Tuesday, August 28, 2007
Baby Miss Ashley County!!!
Here is our precious little princess!!! She won the county pageant last night, and we are so proud of her!! Although she just wanted to eat the trophies!!
Along with being the queen, she won The People's Choice, Prettiest Hair, Prettiest Smile, and Most Beautiful!! She has a big trophy, 3 little trophies, and 2 crowns!! We weren't even going to do this... But some friends of mine talked me into it! Assuring me that she would in fact win!! So Andee loaned her the dress, the shoes were from Emma, Paw Paw Randy sponsored her and I bought a spool of ribbon so that Conk could make her a bow!!! And Voila!! She is the queen!!!!! 
She was so precious!! And bless her heart, she wasn't even feeling that well... I had to take her and Dawson to Monroe earlier yesterday because they both had the nasty crud... Snot nose and sore throat.... And she still mopped the floor, not even at her best!!
Okay, enough bragging.... I'm just gonna let you enjoy the pictures of the prettiest little girl in the world (biting on her lip because she is teething;))!!!!!Great job Daityn Blair!! Mommy & Daddy are so proud of you!!!;)
Monday, August 20, 2007
Dawson's First Day of Pre-K
Wow... I can't believe that this day is finally here!! He's still just a baby, but he's growing up SO FAST!!!!Last week we had open house. He was so excited!! First we had to go and get the infamous "Mohawk" trimmed and that couldn't happen fast enough for him...
He thought that we were going to be late for the open house!! Our favorite beautician, Betsy, worked it out for him!!
On to open house where I left my camera in the car... His teacher asked that all of the kids sit on the carpet and let the adults have the chairs... While all of the kids were playing amongst themselves, Dawson was taking everything that Mrs. Laura said in!!! He came to me and said "Momma, are you going to leave me here by myself?" I told him that this was only to see where his class was and who his teachers were!!Last night he was still really excited that this was going to be his first day as a "really big boy"!! He went to bed early last night so that he would be well rested!! I went in to check on him before I went to bed and found him like this!! It was too cute not to take a picture!! (even though it was dark and the picture is a little fuzzy!!)
I woke him up this morning and he was anxious to get ready and wear his run fast and jump high tennis shoes to pre-k!! Amanda went with us, for some support for me!! And off we go!! He looked so handsome!!
On the way, I told him that he would have to remember everything that he did so that hecould come home and tell me all of the fun things that he got to do at school!! We pulled up and he took off his seat belt and jumped right out with his little bag and off he went....
HE NEVER SHED A TEAR!!!!! 
I was so proud of him!!!! Of course you know that Amanda and I cried all the way to the end of Cherry street!!I couldn't let him stay all day without calling to check on him at least once... Or twice, or five times!!! Thank goodness that Granny is there with him so that she can check on him too!! So I called her... She can't get mad at me for calling too much!!!;)
8:30 breakfast is over so I knew that she could tell me how it went... So I called and she said that he had just left and he was doing great!!
10:30 Granny called just to say that he'd been in there for lunch and he carried his tray all by himself like a big boy and was still doing great!!
12:15 the phone rings.... Caller ID says school.... I think Oh, shit.... Mrs. Laura says "Cara have you been waiting on this call all day??" Me, "yeah, I have, how is he doing?? She said "he's done great all morning but he's been crying for the past 2 hours"... I'm thinking oh my gosh, my baby is up there all by himself and he's miserable!!!! She said "I told him that we would call you and talk to you and maybe you can make him feel better.."
Dawson gets on the phone, and it was the most pitiful thing EVER!!!!
Dawson: "Momma?"
Me: "baby, what's wrong?"
Dawson: "Momma, I'm SO mad!!!!! I want you to come and get me right now!!!!"
Me: "Dawson, what is going on? You were such a big boy this morning!!"
Dawson: "Momma, please come and get me right now, I don't like it here!!"
Me: "Dawson, it's not time to come home yet, I can't come and get you, you still have to go outside and play one more time!!"
Dawson: "I don't want to go and play outside, I want you to come and get me, I don't like it here and I'm NEVER COMING BACK AGAIN!!!
Me: "Dawson, you need to settle down and go and lay down for a minute and I'll come and get you...
But, I know I can't.... That is only going to make it worse for Wednesday.... And by the way, whoever heard of the boys going on Monday, the girls going on Tuesday and everybody going on Wednesday??? That is just making it hard on our poor boys!!!
So I called back at like 1:00 and they said that they got him to lay down and he was doing fine!! So maybe, it's gonna get better!!! I hope so, I want him to enjoy this so bad!!!!
So, everyone say a little prayer for us so that we can make it through this week... Or at least Wednesday!!!