"Cars Can Drive"

Aivree had a birthday party a couple of weekends ago, which Neely and I missed because Neely was sick.  Paige and Cason did cute Mickey and Minnie cards for her.  I can't find a picture of Cason's.  :(

Here's the one Paige did though.

We had a couple of weeks left of summer to just hang out together.

Grama came home the weekend before school started and they were SO happy to see her.  Cason had been asking daily how much longer until he'd see her.  

 Paige started back to school last week.  Since we moved home we decided to put her back in school.  I really liked homeschooling her and I still think it's awesome for lots of kids.  She just is such a social butterfly and gets a lot of enjoyment out of being at school with classmates that I felt like she was less excited to learn, which is most important to me.  Plus, what makes me think I'M qualified to teach her?  Haha.  She was VERY excited.  Especially when she found out she'd have daily math homework this year.  I notice she still wants some time to play before DOING that homework each night though.  :)

The other two are having fun together.

 Paige and Cason both started soccer practice.  They're both excited, but Cason is SOOOO excited.  He gets dressed about 4 hours before practice each day, cleats and shin guards and all.  Around 8:30 am he starts asking me "how many minutes 'til soccer practice?"  He has never (so far) cared much about sports-he's more of a robots and superheroes kinda guy.  Apparently soccer is his thing though.  He works SOOOO hard at practice.  He has a coach who takes it fairly seriously apparently, because they do way more running than I've ever seen kids that age have to do.  Including having to run when they aren't paying attention to the coach.  Ha.  Cason is always the one who IS paying attention, and he runs as hard as he possibly can the whole time.  It's so cute, he hustles harder than anyone in history. 

 His team is "The Hound Dogs".  

Neely has been doing lots of drawing.  Lots of "fwiends".  She likes to tell me who each one is and how they feel.  There's usually a "happy" guy, someone who's sad because they lost a toy, and sometimes a guy who "doesn't fink(think)".  Ha. 

She asked me to do a boat for her one day so she could put "fwiends" in it.  I love her little waves beneath it.

 One day while drawing she was having some tea.  Cason asked her if she wanted to come play with him and she asked him to let her finish her "coffee" first.  Ha. 

I've missed some belly pics, so here's two Sundays ago-32 weeks...

...aaaand this last Sunday, 33 weeks.

It's at the point now where I'm getting the twin comments or the "any day now huh?" from strangers.  Ha.  People who know me well claim I'm not very big.  Don't worry family-I'm not sensitive about having a big baby belly.  Kinda like it in fact.  At least now, while I still have 2 or 3 shirts that SEMI fit.   

I had a doctors appointment yesterday.  Grama kept Cason, but Neely wanted to come, so she and I met Jess at the office.  She made a friend in the waiting room, a little girl a bit younger than her.  The girl didn't talk, but managed to befriend Neely anyway, by approaching her with a big smile and handing her a Smurf toy.  Neely accepted it, smiled at the girl, and they stared for a few seconds.  I guess Neely wanted to make conversation, because she did this cute hand gesture like she was going to say something important and told the girl "Cars can drive."  Haha.  We were cracking up.  Now we like to randomly say it to each other the same way she did.