our october in pictures.

i guess i should just give up our little family blog - i clearly am not finding the time to update!  in october 2011, when sk was h's age,  i wrote like 15 posts.  poor hayes.  and it's unfortunate because hayes is quite possibly the funniest human being ever to live so things should be documented.  

right now, trey is up at urgent care because he sounds like he has bronchitis or something.  sk is curled up in the big chair watching my little pony and trying to recover from the stomach bug.  hayes is wreaking havoc on the house.  and i thought i'd put up some october pics on the blog to document our happenings.  aside from having hand, foot, mouth disease and now the recent tummy bug, october was pretty fun and flew by!

september brought us rain and october brought us sunny skies.  so you know where we spend all our time if it's not raining!  

trey and i went to see widespread.  it was so fun and we got to catch up with lots of friends.

the day after widespread is when we discovered the hand, foot, mouth for sk.  she really had a mild case but it doesn't matter how horrible or mild….we were quarantined for about 5 days.  we ran up to a local church's pumpkin patch and picked up a couple to paint.  sk painted a pirate pumpkin on the left.  i'm not sure what hayes did but it's kinda crazy like her!

at the doctor waiting for the verdict….can we return to the land of the living or are we still quarantined?  we were given the green light.  thank goodness.  SO MANY PRAYERS for  kiddos out there who are sick with no end in sight.  sk prays every single day for her cousin hannah who is in this situation.  it's just awful.  we hate being sick but are beyond grateful that we are otherwise healthy and are able to resume activities.  

oh taking pics of these 2 is so difficult.  

october boat ride one friday after school.  

dinner on the boat while the sun begins to set….lowcountry living can't be beat:)  

i reeled in this shark.  all we've ever caught is shark.  really makes you want to get out in the ocean and do some swimming doesn't it!?

we went to the pumpkin patch one very HOT october saturday morning.  the girls had a blast.  they enjoyed picking pumpkins, petting animals, a spooky hayride, big bouncy bubble, and the corn maze which we really could have gotten lost in since we didn't get a map.  did i mention how hot it was?

hayes loves goats

she likes pigs, too.  basically any animal.  she wants a new doggie so bad!

which way do we go?  sk loved the corn maze and didn't want to leave it.  she was our guide.  it was interesting.

my girls!  sk dressed herself!  hayes is wearing the same pumpkin dress that sk wore at that age but seeing sk in her pink cowgirl boots meant that hayes just had to wear hers too!  

lucy family selfie on the hayride=)

the way our schedule is now, i don't always have a chance to put hayes down for a crib nap but when i do she climbs out.  she will go and get in her big girl bed that is in her room or will go sit in her rocking chair and "read."  hayes loves books as much as sissy does!  several times though she has climbed out and fallen asleep somewhere in her room.  this pic was the day of the pumpkin patch.  she was just so tired that she fell asleep like this!  

we never get to see daddy during his work days so we jumped at the chance to have lunch with him one day while sis was at school!

hayes and i pick sissy up on the bike sometimes if the weather is nice.  sk loves dismissing as a "walker" instead of her usual "car rider" from time to time and i get in an extra work out!  

my pumpkin!  still loves a playground more than any kid i've ever met.

a hayesie funny just occurred…..she walks by me and i say, "something stinks, hayes did you go poopy?"  hayes says…."uh, no i not go poopy.  dat daddy.  daddy stinks." ha!

so, trey is back.  he has a sinus infection and possibly acute bronchitis.  he'll take antibiotics for it.

back to pictures galore.

trey and "jon jon" had their annual golf trip weekend so the girls and i spent that friday night in st. marys with ash and the girls (where hayes loved all over coop coop dog) and that saturday night in folkston.

who knew you could twirl markers in a bowl of water and create a super powerful potion??  

h: "look, mommy!  i doin' it!" 

sk and mimi made cinnamon swirl muffins

another "walker" dismissal day for sk!  hayes brushing up on her  eric carle 

sweet, crazy, cutie haysie!

this girl loves spending time at the park

silly sisters!

crazy dinner with friends after dance!

wedding weekend in edisto with great friends!  thanks to mimi and papa for having the girls down in folkston for the weekend.  a good time had by all!

boo!

that's all i have time for today!  the rest of october to come……maybe.  ha!

life through the iPhone.

i am usually pretty good about downloading my iPhone pics onto my computer.  but i hadn't done it in so long until yesterday morning.  there were over 900 pics/videos on there!  

so, i'm putting some on here to document some things from the past month or so (post st. john trip).  

randomness!

so this is august 3rd on the way to church.  the night before was hayes's first night without a paci!  she gave it  them to the paci fairy and the paci fairy left her a dollar and a fruit pouch.  and that was it!  no more pacifiers in the lucy house.  it was a little hairy at first, but must not have been too bad because i can't even remember all that much about it.  she wasn't happy going to bed for a few nights but now she's just fine.  everyone survived.  

sk started school august 18th so until then we continued with our summer fun….

aquarium (shark week)

swimming in the tidal pool on sullivan's.  we did this countless times throughout the summer.  kissy kissy sissy sissy!

we also went to the pool some.  not a lot of lounging goes on when we're at the pool but sk wanted to "lay out" some on this day.

we stayed up too late a lot of nights.  here we are at tcby at 9pm.  oh well!  so much for practicing the "go to bed early" routine before school started.  but you know what….she adjusted beautifully!  she is a happy happy girl in the mornings!  i thank God for this daily….it could be so different.  and it could change so i'm enjoying this happy time so much.

my bday was august 7th!  trey made reservations at a restaurant on IOP and we boated over to it.  these girls have spent countless afternoons on the boat this summer as well.  some days we'd go from the beach or pool to the house to regroup and then go meet trey on the boat.  no regrets from this summer!  i only let sk choose one camp & we all 3 went to vbs, but aside from that i just enjoyed these girls SO much!  and JUST when they were starting to become unenjoyable, trey and i went to st. john for 4 nights which was perfect timing.  we came back and continued our summer fun.

we are not above the redneck backyard type of fun either.  

sk met her fantastic teachers on august 13th.  her lead teacher is on the left…mrs. traywick and her assistant teacher is on the right…mrs. taylor.  wonderful ladies taking great care of my girl during her school days.  sk is extremely happy!

i have a million pics of the girls in this spot from this summer.   this particular pic was the friday before sk started kindergarten the following monday.  sharing secrets=)

and then off to school she went!  i've already documented it but here are some pics from the iPhone.

mimi was here and took a family pic (minus sleeping hayes) 

cutest little school girl

no tears from sk but dropping her off was hard for me AND her daddy!   he loves her so much=)

and in the room she went!  the very next day she assured us she could get to her room all by herself so that was it….trey has just dropped her off in the car line ever since.  and she has done great.  so thankful!  so thankful for big cousins, too, because i know that ava & bryce are part of the reason she has transitioned so well.  she is finally at big school just like them which is just the way she likes things!

the day sk started kindergarten hayes and i started a mommy & me ballet class.  hilarious.  she loves it!

hayes didn't start school until after labor day so we missed sissy a lot but still went on with our normal summer routine.  like visiting the beach & pool...

lunching poolside…she loves anything that has to do with the outdoors .

sk, hayes and i went out for ice-cream with some of her school friends to celebrate a successful first week on the friday after her first full week of school.  trey and i asked her what she wanted to do that afternoon and she said she wanted to take the boat to an island and swim.  so we did just that.

my fish

and really, aren't baby books (blogs) supposed to be full of things that embarrass the little people when they get big?  so here is one for sk and hayes who both think the word "hiney" is so funny right now anyway.  

when i find another minute to spare i'll document labor day weekend in folkston, labor day on the boat and then hayes's first day of school.

so there you have it, the end of our summer through the eyes of my phone.  i.love.summer.so.much.