Dobbins Air Show and Misc Pics

We've been going to Emily's football games on Friday night, at least until half time when the kids start getting out of control and we have to go home. She is in band and plays the trumpet, here are pics from the last game we attended.



I took the cats to be groomed, this is what they came out of there looking like, I thought when they asked me if I wanted the cats shaved they just meant their backsides, notice the little ball on the end of Daisy's tail


Emily and Dad, Emily is getting ready to go to homecoming dance, I'm sure you can see why she asked Joe to leave before her date got there

Christina and a friend


We took the kids to Dobbins air force base for an air show










Here we are at Uncle Shucks's Corn Maze, we had fun on the hayride, jumping off the haystack, and feeding goats, and also running thru the kids corner corn maze.

Pics of Kids

I am so glad to be home, we've been really busy unpacking, cleaning, and now I am sitting outside in the nice Fall weather on a Saturday morning trying to sell all our baby stuff at our neighborhood yard sale. Better sell the stuff because it's not going back inside the house, two toddler beds, two high chairs, tons of baby clothes, crib mattresses and sheets, etc. Thank goodness we are done with all of that, it was cute while it lasted but I am glad the kids are older and more independent, of course that presents it's own challenges (potty training, temper tantrums, fun stuff).

So here is Joey, we bought their Halloween costumes at Walmart because it looked like they were already going to be selling out. Joey wanted the race car driver costume, here he is giving it a test drive. He blocked Christina in a corner and told her she couldn't come out until she could say "race car driver".


Took the kids to Catch Air one day with a friend of ours from the neighborhood, Christina made some new friends that shared their candy with her, and Joey had fun jumping and spinning.



This is Christina in the house in Arizona, she loves her froggy bath toys and lines them up every night like this, the big green frog is the Daddy, the pink one is the Mommy, and all the little ones are the babies, she stays in the tub forever playing with them.


Here are the kids at Wills park playground, first nice Fall day, I had to put long pants on them.



Here's a great picture of all 3 of the kids going on a wagon ride


Here is what the kids did one day for entertainment for about 10 minutes before I could get them to stop, it wasn't funny when it was happening because I had to stand guard at the steps and make sure one of them didn't fall and bust their head


We had our friends from the neighborhood over one afternoon to play, notice Joey in the spiderman costume, and his friend in the policeman costume, and the little boy holding his hands up with handcuffs on, it's nice to see our friends again


Here is Joey enjoying his bubble bath, he turns on the jets and it makes a ton of bubbles, and of course he has his mask, fins, and snorkel


Joey loves to cover the kitchen table with paper and have me draw whatever he wants me to and then he helps me color it in. We started out with an army tank, then added ET (the movie ET) at the bottom, then the divers floating down to save ET. He has got some imagination.


We had some other friends over, a couple of girls, the kids had so much fun together we are trying to plan a sleepover with them so the parents can have a night out, the older girl stole my phone and took videos, a lot of videos, most of them are too large to upload to the blog, but here is a cute one of Christina


Here is Joey the same night riding around with his batman mask and spidey outfit


Oops, Joey was going too fast and now he's in big trouble

late night packing

It's almost 1am, I should be sleeping but got excited and packed boxes. Kids are going to the babysitter tomorrow so I can pack up and clean, do the walk thru, all the move out stuff. Christina is talking a little more, I just wanted to put her words down so I don't forget

NO WAY !! (with hands on hips)
Joey (finally she is saying her big brothers name)
more please
book
kitty
pool
eat (yeah !! I showed her the sign language for eat and now she is saying it)
poo poo / pee pee
up
need help
daddy home
i'm home (she walks away a few steps, then walks back and says 'im home')
cheese
NO ME !! (when she wants to do something by herself)

probably more, when it's a reasonable hour to be blogging I'll edit this post and add her other words

Going home

We are finally going home to Georgia. Myself and the kids are flying out (and the cats) on September 16, Joe and his brother Pete are driving my car and Joe's car pulling the trailer with all our stuff which means we won't see them until ? Here is Christina, she is so excited to be going back she is calling all her friends My little cutie pie in the pool, shooting the super soaker at the boys We took the kids to the JW Marriott in Scottsdale, for a character breakfast (Dora and Spongebob), they enjoyed it but Christina kept asking where Boots was, and Joey wanted to know where Bikini Bottom was, I overheard a lot of the same from other kids Swimming in the pool, we are really going to miss our pool in the back yard, especially since the neighborhood pool at home just closed Here are the kids, so silly, in their tent and little fold out chairs at snack time in the living room Here is what the living room usually looks like by 8am, all the pillows on the floor, usually it's the kids's "boat" and the carpet is the water Here is Joey and his new girlfriend at the Mcdonald's playground, I thought I would never get him to leave Here is Joey and his buddy Parker at the Microsoft store at Fashion Square Mall in Scottsdale, this is the table top that is a computer, you can play games, edit pictures, etc.....We all went on a different day and Joe and Joey camped out at that table playing games for two hours, which was fine with me since Christina was sleeping in the stroller and I enjoyed a long coffee break Here are the kids again, eating lunch in their little chairs Here are the kids sleeping in the tent, they actually slept an entire night in it, problem is I had to sleep on the couch and it wasn't very comfortable, but the kids had a fun night That's about it, looking forward to getting home, once we get there I'll probably spend two or three days scrubbing, grocery shopping, going thru mail, we'll be going to Emily's football games (she is in band) on Friday nights, and I will be job hunting. Joe's probably going to be traveling quite a bit , yuck.

Joey will have to have surgery on his left ear, it's very minor surgery, his left eardrum is torn, we don't know how it happened, but he has to have surgery to have it patched. I've already found a pediatric ENT and made his appointment for when we get home, poor guy the ear problems are never ending, hope this doesn't affect his hearing.