June 23, 2007

My boys are always amazing me. This morning Preston and I went for our morning walk together. It's so fun watching Preston "gear-up" to go exercise. He has to have on his big dirt shoes. He no longer wants to sit in the stroller. He really doesn't have a walking pace. He either runs or plays in the dirt. He introduces himself to everyone in the neighborhood each day. As if they wouldn't remember who he is from the previous 300 or so introductions. We made it back just in time for Jeremiah to head to work.

For those of you who don't know, he is completing courses to become a personal trainer. He works in the fitness room at the YMCA, but would like to do some personal training. His class is in Alpharetta today from 9-1. It's pretty far from our house so he wanted to leave early.

Parker is talking up a storm. He is playing beside me while I type. He found a beaded bookmark that one of my students gave me and he is having a blast slinging it around and around. It's amazing that the boys have gobs of toys, but they always find mommy and daddy's things more interesting. He's a bit warm this morning, but doesn't have a fever. His bottom two teeth finally came through with a lot of tears and pain.

One of Preston's best friends is the little girl that lives across the street from us, Katelyn. Katelyn has informed her mom that she wants to marry Preston. When Ms. Angie asked Katelyn how much this wedding is going to cost her, she didn't really know what her mommy was talking about. So Angie explained that after the wedding they would have to eat food. Katelyn responded with, "We'll have tomatoes and water. Oh, and juice for the kids!" Angie is expecting another baby girl on July 5th. She doesn't know it yet, but we are having a surprise baby shower for her today. Jeremiah and I made her a beautiful pink fondant covered cake, with my Granny's strawberry jam for the center filling. We cut out little baby feet and miniature hearts and placed them all over the cake. It's the cutest baby shower cake I've ever seen. I'll try to post a picture of it sometime this week.

Tomorrow will be our 6th Wedding Anniversary! We don't have any plans...yet. I'm going to try to find a sitter for the boys today. More on that later. Parker needs my attention.

Love,
Tracy

June 2007

I decided to create a blog since our friends and family are widespread. I hope you enjoy reading about what the boys are up to. It's 9:40 pm and this is the first quiet moment I've had today.

The four of us spent the day hauling things to West Jackson Primary School. We attempted to set-up my classroom. Ha! I don't know what we were thinking. Preston looks at my classroom as a miniature version of Toys R' Us, but he can just dump out of the cool things without buying them. Parker Reese, instantly wants to be held when we walk through the doors. He has special sensors that tell him that his mommy really needs to accomplish a lot of work in a short amount of time, so he requires extra cuddling. At the end of the day, I must thank my wonderful husband, Jeremiah, he moved and re-arranged...and moved and re-arranged (many times through-out the day) so I could have the classroom looking wonderful for my little first graders.

We headed home and Jeremiah had to shower before heading to work at the YMCA in Winder. He has a short shift tonight (7-10pm). One of the things that we look forward to each day is enjoying dinner together. Tonight we were blessed to enjoy a Smoked Boston Butt that our neighbor, Mr. Charles, so kindly prepared for us. It was delicious and both of the boys ate it! We also had cooked carrots and fresh strawberries. Yum, thank you Mr. Charles.

After dinner we all drove to the Y. Jeremiah went to work in the fitness center, I went to Yoga and the boys to child watch. This was only their second time and they did great. When we got home it was time for bed.