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!