for just us... Gak! Just mix food dye, cornstarch and water. Solid... Liquid... Solid...
While I worked on bills one day the kids reversed the legs on their table and chair just for kicks.
Cora full body hugging Chester on a perfect fall day. He was chewing a bone at the time, best dog ever!

Halloween Gingerbread houses. We went in on this together, the kids threw in their spending monies just cause it looked like a lot of fun.

Uh Oh!

LOOT!

Before we left we remembered to get a picture this year. Cora was a Flower, Grady a Storm Trooper. I was a Biker Chick, which fit cause I rode the kids around in the bike trailer.

LOOT!

Grady nearly did this all on his own. Awesome right?!

Raleigh Trip

Our Visit to Clayton/Raliegh

Well the one thing I can say about Johnston Co, there hasn't been a whole lot of rain...here's the house and G telling me "that's Mine house".

Celia and Bronson with pretty Baby Odin... love the sling, don't you.

G loved hanging out with Bronson.

Celia with Odin...

Playing dressup silks with Chloe...

Chandi and Chloe, great pic!

Emerson's Party

More Pictures of G (thanks again to Julie, these are from her son Emerson's first birthday party last month).This little Lady is Isa, she is about 5 weeks older than G I think.

G, Isa and Oliver I believe.

Young Life

G's last playdate with birthday Buddy Chloe before our big move to Georgia.
This Tomas the Train is from Great Grandma Judy.
What a terrific head shot ;-)

Birthday Buddy

Here are G and C-Moon, playing again. This playdate they interacted a lot for the first time.


Happy 9 months Birthday you two!

A Visitor

G-Man visits with his birthday buddie C-Moon.

Birth Day Buddies!

Quick funny story...

I recently went to a mommy group where we all can bring our babies and share our birth stories. As I shared my story another woman said she remembered me. She had tried to deliver at the same birth center on the same evening but was transferred to the hospital. She finally delivered by forceps after five hours of pushing. Her little girl was born early in the morning on August 16th!
It was really cool to meet a little baby girl that shares G's birthday and the mother who also pursued a 'natural' birth that day.

She and I have spent some time visiting each other since the meeting and we discovered we share two more things in common.
Their living room is turqouis (just like ours!) and they recently got married.
How recently?
Why September 10th, 2005. (Spooky!) They almost had their ceremony on the beach but opted for a lakeside locally instead.
It is a weird world indeed!

Hold On

People Holding Little G... The Visitors

Aunt Lindsey in UNC hospital with G, maybe one day old.

Mom Amanda, Grandmom MaryLu and Baby G during the first week.

Grandpa Gary During his two day visit when G was one week old.

Great Grandma Lady with G at about five days old.

Bernice with Grady at the beach September 8th ish.

Great Grandma Judy with G at the beach September 8th ish

Aunt Vicki with G September 26th.

Grandpa Bob at the beach.

Special Friend Heather with G September 23rd.

Uncle Ed with G September 26th

Special friend Anne.  She even changed diapers!