Doggies

Everyone always ask....How are ya'll doing? - they are referring to Handsome, and the new mommie... then 9 out of 10 times the second question is...How are the dogs doing? I love this- everyone knows that Blue and Ivory are our children too, and they have always lived like a princess and prince. The answer to their question is always the same...Ivory is great, but we knew she would be. And Blue is good. He actually listens better now...he's still wild, but he is very curious and wants to smell. So we let him, and he gives Handsome the softest licks...so very soft. Blue has always been a lover.

However our attention just isn't on our 4-legs anymore, and Blue requires A LOT of attention. The first week Blue was very blue... he would not have anything to do with me. He wouldn't love on me, give me hugs, come when I called, and he wouldn't even take a nap with me.

J-E-A-L-O-U-S.

So we have had to put some extra effort into loving on Blue, making him feel special, and letting him break a few rules... BIG NO NO- Sitting on the couch. He was actually asleep in this position, but when the camera was brought out he woke up.

Wildlife

Since we live in the middle of NOWHERE...we see quite a bit of wildlife. We have all kinds of babies at our house...and I'm thinking they are twins though. We didn't see their momma...Shad promised she was in the woods. The sweet babies were eating acorns.

Newborn Pics

So PANIC attack last week...but it's done; newborn pictures are DONE! So I'm able to breath again. It was a really stressful day for both of us, but Lawson did fairly well- mom, the photographer, and I watched him for at least two hours as he looked at us with big blue eyes. We did EVERYTHING trying to get him to sleep...fed, rock rock, used the bouncy, fed, rock rock, turned on noise...anyways you get the point. His sweet eyes were sooo heavy, but as they would start to shut....BAM they were right back open, scared he would miss the excitement. But FINALLY, he gave in and went to sleep and the fun could begin. I'm posting a link from the photographer's site. I hope you enjoy looking at our sweet little one. We love the pics near the end when he has his little mouth opened. :)

http://www.photodex.com/share/ChuckSimsImages/k44b8mg4

Mine

All mine.....and overfilled with love and gratefulness.

Now

New life....

given to us....

totally stole our hearts with just one breath....

forever changed with God's blessing.

Lawson Allen

September 20th at 11:55 PM

6 lbs. 12 oz. and 20 in. long

Work Shower

Casey, Jodi, Sara, and Lavonette threw us a wonderful baby shower at school a couple of weeks ago. I love these girls...they really know how to make someone feel special. Our school is such a special work place and everyone has been so supportive during my entire pregnancy. We were given such great things, and some of the cutest clothing. I'm so thankful to work with such caring, creative, loving group of teachers. Nora Davis rocks! Here are just a few pictures from the shower.

Sweetness

I know what sweetness is....I see it in this picture.

I made this frame for Lawson's room. I think it's cute. I also updated my Plum Cute blog...check it out. There are two new hospital hangers on there. You can find the site on my blog list on the left hand side.

Brag

Well, it's results time....all the information was taught, test were given, and they were sent to Neverland to rank our students' learning... state testing always makes teachers a little nerves...students too.

This is a picture of my sisters. Watts and Warren. The three of us make up the roster for the third grade teachers at Nora Davis Magnet School. We pour our hearts into making learning fun, relevant, and rigorous.

I've gotta brag a little... you may not can see it in our picture, but we are wearing a double crown. And how often do people get DOUBLE crowns!!!! We got double crowns for math and language arts. It's really hard to read in the picture below, so I'll explain. Our local newspaper prints the MCT2 test results each year and ranks the best and the worst schools/grade levels in the county. And if you look at the picture below...under BEST...you'll see Language Arts...and the BEST 3rd grade is ............NORA DAVIS MAGNET SCHOOL with 70.9 % of the students scoring advanced and proficient! YAY, US!!!

AND if you look a little farther down, under THE BEST....Mathematics...you'll see that the BEST 3rd grade is............... NORA DAVIS MAGNET SCHOOL with 77.4% of our students scoring advanced and proficient! DOUBLE YAY for US!!!

SO, let me sum it up for you. Our babies, that are now in 4th grade, my sister teachers, and I are the BEST in the county at Language Arts and Math!!!!!!!!! DOUBLE CROWN!

Grandparents Visit

So, my grandparents came down for a visit on Sunday. They wanted to see me pregnant one last time (since time is getting near) and look at Lawson's nursery before he gets here. I'm glad they came because they crack me up. They are so funny! Really.

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They were telling us that my grandad had lost his glasses after taking my grandmother to the doctor...he said they looked for his glasses for at least one hour. He said that he had basically given up when he sat down at the kitchen table with my grandmother to look over the side affects sheet for her medicine...well, when she finished reading the list, she took off HER glasses...and you guess it, he finally found HIS...since she was wearing them! I laughed and laughed! Of course, she blamed him for not looking at her to noticed that she was wearing them! Funny.
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We had a great visit with them. We grilled, laughed, talked, and played the Wii. It was seriously funny. And I wouldn't be surprised if my grandmother asked for a Wii for her birthday.

Pumpkin

Winner...winner...CHICKEN DINNER! Yep, that's right. Shad won the pumpkin contest. You may remember that Shad and his bro had a giant pumpkin contest this summer...the votes have been counted and Shad WON! Now, this was a GIANT pumpkin contest- and I think that the word giant is a stretch...but all that matters is that Shad won, and we get a free dinner!