Showering

Shower the people you love with love...  and cupcakes and popcorn and kitchen supplies!  Sunday afternoon all the sisters hosted a Bridal Shower for our youngest, Natalie!  The boys went to spend the night with grandparents so I had time to clean and prep and run errands without my trusty helpers.  In true southern fashion, we had snazzy drinks, fancy subs (obvi), sausage balls, pimento cheese, fruit and veggies and desserts.  Everything your grandmother could ever dream of.  ;) We had a little 'How well do you know the Bride' questionnaire and coasters that you could write the Newlyweds advice on.   I should have taken more pictures, too busy working on the punch.

Sista-sista!  Missed you Sarah!

Date Night!

Shhhh, don't tell his brothers, but my big guy and I went to a Durham Bulls game the other night all by ourselves!  Our friends gave us tickets for the 'party zone' - free tickets, free hotdogs, free popcorn, free Sprite, AND free games at Woolly World.  It was a blast and oh so easy with just this kid.  We were all going to go to the game but the night before Nash took a fall on his scooter and went to the ER to get a cat scan for a concussion. Thankfully that came back ok and he is just supposed to 'take it easy' for a week, ha. The reason he was acting so tired and wonky was because he had strep.  Dude cannot catch a break.  He and Theo got to hang with dad at home.  Dad rules and knew mom would be all about a baseball game date night.  Jackson waited until the next day to get sick with his first ear infection?!  We may invest in an amoxicillin keg over here.  It's May, we ain't got time for this!

Strawberries!

Last week we headed to Waller Farms with a bunch of little people to pick us some strawberries!  Theo went to town, eating them straight off the bush.  My 'worker' Nash is quite the picker, I had to make him stop because I didn't know what we were going to do with all of these.  Alas, I found this recipe for Strawberry Chocolate Chip Cake, we got rid of those suckers in no time.

    

Mother's Day

A mother's love.  So thankful for these 3 animals for teaching me what life is about.  And so thankful for my beautiful mom, who makes it look so easy and looks so good doing it.  A birthday on Mother's Day, kind of like having one right after Christmas...

Happy Birthday Tat-Tat!

"She wasn't doing a thing that I could see, except standing there, leaning on the balcony railing, holding the universe together." -JD Salinger

All kind of looking?!

"The moment a child is born, the mother is also born.  She never existed before.  The woman existed, but the mother, never.  A mother is something absolutely new." -Rajneesh

Eagles!

Jackson has had the best Kindergarten year!  We love everything about his class, teacher, and school. I am a huge proponent of public schools, but as a mother know we all do what is best for our little one.  It is a big debate in our neighborhood every year about 'where will you send your kid to school?'  I put my money (jk - it's FREE!) where my mouth is and jumped right in.  Now I am on a mission to get the rest of our 'hood to join us.  We love being an Eagle!

Science Night!  We do NOT miss a special night, Jackson likes to go to every single thing...

Dad joined us for the much anticipated 5th graders vs. teachers basketball game.  The teachers won... booo.

Headed to the Creekside Carnival!  Seriously, they were so excited.  We listened to pump up music on the way there.  I should have do a little more pre-gaming myself.

I think everyone had fun at the Carnival.  I chased this guy around everywhere.  He is a maniac.  He will rule the school soon enough.  

Yesterday I got to go on a field trip to Marbles!  This was my 'group.'  It was the easiest trip to Marbles I have ever had.  They had so much fun and LISTENED to me and did not RUN away or BREAK anything.  It was awesome.  I felt a little bit guilty.

Loved hanging with my big Kindergartener all morning.  I am so proud of this guy!

Hump Day!

Wednesday got us all like, what....  

No worries, Jackson got back up and did that thing again! Then he joined the others for ICEEEEEEESSS at Brooklyn's neighborhood Spring Fest!

Engaging!

Saturday night we celebrated Aunt Nat and Zack!  Zack's aunt and uncle threw an awesome BBQ in their backyard, everything was gorgeous.  It was kid friendly and the boys all had a blast.  'Did you know Nat's name is going to be Natalie Lee? Like Nat Lee? And Dolly is going to be Dolly Lee?  That's kinda weird right?'  My sweet Jackson, an inquiring mind and always speaks the truth.

Ohhh, a table full of CUP-CAKE, don't mind me...

Handsome Ring Bearers taking a break from football to watch a little corn hole.

Farris - Winslow - Soon to be Lee Family Picture.  Missing the Fowlers!

May Days!

We have a lot of birthdays to celebrate in the month of May!  First up is Grand-daddy!  We headed to Wilson yesterday afternoon for a nice relaxing cookout with family...  And then Nash got tackled by his ever loving older brother and hit his forehead smack on a chair corner.  He needed stitches or glue or fancy band-aids or something.  But, it was Sunday evening and zero urgent cares were open and I just couldn't bring myself to go sit in the Wilson ER for the night.  After exchanging bloody pictures and calls with my most favorite doctor EVER we decided Charlie could either super glue it shut (he is a really good sub maker, physician not so much) or we clean it, ointment it up and Nash has a pimpin' scar for the rest of his life.  I think scars are pretty cool, especially when you are a male model, so we went with the latter.  Two hour later we all ate a lot of chocolate cake and called it a night!

Happy Birthday Grand-daddy!

Super Brave, hard-headed animal.  And I finally got to put a clip in my child's hair.  ;)

Edited to note - Day 2 we opted for urgent care.  Nash was awake for 1 entire hour and managed to knock it twice.  The doctors glued it right on up and told Charlie he could do it at home for a lot cheaper. Great....

Glued-up big head and an ice cold Mountain Dew, his treat of choice.