Jess' Top TEN

Top TEN reasons for my lack of blogging!!!!

10. I have been spending many an afternoon watching Cars, over and over and over again because this is Luke’s new favorite movie!

9. I have been eating pineapple like it is my job, why pineapple, you ask?....who knows? It just sounds good to me.

8. For the past few weeks,/months I have been motivated to do absolutely NOTHING.

7. I am too busy drinking gallons and gallons of V8 juice.

6. Instead of doing anything productive in the afternoons, my new favorite pastime has been taking naps. It seems that Luke has decided to give them up and I have taken them up!

5. I have been too busy trying to think up yummy creative meals that DO NOT include chicken, since the thought of eating chicken makes me want to gag.

4. I spend the afternoons that I am not at work in Luke’s castle (which at the moment is his red tent) trying to hide from the dragons!

3. I have been eating about every two hours, to try and get this ever constant nauseous feeling to go away. It gets some better, but never really quite goes away. It’s been awesome. Just last week, I had to pull the car over and got sick on the side of the road. I don’t who was more mortified by it, me or Luke?

2. I can’t seem to get any thing done because I have been running to use to the restroom every 5 seconds!

1. And the number ONE reason, for being a blogging slacker in case you haven’t figured it out already: WE ARE PREGNANT! We are super excited and baby #2 is due on March 28th! I am already coming out of the 1st trimester, so, thankfully, some of the yucky feelings have subsided! And maybe, just maybe, the blogging will pick back up!

Homework for 3 year olds?!?!

Monday was a momentous day because this was the first day Luke has ever come home with HOMEWORK! I was shocked! Since when did THREE year olds get homework? They are learning to write their names and so this was a trace- the- letters practice sheet that took all of about 4 minutes. He was SO proud to take his homework folder in to his teacher the next day. He ran up to her and said "Wook Miss Carwa! ( thats "Look Miss Carla" for those of you who don't speak 3 year old)!". Then he ran over to his friends and showed them! It was precious. Hope he stays this enthusiastic about homework since this is only the beginning!

Last Beach weekend of the Summer!

Jeremy had an OT conference over in Orange Beach last weekend and since he had an all expense paid weekend at the beach, Luke and I decided to tag along! We had beautiful weather and the beaches were pristine! All in all it was a nice and relaxing weekend!


On Saturday afternoon, we ventured down to the beach where we stayed all of about 30 minutes. Luke turned around to us and said "I'm done with the beach!" We headed straight to the pool where we stayed a good long while. We ordered pizza in that night so we could watch the AL v Penn St game.



Luke's favorite part of the weekend was getting to play on the condos built in bunk beds. He absolutely adored them! Do I see bunk beds in our future?


We stopped by the Souvenir City to see the big shark on our way out of town! Bye Bye Beach, until next year!

This is ALABAMA football....

Last weekend, Mimi, Jeremy, Luke and I headed up to Tuscaloosa for THE opening game! This year was special for many reasons:
#1- We didn't have to take a stroller. Luke loved being able to walk like a big boy! He did great!
#2- We didn't have to take a diaper bag!!! Since Luke is now, dare I say it out loud, potty trained, we would head out to the game without a diaper bag! I can't believe he is such a BIG boy!
And #3- Mom and Dad got four tickets in the brand new South end Zone. This was SUPER nice because we had really nice seats with arm rests and cup holders AND because they have an air conditioned area with a decked out all you can eat buffet!...They had stadium dogs, nachos, salad bar, fruit and veggies, chips, popcorn, ice cream, sandwich bar, hamburgers, chicken. Pretty much you name it, they had it!


Luke loved sitting at these bar seats! It was great because we got to watch the team warm up and EAT!


Once Luke got used to the crowd noise, he could cheer with the best of them! He kept yelling ROLL TIDE!!!! Everyone around us kept looking back and smiling. Aside from a busted lip (don't ask, his face met the seat) and scraped legs (falling UP the steps on the way out---only MY child could fall UP steps!), Luke was totally into the game!


On the way back to the car, we had to pay tribute to the "Bear" statue! We can't wait until our next game!

Random Happenings....

The other morning I heard Luke playing before I got him out of bed and when I went into his room he said "LOOK! We are having circle time just like at school!!!" He had arranged all of his sleeping buddies into a circle and was singing songs to them just like his teacher does. It was pretty darn cute!


I am SO EXCITED that Luke is now old enough to be in 3 year old choir! We had the kick off for Music and Missions this past Wednesday and it was wear your silliest shoes night. Check out who got to lead the parade down through the dining hall!....He was so proud!


Luke got to pick out his very first lego set at Target a few weeks ago for going to the potty like a big boy two days in a row. Jeremy is super excited that they can "play" with legos now! I love Luke's concentration face!


I love how Luke is looking up a Jeremy! I think Luke could tell that Daddy likes legos A LOT! Haha!


By George, I think we Got it!!! Luke's new teacher, Miss Christie, has a treasure chest that you get to pick a toy out of if you go number two at school and guess what?.....Luke got a toy last Friday! More about the potty training in another post, but all I can say is WHEW! I am glad he finally GOT it!

Beach weekend!

The whole Murphy clan spent a long weekend at the Turquoise resort in Orange Beach. When we were driving down, Luke kept saying "I wanna go to the yellow beach!, where is the yellow beach?" and I kept telling him I didn't know anything about a yellow beach and then it dawned on my that he was meaning to say "orange beach." It was TOO funny! One of the many things Luke loved was the zero entry pool! He swam to his little hearts content.


We all enjoyed the Lazy River or as Luke called it the noisy river.


Some of us enjoyed some pool volley ball while others of us enjoyed watching! (I'll let you guess who was in which camp!)


I was amazed at how beautiful the sand and water were! The sand was a white as ever and the water was a clear as I have ever seen it! We could see sting rays, schools of fish, and sharks from our balcony.


We only ate out one night over the weekend and the rest of the time we took it easy and cooked dinners and lunches @ the condo! It made life with a 3 year old much easier!


Everyone enjoyed our private jacuzzi on our balcony, but no one more than Luke.


This was the view from our room! I wish we were still there!!!

I wuv dis!

Luke had such a great time at the beach this past weekend! He especially loved the in door water slide. You can hear him say the second time down the slide "I wuv dis! So much fun!" Check out his crazy swimming skills, too!