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A nice weekend

We took Stratton to see “Sesame Street Live: Elmo Makes Music” Friday night. We didn’t tell him about it till Thursday so he was excited! Arden got to stay with Gigi and Pops Friday night all by herself! We left for Memphis about 4:00 pm. Stratton was on his best behavior the whole night. He didn’t even ask for any of the junk toys and stuff they sell. He did ask for a snow cone, but after explaining that it was way too cold in there (it was freezing!!) to be eating cold ice, he was fine. He did get hungry before the second part started but once the show started back he was fine. (This is after he consumed a huge bucket of popcorn and a pepsi).  Afterwards we ate dinner at Firebirds and it was about 9pm and I was worried Stratton would be tired and act out. But he was really good! He ordered a hamburger with Mac and cheese and fruit and ate everything but the burger. Go figure. It was about 11:30 when we got home and that stinker was up at 7am!

Jarrod went to one of his friends deer camp/cabin to do some work on the cabin’s front porch. So after a few chores Stratton and I headed to Hickory Ridge to spend the day and to pick up Arden. The weather was so nice! Finally its getting warm! We spent the morning playing outside and then had lunch and ice cream at the Dairy Bar in Fair Oaks followed by a long nap (for me too) and then we went by to see Nanny and Papa before heading back home just in time for a bath and bedtime!

Pops and Stratton

Friends

These aren’t that great of pictures- I took them with my phone and doesn't take good pictures at all! But I snapped these Sunday night, we went to Mazzio’s after church with Ryan, Erica, Carson, Livy and Parker! Livy and Stratton are about 3 months apart (she’s older)and Parker and Arden are about 6 months apart (he’s older). Erica is one of my sweetest friends and we love spending time with their family!! Stratton follows their oldest son, Carson (who is 7) around like a little lost puppy. He thinks Carson is the coolest!! We have always tried to get Stratton and Livy to play together, but just recently they have really taken a liking to each other! After church Livy will come up to him and say “Stratton, come chase me!!” and off they go! It’s too cute. I hope they will be good friends as they grow up. And if it just so happens to lead to more. . .well that would be alright with me!! Are arranged marriages totally obsolete these days?? I’m thinking we could have a 2 for one deal. . .

Arden (6 months) & Parker (12 months)

I have a similar picture of Stratton and Livy at this age.

And here they are today!

Stratton & Livy ~ Sweet Friends!

New Adventures

PRE-K

Yesterday afternoon was Pre-K registration at Valley View! I can’t believe we are getting Stratton ready for Pre-K already?! He did so good! He was excited about his “Big, New School”. They did an evaluation on him while Jarrod and I did some paperwork and they told us he did really good. Turns out we still lack ONE shot. Apparently, the some of the vaccines that are in the “combo” shots they get when they are babies have valid dates. He got one 5 days before he actually turned 6 months, so the hepatitis part it’s not considered valid because he wasn’t 6 months yet. UGH!!! So, we now have to go to the health department to get it because the doctors office don’t keep single doses of hepatitis vaccines in their offices. I didn’t get all that information till yesterday. It just so happened that one of the nurses from the doctors office was at registration with her son the same time we were, and she was the one that gave Stratton his shots last week, so when she got back to the clinic she figured it all out and called me about it! I am so glad she was there to help- this is confusing!! So we have to get the last shot done pretty soon and get the paperwork to the Pre-K office and we will be all set!

I was going to take a picture of Stratton in front of the school, but it was raining and SO cold! So that didn’t happen. Since he was so good, afterwards I took him to get ice-cream. He chose blue raspberry sherbet- of course the darkest messiest kind possible.By the time he was done he looked like a smurf.  He had it everywhere!

Crazy Boy!!

T-BALL

Last night was also our first Tball meeting.

Jarrod is coaching Stratton’s team! The Pirates! Here’s how that happened. . .when he signed Stratton up he offered to be an assistant coach if they needed. Then last week he got a call that there were too many kids and not enough head coaches, so he was moved to coach! They had a coaches meeting last week and Jarrod got some of our friends kids on his team! Yay! And one of them is Livy! I hope it will be a good experience and they will have fun. The meeting went really well, almost all the parents showed up! Wow! And Jarrod had a couple of guys offer to help (thank goodness!). We have our first practice on Tuesday and first game on April 15th.

This is not a good picture, but as we were going home I look back and Stratton is wearing his Pirates cap- too cute!

Easter 2013

Easter Afternoon

It was such a dreary and cold morning. So much for cute outside pictures! We managed a few quick pictures of the kids dressed in their Easter outfits right after church.

Family shot

I cropped this from another picture. . .Too funny. . .Priceless expression!

We spent the afternoon at my grandparent’s house eating, visiting and hunting more eggs!

Arden driving across the road

“Give me the wheel dad!”

Easter 2013

Saturday morning we got up and around and went to Searcy to see my old roommate Sam and her kids. It was fun to catch up, but of course wasn’t long enough. Searcy is crazy on Easter/Spring Sing weekend and we would have liked to have met at a park but since it was raining we decided to meet at Chick-Fil-A so the kids could at least play, but it was so packed we didn’t stay long and of course didn’t take any pictures. Then we went back to their hotel and let the kids swim for awhile, but it was really cold and we ended up not staying in there long at all. (Long enough for me though!) Of course there were no cameras present since we were in our swim attire!! Jarrod had some errands to run so he and Arden did that and Stratton stayed with me and it worked out pretty good. After that we ran by Hays and it was nuts!! Like day after Thanksgiving kind of crazy! We didn’t stay long at all. Then we stopped by the Bulldog and had a snack before heading for Hickory Ridge. We stayed in HR Saturday night so we could get up and go to church with the family and have lunch at my grandma’s house.

Easter Morning

Sunday morning I woke up (the 3rd time- Arden was up twice) to Stratton screaming “MOM!!”. You know what that means. Yep. He wet the bed. And that is why he is wearing regular clothes and not his super cute monogrammed easter jammies that matched Arden’s. So much for that. I will just have to take a “re-do” picture later in the week! Stratton and Arden both got goodies from the Easter Bunny and he hid a bunch of eggs for Stratton to find all over Gigi’s house!

Arden’s 1st Easter basket

Arden was more interested in what Stratton had. . .