Wednesday, August 22, 2007

Comparison Shopping Paid Off!


Thank Goodness ... The Boys finally decided on a tractor.

Poor Lowe's had mislabeled one of their tractors and low and behold my hubby exploited their mistake. See, H's Daddy had been "cruising" Lowe's for some time looking at all the tractors. He saw one that seemed to stick out for the price on the label. Turns out, poor Lowe's had put a much lower grade tractor tag on this big doozie tractor. Thus...the plan began.

We must have gone over the "arguement" 100 times. Finally, I offered to go instead to get the tractor b/c I told him that I wasn't worried about walking out without it. That certainly put H's Daddy into the perfect frame of mind and off he went. He was so incredibly proud when he came back with the tractor. Of course, we haven't mowed the grass yet, but we have ridden it up the driveway about 20 times. We use it like our golfcart :)

The pics are from later that day when it was delivered. H had been playing naked slip and slide outside so the pictures are a little X-rated.


Tuesday, August 21, 2007

Shopping for Boys!




H and his dad have been on a special mission to find the perfect tractor for the lawn. H has been trying out all of the tractors since he started walking and now that his daddy decided it was time to get one .... it is serious business. This is H testing out a few on a recent trip to Lowe's. H is so serious about checking out all of the tractors that Nanni tought him how to raise the hood to inspect the engine and the battery.

Saturday, August 11, 2007

Let's Crush those Tumor Markers!


Nanni got some really good news yesterday....her tumor markers have dropped from 260,000 to 50,000!!!! We are so excited and just wish that she felt better. She has been feeling really bad the past couple of days and H has been having a really hard time seeing Nanni so upset. This picture is from a week before she got her diagnosis (May) and is in Disney.

Thomas Comes to Town

Today H and I went on a very special date. We went to see Thomas at the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra and it was superb. H gave me about 100 kisses on our date and said he had so much fun. I tried to get some good pictures, but H insisted on doing his funny faces for the camera.
H was so excited to see that Thomas, Percy, Diesel, and Trublesome Truck were all in the show along with 3 conductors and Sir Topham Hat. H loved to interact with the show and had no problems yelling out on cue!
H was so easy to take on our date together. Even though there was so much excitement he always held my hand and did a great job staying in his seat (which is sometimes difficult). He actually did have fun, but when I tried to take the pictures below before the show started he almost looked comatosed!
After the show we even say some friends of ours in the lobby. It was so exciting that after the show H and I had to take a long nap at Nanni's house. Poor Nanni was so bored, even Pa was asleep!

Friday, August 10, 2007

My Buddy Uncie

H loves his "Uncie." Uncie is H's great, great uncle and lives in the next town on a fun farm. H loves to go to Uncie's farm and run around, but tonight Uncie met us at Cracker Barrell. Needless to say, Uncie was surprised that H can eat 4 buttered biscuits all in one sitting.

Uncie spent a lot of time telling H about life and rocking on the front porch while Daddy tried to get the doors unlocked (Nana- Daddy's Mom - locked the keys in the car). Daddy couldn't do it, the police couldn't do it, but a big purple wrecker did it! Yippee for AAA and the purple truck with the hook, as H calls it.

Wednesday, August 8, 2007

First Day of School


H's first day of school was today and he was so excited to go and meet his new teacher, Ms. Joan. He really wanted to go to his "old" class across the hall, but we managed to get him in the right spot. H did great...his dad - not so well. I guess there always has to be a crybaby on the first day of school :)


These pictures were taken on our front porch before school. H looks so cute, but I realized later that my lens was fogged b/c it was about 100 outside!




Here are H and Daddy on the way to school. Of course, I had to ride up front alone.


This is H outside of his beautiful school made of stone. It is just stunning, but I guess I cut it out of the photo. Oops!


Tuesday, August 7, 2007

Boondogle with Nanni

Nanni had a great idea the other day and bought H a poster board and markers. H drew Nanni a beautiful picture and they had so much fun together.