Shelby's First Soccer Game

Shelby decided to play soccer this year. Her first game was Saturday, August 25th. There are three positions to play: goalie, defender, attacker (or at least that is what I call the positions). Of course, I am sure everyone knows the goalie position (person protects the goal & tries to stop the ball from going in). The defender is the position before the goalie. These players try to prevent the ball from even getting to the point of where the goalie would have to protect the goal. And then the attackers are in front of the defenders & they try to stop the ball from going on their side & instead they try to steal the ball & move it down the field to score a goal. All girls get to play each position & they rotate out. Shelby seemed to be best as an attacker. She was good at passing the ball to the other attacker. She had two assists. She was able to pass the ball to the girl and on two of those occasions, the girl was able to score. Shelby also scored her own goal. She got the last goal of the game & there was only two seconds remaining! She was so proud of herself. It is the first time she has played a sport and scored a point. Her team won 8 - 3.

Week of Aug 20. Start Daycare & School

The babies started daycare this week and Shelby and Samantha started school. Even though the babies started daycare, I have not started back to work yet. I go back the day after Labor Day, Tues. Sept 04 (thank goodness!). This will give the babies times to adjust & give me some time to just catch my breath. Shelby also lost her fifth tooth and she had her birthday this week. Shelby started the third grade and Samantha the first. Both are enjoying their teachers and friends. Shelby lost her fifth tooth the night of the first day of class, Aug 22. She is still nervous about having her teeth pulled even though none have ever hurt her. She is not big on pain or the thought of pain. Shelby celebrated her eighth birthday on Friday night, Aug 24. I made her birthday cake and she got three High School Musical reading books, a Junie B. Jones reading book, and the High School Musical 2 Soundtrack. We also give both girls a small gift from each of us on each others birthdays. This year was a disposable camera and a photo album. They like taking pictures. Samantha also wanted to give Shelby a special gift. They like playing school so we got both of them school supplies to play teacher in their room. We all had a great time.

Sarah and Sidney are One Month Old

Hard to believe, but the babies are one month old. They will be starting daycare soon. Oh no. And mommy will have to go back to work. The girls sleep about every three hours and drink four ounces of milk. We are hoping within the next three weeks they will begin to sleep a little longer at a time. Ed and I both get up with them at night & are both in the bed within 30 minutes. So far, so good. We both are able to get up in the AM and not need a nap during the day, but we go to bed at 8 at night. The babies are strong and are trying to hold their heads up & are beginning to grip things. Sarah always grips the side of the changing table when I change her diaper & Sidney tends to grab my hair. In the pictures, Sarah is the one with all the hair & Sidney is the one without the hair. They are so sweet.

OH Visits TN

The babies were not quite one month old and had already been in three states, OH, KY, and TN. They are well traveled. LOL. In TN, we got to visit several family members and friends and also got to visit our church in Tellico, Cane Creek. We enjoyed the visit. Picture one is the babies with Eddie's sister Lori. Picture two is babies with Eddie's sister Carla. Picture four is Lori's youngest son, Logan. Picture four is Shelby in Samantha with Carla's two year old Zack and Lori's three year old, Gabe. The only one not pictured is Carla's three year old, Ethan. He did not want to get his picture taken. Maybe we will get him next go round.

TN visits OH

We had several visitors when the babies where born. We had a good time. Picture one is girls with Eddie's parents. Picture two is girls with my brother Josh's boys, Lane and Randal. Picture three is babies with my brother Josh. Picture four is girls with my brother Michael. Picture five is girls with my first cousin Tina. Picture six is girls with my mom. The only family member that did not get to come up was my brother Mike's boy, Sammie. He was on vacation in Florida.