Trace's first Carolina game of the 2008 season

Trace with Jax and Brayden

#1 (in our hearts at least!)

Touchdown Gamecocks!

Go Underdogs!

Trace with my dad

Touchdown Gamecocks!

By chance I just happened to catch this on camera! Perfect timing for the touchdown-too bad the camera ran out of memory and didn't get to see Trace continue to celebrate and cheer! So cute!

Getting ready for Summer Olympics 2020!

Trace is a regular acrobat-jumping and climbing on everything. He loves to jump off of daddy's chair, so lately we've been teaching him to stretch at the end of each jump. I guess you could call it his intro to gymnastics. However, when the video camera came out, all Trace wanted to do was jump then run over to watch it on the camera! So funny!

Our little gymnast-he finally learned the stretch after each trick!

Cocky!

Trace shaking hands with Cocky-still not wanting to get to close, though!

Anna Kate's first picture with Cocky (which I'm sure will be followed by many more!)

Trace was so excited when we ran into Cocky and the cheerleaders at Chick Fil A! Cocky kept going down to the road to wave at cars getting them to come in to Chick Fil A-so Trace kept wanting to go down there with him! He kept saying "I wanna wave at the cars by Cocky!" Needless to say, he didn't eat many nuggets due to all the distractions and had a major melt-down when it was time to leave! We're just glad he's not afraid of Cocky anymore...after a few minutes of warming up to him, he didn't want to leave his side!

Anna Kate's crawling!!!

crawling at 10 months

I'm a big girl now!

This is my preferred trick!

my "yoga pose" or tepee stance as we like to call it

New Discoveries and Muscadines...

Trace eating muscadine grapes for the first time!


Looks like he takes after his mommy. I love this time of year when muscadines are in season. I used to say when I was a little girl that "God gave me muscadines for my birthday because they are always in season in September!!!" I can make myself sick from eating so many! Trace really loved his first experience tasting them.

He is enjoying learning so much lately. He is so curious about the world around him and it is so fun to teach him new things each day. Today, it was learning how to squeeze open a muscadine by finding the "hole" (where the grape was attached to the vine). Yesterday, it was teaching him at the stop light about red means stop and green means go. Now, when we drive to a stop light he says "mommy you can go" or "mommy stop!!!" I'm really loving these days of feeding his curious mind!

Trace's first day of Preschool!!!

So proud to carry his backpack and lunch box that he helped mommy pack!!!


We've been talking about it for a few weeks now...Trace's first day of his "new school." We didn't want to confuse him with the school he went to last year, so I borrowed this idea from my friend Megan to call it "new school." I'm glad to say the first day was a success! I have to tell you that when I arrived to pick him up, all the other kids were sitting nicely listening to a story. What was my child doing you might ask??? Turning flips across the floor! Hopefully we'll get better throughout the course of the year!!!

End of Summer 2008

Trace helping Daddy lay sod!

Grad school friends...Lisa, Jana, and Megan...we had our annual grad school friend gathering and it was at our house this year. My how we have multiplied!!! 4 adults and 8 kids...whew!

trying to take this picture required patience...

I had to post this picture b/c it was the source of great frustration throughout the morning. Trace's John Deere train is every child's favorite toy that visits our house. It is hard for Trace to share as you can see, but this is good practice for him!!! Here Jack and Trace and deciding who's turn it is to ride!:-)