A tribute to Johnny Cash

I'm not particularly proud of it, but one of my favorite Johnny Cash songs is "Jackson." I must sing it more than I realize because I've caught Aidan singing his own version of the song several times. Tonight the boys were in the shower and I heard him singing away(a habit for him.) He has also inherited from me the art of making up his own words to songs. I am well known for this skill and I think Aidan will follow in my footsteps(poor thing)! The song says "We got married in a fever, hotter than a pepper sprout, we've been talking 'bout Jackson ever since the fire went out" Aidan sings "We got married in a BEAVER, married(sometimes he say born) in a BRUSSEL SPROUT, we've been talking Jackson every since we thought about, we're going to Jackson. I am particulary impressed with his southern accent through the song. Enoy!

5 months

This is too crazy! Aidan is in 1st grade, Canon is 2, and Quinn is already 5 months old! It's too fast. It's too much fun. She is so funny. She loves eating her feet, a recent discovery. She smiles freely at anyone who will talk to her. She LOVES Aidan, she gets bright-eyed when he comes around. And I can't prove it, but I think she cries the second she sees Canon, just to protect herself! He wants so badly to love on her, but it ends up more a smothering than a love. She will eat rice cereal like there is no tomorrow, but if you feed her a vegetable, she acts like you are poisoning her.(Just like her daddy!) She can close those lips so tight, nothing can get past them. She's so much fun and we're trying to savor every moment of her babyhood. Todd recently got a new backdrop and so we of course had to try it out.

Audible Smiles

Quinn is so funny. She smiles so big, but has not really had a real laugh. She kind of makes this cry, talk, fuss, noise with a smile on her face. We're still not sure if she's laughing or crying? She's still coming into her own and trying to figure out which of these "audible smiles" will work best for her. Trying them all out! Aidan can normally get her "laughing" the best, but Todd had her pretty happy this night. If you are curious about Aidan in the background asking to see the new website, it's a pine wood derby website that Todd found. Aidan is joining boy scouts and although we've yet to have our first meeting, he and Todd are deep in the planning process of the BEST pine wood derby car Germantown boys scouts have ever seen. I'm not sure who is more excited, Aidan or Todd!

Pudding!

Just Canon eating pudding. When a face is that messy you have to take a picture!

Drenched

It was a beautiful sunny afternoon, so I put Canon in the stroller and strapped Quinn into the carrier and off we went to pick up Aidan from school. We got to the school and waited and as we were waiting I watched the clouds roll in. The second Aidan walked out the doors it was a full downpour. As they say in the south, "The sky opened up!" Aidan had an umbrella and his great buddy Malena had an umbrella, so they shared and I tried to hold one over Quinn and I and push Canon in the stroller at the same time. It was so cute to watch Quinn, I thought she would have been screaming, but she was just fascinated with it. She kept looking at me with those big eyes. Always an adventure, even when we're not expecting it. Needless to say, we got home safely and we were all soaked head to toe.

Photo by Aidan(looks like Todd may have a new assistant!)

"RAY ME!"

In Canon language that means, "Hurray for me!" On Sunday Canon got interested in using his potty and when I say interested it was almost ridiculous! Not kidding, (I have Aidan for backup) Canon went to the bathroom about 30 times in 1 hour. We might need to get him checked out? He would get so excited each time and clap his hands and say "RAY ME!" It was so funny. He had Aidan and I both in hysterics. Here are a few of the G-rated pictures from his potty extravaganza!

Rainy Day Fort

This weekend was a wet one. It was overcast all weekend leaving the boys a little......restless. So we sent them upstairs to build a fort and our little engineers did great. They had a lot of fun building it, but even more fun wrestling and playing in it.

Who Loves Baby?

Aunt Ashley, Uncle Chris, and cousin Addie! Thanks for making us smile, we miss you guys.

Sitting in the Bumbo

A new place to sit! I pulled Canon's old Bumbo out and put Quinn in it just to see how she liked it....she LOVED it. She folded over a couple of times, but other than that sat it in and smiled. When I did take her out, Canon hopped in it. Still my baby! I asked him if he wanted me to take his picture, "Yes, mommy!" Then after each picture I took "Ana see"(I want to see) What a ham!watching tv(the Olympics of course!)

A visit from Nina

It was a great surprise to have Linda in town. The boys are so amused with her singing and playing. It was a short visit, but a great one. Quinn gave her a few great smiles and we enjoyed planning the dress she's going to make Quinn for Christmas! (It's just around the corner!) Always fun to have family around.

Our first going to first!

Back to school, today was the day. Aidan was so excited. It is so amazing to me that he is going into the first grade. He is so sweet hearted and has a spirit to him that is too sweet and kind to put into words. He puts up with endless attacks from Canon and loves on Quinn like no other big brother could. He is our little inventor, always engineering a new way to help one of us. He gathers all of his tools(paper towel tubes, ropes, blankets, anything handy) and makes something so creative(Todd found "blueprints" for his latest the "sweep-up-dump"); new inventions daily. Watch out Ben Franklin, here comes Aidan! So enough ranting about how fabulous our son is! Here is his first day of first grade! The most exciting part for him, was that he got his own DESK! Last year they had tables, but none of that for the big first graders, they have there very own, handy dandy DESK! I can't wait to go pick him up and see how his day was!
Aidan at his very first desk. I hope I'll never forget the excitement. (Gotta love the cheesy smiles!)

Sunflowers

Every year we are blessed with hundreds of sunflowers blooming at Shelby Farms. This year, we were blessed to have a little girl to put in them! They are so amazing and it was so much fun to have Quinn out in them. She was looking at them and actually trying to grab at them some as well.

Then we decided to try and get a group picture. Quinn and Aidan were fully cooperative. Someone else, not so much. (hmm....I wonder who?) I tried everything, but he was not interested in sitting still at all. Then he decided to get in the picture in his own Canon-way. Yes, that's Aidan under him! Look at the grin on him. He is a self-proclaimed "dilly doose" silly goose. They're always finding new ways to make us laugh and think to ourselves, how lucky are we?

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Aidan Kelly 46 pounds

Canon Davis 26 pounds

Quinn Elise 14 pounds

Going for a run with all 3 of my kids...............priceless!