He Gets His Moves from Wes

I had these visions of the boys wrapped up in the covers of the bed quietly reading a book with their brand new Kindle Fires. However, the reality is nothing is ever quiet in this house and the boys read only when I strap them into their beds and use threats of "you'll have no football for a week."

I signed Keagan up for track beginning in March. Basketball is in full swing now. Soccer begins next month. I am pushing the sports like never before because this is how the Kindle has been used the majority of the time - when I am not threatening "no football for a week."

This is just one of five videos taken in the past couple of days, and I watch all five of them over and over again because I LOVE them. He is just so darn cute! After I stop chuckling, though, I am reminded that we need to go outside and kick the soccer ball.

Oral Surgery

Just call me Doctor Toole. I just performed oral surgery in my bathroom and removed this thing from my child's mouth.

Is it just me or is that one big tooth??? If I hadn't pulled it out myself, I would have confused it for the tooth of a megalodon. Do you know how many times I told Keagan this week to "man up; it's just a lose tooth." Well, suffice it to say that after seeing this thing, I now know why he was looking forward to a shot of novocain in the mouth, and why it has taken an inordinate amount of time to lose a baby tooth.

Special thanks to the big brother who knocked this tooth loose last week. Our appointment to have it removed is Wednesday. I think I will just cancel that and use the money I would have given the dentist on a pair of Toms wrap boots.

I might also add that I am super pumped to have a kid that doesn't have teeth stacked in front of each other. 

Advantages of Having a Pet

Keagan is now reading chapter books independently, but he needs some encouragement to actually sit down and read. He would much rather be outside moving than sitting inside with a book. So I came up with the idea of Keagan reading to Maybelle.
It's like animal-assisted therapy except instead of a dog, we have a cat, and the patient is not the child but the parent! I don't think I could handle a second go-around in all 46 books of the Magic Tree House series, but Maybelle handles the nightly adventures just fine.

So far it has worked like a charm.

Livin' High in the Highlander

Wes gets promoted, goes to the desert for a year, receives hazardous duty pay, earns separation pay, and works tax free for the year.

I buy a new car.

Fair? I think so.

Farragh Cousins

There were lots of pictures taken all week, but this one of Caroline is my favorite!

Keagan and Mallory Go For a Ride

Farragh Grandkids

Mallory and Keagan in Tree House

After a week of the older cousins playing hide-and-go-seek, Caroline got the basic idea of the game. The last night we were in Texas, we found her playing, too. Only instead of hiding herself, she was hiding corn muffins. We found them under the rug, under blankets, and in the kitchen drawers. 

Christmas Morning

Santa found us all the way in Texas.

Evan and Keagan both got Kindle Fires. This is the single best Christmas present EVER. It took us fifteen hours to drive back home yesterday, and they didn't have one major fight the entire drive. They were totally engrossed in reading, games, apps, and music. Thank God Santa remembered head phones.

Keagan got a Razor Riprider 360 bike. It rides like the old Big Wheels but it has caster wheels on the back, and Keagan can do 360s in the cul-de-sac. It is totally him and fulfills his need for speed. It is also the closest thing to NASCAR that he will ever see in my house.

I think the noise of the remote control car almost sent my mom over the edge, but it was the one gift Keagan had to have. This will totally become an outside toy here in Geogia, though. Keagan already has plans to chase the field mice with this thing.

On warm nights we love to sit on the porch and look at the stars. It really isn't that much fun, though, when it is 35 degrees and sleeting. Oh, to be back in Georgia and seventy degree weather! The single best thing about living in Georgia.

Vikki and Me...Christmas Morning

As always the adults on my side of the family forego presents and take a trip together in the summer. In June we are headed to the beach in Puerto Rico!

Are you ready for some football?

You  might remember that the boys LOVE football. My parents surprised the boys this year with tickets to the Christmas Eve Cowboys game. My mom placed the ticket in the box of a Demarcus Ware Christmas tree ornament. You should have seen their faces when they opened an early present to find only an ornament.

Evan was so excited about going to the game that he carried the ticket with him around the house until we left the next day. I had to pry it out of his little fingers as he fell asleep.

It wasn't just Evan, though. I think all three boys were super excited about seeing the game.

If anyone had told me twenty years ago, that I would one day attend a Cowboy game with Jamie Goates, I am not so sure that I would have believed them. He's the greatest BIL, though, agreeing to go with us to the game on Christmas Eve. 

As it turns out, we picked the worst game of the season to see. I felt like we were watching the junior high b team play. However, you can't be in the Cowboys Stadium and be disappointed. It is an experience in and of itself.