Non-Birthday September Fun

Here's what the rest of our September looked like!

 Pics from Taylor's class:

My most recent job for PTA- making a scarecrow for the local festival.  Or a bearcrow, as I called her:

Random pics:

Soccer practice

Georgia's birthday party:

Stephen/Sydney at the GT game:

Making slime- I gave into their begs!

Braves game with Peter/Jamie/Liam/Charlie and Mike/Ashley/Landon/Sutter:

 Taylor was asked to join a Brownie troop, so we decided to do it.  Here's her first event:

Taylor and Emilia

We got "booed":

 Izzy came to watch Sydney play soccer, and she spent the night:

 Movie Night @ the school:

Fall Break

We had "Fall" Break in mid-September this year... which is why I have "Fall" in quotes.  It was SO early!  And SO hot!  Stephen had to leave town that week, so the kids and I did a whole lot of nothing (while our neighbors were off gallivanting on cruises and at beaches... even Europe.  Next year goals.  ha!)

It really was all good- we were still living amongst boxes so it was kind of nice to stick around.

 Main Event Fun:

 Halloween Store Fun:

The girls got Parker dressed:

Checking out the pool:

Mom had surgery- dad and I keeping warm:

Riding bikes at the park:

My birthday!

Celebrating all the September bdays at my parents' house:

Guess who's getting braces soon?  This is her "not smiling" picture... orrrrrrr her mug shot. ;)

We also went to Uncle Matthew's high school football game at the school where he coaches; movie nights; dinner with our neighbors; and a whole lot of unpacking!

Parker is 6!

How in the world is my baby 6?!

Parker is a combination of being "all boy" and "a little brother to two sisters".  He loves running, playing sports (especially baseball), Atlanta Braves, watching football, and sometimes his temper flares pretty quickly.  On the flip side, he loves to "snuggle" with me on the couch, he sleeps with a Cabbage Patch Kid doll every night (hehehe, I'll make sure he doesn't forget this one!), and he follows in his sister's footsteps with some of the games they play, YouTube slime making people they watch, etc.  Parker is really good with numbers, I'm wondering if he'll be my math whiz when he gets older.  He hasn't really shown an interest in reading until recently.  But numbers- he loves them.  He loves to look up baseball teams on my phone and write down two names and then play a pretend game of baseball with pencils and little balls in his room, and write the score down.

All of his scores written down.

He is so funny and smart and sweet, with a side of being able to aggravate his sisters really well.  I'm so thankful that God put this little boy in my life. :)

Parker's birthday was last Thursday- he wraps up our 4 September birthdays in the family.  We opened his presents the night before his birthday, since we have soccer until late on Thursday nights.

A card and check from Aunt Katherine.

Baseball pants!  He was stoked!

He's been eyeing these sweet tarts at Five Below for months. 

He's been wanting a "real bat"- he was so excited!

On Thursday, he woke up to his decorated room, and we got to snap some pictures before school.

Stephen and I went to his class and brought cupcakes and little goodies for his classmates.  They went outside to eat the cupcakes, and the kiddos sang happy birthday to him out there.

His birthday announcement on his school sign.

What a great day celebrating my little man!

Double Digits

Sydney is now TEN!  That is insane, y'all. Ten.

Sydney is still really into sports, and her wardrobe decisions go back and forth between Nike and Under Armor.  She is a really strong soccer player, and she's the only 4th grader on her team of 5th and 6th graders this season.  And guess what?  She's the only one who's scored on her team so far.  She's doing great in school, getting all As.  She likes to read but still loves reading Diary of a Wimpy Kid or The Kicks series.  She won't try Harry Potter no matter how much I try to sway her.  She's still pretty shy and quiet when she's in new situations, or when meeting new people.  She has made some good friends at her new school, and still keeps up with her two best friends from our old town, as well as her cousin in Tennessee.  She still loves playing with legos and her beanie boos.  I'm kind of hoping her innocence will last a lot longer!  She loves the Braves, Falcons, and ATL United.  She pretends to like both GT and UGA, but she really likes UGA the most.  I promise I had no influence on that. ;)

So proud to call her my little big girl!

The morning before her birthday, she got her requested Dunkin Donuts, eggs & Belgian waffles and she opened her presents.

A new (very needed!) bike!

We then headed to Dave & Busters, then hit up one of those Halloween stores for fun.

On Sunday, her actual birthday, she was celebrated at church.  Can you tell how excited she was?!

This guy thought she needed some extra confetti.

We went out to dinner that night- her pick, Moes!  Then we got some fro-yo afterwards.

On Monday, I brought (more) doughnuts to her school for her class to have after lunch.  Of course, Sydney, as a big 4th grader and all, just wanted me to drop them off in the front office for her to get herself.  Sniff sniff.

She's having a sleepover in a couple of weeks, which should be fun.  I would say she had a great 10th birthday!  Happy birthday to my Sydney!