this past week

Once again, here I am apologizing for not being so consistent with blogging. Between soccer, gymnastics and now that it is getting dark outside early, I am just pooped! Davis says I am a bear and have to hibernate in the winter. I just don't want to even be out of the house anymore past dark when it is chilly like this! Although I think about the gray, dreary days that mark winter here in Alabama....I think I have SAD. You know, seasonal affection disorder. I need a special lamp. Soccer ends this week- finally! Although it has been a great season...between you and me, John Michael is a superstar! The younger team has really improved and you can see a marked difference in them, but Carter's team had a distinct disadvantage when we divided the teams - most of the kids had never played before - but they have greatly improved! We actually even won a game and have started to holding our own. Trophies and the team party are next week - Chuck E Cheese here we come! All the parents are dreading it but the kids are super excited of course.
With Halloween coming, the boys are changing their minds every half a minute on what they want to be....I thought I had talked Carter into being a mummy which would be super easy to make, but now he wants to be a skeleton. John Michael has gone from rock star to a burglar now.... who knows! And, since our field trip to the pumpkin patch was rained out, we have no pumpkins. Also need to get one of those still...or three. The boys are dead set on roasting the seeds, which is always fun to pick out of the pumpkin meat and strings.
What I find so funny about the boys right now are the way they are "into" their music. Their favorites are pop songs - especially Paparazzi by Lady GaGa. They even dance constantly. I love to listen to them sing in the backseat. It's so funny. Kidz Bop is definitely on my Christmas list for them!
Laurel is also really starting to talk. She says sentences now. The other day, she was going on and on saying "I want go." We had no clue and she was getting more and more upset until we discovered it was the whistle. She blew it and then said "go!" She has also pottied once on the potty, but mostly she just wants the jellybeans.....
Until I get a wild hair and post again....