Watchdog Dad

Are there many things in this world as cool as being a dad?

Rotton Princess

Some families have crowns and crests passed through the generations. The Rotton's have a love for spring veggies. If only there was a Cucumber Patch Festival. She'd be the belle of the ball.

Noah's birthday party in "The Ring of Fire"

Noah turns 6 tomorrow! I can't hardly believe he's a third of the way to 18.  When I talk about him, I still have a picture of a toddler in my mind.  Then when I look at him he looks so much...bigger than a 6 year old.  His momma is having a tough time this week with his birthday on Tuesday and his kindergarten graduation on Thursday.

sigh

Last Friday night we had his birthday party.  He had his 5 best buds over for a sleep over.  The party was a 'black belt' party with the kids completing 6 'Trials of the Animal Spirits' in the 'Ring of Fire.' By ring of fire, we mean the trampoline surrounded by tiki torches. The boys were into it and solemn when they were given their Warrior Headband.

The boys slept well but who wouldn't after 5 hours of hard playing.  Donuts were on the menu the next morning and all I can say is I'm glad we don't have 6 boys.  I'm not sure we could afford to feed them.

The Best Yankees Team Ever

Our orange belt

Noah loves karate. He's worked so hard.  He came into the last cycle partway so he's been stuck on white belt for a lot longer than the usual 6 weeks and he's had his forms down pat for a month.  This weekend was his first graduation and I know I'm his dad but I'll have to tell you he was a rockstar.  He was loud, he had perfect form, and he had all the answers for the judges. It was made even more special since Jana, Melissa, Mamaw and Papaw were there to see him. Today's his first time to go with his new orange belt and he's so excited he can't stand it.

Love this pic

I know it's shameless but it's my website. I love this picture of Campbell from Easter morning.

Harper Grace

We came down to Little Rock last night to visit Jenna's brother and meet our new niece. We went to the zoo and out to eat before retiring to the hotel for the evening. The kids swam and we thought they'd pass out from exhaustion, but we weren't quite that lucky. 
We're spending our Sunday with them before heading home. From the looks of things we're missing another big storm. At least our luck kicked in somewhere.

Easter 2012

Happy Easter weekend everybody.  I hope your holiday was wonderful.  Ours was fairly busy but enjoyable.  

The big story of the weekend was Campbell giving her pacifier to the Easter Bunny.  As you know we've built it up big time over the past 2 weeks.  She was all excited but on Saturday morning we went to the Easter egg hunt at our church.  Guess who was there. The...Easter...Bunny

I went home and got her pacifiers and brought her one.  Well, stage fright set in.  A 5 foot person in a bunny costume can kind of do that I guess.  She wouldn't go near him.  She wouldn't even look at him.  I had the good camera out and rolling to capture the moment in it's HD glory, but she just hid behind us.  She walked over to me with her arms out with that scared look.  So I stopped filming and picked her up.  She put her head on my shoulder looking away from the Easter bunny. 

Then the funniest thing happened.  She took the pacy out of her mouth and-without looking mind you- threw the pacy to him behind her back.  When I say she threw it, I mean she THREW IT.  It went about 30 feet and skidded up to the bunny's feet.  She was so proud the rest of the day.  "Gave pas to Eater Bunny! Big girl!"

It was classic.

You've seen When Animals Attack...

...now prepare yourself for the next chapter in reality disaster TV:
When...Children...Dress...Themselves!!!

Go Mustangs!

Teeball season is back in full swing. The difference this time is I'm Noah's head coach. So far it's worked out well. He calls me Coach Chad which makes me laugh.

Cam, the Easter bunny, and her pacifier

 

Too difficult to imagine

One of the hard things is limiting the number of photos in photo gallery.  Personally, I'd put them all up but that is a waste of space and bandwidth.  The default limit on this site is 30 images so I try to adhere to that.  Picking out the 30 then becomes an exercise in how much editing is necessary.  Short version is I'm working on it.  

I'll share this photo with you now because I've flagged it as a favorite.

Back to normal

After only a few days we are back to normal around here. Noah was excited to see his friends yesterday. Cam couldn't wait to get to Stephanie's. Jenna and I...work was long and miserable :)

I'll post a photo gallery when I get a chance as well as publishing the posts I wrote while there. Just trying to get back in the swing.

Here's a pic from this morning that'll tide you over though.

Day 1

Whew!

Elmo and I know it

The Queen will see you now.

Happy Birthday Jenna-2012

Jenna's birthday was last Friday.  The day was far from her's, however, as both kids (and her) had haircuts and one of Noah's best buds had his birthday party that night.  The next day was all her's though.  Breakfast in bed followed by an adventure at the Lower Buffalo.  We had a picnic with some amazing scenery and then we gave her gifts to her on Whitaker Point.  We went to eat that night with the Greens and she fell asleep before 10PM.  Pretty good day if I say so myself.

Cam's first haircut

Cam did great for her first haircut. Mom & Noah went first to set examples. Mrs. Melissa just trimmed it & put in a few layers so her beautiful curls could shine!

Yak yak yak

Campbell has decided Noah's remote control for his moon nightlight is HER phone. She sleeps with it and wags it around with her at all times. This morning she was holding it to her ear and talking 100 miles/hour into it. I have no idea what she was saying but I hope whoever was on the other end could understand.
I had to ask her with whom she was talking and then she pulled it from her ear, covered the 'mouthpiece' with her hand, and said "No no Daddy. Not now. On phone."

Big boy on the block.

I can't believe how much he's grown since the first day of Kindergarten.