Goooooo Cookie Monsters!!!!
So, last weekend was Mason's 1st soccer game of his career. Well to be honest, I am not sure how long of a career he will have with soccer. At least he gave it a go......well for the second half that is. We had a toughtime conviencing him to go on the field in the first half, but follow the pictures and you will see that with a little help from his twin, girl cousins.....he finally made it out there and even threw a few elbows. Once he got hit with a few himself, he came off crying to Chris. Needless to say, we are very proud of Mason for trying and who knows what will come of this. Maybe he will actually like it, but I doubt it from the looks of things. I think we won, but of course it is hard to keep track of the score when there are no rules at this age and they sometimes score in the wrong goal. I will try and post some video if I can ever get a free minute!
 
You can do it Mason!!
 
Hey, now he is out on the field. That's step 1.
 
Step 2, chasing the ball and throwing some elbows. (notice they are all on the same team)

 
Now we're talking....
 
Look at that monster of a kid pushing everyone! I can't blame Mason for being scared.
 
Who's #13 out there? How'd Buie get on the field? Well, it was hard to keep him off!

 
Now, we are back to square one.
 
Mason needed a little pep talk with daddy , Uncle Andrew and Frances.
 
Where's the ball.....I mean where's the kid that pushed me?

 
"I was awesome!"
 
Mason's favorite part, was snack time.
 
Olivia, Frances, Buie and Mason

 
 
Look at what mischief these boys were into tonight at Grandma's house. And what a bad mother am I for stopping to take a picture of this instead of stopping Mason from getting into the washing machine. No worries, don't report me, I was right there the whole time monitoring them. Oh what fun they are, always keeping you on your toes. Mason would have never dreamed of doing some of these things, it's all Buie's ideas!

 
Mr. Incredible & Pablo
 
Spider Man & Scooby Doo
 
Pablo beating up Mr Incredible

This is what our house looks like on rainy days..............Mason and Buie dressing up and Buie picking on Mason. Well, let the sun shine in..........maybe I should knock on wood, but it is not raining right now! I forgot what the sun looked like and boy is it refreshing. I don't see how people do it up in Seattle, I would go nuts! I do have to tell you, 2 nights ago Celie broke out of "the blanket" and slept 5 hours, well last night I made Chris wrap her up tight and she went 8 hours and it was lovely.

 
Mason, Grandpa & Buie heading down to look at the the Chastain water park!
 
Splish, splashin'
 
Buie looks like he is stuck in some deep water....

Well, the rain has put a damper on a lot of things. This weekend, Mason's 1st soccer game got cancelled. Then Sunday, we lost power and couldn't play outside. SO we went to surprise Grandpa and Maizie at church. Mason wanted to go to church! Well, when we got home, power was back on, but we noticed some leaking around our fireplace. Didn't think it would get worse over night, but I woke up in the middle of the night to feed Celie and heard dripping. Well, this morning is was really bad and by mid-day today I called Chris to come home from work so he could try and "fix" it. Thank God Pam had the boys all day and night, because Chris worked all day on water problems. What a mess! But it looks like Mason and Buie had a great time playing in it at the gold course at Chastain. Everything is under water around here and I hear it will continue and could get worse. Lets cross our fingers!

Well, this thing is for real people. The last two nights Celie went 9 hours between feedings. I am giving all credit to the miracle blanket and of course my friend that gave it to me, Mary Anne Massie. I owe her big time! You must get one of these if you have a newborn or are about to have a baby. You would have thought I would have know about this thing, now that I am on my third child, but none of my "friends" told me about it and I certainly don't have the time to go out about shopping. Anywho, I hope this trend continues.

As you can tell in the picture, Mason and Buie are excited about Halloween and their new pj's Grandma got them. They LOVE that they glow in the dark!

So......there is this blanket called the miracle blanket that a friend of mine told me about and let me borrow, that supposedly will get your baby to sleep through the night. I never believe any of that, but was willing to give it a try. Last night was our first night with it and Celie went 7 hours! I probably should not speak of it or should find some wood to knock on, but thought it was worth sharing in case anyone else needs help getting a newborn to sleep longer. I hope this was not a one time thing.....will keep you posted.

Well, we decided to take the boys to play some soccer since Mason has his first game next week. we didn't want him to have no clue as to what was going on. As you can see from the last picture, Mason does not have much interest in playing. Buie on the other hand...... is crazy with the ball. We may put him out there instead of Mason, I'll keep you posted. Buie was having a blast and Mason we had to bribe and threaten multiple things to try and get him to play. Oh well, I don't think Mason will be our athlete. Now, for the other pictures below...in case you don't know Buie......this is what will happen if he is unsupervised!! Not only is our catwalk semi-dangerous, but he then climbed up to the top of a ladder that we just pulled down from the attic. He was just quietly sitting up there. Which is another sign.......if you don't hear Buie talking, then you know he is up to no good. Chris found him up there and told me that I needed to come see our child before he dies. Might I add that he was on Chris's watch!!
 
Notice the tongue action
 
ka-pow!
 
GOOOAAALLL!

 
Buie up on the ladder
 
Way up high!

We had a busy day yesterday......2 birthday parties and a lot of football games to watch including the dawgs. Who scared the fool out of us, but thank the Lord they pulled it out. The first birthday party was Maryann and Betsy Beach. It was at a playground and had a pinata. The boys had fun playing and trying to hit the pinata. Mason hit it first try and Buie took 3 swings and then finally hit it. Once they gathered their candy, Mason was no longer interested in playing......he wanted to eat his candy. Once we left there with 2 sweating kids, we went to the other birthday party at Southern Prep (where Buie had his party). The boys all went in to play while I fed Celie in the car for a little bit. When all that was said and done, it was time to go home, because Granny was coming over to pick up the boys to go play at her house for a few hours. I must tell you want Buie did before they left. So Chris and I were watching t.v. and Buie asked what we were watching and Chris said "football". Buie then said "gooooo jackets......sting 'em"! We all died laughing, which only made matters worse and started saying it over and over and over again. Chris was like "Buie, say goooo dawgs.....sic'em". Buie would not give in. His Grandpa should be very proud! At least the dawgs won yesterday. Go Dawgs!!
 
Maryann hitting the pinata as hard as she could, so all the candy could fall out....
 
Mason and Buie weren't sure what to do and they each grabbed ONE piece of candy until Chris told them they could grab lots!
 
They were so excited about the candy they "found".

 
Buie playing kickball with daddy
 
It's Pablo.....I mean Mason!
 
Here I goooooooo......

So the first song you hear describes me right now in my life. I know it is strange, but I heard it last year during the Olympics and fell in love with it. Chris's song is the Van Morrison song and if you ever get down to the Scooby theme song......well that is for Mason and Buie. Chris sings it every night to Mason and Buie still gets twinkle twinkle.
Nothing very exciting going on today, but I must tell you what Buie did this morning. He was playing great with Mason this morning until he noticed I was feeding his favorite "toy" and he came to sit right next to/on me while I tried to feed Celie. Then he found a bottle of bubbles in the laundry room and opened it up and poured the whole things out right on the floor. Thank God it was on hardwoods, but still! So then he and Mason were "going" to color on coloring books, until I heard Mason telling Buie to stop coloring on the floor. SO I looked down and he was coloring on the carpet, lovely! Poor Mason was being so sweet and good by coloring and minding his own business and Buie was crawling all over him, pulling out his pages he was working on and scribbling all over the pages Mason was coloring. What a pain in the a** he was being. I believe he really gets that I can do nothing about his bad behavior while I am feeding Celie. Not sure what I am going to do about that and I guess it's a good thing we took the house off the market with Mr. Destructo back. I love him to pieces, but what am I going to do with him? Any takers? Well I did try and get them outside for a bit to wear them out. We went for a walk up the street and then I let them play out back while they had watermelon. I learned my lesson.......let Buie make the mess outside, not inside. Oh, now I get it, if I could only fence him in out there. Just kidding!

 
Taking a ride on mommy's shoulder
 
They LOVE the garbage truck and run out to watch it whenever they can.
 
Buie making a mess again, but this time I gave him the watermelon.

 
Celie's first baby bjorn ride....looks like she liked it
 
Buie taking Mason down the step. I so wish I had sound on this picture. Buie's laugh was from the gut!
 
Not your conventional way to ride in a truck (which they call "Mater")