Three Years Old

I cannot believe my baby is 3!! Where have the years gone!
Whit,
You are a blessing to our family! You have brought joy to mommy and daddy every day of your life. You are so sweet, gentle, funny, crazy, joyful, caring and kind. I have said it before but I pray that your sweet spirit remains with you throughout your life. Do not get me wrong, there are plenty of days where you test us as parents and you make me see my own sin. But you are oh so sweet! Your daddy wants to toughen you up but I say not just yet :) You are a great big brother to Charlie and I love how you make him laugh! You love to read books, play baseball, play football, play any musical instrument and sing.Your favorite book right now is Game Day at Auburn University. You sing the fight song, your ABC's, "Oh my soul", and the BIBLE often. You weigh about 35 lbs. You are getting to be a better eater. You have to have the same thing for breakfast every single day as soon as you get up: a nutrigrain bar, danimal smoothie and milk.  When daddy is home from work you want him to play baseball or football. You are his best buddy and he loves you more than anything!

Thank you for being my Whit! We love you so much and pray for God to continue to make you the man he wants you to be!

The change from each year is amazing! Such a big boy!!

 

 

Friday night we went to Cookie and Docs for a party with the family. He had so much fun! Saturday morning for Whit's party this year we had a firetruck party! He loves firetrucks and was so excited about it. We had rented the pavillion at the park for cupcakes and walked to the firestation next door. We were checking out the firetruck and the alarm went off so the firemen had to jump in the truck and head out! It was exciting! I was a little sad for everyone but thankfully one fireman stays at the house and he let them climb on the backup truck. Then we headed to the park to sing and have cupcakes! All his sweet friends came from school and the boys all had their fire gear on. He had a good time. He was a little shy but he enjoyed himself!!

 

His favorite present!

Cupcakes at school



 





Hard Week

This past week has been one of the hardest I have been dealt in a while. Yesterday I had a breakdown and for the first time I truely felt like I could not be a good employee and a good mom. I have been struggling with this anyway but sickness just made it worse. I want to be a good mom spending quality time with my boys and husband but I also need to be a good employee. In all honesty I enjoy work. It's all I know. I have never been a stay at home mom so I do not know that world. I do know that this is my life and the Lord has blessed me in more ways than I could have imagined. I am so thankful at the end of the day I can just lay it all before the Lord and he will take care of us. My life and my boys are the Lord's anyway! What a relief that is to me. Sorry for that tangent but its just my heart these days!
Back to the week.....
 It all started last Wednesday. They called me to come get Charlie bc he had thrown up. The bug was going around his class so I knew it wouldn't be long before it got us. So I went and picked him up and stayed home Thursday too. Thankfully there was no more throw up and he was totally fine. So I took him back to school Friday. When he woke up Friday I knew he didn't feel well but no fever and no vommitting meant he was going to school. Mommy vs work begins. So I come to work and they call me an hour later saying he threw up and I had to go get him. I was not surprised. Friday he truely was sick. He slept on me all afternoon and just did not feel well. Saturday and Sunday were great! We all played a lot and had a good weekend. Sunday around 4 we came in from playing outside and Whit went and laid on the couch. He said his tummy hurt. OH great! We were headed to small group but I looked at Nate and said lets just stay here. So we decided to just go get some dinner and stay home. We get in the car and poor Whit felt so bad. I told Nate this was a bad idea and we just needed to turn around and go home. 5 min later - throw up everywhere! So we fly home get cleaned up! I told Nate I had to go to work Monday bc I had already missed 2 days. So thankfully he stayed home Monday. HILARIOUS by the way. Thankfully no more throw up! Then Tuesday Whit woke up and said his tummy hurt again. Great! I knew Charlie had skipped days so I was just waiting for it. I took them both to school expecting to get a call about Whit. Around 11:30 they called but not Whit.... Charlie. I was so annoyed. I knew he could not truely be sick again. So I had to leave work and go get him. He was fine the rest of the day. Charlie has had some random reflux since he was born that is completely random but it is projectile vommiting. I knew that this was what had happened at some point. So since he was fine I ignored the 24 hr rule and took him back to school yesterday. Well they got mad at me. I was so mad. I told them he was not sick and that it was reflux. I had an 8am meeting and I had no choice so I left. I knew they were mad at me so I made an appt at the doctor. I picked him up at 12 and we went to the doctor so we could get an excuse. Thankfully we went bc they wrote a note for his files and found out he had an ear infection :) So today I am praying for a full day at work! I really need some normalcy in my life. Oh and by the way Nate threw up last night in the middle of the night :)

Sick babies are still so sweet and cuddly



Family Farm Trip

We headed to the farm this weekend to meet Nate's grandmother and aunt and uncle from Knoxville. We were sad his cousins couldn't make it but we still had a great weekend. The weather could not have been more beautiful. It was perfect! Blue skies and cooler air is rare for Clopton!! Whit and Charlie were so good all weekend. Whit even got to stay Sunday night with Deedee and Jimbo. He was such a good boy. As always I am more thankful than I can express for this beautiful place!!

Whit wanted to feed the cows with James Roy

Grandmother helping him! By the way every farmer in every book is James Roy

Playing in the empty boxes

So much fun playing in the dogs water bowl

sunrise - up early thanks to the time change!



Halloween 2013

This was the first year Whit really understood Halloween and knew what was going on. I asked him a month or so ago what he wanted to be and it was a fireman. I was good with that but somewhere along the way he changed his mind. Thankfully we had plenty of time for our new costume and there were no more changes after that! So he wanted to be a cowboy and that he was! He was sooooo excited. If you asked prior to Halloween he would tell you he wanted a cowboy hat, cowboy boots and a cowboy shirt. Thankfully a friend had a costume we could borrow. Deedee and Jimbo bought him some awesome boots and we were ready to go! He is obsessed with his new boots and they will be worn plenty outside of the costume. He wore his outfit all day yesterday to school and had so much fun! Charlie was the same tiger that Whit was when he was that age. He seemed content too ;)
Since we did not know about the weather I could not make a decision until the last minute. We jumped in the car to go to Homewood bc we figured it would be the best for trick or treating! Whit had so much fun! He LOVED going from house to house. It was a great place to go bc he could easily walk from house to house. This was such a fun year with him and I am so glad the rain held off so we could go trick or treating!! Great Halloween overall!

 

Helping carve the jack o lantern

school parties!