Landon's First Soda Pop

The other day after school Landon's class went to the park to play. One of the mom's brought these really cute (Halloween decorated) canned Sunkist drinks for the kids as well as bottled water. Well, what do you think Landon and all the other kids wanted? Of course the drink with all the sugar. Mommy let Landon have one thinking he wouldn't like the carbination, but he thoroughly enjoyed it. What does this child not like if it has sugar in it. Landon loved it so much and drank every last bit.

This isn't a great picture, but at least you can see by Landon's mouth and shirt how much he enjoyed his orange soda.

Grampie Turns 90!!!!

Today Dottie's Grampie turns 90! That is just so amazing and we are so blessed to have in our lives. He definitely does not look 90 and if he has the Etherton gene's he will live to be 100 plus years old. At 90 he is still playing golf almost everyday at the Hendersonville Country Club, which must help to keep him looking young. Happy 90th Birthday Grampie!!!

This picture was taken at a 90th birthday party for him a couple weeks ago. To the left is Grampie's sister "Annabel" who lives in Chicago, in the middle is our sweet niece Sarah and then on the right is Grampie.

Chester

Chester is a frog that is in Landon's class at school. Every Friday Chester gets to go home with one of the students for the weekend. After the weekend is over (there is a journal that comes with Chester too) mommy or daddy get to write a few words about Chester (coming from the 3 year old, of course). Monday, when Chester and the journal go back to school, the teacher reads the journal to the entire class. Such a cute idea!!

Last weekend was Landon's turn to bring Chester home!

This is Chester.

SMILE!!

Landon wanted to take Chester to the park. On the way Landon and Chester stopped at the mailbox to drop off a card.

Will had fun pulling Landon and Chester in the wagon.

After playing hard at the park, Landon shared his water with Chester.

So sweet!!!

Will had to bring his Buzz Lightyear along too.

Soccer Game

We are really enjoying soccer this fall with boys. Below are just a few pictures we took at their last game.

This is the best shot we have gotten of Landon so far during a game. Those 3 year olders are just so fast out on the field and running everywhere, if you can only imagine. Landon is number 17 and yes, his uniform is purple, with purple socks and all. Landon doesn't really care about the color, which is why they probably gave it to the 3 year olders. Will was so scared that his uniform was going to be purple, but it turned out that his uniform is one of his favorite colors (green). Green is NOT the East Eagles as some of our family and friends might say, but the Champions.

Will going after the ball.

Will's favorite position (goalie) and he is really good at it.

Will's number 6 and he's getting ready to kick the ball....yaaaaa!!!

Father son talk during half time.

Get it Will!!!!!! Sports are so much fun!!

Water break. This use to be Will's favorite thing to do the past few years he has played soccer, but now he really likes to be out on the field.

Videos of Will and Landon's Soccer Game

Landon is in front of number 4 in this first video.

Landon Playing Soccer from Dottie Morgan on Vimeo.

Will Playing Soccer from Dottie Morgan on Vimeo

Will Playing Soccer from Dottie Morgan on Vimeo.

Soccer Practice

Will and Landon both started soccer practice this week. They are both playing through the YMCA, which is right up the road from us. Originally we were just going to put Will in soccer, but when we found out that they start at age 3, we decided to sign Landon up too. Anything to help relieve some of his energy!! Both the boys have an hour practice during the week (of course they practice on different days) and then they both have games on Saturday's that will last through the fall.

We'll start with Landon since his practice was first.

Landon getting ready to go to his first soccer practice. This is an action shot as he was so excited to go that he wouldn't stand still for this picture.

And he's off.........After Landon met his couch for the season, they ran around to warm up. He has no problem running, which is one of the reasons we put him in soccer.

Stretching.

More stretching.
I think he's warmed up and ready to go.

The Landon grin!!

Landon did great at practice. He did everything his coach said and was one of the few 3 year olds that would practice out on the field without mommy or daddy. He is definitely not shy. At the end of practice the coach got all the kids in a circle and asked that each child tell his/her name. So Landon decided to go first and immediately ran right up to the coach and said "hi, I'm Landon Morgan"!! Mommy and daddy were cracking up as well as everyone else. We really don't know where he gets his little personality (non-shyness) from, but a day doesn't go by when he does not say or do something to make us laugh.

After patiently waiting 2 days after Landon's practice it was finally Will's turn to go to practice. Will absolutely loves soccer, well really he loves all sports!! Will started at age 3 playing soccer, so this is his 4th season.

After Will met his coach for the season they started warming up with stretches.

Stretching some more.
Will did great with the drills. He's definitely more aggressive this season. We didn't get too many pictures of Will because it rained for the first part of practice. Will had fun running around in the rain though. At the end of practice, Will's coach asked the team what name they wanted to be and Will said "Tarheels". The team must not have liked that because they decided to be the "Champions".

The Morgan house hold is definitely not a dull moment right now between work, church, school and soccer!!

A day at the beach!!

Chad and the boys had Monday off for Labor Day, so we decided to go to Cocoa Beach for the day. The weather was perfect and it really wasn't too crowded. The boys had a blast playing in the sand and especially playing in the water. Living 45 minutes to the beach is definitely one advantage to living in Florida. We don't have many pictures as the batteries in the camera died and of course we didn't have any spares.

Most of the day was spent with the boys in the water. The boys would lay on there body boards and mommy and daddy would get them on a wave and give them a big push to ride it into shore and Landon would say "woo hoo...." as loud as he could. Will would say "wee...." with a huge smile on his face. Daddy had to try it a few times too!!

Our little surfer boy!! Will had absolutely no fear of the ocean and pretty much stayed in the water almost the entire day. He loved to ride the waves and of course he calls it "surfing". He's going to want a real surf board before long.

Landon praying on the potty

The past couple days when Landon has to go "poopy" he runs to the bathroom pulling his pants down and says "I need to go make a wish". The first time he said this, mommy was a little confused. Landon then said he needed to "pray" and mommy said "on the potty" and Landon said "yes". So, below is a picture of what Landon does when he goes "poopy". Usually the prayer goes something like this, "God, thank you for ABC's, The End." It seems like his first few days of pre-school are already making an impression.

The Morgan Clan

We just got the group picture of the entire Morgan Clan at Lake Keowee. It turned out so good, that we couldn't resist but to post it. One of our afternoon projects with the kids (big and little) was to make tye-dye shirts. It was a lot of fun and of course Chad is hiding in this picture, but his turned out the coolest because he spent 1 hour on his.

The Morgan Clan - (back row) Terri, Papaw, Luke, Chad, Walter, Katie (front row) Matt, Lindsay and Baby Kylie in her belly, Mamie, Landon, Dottie, Will, Mandi and Abram.

Landon's first day of pre-school

Landon's first day of pre-school went great!! He had a wonderful time!! When mommy took him to school , a teacher came to the car and got him out and said "are you ready to go to school?" Landon yelled out "ya!!!!!" He got out the car and he quickly told mommy bye and then he never looked back. When mommy picked Landon up from school, he got in the car and talked the entire way home and pretty much talked the rest of the day until he went to bed. So much for the hope of him being just a little bit tired after school.

These are a few of the things Landon talked about:

1) "The playground is my favorite." "It's blue." (Everything right now to Landon is his favorite.)

2) "We sang the clean up song."

3) Landon put his hands together and said "we prayed to God about ABC's". He then proceeded to sing the ABC song. This was sooooooo..... cute!!!! The past week, he has been calling prayers wishes. After we say a prayer, he says "that was a good wish".

4) Landon can sort of say his teachers names - Mrs. Pantaleon comes out as "Pantaleo" and Mrs. Knox comes out as "Nick Knock".

This list may not seem funny in writing, but to hear it come out of Landon's mouth was hilarious. He's such a funny kid!! We are very anxious to find out in a couple weeks at open house how he is doing:)

Ready to go to school!!

Landon had to do a silly picture because Will did one last week on his first day of school.

Will's excited for Landon that he gets to go to school too.

This was right after Landon got out of the car to walk into school. He was so excited and there was no hesitation!!

Landon walking into school with one of the teachers helping with the carpool lane.

This was the only picture mommy could get when he was getting ready to get in the car after school.