Soccer Star?

My cousin plays soccer for UT Chattanooga (Big shout out to the Mocs!!) and I finally got to see her play a game. She was AWESOME!! We found out that PCH may be a budding soccer star herself!! Take a look at those skills!

Here's how much fun she had at the game!

And we had to throw in the mean face for some fun!

Ruby Falls: Worth it or not?

We decided to take PCH to Ruby Falls. Anyone who has been here knows that it is about a half mile hike through underground caves basically to get to a waterfall. The question I have is this: Is it worth carrying a 23 pound, dead weight, sleeping child through all this? My answer after doing it is HECK NO!!! PCH fell asleep about five minutes into the hike and Hubby and I had to carry her the half mile there to see this:


Then we had to carry her the half mile back to get out of the place!! She missed it all!!! To be honest......she didn't miss much!! I'll make sure to show her pictures one day if she ever asks to go back!!

More vacation...penguins and baseball!

PCH and I loved the penguins at the aquarium. She brought home a penguin of her own (stuffed of course) and it is her new best friend. She shares her sippy cup with it, takes it to the window to show it the backyard and wants us to kiss it all the time. She loves "pengin" as we call him!!

PCH experienced her first baseball game seeing the Chattanooga Lookouts play one night. She thought this was pretty cool....couldn't figure out how to throw that ball!!

What a cutie!! My two faves!!! They had a really good time together on vacation. It's rare for us to get to spend that much time with Hubby!

PCH took it upon herself to be our tour guide through Rock City. She would point to things and just babble! I didn't know she knew so much about rocks and plants!!

Vacation days

Here's a pic of PCH playing in the grass at my parents' house at sunset. I really wish it would have turned out a little better, but it's still classic.

We took at trip up to Lynchburg, Tennessee which is home to Jack Daniel's Distillery! Here's Hubby and PCH checking out the race car after our tour of the distillery. Hubby was happy to find out you can buy a whole barrel of Jack Daniel's and they will bottle it for you AND you get to keep the huge barrel it was aged in. All you need is about $8000!!!! Keep dreaming Hubby!!

Once we made it to Chattanooga we took a trip through the aquarium. PCH loved it and said "Ohhh weee" at everything!! Here she is checking out the seahorses (there were really ones too!).
Great view of the river in Chattanooga, and oh, who's that adorable little family?

So I know you're wondering

Where have we been? We've been really busy the past few weeks. We went on vacation with my parents after spending a few days at their house. We travelled to Chattanooga to take in a few sights and see my cousin play soccer at UT Chattanooga. PCH had a blast with her grandparents and was completely spoiled!! Hey, that's what the grandparents are for!!! I am so thankful for the time we get to spend with family because those moments are precious and I know we will all cherish every memory we made.

Here's a recent pic of PCH in a diva moment, SO her!!

Crayola anyone?

Today, PCH treated herself to a little morning appetizer. She took a little nip off the end of her red crayon! I was in the kitchen and she was in the living room watching cartoons and coloring (I could see her, so don't get all upset with my parenting skills). Everything is going just fine as I'm cleaning and she is supposed to be entertaining herself.......well she was also feeding herself! Hubby walks in the room and immediately says "What's she eating?" and this is enough for me to drop what I am doing and make a run for her. I know for a fact she had no food, at least real food, in there with her. Hubby is on the floor asking her if she ate her crayon, but by no means is he about to put his finger in her mouth and swipe it out!! Why, he won't do this I have no clue!! I go into full Mommy mode and almost gage the child trying to get tiny bits of red crayon out of her mouth. She starts screaming by this time, I don't know if I scared her or she thought she was in big trouble!! Either way, I had to scrub her teeth with her toothbrush because she had ground the crayon up into little pieces. She already hates to get her teeth brushed, so I'm sure this didn't help that situation. I just kept telling her "We don't eat our crayons!", but I don't know if she got it or not.....I guess we'll see next time the crayons are given to her. She cried for about thirty minutes over this ordeal and I think it was because she had to have her teeth brushed an extra time today!!

I wonder if crayons leave a trail on the way "out"? I guess I can answer this sometime tomorrow. I'll let you know.....I know you'll all be waiting eagerly for the answer!!

Sunday School Lesson

Hubby and I started teaching kindergarten Sunday School at church today and this is what I learned: I'm so happy I have a girl and I don't know if I could ever handle a boy!! Here is the reasoning behind my lesson. We had seven little five year-old girls who sat quietly, did what they were asked to do and were sweet as sugar. Then we had four little boys who did the exact opposite of that!! They talked the ENTIRE time, wanted to do anything other than what I wanted them to do and basically took over my Sunday School class!! Well maybe I'm exaggerating a tiny bit, but there was a CLEAR difference between the boys and girls. I know this was our first day and it will get better (or worse) as they get to know us, but I was pulling out every discipline trick in my book and I have a pretty big book being a social worker!! All I have to say to all of you moms out there who have boys is God Bless Your Hearts and nerves........I don't know if I could do it.

Potty update

Yesterday PCH pee peed in the little pink potty!! As I heard the little tinkle sound I started to clap and say "Yea!" which in turn scared the pee back into her!!! She stopped mid stream and had a look of terror on her poor face. Hopefully, this will not have any adverse affects on future deposits in the potty. I was just SO excited!!! We gave high fives and did the happy potty dance (it's super....you only wish you could do it like us!)! Maybe this made up for the grave scare I gave PCH. I guess we'll have to wait and see.............

Oh, yeah......she peed in the floor right after all this and before I could get a diaper on her. I guess that pee pee had to come out again sometime!!

I'll take full sentences for $500

The answer speaking in full sentences. The question is "What is the newest thing PCH has been doing lately?"

Her vocabulary is sky rocketing lately!! A few minutes ago she walked out of the room, looked at me and said "Bye...I'll see ya later!" I was astonished!!! Last night at the O's house she said plain as day, "What is that?". I thought M.O. was going to come off the couch she was so caught off guard!! It really is amazing to see how she is learning. She can locate most parts on her face and name them appropriately, but a side effect of this is that she likes to plug her ears up as she locates her ears. I'm sure this looks pretty funny in public, but she thinks it's funny because I guess it is a new funny sound for her. She continues to say "No" to most every question you ask her and then she turns around and will make a complete sentence. I guess it's just fun to say "no" to everything. I hope this changes one day or we're going to have a problem!! Maybe someday with her genius I.Q. she'll make it all the way to the Jeopardy Champions game!!