Super Bowl Hat

In our Christmas presents from Papa, he sent "us" a Super Bowl hat. This years Super Bowl is going to be played in Tampa at Raymond James Stadium, home of my beloved Bucs. Unfortunately, my Bucs won't be playing in the

Super Bowl - but that's ok.

I think the hat is pretty cool anyway!

E.L. Ross Faculty comes a carolin'!

The Friday before Christmas, which was the last day of school, the ELRoss faculty came to sing Christmas carols to mom. I had taken her that morning to the doctor and she was feeling REALLY bad. She was really nauseous. She didn't know they were coming so I drug her a chair over to the window so she could see out and opened it so she could hear them. Almost the entire faculty, except for 5 or 6 people, was there. And right as they all arrived, it started pouring rain! But they were troupers and just huddled together under the umbrellas! Mom was SO touched and it meant so much to her. She has missed being at school this year and it was the first time she had seen many of these faces since last spring!

Thank you, Ross Faculty, and we love you all!!

"Snowing" with Tee

Last week, after my Papa and Nee sent my Christmas Presents, Tee was at my house and she showed me that we could play in the big box and make it "snow" with the packing peanuts! my favorite thing to do was throw them at her! It was SO much fun!!!

Oops, I had an accident and spilled my box.

But - my Daddy picked it up and we played more!!

Where's Michael????

I love the game hide-and-seek and will play it almost anytime I can find something to hide my face with! Such was the case the other day on the way home from church. I figured out how to pull my jacket hood over my face and hide....I made my Mommy count to 10 and then "find"me

1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10!

Where's Michael???

Here I am!!!

These Boots Are Made For Walkin'...

I am fascinated with shoes of any kind! The other day I was upstairs with my Daddy and I got into the closet and got the old boots of Daddy's and put them on. Daddy called Mommy to come to the bottom of the stairs and this is what she saw!!!

Memories Monday

I got this idea from several friends of mine in the blogging world.....called Memories Monday. Each Monday (or as many as I can remember...) I will post a picture from the past....it may be anything....so have fun and tune in on Mondays to see what I dig up!!

The first picture is from our wedding, June 26, 1999

Relay for Life Weekend in Nashville

Mom and I went to Nashville this past weekend for a Relay for Life Leadership Summitt. The theme of the weekend was the 80's to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the Relay. On Friday night we had an 80's party - here are pics of the night....we had so much fun!

Mom in her 80's gear

Me in my 80's gear
Us

Our group from Bradley County!

Luminaria at the Luminary Service on Saturday

Me at the base of the GIANT Christmas tree at the hotel

Mom at the base of the tree
Me with the tree in the background

Mom with the tree in the background

(she was nervous I was going to push her wheelchair

down the stairs! - haha)

Ready for Christmas at the Opryland Hotel

Randoms from Sunday

Coloring with the big kids in Mommy & Daddy's Sunday School Class

Cool Man

Our family at Chili's
Me and my Mommy

Playing at the Mall

A couple of Sundays ago, after church, we went to Hamilton Place Mall to go shopping for winter clothes for the family!! I was such a trouper till the very end and as a reward I got to go play in the play area. This was the first time I had really shown interest in playing so mommy let me go for a few mintues. I had a BLAST!!! Here are a few pictures to enjoy....

Yes, I am actually hanging from this pole. Mommy is amazed at my arm strength. This is my new thing is to hold onto something and lift my feet!

Mommy calls me her little "monkey"!

Sweet boy!

The Shell's Halloween Party

The night after Halloween, Mommy and Daddy's good friends, Jason and Dara Shell, had their annual Halloween party. Mommy and Daddy dressed up as cave-people and I was their little Dinosaur! Here are some silly pictures......

Mommy and Daddy

(I don't know what look Daddy was going for?!?)

The Pre-Historic Family

Our Family at the Shell's

Mommy and her Dinosaur (sans mask)

The Big Bad Wolf (Jason) and Little Red Riding Hood (Dara)

Carving Pumpkins

Daddy and I carved our first pumpkin this year. Well, he did most of the work and I watched, but it was fun!! I did pick out the face that I wanted him to carve.

The final results below: the little one I painted at school.

Mommy put a candle inside to make it glow. I thought this was super cool!

Mommy's Sweet Pumpkin
I practiced my silly faces to match my pumpkin!
Silly face #2

Halloween 2008

Well, I decided (finally) to be a Dinosaur for Halloween this year. When Mommy started asking me what I wanted to be, I kept telling her I didn't want to dress up - I'd say "No Halloween Mommy". Then, one saturday morning, we were watching cartoons and they were having a Halloween party. I decided I wanted to dress up. This time, when Mommy asked me what I wanted to be, I told her - "A Butterfly". I don't know why she thought this was so funny!! When she told my Daddy what I had said - he told me "NO!". Ugh! I finally make up my mind - and then they tell me no!! Well, they took me to K-Mart to look for a costume (where Daddy quickly hid a butterfly costume from me when he thought I wasn't looking) and I saw this Dinosaur and made up my mind this is what I was going to be!! Mommy and (especially) Daddy were so happy! Here are some pictures of my costume and a few shots of Halloween night.

We went to the mall and I had to make a quick pit-stop in the Game Stop to play the Wii

At the First Baptist Fall Festival....I got an Egg with a ball inside!

Dinosaurs ROAR! (I'd look scarier if I would take the cup of milk out my mouth)

Side View - I loved to shake my tail!

Aren't I the cutest Dinosaur ever?!?

One pooped Dinosaur at the end of the night - and, yes, I kept my hat on ALL night!

Poopin' at the Pumpkin "Patch"

Well, Mommy really wanted to take me to an actual Pumpkin Patch this year - more for the photo op than to pick out a pumpkin - but Daddy didn't want to pay the absurd fees to get into one and then pay an outrageous amount for a pumpkin. SO, there is a cute little produce stand in Charleston (about 10 minutes away) that had tons of pumpkins. We rode up there one Saturday morning after breakfast to pick out a pumpkin. As I was very sweetly posing on the pumpkin like Mommy wanted me to - I got the urge to do something else. Something I like to do in private.........

Mommy turned around to look at something Daddy wanted to show her and when she turned back around, I presented her with another photo op.......
She likes to call it "Poopin' at the Punkin' Patch"!