Autumn in My Heart

Oh boy! Shoe Carnival was having a sale on Converse hi-tops last week and I just couldn't resist.
I told Nathan on the way home from school that I had bought him a pair and he couldn't wait to put them on. In fact he wore them that evening with his pajamas. I think he would have slept in them if I had let him.




The harvest moon appeared last Thursday and it was a beautiful sight. I took this shot from the garden overlooking the cotton field. I'm ready for some cool nights and days and the changing of the leaves, but especially sitting around the fire pit with my family eating marshmallows!

Time to pull out the Halloween decorations and I didn't realize how many treaures we have accumulated until they emerged from their hiding places. M-i-l made this cute pumpkin years ago for us and it lights up. AnnaBelle has lifted the top off of it at least a hundred times. Shaky, shaky, shaky.......meyhem is everywhere.

My beanbag pumpkin sat there for about.......5 minutes before she swiped him up and toted him around for the day. Notice the chocolate face courtesy of a Quaker Oats Chocolate bar.

Ah yes, my beautiful blue-eyed son lost his first tooth Saturday morning! His Daddy plucked it out after he loosened it most of the day before at school. This is a pic of us on the tall ferris wheel at the State Fair of Virginia. We spent a wonderful fun-filled day there the past Saturday. It was hot but the rides were COOL! Nathan was tall enough to ride a majority of them and he did. I ate my first fried oreos and it won't be the last time. They were out of this world delicious!

As Days Go By

They'll soon be spraying the cotton plant and combining the white stuff. It's so pretty growing and even prettier on a moonlit night in a few weeks when the moon casts its light down on the field and it looks like snow.

He is always on the go. Now that his foot reaches the pedal we've allowed him to drive the golf cart around the farm. He is still learning what to NOT run in to; toys scattered on the ground, cars, trucks and baby sisters.

School is still an adjustment for the little guy. He has managed to stay consistently in the green (which is a warning) and we discuss the infractions. I'm taking the wait and see approach. I think in time he'll get it.

Our mornings consist of hunting through the butterbean vines in hopes of finding enough filled out to pick. We have not received any rain as of late, and next week doesn't look any better. This year's garden was one of our worst ever......

Little Miss Priss and her dress from her Godmother. Isn't it just gorgeous? I love the outfits she picks out, she has such great taste! AnnaBelle couldn't wait to put it on this afternoon and venture outside!

I Feel The Need, The Need For Speed!

Miss AnnieB loves to swing. She loves to go higher and higher and faster and faster.

Say hello to her new hammydown. Nathan's old 4-wheeler. Since he got a Razor electric dirt bike this past spring, he hasn't ridden his 4-wheeler at all. AnnaBelle hopped up on it the other day and took off! Her feet just reach the pedal if she sits right. I couldn't believe her steering ability. She would ride in between parked vehicles and other obstacles around the farm steering as if it was just a ride in the park! She'll be 2 and a half in a couple of months, Danica Patrick look out!

♫ The future's so bright........I gotta wear shades.....I gotta wear shades! ♫

My little daredevil.

Ch-Ch-ch-ch-changes--Turn and Face the Strange

He's already asking for his "old life" back. When he didn't have the rules, the standing in line with your finger on your lips in the "hush" position, or sitting criss cross applesauce during storytime, and not being able to talk when you want to. "I wanna go back Mama, I don't want to grow up."



This was the face of anticipation on the first morning of kindergarten. He is so eager in the morning to go and even though it's been a tough 2 days for him learning what he can and can't do, he has awaken each morning looking forward to his classroom.

George and I are new to parenthood and when he came home the first day in the yellow we gave him a firm talking on behaving in class. The next day when he was in the yellow again we decided to unplug his lifeline....the television. Last night he sat in his bed reading a book and telling me he hated school. I don't want him to hate it already 3 days into it, so I told him of all the new skills he'll be learning and how school will shape him into the confident young man we know he'll become. "How many more years of school, Mama?" "Until you're 18 son." "Mama that's forever." I hope it does go by slow so I can savor every minute of it!

Now that school is back in this little girl knows she has me all to herself most of the day. She keeps me entertained by dancing and singing to any music she hears, but she is especially fond of the Black Eyed peas and DJ Lance.

Milestones were reached this week and I was a trooper when I dropped Nathan off the first day and didn't cry until I got into the truck to go home. It's bittersweet because he is no longer my child, he is on his way to finding his independence and voice in this crazy world. God bless his journey!