Interviewing Ramsey

Body Art

Ramsey loves most anything related to painting or coloring (wonder where he gets his craftiness?). On Sunday Cope was fixing dinner and I was helping a friend learn her new embroidery machine. It occured to me I hadn't heard Ramsey for a few minutes and we quickly found him in the closet under our stairs coloring his entire arms and face with markers. Last night I had promised him we would paint after dinner and we did. Since it was getting close to bath time I had the fun idea of doing a little body art on him. He loved it! I also let him paint my face. I tried to enforce the idea that we can only paint on stuff other then paper when "mommy says it's ok". Only time will tell if he retained the lesson?

Man Work

Yesterday Cope bought a new weed eater and was outside doctoring our lawn. Ramsey was outside being a spectator and I was inside doing something domestic for sure. Ramsey came running in to find me and said "I NEED MY CHAINSAW" I said "ok, why?" and he said "because it is loud". Cope had gotten out the blower and Ramsey decided he needed something just as intense as that. So with toy chainsaw in hand he went out to do some man work with Daddy.

He also loves to use his little lawnmower anytime Cope is also cutting the grass:

A little boy and his Dad. It makes me smile to watch the two of them. So sweet.

I'm a T-Rex

Ramsey loves to watch the Dinasaur Train in the morning and here he is singing the T-Rex song.

Touch A Truck

Last night downtown Cartersville was having a Touch-A-Truck fundraiser. So of course Ramsey was excited to go. Exhibit A: We met Cope for BBQ since he was coming home from drill and then off to the truck event we headed. First stop was the big rig:

Then it was on to "Sarge":

Tractor:

Police Car:
It was neat because they would let the kids sit in the driver seats and eve honk the horn and do the sirens. Pretty much a dream come true for a little boy:

Front End Loader: There were lots of other trucks including a firetruck and an RV. Ramsey got scared by one of the big trucks horns that went off right as he was approaching it. He clung to Cope like koala cub. Other then that it was neat little kid event. Ramsey said his favorite truck was "the bus that was a house" meaning the RV. Great, next thing you know I'll be making him a t-shirt with an RV on it. :)

Walking in Daddy's Shoes

Forgive me loyal readers (few but beloved) as it is back to school time in our town and my business has been SUPER BUSY. Kids need names on their backpacks, custom first day of school shirts and more. Blogging is taking a slight backseat until I come up for air. Be back soon!

Birthday Party Weekend

We had a fun day Saturday because it included 2 kids birthday parties. In the morning we headed to Douglasville for our friends from college little girls birthday. Miss Ava turned 2! Ramsey was on his best behavior the entire time and once Erin found him 2 little cars in her moms attic he was set. It was so good to see our old friends and catch up a bit. Erin and Vince are expecting baby #2 and will be moving back to Georgia from Ft. Rucker, AL very soon. Hopefully we can hang out more.

We left that party about 1:30 and headed for Cartersville. Ramsey napped on the ride, thank goodness. We got to party number 2 at 3:30. This one was from my friend Katie's little diva, Miss Kendall. It was a great party with an ice cream theme. There was an ice cream bar which was yummy. I got vanilla with cookie dough. Ramsey cared nothing about eating or the party as he only wanted to be in the toy room. He made it until about 5:00 where he started melting down. After a few tantrums over toys (that weren't even his) we left.

I just love kids birthday parties. Ramsey enjoys them and everyone is always in a good mood (minus the tantrums). There is always cake and good food and it it is just a time to catch up and gab about your kids. So our Saturday was busy but very entertaining.

What Cope did during some of the party:

Ramsey and Ty in the playhouse: