Labor Day Weekend Adventures!

We had a great Labor Day weekend. Grammi, FaFa, Aunt Maria, Uncle Tom, Osten, Marci, Uncle Fran and Teaunee were all here with us. Tom, Franny, Ger and Teaunee all went to the first Carolina game of the season on Thursday night. Uncle Davis was in town too, so they were able to see him and his friends as well at the game. USC played NC State, Franny's alma mater. Sorry Franny, better luck to the Wolfpack next time! Go Gamecocks!!





Uncle Fran and Teaunee came in from Phoenix, so were were thrilled they got to join in the family fun too.





All the cousins had a blast playing with each other. Uncle Ger took Piper and Osten on tractor rides (no pics of this yet, I think Maria has these), sorry Marci, just a little longer til you can ride too!


One afternoon it rained and Osten and Piper had a blast playing in the rain.




Piper looks up to her older cousin Osten and was watching his every move. He was also sharing many of the new songs he's learned, which included the ABC's. And Piper decided to give singing the ABC's a try this weekend too. So periodically we'd here her singing them as she was playing with her toys or in the car on our way somewhere. I haven't caught her on video yet, but it's so sweet how she sings it. She hasn't quite gotten all the letters down yet, but there's no doubt what she's singing. My favorite part she sings is "Double-vu, etts, Y, Dee-Dee". Osten also helped her learn to count to 7 and she's been practicing this as well.


Marci made big strides too this weekend, when she started to crawl. And it's only fitting that it happened at our house, as Piper started to crawl at Uncle Tom and Aunt Maria's house last Thanksgiving. And the year before, Osten took his first steps at our house right after Piper's 1st birthday party. I guess our kids enjoy keeping it all in the family.


We also had fun with bubbles...



Drinking out of new water bottles...


Sharing a stool to supervise the making of banana bread...


Playing with Osten's cars and ramp...




Reading the paper...



Playing with Grammi's purse...




Helping Daddy and Uncle Tom put some stools together...



Bowling with Grammi...(protect yourself Grammi)...

Playing with a glove and ball (Piper called her glove a purse and wore it like one, she wasn't too into catching with it!)...

And just hanging out.

Osten also taught Piper all about how much fun it is to wear bandaids and Piper was ready to model her new found fun-wear. Note: There are no boo-boos under the bandaids, just a mere fashion statement!

Uncle Tom and Aunt Maria joked about Piper wearing Osten's Georgia Bulldogs hat. She did put it on her head, however Ger and I took the finger in her nose as her statement as to her true feelings for the Bulldogs. What a true Gamecock fan she is!

We also had a little excitement at the house Friday night. A power line somewhere upstream from us was hit by lightning and this caused our transformer to blow! So we spent the first part of the night in darkness. But it was fun hanging out by candlelight and the power company was able to get things fixed very shortly after.

We also spent time out on the deck and were able to catch a beautiful sunset.