SU Football is Back!

Southwestern has not had a football team since the 1960s. They recently decided to  bring football back to campus. Jason and I purchased our tickets and decided to go up for the first game. We headed up first thing Saturday morning. It made me so happy to see this sign:

We had not been back to Georgetown in almost eight years so it was CRAZY to see all the changes to the town. We used to have a grocery store and a small Wal-Mart. Now there are shopping centers, tons of restaurants and a Super Wal-Mart, they are moving up!

It was on this very spot below fourteen years ago that Jason and I had the "DTR" talk and decided to try dating! I guess that worked out pretty well for us....

 I have to say that Southwestern has one of the prettiest college campuses in the country.

 Here I am outside my freshmen dorm. It is co-ed now which seems so wrong. I think the guys should be stuck in the crappy dorms!

 When we first pulled up to campus there was a huge group of frat guys out front partying. There was a nasty couch out in the front yard. I am pretty sure it was the same couch Jason partied on, sick. Anyway, I asked Jason if he wanted to join in but he politely declined.

 Davis and I had to see the gym

 The conference is totally different then when I played there. I think our conference was so much better back then. We had to do so much more traveling which made it more fun.

 We shopped the square and then headed to the big game. We could not get over the crowd, it was awesome. We were so proud of all the alumni that showed up to support the Pirates.

Davis loved the football game and loved cheering on the Pirates. He made it all the way through the third quarter.

It was a wonderful trip down memory lane. It was fun reminiscing about all the fun times we had and sharing them with Davis (well most of them)!

Big Brother Week: Day 5 and 6

I researched the science museum because I thought Davis might get a kick out of seeing the Dinosaurs. I took him to the one in Sugarland because it seemed to be a little more kid friendly. Honestly, it was a little disappointing. They had a very small dinosaur exhibit and their "dig pit" was a little lame. However, that didn't seem to spoil Davis' fun at all. The only thing he was clearly disappointed about was that the dinosaurs didn't roar!

 The saving grace of the museum was the ball pit:

 We literally had the museum to ourselves for the first hour. We even got to pick the movie they played in the blow up planetarium because we were the only patrons. We picked the Sesame Street movie (of course) but even that was fairly boring. Randomly, while Davis was enjoying the jump between the ball pit and the dig pit another little boy and his mom showed up. Turns out the mom and I were born on the exact same day and her son and Davis were the same age. They really hit it off and we ended up following them to McDonalds for lunch so the boys could keep playing.

Davis refused to take a nap because he knew what our late afternoon entailed. Wonderwild! Davis was so pumped to go with his buddy Garrett to Wonderwild. That place is the perfect spot for three year old boys with lots of energy who don't like to sit still.

 Literally the best pictures I could get....boys!

Davis had no trouble falling asleep at the end of the day. Of course, he came walking into our room this morning at 4:30 and asked if he could sleep with us. Then promptly rolled over at a little after 6:30 to say "Good Morning Mommy! Can we get up?" This child does not sleep in!

Both of us were pretty exhausted today. We watched a lot of Elmo and snuggled on the couch. We ventured out for lunch (look how tired he looks):

Then came home where he slept FOREVER. We were supposed to head to the pool today but neither of us had the energy. Jason picked up pizza and we had football and pizza instead. We gave him a scooter that he was totally pumped about. I told him that Carter got it for him but he later told me "mommy, I think you got that for me, not Carter" 

At dinner tonight I told Davis that I didn't want to go back to work on Monday and Davis said "awww, mommy, you want to hang out with me?!" He also had to tell Jason all about Wonderwild again, saying "Mommy, what is that place called again?" I said "Wonderwild" and without missing a beat Davis said "yeah, daddy Garrett and I were at Wonderwild and they have a giant alligator." He is becoming such a conversationalist. We have had so many wonderful little conversations about the world around us this week. This week off is a week I will treasure for the rest of my life. It also confirmed that I have a high energy, full of life, happy three year old!

Big Brother Week: Day 3 and 4

Day three we headed to the dentist. This was something that needed to get done but I hated to take a day off to do it-so it fit perfectly into Big Brother Week. He was actually so excited to go and we re-read the Bernstein Bears book about ten times that morning. 

Here we are in the lobby waiting:

 Davis was such a big boy! When they came to get him he went back all by himself and left me in the lobby. They brushed his teeth, took x-rays and did a full exam without me ever walking back there-so brave.

 He was really proud to show me his spiderman sunglasses he got to wear:

 After the dentist we headed to daddy's work to surprise him. We visited his office and then took him to lunch:

 Then we headed home for nap time. I guess Davis was really tired because he slept for nearly three hours!

 When he woke up we headed to Madpotter to do some painting together. I wanted him to pick out a piggy bank so that he could start saving money for our upcoming trip to Disney. He picked out the rocket ship and never wavered-"Mommy, I want the rocket ship please!"

 When Jason got home from work we headed over to Uncle D's to swim and finish out day three!

So by day four we were both a little worn out! So we stayed in our jammies a little longer and played trains, trains and more trains! When the sprinklers in the backyard went on Davis asked if he could go play in them. Of course! This is big brother week!

 We played at the house until lunchtime. We then picked up chick fil a and headed back to Uncle D's for a picnic lunch and swimming.

 Another long nap was followed by baking some cookies for daddy:

I made Davis some Dinosaur jammies to get us excited about day 5:

Big Brother Week

Big Brother Week continued with day two. Day two was a very full day-I was trying to keep Davis away from the house because Jason was hosting his fantasy football draft at the house. 

We started the morning at the zoo. I love having a zoo membership. We can get there when the doors open and not feel bad when we leave after about an hour because I am dying from the heat. Man it was hot! 

 We packed a picnic and headed to the splash pad in Hermann Park. It was surprisingly pleasant in the shade near the water. Davis enjoyed splashing in the water...

 But I think maybe the highlight of my week was the picnic we ate together. It was fun just hanging out and talking about the zoo and life in general

 We did head home for a break from the heat. We snuck in a couple episodes of Chugington (note he is laying on Buster).

 Back out the door after a cool down to get some yogurt:

 And a trip to half price books in the village. Davis LOVES to read. One of his favorite things to do is to have you sit in his closet with him and pull book after book off the shelf. I needed new material so this stop was totally selfish! The half price books in the village was great-a lot of their kids books were brand new. We found a few then headed to the house.

Monday night Davis got to open a suprise. New pajamas and a matching Bernstein Bears book. Day three would be taking us to the dentist so I was trying to hype it up as much as possible.

Day two was also an amazing success!

Big Brother Week--Day 1

I love my job-I really do. It is stressful and emotional at times but also incredibly rewarding. However, there is always a point (usually several) in my day when my thoughts drift to a little boy in school across town. I wonder what he is doing, if he is having fun with his friends and if he is being taken care of--and I often wish I could just go pick him up and spend the day with him. The more I thought about this the more I thought it would be fun to actually do just that-take a few days off and spend some time just he and I. I looked at the calendar and realized that if I took the week of labor day off I would get an extra day with him without having to use up time I need for maternity leave. So I put the time off request in and Big Brother Week was born.

I started thinking about all the things I wished I could do with him during the week but could not because we were at work. I knew that this would be our last chance to spend a significant amount of time together before Carter joins us in November so I figured that we would call the week Big Brother Week. I made a list of things I wanted to do with him and started keeping track of ideas as I would get them. I eventually came up with this:

It started Sunday when we woke him up with the calendar, a banner and a fishing game from Carter:

Jason was a little sad that he was going to miss out on all the fun during the week. So he joined us for Sunday's festivities. We ventured over to the Houston Downtown Aquarium. Davis is fascinated by sharks. We allowed him to watch a little bit of shark week and he got hooked. He loves to talk about sharks being in the ocean so we thought he would get a big kick out of the shark train ride. 

 The train ride went okay--he was a little freaked out by the fact we were riding through a shark tunnel. He was a lot freaked out by the shark that jumps out at the end of the ride. Truth be told, I wasn't expecting it either and jumped a little bit. It was not until the end of the afternoon that he was ready to get back on the train. But by then it was really, really crowded so we talked him into doing a different ride. Of course he picked a shark to sit on for the carousel:

 He loved being able to touch the stingrays:

And picked a shark that he promptly named Buster out to take home with us:

We ate lunch inside the aquarium next to the tank. He was totally freaked out by the fact that two scuba divers were in the tank. I could not figure out with this was upsetting him so much until he explained that those were the scuba divers that took Nemo from his daddy. Ah! The mind of a three year old.  And the ride home:

So day one was a total success!