No Chance of a Future in Poker

Ah, Sweet Liam...you have to love a kid who wears his heart on his sleeve. Whatever he is feeling, there is no doubt in any one's mind. Generally, he is a happy kid, so this is a pretty good thing. Subtlety is totally lost on him. I believe that this "here I am, take it or leave it" attitude will take him far...unless his dream is to play poker. Sadly, there is...

no

poker

face

here!

Make New Friends, But Keep the Old

One is silver, and the other's gold

Oh the wonders of technology. I laughed at Will when he first joined facebook, but I am so glad that I joined too. It is so easy to lose contact with friends as we grow and change in our lives, but I have been able to reconnect with friends I never knew I was missing, until I knew. Several of these friends are girls I went to camp with almost every summer until college. Camp is a hard thing to explain to someone who has never gone...it is a second family...a group of girls who you lived with for 2 months, didn't see again for 10 months, and picked up right where you left off the next summer...a place where you are never judged...never have to wear make-up...a place where you can be yourself and that is always good enough. One such camp friend is Alicia (Making Memories). It turns out that Alicia has a little boy is is just a week older that Liam and they have family in Charleston. It happened that they were in Charleston on a day when the kids and I could make it down there for a visit. It was nice to catch up and the kids got along great. We met at Waterfront Park and the kiddos had a blast!

Liam and Michael. It makes me laugh when Liam talks to someone his own age...so cute!

It would have been a much drier visit had the kids not seen the pineapple fountain

Oh, but they had fun!

After some outdoor fun, we ate lunch (Fleet Landing, which was fantastic) and headed back home. Looking forward to our next visit!

Hoppy Easter!

Wordless Wednesday

Rody Races

Annah and Liam have been sick for a week now and we are all about to lose our minds from being stuck in the house for so long. To that end, I brought the Rody ponies (which are the greatest invention ever) downstairs for a little fun! Do these kids look sick to you?

They used these flowers for crops and pretended to be jockeys

Giddy-up!

Liam is about to go down

...and they both got disqualified for losing their mounts

A Blast From the Past

Will's grandfather (PaPa) had a 1972 Mercury Cougar that has been refurbished. We went to Rosie and Poppa's house for dinner Sunday night and Poppa wanted to get the Cougar cranked up. Liam LOVES cars (also trucks, tractors, really anything with an engine and wheels) so he was all about helping Daddy and Poppa. Will used to ride around at the beach in this same car so it was a neat moment for 3 generations of Shupings to ride in a forth generation's car.

Where Does the Time Go?

These three kids are pretty darn cute, right? Here's the kicker, I am not sure what happened to them. I mean they are still cute-as-all-get-out, but they are not these tiny little (naked) babies anymore. This was 2 (maybe 2 1/2) years ago...

...and these are the same kids today!

HOLY COW! WHERE DOES THE TIME GO?!