George Mason Basketball

We love the George Mason/ ODU game. We have gone the past two years and the alumni association is amazing. The GMU alum reserve box seats and not only give us tickets at a cheaper rate but they feed us some really yummy food. Good food, basketball, great seats - couldn't ask for anything better. Except for a better outcome. Each year our team loses but this year was so close. It came down to the last shot and was the most exciting basketball game I've ever been to. Poor Brent was so disappointed. Colin wasn't sure who to cheer for as we told him we were going to go see his "green team" that he watches at home and this week they wore yellow. oops... but he soon figured it out. But he also loved to cheer with the ODU fans too as it was most of the stadium. He thought it was great to yell and clap and jump up and down. Brent and Toby - they both went to GMU together and we're glad that Toby lives near us now!We took Colin with us and he had a great time. I think he might have eaten about 4 cookies that night :) but they were good. My sister Sarah came down for the game and made it even more fun. She took Colin down to see the ODU lion - or monarch i guess they call it. Colin used to be scared of lions. For the past few weeks he had been going to bed with flashlights so the lions don't bite him and even set out his stuffed animals as 'bait'. I have NO idea where this all came from but when he saw the lion at the game he was a little afraid and always had to know where it was. Then he saw other kids going up to the lion and wanted to go down and say hi. So his beloved Ant Ant took him down (we figured since Brent and I were wearing GMU gear she would have more of a chance at getting close to the ODU mascot) Colin was able to give the lion a high five and get his picture taken with Ant Ant. He later said to me "momma lions no bite - nice now" and has since stopped waking me up in the middle of the night clutching his flashlight in fear of the lion who would bite him. Thank you ant ant for helping him get over his fear. She also got him to go potty that whole day (we're on a potty strike at the moment) Anyone want to hire her? We had a great time and for all you GMU alum who are reading this please come visit next year - it just gets better every year!

complements from a 2 year old

Yesterday Colin gave me a great complement:

"Momma - you wenney" (momma you are Wendy from Bob the Builder)

Isn't he sweet...

Little Picasso

Colin loves to paint and we have painted a lot the past several weeks. I had to go out and buy more paint because he'll sit there and paint for hours some days. My mom and sisters are very artistic so it runs in the family. I just supply the paint! haha I try to be artistic but have found its better to leave it to the experts. But on Thursday I took him to the Fine Arts Museum for their kids paint days. He loved it and was so excited about going somewhere to paint. It was really fun as they have a lot of different stations and different crafts, games to play with for the kids. Colin and the other kids did a great job sharing the paints and would always trade different colors when they were done with theirs. He loved being able to paint at an easel. His paintings were very good - he drew a cannon on one and titled it "boom boom boom" and made sploches where the cannon went off and left the "boom" (I thought it was very creative) The only thing was they didn't have any way to dry the paintings. I wish they had a hairdryer at least because all of Colin's paintings were sopping with paint So all the moms figured we'd just put the paintings between extra sheets of paper to get them home without getting our cars full of paint. We ended up going to visit my grandparents and then had dinner with my parents. I was halfway home thinking about Colin's paintings in the back when I realized they had dried and stuck to each other. oh well. We'll have more for Colin to add to his collection. I need to come up with some way to hang his creations. I have framed a few in his room and he is so proud of them but not sure how to make it so all his paintings at the time can be displayed neatly and look good. I would love any suggestions.

This is how Colin viewed the paintings at the museum - with his binoculars. Then he flipped them around and kept going "they are too far away"

pregnancy pictures

I didn't take many pictures the last time I was pregnant. I didnt like many of them and probably only have a handful left after I deleted the ones Brent would strategically take when I wasn't looking. I probably do have more pictures than that but there are just a few that I really like. I just felt fat most of the time which could be because I worked with slender college students :) But here is a comparison between pregnancies. In the first two pictures I am about 14/15 weeks along. Can you tell a difference?

Here I am, the one on the end in the brown sweater :) barely showing at this point. This is when I was pregnant with Colin.

And this is now.

And this was yesterday. haha just kidding. I was 6 months pregnant with Colin here but still I'm closer to looking like that now. This baby has grown a lot the past few days. Makes me wonder how big I'll get this time.

staying warm indoors

This week the weather became cold... well cold for this area. We laugh that the high in WV right now is 6 and we're complaining about 30 degree weather now. But thats why we like this area. Colin saw some snow flakes for about 4 minutes today and got really excited about the snowman he would make before it turned to rain. Sorry kiddo that might be the only snow you see all year. We did go outside this week to play but usually my no coat and barefoot boy loves cold weather and its momma who gets too cold but this time he cried and complained about the cold so we found things to do inside.

Brent and Colin demolished the shelf in our closet and we put up new shelving. For around $30 we now have twice the hanging and shelf space. Its SO nice. But Colin had fun with the power tools.

I took Colin to the Aquarium to run around and see some animals. Have to make use of his free under 2 for all these museums. He had a great time and loved pushing all the buttons that tell facts, make animal noises. Only problem was he decided he didn't want to walk halfway through and I had to carry him. Usually when we bring the stroller he still wants to be carried and I end up pushing the stroller and carrying him. So this time I didn't even bring the stroller. I told him I couldn't carry him too much longer because of the baby and he kissed my tummy and yelled "Come out baby and play" haha wish it worked that way. But it was a great time and we practically had the place to ourselves.

Friday we went to the Mariners Museum in Newport NEws. My mom got us free tickets so of course we went. NN is offering an ambassador ticket where for the month of Jan you can go to certain museums in NN on certain days for free. If you are ever in NN you have to go see this museum. They have done an amazing job with it and have a great monitor/Merrimack - or css Virginia :) exhibit that I wish I had been able to read everything and watch all the movies but Colin had a great time. He kept going "wow cool" and loved seeing the boats and his favorite was a part where they ask you which tool is used for different ship making tasks and you push the tool and then they show you how it was used to make the ship. He LOVED It. I love history so its definitely one of those museums thats worth the money to pay to go. But glad we got in free this time! And I brought the stroller and he stayed in it the whole time. Then we went to my grandparents and took naps and played the wii again. Colin the whole way over thought Jeff would be there and was really disappointed when I told him Jeff was at work and wasn't coming. (Jeff you need to come visit again soon!) Then after dinner with my parents we came home and this weekend have just been playing at home and not doing too much. Which has been really nice and relaxing.

And lastly a funny Colin story. He LOVES making bodily nosies (i.e. burps, gas, etc) and usually laughs and goes "ME!" before saying excuse me. Well the other day he passed gas and then in all seriousness looked and me and goes "Oh MOMMA!" Since then I never know if he'll do it in public and then blame me since he's done it several time since then. Haha. Oh well. Life as a mom gets more interesting.

This is the greatest pictures of all time! My dad and Colin
The cousin picture I mentioned in the previous post. I think you can see a family resemblance at least with the girls.

Family dinner and the wii

I know its a lot of posts in a few days but our computer is on its last legs. I think we've had this lap top for 5 years at least. So lately it seems to crash and not want to work but its working now so I'm trying to get everything in while I can. Last night my aunt and uncle and cousins came in town so we we went over to my grandparents for dinner. Colin was very excited because he remembered on the way over there that Jeff was the one who brought him all those toys before. And they brought more! Colin was so excited. He now has a doctors bag full of instruments and keeps asking me to cough and tell him I'm sick so he can fix me. He wants to be a doctor at the moment ;) Colin had a blast playing with Meredith and Hannah and this morning said he missed them and wants Jeff to come back to play. He loves Jeff and has always just gone right to him. After dinner we brought out the wii fit that my grandparents had gotten for Christmas. Colin had a great time and was pretty good at it with some help from Hannah (who was the pro) I can't wait to go back over there and play it again. We got a great cousins picture that was on other cameras so I'll post that when someone sends it to me :) (Please...) Its so fun for us to be able to go these family events now that we live an hour from family. We had a lot of fun and hope we can all get together again soon. One of the toys Jeff and Kerri brought was a kids binoculars and I caught my grandpa playing with them and using them (backwards) to look at this (his christmas present to himself). haha!

But its no wonder Jeff and Colin get along so well. Being super heros is a tough job! Here is Jeff when I think he was Colin's age getting a superman costume for Christmas.

Where did my little baby go?

Well much to the relief of some of you, and to the great sadness of me, we gave Colin a real hair cut. It was getting really bushy and some of his curl was starting to straighten out. (so sad) But Colin wanted the back trimmed. He looks so grown up. Now it is MUCH shorter in the front than I wanted because Brent took the scissors and started whacking at Colins hair and it needs to be straightened out but Colin was done at that point. I do miss his curls but his hair is still curling up in the back. (which makes me hope he'll always have his curls) But he looks so much older now. Still my cute boy though.This is what Colin got for sitting so still!

Great Big Brother

Colin has taken a big interest in the baby lately. He keeps calling it the "green baby" since his favorite color is green and loves to come in and kiss my tummy and say "hi baby" he also thinks the baby needs a glass of water poured on it but I quickly stopped that. But baby's thirsty is what I get. haha. Colin went with me to my doctors appointment the other day and I told him before that he would get to hear the heartbeat and he was so excited. He sat so still and was so good. It was a little scary though since the doctor couldn't find the baby's heartbeat and after 20 minutes of trying went to get the ultrasound to look. I tried not to get too upset since Colin was sitting next to me but everything is fine. The baby was just really low and the doctor couldn't find it. (Brent and I joke now that its because Colin likes to come blow his trumpet at my tummy so the baby is hiding) But Colin was in awe seeing the baby move across the screen and then we heard the heart beat and the baby is fine. When Brent got home that night the first thing he did was run in and say "dada - me heard the baby" and was so excited. I told him that one day the baby will be out of my tummy and he told me that it would come out of my mouth. Like Cliffords loose tooth. Then the tooth fairy would come give me a treat. (We read Cliffords loose tooth a lot as he likes that book) Thats a good explaination to me! Last night before he went to bed he had to kiss the baby and tell the baby goodnight. I hope this love for the baby is still as strong when it arrives!

New years and the rest of christmas

We rang in the New Year with my sister, or Ant-Ant as Colin loves to call her. After Brent got off work we drove up to Richmond to spend the night with Sarah and ring in the New Year. We wanted to take Colin downtown to these really cool lighted reindeer but they were turned off! we were so disappointed but went inside next door where they had penguins with a fountain and Colin enjoyed that just as much. He hasn't stopped asking to go see the penguins again. We then went to these amazing houses next door that must have millions of lights just on their house. We got to walk around the yards which was fun. After going to go get ice cream Colin was really tired but didn't go to bed until 11:30pm! He almost made it to midnight because Ant-Ant told him Prince Colin stories at bedtime which turned into many, many Prince Colin stories. He loved them and now every nap time and bed time we have to tell him Prince Colin stories. And sometimes I run out of ideas of new exciting adventures for Prince Colin to go on. The next day we went to the Short Pump mall and let Colin ride the little train. He loved it and picked Ant-ant to go on it with him. After a stop at my grandparents house on the way home for our black-eyed peas we all came home and Colin crashed and so did I. I couldn't even stay up to watch the Hokie game. But Brent kept coming back and waking me up to tell me the score at different points. But it was a great way to start the New Year. We also celebrated Christmas a few days before New Years with Brent's dad. Colin was so excited when he woke up from his nap and there were MORE PRESENTS under the tree. Very exciting and he keeps asking when Christmas will be again so he can open more presents. We drove around to look at Christmas lights and Pops got to hear Colin's WOW, Cool, each time we passed a house with lights on it.

A beautiful sight....

I was tagged

I was tagged by Heather, a friend of ours and thus you will find out some fun information about me that you may or may not have known :) I decided to have Brent answer half the questions too so you can glimpse into his life and also see how we're similar (or different) So here it goes...

8 TV Shows I Watch (I answered the first 4 and Brent the last 4)
1. Jon and Kate plus 8 - especially loved the episode about potty training boys. It made me not feel so bad that Colin isn't totally trained yet since their kids were 3.5
2. HGTV - I consider it all the same. Whatever is on when I get a chance to watch it. I know its not a show but a channel. Its still the same to me!
3. The Office
4. 17 kids and counting - I'm still amazed one woman can birth all those kids, and still want more.
5. LOST (my other favorites have already been mentioned; The Office, and Jon & Kate)
6. Top Chef
7. Crusoe
8. ESPN (just generic for sports!)


8 Favorite Restaurants - (Brent's are the last 4)
1. Luigi's - if you're ever in Newport News you have to eat there
2. Olive Garden
3. Jason's Deli - this is Colin's favorite too
4. Ruby Tuesdays
5. Macaroni Grill (my other favorites are Jason's Deli and Olive Garden)
6. Tropical Smoothie Cafe
7. Panera
8. Arby's

8 Things that happened to me
1. Colin woke up at 5:45 am but I scooped him up and brought him in bed with me and he slept until 8:30. YES!
2. Made beef stew for dinner in the crockpot.
3. Waited 2 hours to get my car inspected. Colin was so patient and my car passed. And yes I was one of those who waited until the next to the last day. But the drivers side window doesn't work and the man told me if he couldn't get it up once he put it down that it wouldn't pass. Don't know if he just didn't try it or what but God answered my prayers. And we are getting it fixed. One of Brent's guys at the dealerships is fixing it for free for us we just have to find time to take it in when he's working. One of the perks of Brent's job.
4. Gave Colin an ice cream sandwich for lunch - well it ended up being his lunch but he waited so well and never complained that when it looked like it might take longer we went next door for ice cream.
5. Was rescued by my little fireman from my burning bed several times. He's so proud and so brave!
6.Put Colin down for a 'rest'. If you call it rest he goes down but fights naps. So then I got to take a rest too
7. Brent got home early today so he took Colin to the playground so I could drink tea and watch a little oprah (never get to watch that show ever)
8. Went with Colin and Brent to the lake near our house to feed the ducks

8 Things I Am Looking Forward To (Brent's are the last 4)
1. Black eyed peas on New Years day
2. Spring time and warmer weather
3. End of June/ Beginning of July so we can meet our baby
4. A fully Potty trained boy
5. getting done with the last of these questions
6. building a fence in the backyard
7. buiding a patio in the backyard
8. creating my garden

8 Things I Wish For (Brent's are the last 4)
1. One snow storm - but if its not going to snow at least get a little warmer. Not that I can complain since we've been having nice warm weather here. But our little boy wants to make a snowman
2. Bigger kitchen cabinets - but we'd have to knock out a wall to do that. Other things to do first
3. A heathly baby and that Colin will love the baby and not drop kick it like he does the baby doll
4. That my house will clean itself
5. That the car market (and economy) would get better so I can make money
6. A great spring and summer of rain so my garden is amazing
7. Colin to get a scholarship in some sport so I can go watch him play
8. A healthy second baby and younger brother for Colin!

Merry Christmas

We had a wonderful Christmas. Christmas Eve I spent the whole afternoon making a super hero cape for Colin. I had meant to get it done earlier but ran out of time. It reminded me of one Christmas eve my mom locked herself in her room making my little sisters doll house. Colin loves his cape though and it was worth it. We went to a candle light service at our church which just amazed Colin. He loved all the singing and even sang along to "Oh come all ye faithful" as for some reason thats the song I sing to him before his naps lately. He sat so quietly and at one point during the pastors talk he goes "oh no - GOD!" He was really worried and it took me a minute but I realized that the pastor had mentioned how God came down from heaven to earth for us on Christmas or he said something like that so I had to reassure Colin that God was fine. I was amazed he was listening to intently - especially when the candle was so facinating to him. We drove around looking at lights afterwards which amazed Colin. It was such a nice night that we put the windows down for him to see better and he kept going "WOW" and got excited when he saw a baby Jesus. Unfortunately he was so excited he didn't go to sleep until really late and then kept waking up all night and was up bright and early. So we started our day early too and opened presents at our house, let Colin play with them for a little bit and then went to my parents for more Christmas. Colin was so excited every time he opened a gift. "Wow" "YEA" to everything. Play-doh was a big hit this year and entertained him for hours. My grandparents came over in the afternoon and we opened more presents and then had Christmas dinner. Colin ate roast beef too! Amazing from our only eat pasta boy. Colin was so tired as he hadn't slept much or gotten a nap but he did pretty good. We stayed at my parents house that night and put Colin down early and all watched a movie. After trying to play Apples to Apples with Colin hording all the green cards. Green is his favorite color so he thought those were his and sat on them so we couldn't use them. Colin loved waking up at ma-maa and ba-pa's house and the first thing he said was "ba-pa has TWO trees" He thinks having two christmas trees is amazing. He played with everyone all morning and then we came back to our house that afternoon where he crashed and took a long nap. He and Brent are outside right now digging in the mud. Brents dad is coming this afternoon so we'll have more Christmas tonight. We were very blessed at Christmas by everyone and Colin remembers exactly who got him each gift and last night thanked Jesus for all his gifts while reciting who gave them to him. So sweet. Oh and he also got a firemans outfit and keeps rescuing me from my burning bed while i have to scream and cough. OVER AND OVER. And the more I get into it the prouder he is of him fire rescuing abilities. So cute and fun. We didnt take many pictures - which is surprising for us but Brent had the camera and after he got a gardening book he was lost in that for the rest of the morning so most of these were taken from my sister sarah. I'll try to put more christmas pictures up later. We missed James, Angela and AJ this year but hope they had a great time in CA.

christmas in the eyes of a 2 year old

Yesterday at the store I asked Colin to look at a particular item and pick which one he thinks Daddy would want. So he thought and thought and then finally picked one. As I'm putting it in the cart I tell him how excited Daddy will be to open it on Christmas to which Colin got very serious and goes "no MINE" and proceeds to do a death grip on the item all the way to the check out.

Then he's helping me wrap presents last night and he likes to cut the paper with his scissors and then add the tape - good luck to the rest of the family opening them on Christmas. But I had him bring me a pen so I could write the gift tags on them. The whole time I'm telling him who things are for and how much fun it will be to give it to them and how much they will like it. And for a while he gets excited about "ba-pa's" gift or "nana's gift" until all of a sudden he gets a twinkle in his eye, gets the pen, and starts coloring on the gift tags. He then takes one of them and tapes it to a present and goes "MINE." He wrote his own gift tags to make sure they said "to Colin." haha!

But he is a kind hearted kid. At the Christmas parade they gave out little matchbox cars and Colin actually got a truck with a forklift. Which he's obsessed about right now. In Home Depot the other day we had to go find a forklift in use. But instead of keeping it he gave it to his friend Noah. Which was very sweet. Noah gave him a lollipop so Colin thought that was a good trade.

So we'll see how giving presents go on Christmas. He is so excited about Christmas and goes around saying "ho ho ho Merry Missmess" to everyone. He was even singing Deck the Halls the other day in the store to anyone who passed by. You can only make out the fa-la-la-la part but thats pretty clear. And he does have certain ideas for what to get people. Ant-ant needs a green dinosaur or a pet. Either one. And dada needs more redskins stuff. And he'll tell Santa (any non real ones - the Santa figurines) that he wants a toot-toot-toot for Christmas. A trumpet. (which i might regret but i bought him a real kids sized one that really plays) He's been saying that since August when we read The Night Before Christmas to him and there was Santa with a trumpet in his sack. We took him to see the real Santa but he was too scared to talk. He did manage to whisper toot-toot-toot before we left though. He tries to hurry up the days by trying to add more things to the nativity advent calendar each day. But now we count which ones are left and he knows when Baby Jesus goes up that its Christmas and he can open presents. But that doesn't stop him from trying to sneak in a few more. Wish life worked like that sometimes.

"me hair"

As most of you know I LOVE Colin's curls. I can't tell you how many times I've been stopped in the store by strangers telling me never cut his hair. (which I agree as well) And when its humid outside it curls up so nice. However, lately the curls are getting out of control. And even I can admit they needed a little trimming. It does make me sad though because each time I trim his hair I'm always afraid the curls wont come back. The other day I was trying to comb his hair and he had a clump that was so matted in the back that I decided to trim it a little. He was brushing his teeth - which is now his new obsession. He'll go in the bathroom and brush for hours if we'd let him. I think he just likes to eat the toothpaste. But he was so busy brushing that I thought I could get a few snips in without him noticing. I took the scissors and cut off some hair in his back. "ME HAIR" "ME HAIR" is what he started screaming and got down and grabbed the clump I put in the trashcan and asked me to glue it back. So I pretended to and he was satisfied....Until the other day. I was combing his hair. And he grabbed the comb, gave me a look and took a strand of his hair that was on the comb and tried to put it back on his head. I don't think the rest of his hair will get trimmed for a long time.Colin watching the Christmas parade. He loved it. There were 5 bands in the paradeWhat do you do when its in the 60s in December? make mud pies... in my good pot. Not sure how that happened but he had a great time doing it.

becoming mr. mom

I couldn't think of another title but Brent has been amazing these past few weeks helping me out. Since i haven't felt so good (and by the way today has been good so far!YEA!) but Brent has helped so much and made it so that I can just play with Colin and rest for the most part. He has done the laundry, washed dishes, unloaded the dishwasher, cleaned the kitchen each night, cleaned the bathrooms, helped me each night with my bead kits, not complained when I wont let him make toast because the smell makes me sick, entertained Colin when I couldn't get off the couch, and more. He even put Colin down for a nap yesterday DURING the redskins game and missed a good quarter of it so that I could go down earlier for a nap and sleep all afternoon. This pregnancy is definitely a lot harder but I know its worth it in the end. I can't wait to see our new baby and wish July wasn't so far away. I had a doctors apt Friday and its different now going since Brent was able to go to all but one appointment before (the joys of having the doctors 5 minutes from work then) but I was able to hear the baby's heart beat again and the doctor said it was really strong. So I'm hoping I'll start feeling better soon. I'm sure Brent is feeling the same way :)

sweet moment

It has become part of our bedtime routine lately for me to snuggle with Colin in bed with him for a while after we read, pray and sing songs. He will put his arm around me and snuggle in close. Its my favorite part of the day since he will talk about things and tell me stories about anything and everything. You never know whats going to come out of his mouth. Last night we started bedtime late since we went to watch a Christmas parade (which was really fun and Colin loved it) So I was mainly trying to hurry up and get him to fall asleep since I was tired and half asleep at that point. He got really quiet and I was getting ready to get up and leave when he rolled over, looked at me and said "momma?" "Yes, Colin" "LOVE YOU" (said with the biggest smile on his face) He rolled back over and went to sleep. And I laid there a few minutes more snuggling next to him as he scooted closer to me. What a sweet boy. Not so sweet when he was up at 2:30am am and also 3:00.... but still a sweet moment none the less.

Its beginning to look a lot like Christmas....

Colin has loved helping put our Christmas decorations up. We have been reading books about Christmas for a while now and he was so excited when we put up our tree. I really wanted a real tree this year but with this pregnancy I couldn't stomach the smell so we put up our trusty fake one that still works. Next year we'll get a real one. I don't want Colin to grow up thinking you move the branches into place :) But it looks real nice and Colin goes in and just stands by it. His ornaments are on the bottom and he likes to rearrange the tree each day. He also loves playing with my nativity set. We've already lost one shepherd as I heard an "uh - oh" and somehow baby Jesus was involved in it according to Colin. But I'm sure after I super glue it he'll be ok. He also loved putting his ornaments on the felt tree James and Angela got him when he was a baby. Its really cute and comes with little books about baby Jesus and the Christmas story. He likes reading them each night. This morning we went to our friends house and made christmas cookies. Colin loved it and I think ate more than he made. I love this picture of him stuffing dough in his mouth. He and Noah play really well together. No-no is what Colin calls his friend. Noah has a little sister but I didnt get a good picture of all of three of them looking at the camera. She is so cute and follows after the boys a lot. They have become great friends, unfortunately they are moving the beginning of January and we will miss them a lot. I'm really going to miss them a lot too. Laura has become such a great friend. Just another reason to road trip one weekend and go visiting! In baby news, I'm starting to feel a little better. I don't feel as sick for a few hours in the morning so thats good. The afternoons and evenings are still really bad but hopefully it'll be over after Christmas. Thats how long it lasted for Colin. Brent's somehow convinced this baby is a girl since I'm so sick - not sure how he gets that but we'll find out in a few weeks I guess. When you tell Colin he's going to be a big brother he smiles and goes "no - momma's the brother." The other night we were at my grandparents and Colin and I were snuggling in his bed (he's such a cuddler - i hope this next one is too) But he was kicking his legs and I said don't' kick momma's tummy and he looked at me and said "baby - momma's tummy" So I said yes, you're right. And he got silly and went "baby pink, blue, green, brown, purple" He thought he made a funny joke but I guess telling him theres a baby in my tummy is as much a joke to him right now.

Thanksgiving day

Thanksgiving day we went to my parents house and had pork roast (Brent married into a family that only likes turkey once during the holidays. I like pork roast much better than turkey so I was happy!) My grandparents were there and Brents dad came down too. For Colin the day looked like this:And ended like this:He played hours and hours of football outside. It was mainly my sisters and I playing and having Colin blow his whistle and tell the rest of us where to go. He was a little biased as he kept giving the ball to Ant Ant (sarah). But it was fun and we enjoyed our second thanksgiving dinner. Can't have too much pumpkin pie :)