My Little Hot Rod

I remember growing up and having my favorite shirt or dress that I ALWAYS wanted to wear. In fact I think I still have those things. Anyways I didn't realize it started this early. Jacob now has a favorite shirt that says "Hot Rod" on it. Almost every day he is asking for this shirt to wear and gets pretty upset when he can't wear it. So today since it just came out of the dryer he wore it to run errands. I guess I should have bought more than one... it was on SALE for 3 dollars at the Old Navy Outlet. I guess next time I run through Calhoun I'll have to look for another one.

Funny Faces

Studio Jacob

I guess you can figure it out by the Title... Jacob got ahold of the camera and these are the results...

Hot Summer Nights

A couple of short stories...

Since Jacob has been home from MiMi and PopPop's house a change has occurred. He has now turned into an old Baptist preacher. He has not once called Caden by his real name, no now he calls him "Brodder." Which in his language its means "brother." When he talks to him its... "Hey Brodder come here," or "Brodder lets play ball," or "Here is your sippy cup, Brodder." Even tonight when he got in trouble for talking back to Josh he said, "Me and my Brodder are tight buddies, not you Dad!"

Tonight while the boys were in the bath I was quickly unloading the groceries when I see a little boy probably around 18 months old running down the parking lot with no adult anywhere near him. I thought to myself he must be a little escape artist. I go up to him and he looks at me and says, "Mom?" I said, "No, but lets go find yours cuz I bet she is worried." All of a sudden I see a Mom all frantic and running down the stairs of the next complex over look at me and yell, "I found him!" She said he ran down the stairs while she too was unloading her groceries and had thought he was in the house with her husband. I tried to reassure her by telling her I had 2 little guys and I wouldn't be surprised if they did the same thing. She thanked me and went on her way...

Yesterday after a week long vacation our freight guy comes in to work to a back room full of old frieght and the UPS guy dropping off 25 more boxes. He had planned his 10 day long vacation the week before tax free weekend, and if it had been any other weekend I could have had it all done. But since I had to be on the floor every day merchandising and to help clean up after the HUGE days we had, I was only able to successfully do 2 days worth. A couple other boxes had been done by part time teammates... but basically Monday morning there was a GINORMOUS mess in the back room and around 40 boxes of freight... So you get a pretty good idea... within each box there are anywhere from 15-60 items in each box. Nick (our freight guy) decides to work til lunch with a very grim look on his face (usually he is a very easy going fun guy) then politely asks for his check and then NEVER comes back!!!! So today I did freight ALL day long and there were about 20 more boxes dropped off this morning... going in at 6 AM to finish it all. And then 2 new freight guys start tomorrow morning. Problem solved, way too much work though...

Our tax free weekend was AMAZINGLY HUGE!!! Numbers were awesome and we are truly blessed to have had the option to move to this store!

Caden is now full on potty training! He was running around diaperless this morning when I see him start to poop... Oh no he didn't!! So I scooped him up and put him on the potty where he finished his business. When I had picked him up from school he was in a dry pull-up and all his "potty time" remarks had a P next to them meaning his used the POTTY!!! Tonight he had an accident but who doesn't?

And finally... MY BOYS ARE HAVING THEIR FIRST BOOK FAIR at school!!! This was always my favorite thing in elementary school bringing home the huge paper book list so you could put your orders in early. Now I am so excited my kids get to do this!! I think way more excited than most.

Oh and... Caden got his first Birthday Party Invitation from a kid at school! We cannot wait to attend!

Caden-Bug pretending to hurt himself

Visitors

Over the weekend we had tons of visitors!!! Mom had taken the boys home with her Thursday after the zoo so that Josh and I could enjoy some R&R, thanks Mom. Basically we just lounged around the house, but a couple times we went to dinner and we even spent a ridiculous amount watching Transformers. Can you believe it is $21 for two people to see a movie?!?! Saturday afternoon our BFFs from Augusta, Michael and Sarah, made a trip to Buford, GA to visit with us. We ate at PF Changs and then hung out at home just catching up on things. We have missed them tons and it was so nice to see them. They stayed the night with us and hung out all day Sunday. Sunday morning I met Mom in Calhoun to pick up the boys, and instead of coming straight home to hang with our friends... I spent an hour at the outlets shopping for the boys!!! Can you believe the entire Old Navy Outlet was 40 percent off? They got tons of shorts and tees to end their summer... We headed home and spent the rest of the day out and about with Sarah while Michael and Josh hung out at the pool. They ended up leaving Monday morning, but Aunt Gloria came up Monday night. After I picked the boys up we all met and ate at Taco Mac and then we headed home where the boys got acquainted with their aunt. Jacob even woke up the next morning asking where his new best friend had gone? Now its back to familiar faces and working...




Michael and Sarah













Me and Sarah













Josh and David (he is the store manager in Douglasville... and he worked with Josh in Chattanooga)












Jacob and his new best friend Aunt Gloria













She learned that if she stood in one place Jacob could just crawl under her arm :)












My sweet boys and their Aunt Gloria