Adoption Video

This is a neat adotion video. I found it on the blog of the pediatrician we are going to see Monday at the International Adoption Clinic in Birmingham. Our doctor is the blond woman that adopted twin girls. Her adorable girls, Lily and Kate, are at the end of the video. I also added a link to her blog if anyone wants to read about her. I wish she were here in Atlanta! Thanks to Susan for letting me know about her and her clinic. You can see how she might have caught Susan's eye.

Miscellaneous Photos of the Kiddos!

We have a picture of Ben at 21/2 holding Peter when he came home from the hospital in this rocker. The boys both wanted a picture of them with Ava in the chair. I still need to take one of all three of them in it.





Peter has had pajamas like these every year for Christmas. He is growing out of his last pair, but he still loves to wear them. He wanted Ava to have a pair too. The other night she had them on and the hat was in the living room. At one point I looked up and she had put the hat on herself. I thought it was so cute! I need to get a picture of them together with their matching pj's. Ben wouldn't be caught dead in pj's like this! NOT cool!

My Little Boy Turns 5!

Jada and Peter having fun on the stage

update - The Migo has been found!!! Peter put it in his back pack yesterday, and he found it today when he was at school. Yay!

I think we could all learn from Peter how to have fun at a party! He is such a fun, happy guy. He had such a good time at his birthday party at Chuckee Cheese's! He had about 6 friends from school come. He was very excited about seeing all of his friends.

I can't believe that he is 5 years old. What people say is so true. Time just flies watching your children grow. I love seeing them going through all of their ages and stages. I just don't want them to grow and not want to cuddle anymore. Peter is such a loving and cuddly guy, he may not ever grow out of it!

Happy Birthday Peter!! His birthday was actually yesterday, but we have had many celebrations!! He had his friend party on Saturday, family party on Sunday, and yesterday we also did some celebrating. The main thing he wanted to make sure we did yesterday was eat dinner at Burger King! He likes BK, but the real big draw is that i-dogs are the prize in the kid's meal! We also went to Target so he could spend his gift cards that he got at his party. We spent a long time going up and down the toy isles trying to decide what he wanted. He finally decided on an Migo pet (a hand held virtual Chihuahua). For some reason he has a thing for chihuahua's. In fact, he told me one day he wanted to go to Mexico and when I asked him why, it was because chihuahua's are from there. Unfortunately, he brought the Migo pet to the grocery store with us and I think he may have left it there. We can't find it anywhere. He is very upset about it. We are no longer bringin toys into the grocery store!!

Sydney (Peter's ex-girlfriend), Peter, and Noah in the background

Ben and Peter (with Ava's help) playing air hockey

Ava sticking close to mommy at the crazy Chuckee Cheese

Donna and Jim hosted both Peter and Granddaddy's birthday party. It was great for me. The only thing I did for the party was make Peter's cake. Thank you Donna!

Ava must think we really like to party...two in one weekend!


Present time!!!


Wherever Granddaddy is, Ava is!

Blowing out candles

Ava fed Granddaddy all of his cake and ice cream!

Getting Ready for Christmas!

This weekend the boys went to Donna and Jim's house to make gingerbread houses. They were adorable as usual. Peter made an Auburn house, Ben made a LSU/Georgia house (he said that these were his number 4 and 5 teams) and they made an adorable pastel house for Ava. She isn't quite ready for the spending the night/gingerbread house weekend. The gingerbread houses are also judged every year. Grandmama and Granddaddy give out awards for different categories. Ben won the Best Architecture award, Peter for Most Creative, and Ava won Most Colorful.

We picked them up on Sunday and went to the tree farm to get our tree. The tree farm has a hay ride, a maze and a small playground. Of course, we had to do it all. Ava had her first ride down a slide (at least with us)...I'm not sure if she liked it or not. We then went home and decorated our artificial tree in the basement. It has colored lights and we make that our fun tree. We had hot chocolate and marsh mellows and listened to Christmas music while putting on the ornaments. The boys were really a lot of help this year and Ava seemed to think it was fun. I do think she was glad to have the boys back...the house was very quiet this weekend without them. We still haven't decorated the real tree. It may not be until this weekend if we can fit it in with Peter's b/d celebrations! We are going to Chuckee Cheeses this Saturday with his friends from school and we are having his family party on Sunday at Donna and Jim's. Donna was wonderful to offer to

Best Architecture (I think the balcony helped him)

Ben's number 4 team

Peter's Auburn House (most creative award)

Ava's pretty house (most colorful award)


Tree Farm Entrance

Hay Ride


That doesn't quite look like a happy slide face

Decorating the "fun" tree

Ava's first visit from a Pink Lady

Our good friends Steve and Camille were in town for the SEC championship game this weekend so they stopped by Saturday morning to meet Ava. It was so great to see them.



Later on that day, we had the UMW annual brunch. Every year they recognize all new babies of the church and give a git for mission in their name. Ava and Gracie were the two new babies. Gracie is only 3 weeks old and she already has enough hair for a bow. She is adorable. Ava had a good time at the brunch. She was very social!!!

Miscellaneous Kid Photos

Derek got Ben a BB gun...he is so happy!!

Let's play dress-up. Ava LOVES her sunglasses!

Three cuties in the tub

The Tuesday before Thanksgiving was Grandparent's Day at the boy's school. They always have a mass in the morning. This year Peter was chosen to say one of the prayers during mass. They only chose about 5 students from the school and he was the only one from his pre-k class. Peter loves school and school work; he showed me his prayer as soon a he got home. He was very excited about it and wanted to make sure that we practiced his part. We were very proud of him and he did a great job as you can see from the video.

Tailgating 2007

Here are some miscellaneous tailgating photos from this past football season.

The boys heading to roll Toomer's Corner

Being wrapped up like a mummy is just as important as rolling

Peter having fun

Hanging out at the tailgate

Granddaddy at the game
Ava's first tailgate experience
Another scooter rider!