Whirlwind Weekend....

Friday tipped off a crazy whirlwind of a weekend....


8-11:15am- I worked at Rotary and was super excited to get off a few minutes early!

11:30-12:30- ate a leisurely lunch by myself at the Atlanta Bread Company and got a had a nice chat with MMGK and talk to Liz who could literally have that baby at any moment (Things are happening and she has TOTALLY dropped!) I can hardly stand the wait!


12:30- pick Lukie up from school where they had a full day of fun Halloween festivities, complete with costumes, pizza, crafts and apparently a LOT of candy. Luke was bouncing off the walls!

12:45-2:00- nice long outing to Lavretta park to burn off some of Luke's sugar rush energy!

2:30-3:00- put back on the pumpkin suit to visit daddy at work! He was still wound up even after the park and we had to make a pretty quick visit. No sugar rush crash for this guy!

3:00-4:00- killing time at target to pick up a few last minute costume things for a Saturday night party!

4:00-4:30- met Jeremy at the Pumpkin patch to get our yearly "pumpkin patch" pictures. Luke ran around like a mad man yelling "PUMPKINS, PUMPKINS, PUMPKINS!" He did settle down long enough so we could get some decent pictures! He did NOT want to leave the patch. The only thing that got him away was the promise of carving the pumpkin as soon as we got home!




4:45-5:30- the carving of the Pumpkin began! Luke was a little interested at first but quickly lost interest. He want to make a "scary" pumpkin and I wanted a cute/happy one, so we compromised and made a smiling pumpkin with scary teeth!


5:30-6:30- I got ready for a bridal shower while the boys (mainly Jeremy) continued to carve.



6:30-11:00- Mom, Liz, and I went to a shower for our soon to be sister in law, Alan (Alan is the one between Liz and I and her sister, Louise is sitting next to me). It was such a great party and she got so many nice things! Man, I wish I had another one of those delicious brownie bites!



11:30pm-Crash in the bed! What a fun filled crazy day, and the fun doesn't end here. Saturday and Sunday are just as busy! More fun weekend festivities to come!

My first Show and Tell!

Today is my very first show and tell! We were supposed to dress up like a community helper and I decided to be a train conductor! Thanks to Mamaw and Papaw and Aunt Christy's Christmas gifts last year, I had all of the things I needed! What made it even better is that I will get to tell my class that my Papaw used to work on trains!



It was so much fun to see what my other friends dressed up like! This has already been such a fun day!

Wordless Wednesday

Luke 2 weeks old:


Luke 3 years old:


Luke has literally slept like this all his life! So funny!

Girl or Boy?

It has been fun thinking/dreaming about if this new little one will be a boy or a girl. Luke seems to grasp that he will be getting a new brother or sister as well as a 3 year old can. Just the other day I was leaving the house and he ran over to me saying "I want to give the baby a kiss!" and sweetly kissed my belly! He also likes to "talk" to her as you can see in the pic.

I think understanding this whole baby thing has been a little easier for him since my sister is having her first baby at the end of November! Luke has seen her growing belly and said from early on that she was having a BOY! And he was RIGHT!

Here's to hoping Luke will be two for two because he has said for months now what I am having a GIRL. Only time will tell and I just hope and pray that this baby is perfectly healthy! Oh, and the day that Luke told us that it was a GIRL when we asked him what we should name her, he said "TRUCK" and then Jeremy said what will her full name be? and he said "DUMP TRUCK PAYNE!" And he as called 'her' TRUCK ever since! Ha!

Happy Wednesday!

Pledge of Allegiance

Check out what Luke learned at school! We were driving in the car one day and he just busted out with the WHOLE pledge. I was blown away and didn't even know they had been learning it! He has learned SO much since school started and his teacher told us last week that he wasn't getting "challenged" enough in his age group, so during what she calls the "academic" part of the day he is going up to the next age group level! Part of his homework today was to look through a magazine and cut out pictures of words that started with the letter S and the letter D. Is he REALLY this old? Are we already at this point? Just yesterday he was my little baby boy and now he can say the pledge. Time puh-leaze s-l-o-w down! Enjoy the video (and please ignore the mess that is our desk in the back ground)!

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!