Florida

Our Spring Break in Panama City Beach was great this year. The boys have finally gotten to be old enough to enjoy playing in the pool & ocean all day and we don't have to go in to take naps every day. When we got off the plane in Florida, Tate was still asking when we were going to be in Florida. He thinks that only if you can see the ocean you are in Florida. He doesn't quite get the concept of states and cities yet....we are working on it though, Trey got a talking globe & US map for his birthday.

In the picture below--see how cheesy Tate is & Trey just flipped of the side of the pool. Tate really became a fish this past summer & Trey has no fear of the pool. I love that picture!

Trey did inform us before we left to go to Florida that he was not in charge of watching Dad on this trip. Bryan always has at least one day where he has a little too much fun. All the boys enjoyed watching for pretty girls around the pool & out at the beach....Trey & Tate would tease each other about, but they are ladies men. Plus they liked watching the High School & College Spring Break boys breaking the rules by flipping off the waterfall into the pool. Trey said he was going to try doing it, but never had the nerve to break the rules.

Watching all of those crazy young Spring Breakers made me realize that Trey & Tate will never go on Spring Break without me, ever. We all can't wait to go back next year.

Student of the Quarter

I have to take a minute to brag. Trey was picked for Student of the Quarter. Every teacher gets to pick one student of the quarter each year, so really he was student of the year in his class. Which really does not surprise me. He really is a great kid at school & most of the time at home too. What comes along with such a fine honor--an over hour long presentation which includes the honors for all 6 schools in our district. Great. The principal of each school got up and said a few words about each student. Trey was thrilled with the fact that his principal was going to talk about him...he totally looks up to the principal and now Mr. Willis will know what a great student he really is. We are truly blessed to have such great children. They must take after their mom!

The Truth

This weekend was Trey's first soccer game of the season. I am very happy to report that for once we might be on a winning team. He did not have any goals, but had some awesome passes & a couple of shots on goal that went just left of the goal post--the story of Trey's soccer career, always wide left/right. They won 7-0. Yeah!

The point of the post though....Tate was sitting on my lap for part of the game. I am watching the game and Tate is watching/thinking about stuff. He is holding my hand and tells me, "Mom, your hands are really old." He keeps looking at my hands compared to his, he says "look how wrinkly yours are." I told him thanks a lot for noticing. Great.

Traveling with Children

Our traveling to & from Florida was very uneventful this year. Thank goodness. I don't know if that is because Trey & Tate have gotten older and they are easier to travel with or we just had a really good experience this time. Whichever--I'll take it, but it did remind me of some of our past travelling experiences.

Like the time we were in the Atlanta airport and Trey had just turned 3 & he was potty trained, but not for diarrhea. We made one trip to the bathroom in time, but we didn't make it for the second trip. It was the most disgusting thing you have ever seen. We had to throw the pants away in the garbage, thinking we would find some kind of Georgia sportswear to buy him. No can do though. He got on the plane in a diaper & t-shirt and I was then able to wrap him up in an airplane blanket. I took the airplane blanket home with us & have never questioned the way another parent had their child dressed again--cause I have no idea how their day has gone.

I think that it might have been last year that we sat across the aisle from the guy who fell asleep within 5 mins. of getting on the plane. You would think that he would be great to be near, wouldn't bother anybody---until he started snoring. He was snoring so loud that everyone on the plane was looking back at him. The young Spring Break kids got a kick out of him. When we finally did land & he woke up, Trey looked at him and said, " You know, you snore really loud." I had no idea he was about to say anything & we just started cracking up. It was perfect.

Happy Easter

We were on vacation last week, so I haven't been able to post for awhile. We had a great time & will be updating everyone soon. For now, I wanted to say Happy Easter (late) & show some pics. Trey & Tate had a great time coloring eggs this year--actually Tate did 2 eggs & Trey did most of the rest--Matt, Kelly, Lisa & I finished it up. Hunting for the eggs was also fun. I think that the eggs should have been dyed all neon colors for the boys to actually find them. But, when Tate did find an egg he would yell with excitement--like he did find one 30 secs. earlier. He would say, "bet you didn't see that coming" and he would pick up the egg. We had a great lunch on Sunday, a really fun Easter egg hunt, and a big family kickball game.

Speaking of kickball (one of the boys most favorite games to play), we also played Saturday night before Easter. Trey & Tate were team captains and my children picked me last! I was the last, lonely person standing there waiting to be picked. I don't think that that has ever happened to me before. I did kick a home run, but it was in a losing effort.