First Kisses at the Tailgate

We had our friends Josh and Chrissy over to watch the Ravens game last Sunday. We said we were going to tailgate - but that really consisted of grilling out burgers and drinking some beers. We did enjoy our new deck since the weather was soo nice. Josh and Chrissy just welcomed their first baby Miss Mary Casen a few months ago. Connor was ALL about kissing Mary Casen and loving every minute of it . . .

"Mommy, did you see that? Hmmmm"

Ready to Tailgate . . .

War Eagle!

Connor's first Auburn game - finally! Connor and I drove down to Auburn this morning with Aunt Cathy to take in a little bit of the Homecoming game. 72+ degrees and sunny on November 7th!! I love the South! Connor was a little worried about the loud noise at first but after about 30 seconds he loved it!

Halloween - A little late

This year we decided to go to the Auburn v. Ole Miss football game for Halloween. It seemed like a great idea because the game was an 11:20 start (a perfect fit for Connor's schedule) and since it was Halloween - Connor could dress up as Aubie (Auburn's mascot) - perfect, right? Well, the weather didn't cooperate as I had hoped. The forecast was rain, rain and more rain for gametime. So, Connor and my mom and I stayed back at the lake while my dad, brother and Colin went to the game. They said it only rained during half time - but with my luck if we had gone to the game it would have poured. Connor stayed warm, still got to wear his costume (and got plenty of compliments including: "he should have won best costume!"). Unfortunately, since we were watching the game at the house we missed the costume contest at the festival. Here are a few pics of our little tiger playing. Oh and War Eagle - cause Auburn ended up wining the game!




Trying to get Connor to growl - by his face it looks like it worked!

Couple Quick Pics

Connor lounging in his chair. He used to sit in his chair for a few seconds here or there. Now, he is loving the chair and curls up with a book or the remote (or both) and just lounges. Since we have Directv (which is so wonderful btw) we can give Connor the actual TV remote (without having to take out the batteries) and with just a quick slide Connor can't change the channel!

Connor inspecting the lazy gate(and ya'll he really does inspect our gates to see how it works, etc). It is called the lazy gate because it only keeps Connor from going down the hallway to the bedrooms. There is no reason he can't go down there - we simply don't feel like always running after him - and running is the truth. Today, he actually tried to kick his leg over the gate. Clearly, that didn't work this time but we may have to either 1) get a taller lazy gate or 2) stop being lazy.

Sneak Peek a Boo for Halloween

Day Trip

Ok, so I am finally going to post some pictures. Connor and I went up to visit my grandmother - my mom and aunt went too. Connor had a great time - learning to type on the typewriter . . . show off drinking from this new straw sippy cup (he is very good at drinking from a straw now) . . and playing catch (well, I held his arms to help him catch - but as you will see from his face - he loved it) . . .
My grandmother taught me to type on the same typewriter. Since I can type without looking at the keys - I think she did a pretty good job. Hopefully Connor will learn the same way too!

Daylight Savings Time

So previously I blogged before about my horrendous experience with the MVA in Maryland. I looked back to give a link and it turns out it was the Daylight Savings Time post. So, in honor/ coincidence of turning back the clocks this weekend, I will share my most recent experience with the government. {Prior Post} http://moorplease.blogspot.com/2008/11/daylight-savings-time.html

So you may or may not recall that Maryland required that I keep my first, middle maiden and married names as my full name. I could have dropped my maiden name and gone with first, middle and married names and kept just three but if I wanted to keep the maiden name I had to keep all of them. For SO many reasons I wanted to keep my maiden name (as my middle name) - but one of the better reasons and easiest to explain is that with the maiden name I have WAY better initials. We love monograms in the south - if you need a further explanation just let me know - I will be happy to expound on the subject (warning: soapbox topic).

So, I showed up at the DMV a couple weeks ago to get my license and register our cars here. It order to register the cars, I needed a license so I proceeded to the license line first. A "cop" shouted out commands to us in line and part of that rant included "If you are here for a transfer of license you need to be sitting over here" Of course, I had to ask - "What do you mean by, transfer?" Her response was what you might of guessed "I mean, if you are transferring your license." What?? Still not sure if I should get out of line and move over to the pews set up in the room with the words "Testing" above them or stay in the line that says "Driver's License". I had to know though - so I asked again. She clarified her response by saying "I mean if you are transferring your license to Alabama from another state". Oh, ok, that's me - and BTW a few other people in line who were eagerly awaiting a real answer to my question. I got out of line and moved over to my space in line on the pew. She demanded then that we produce our documents to show we were capable obtaining a license today. I must skip over some of the side stories/ shows that were happening because otherwise this post would take ALL night. When she came by to "inspect" (her words) my documents she said "Why does your license have all these names?" My response "Because Maryland is ignorant." She laughed and said - we are getting rid of that middle name/ initial maaaamm. "That is ignorant!" And suddenly, my day of standing in lines to register vehicles while my mom sits outside in the car with Connor (we had to have both vehicles present) is WONDERFUL! YIPPEE! I am back to 3 names and I made friends with the crazy cop lady barking orders! Who would have thought going to the DMV would have turned out to be such a great day!