We enjoyed a great visit with my sister, Jessica, over the Holiday weekend. It might be obvious from the picture... but Scott absolutely loves his Aunt Jesse. He was very excited that she was coming for a visit and even got very upset the few hours she wasn't with us, while she was here. For example, he knew she was coming on Thursday night after he was in bed, so Friday he woke up looking for her. Literally, he got dressed and said, "Where's Aunt Jesse." Then we saw a plane go by our house and he thought she must be on that plane. I said she wasn't and he ran down the hall crying before I could explain that her plane had already landed and she was with Uncle Mike. Funny boy.
While Jessica was here we went to Riverbanks Zoo for a day trip. One of my favorite day trips, because it's so easy and everyone has fun. The first picture is of the boys with their Nana and Papa (my parents) checking out the baboons as soon as we got there. Hey, they were on the way to the tigers :) Notice the Clemson hats... I always feel weird even just being in Columbia, so we wear our orange. 
After seeing the tigers, Scott was set on giraffes, for some reason (could be he remembers them from the pictures from the last time we went). Of course, Scott and Blaise don't say giraffe, they say "raffes." One of the funny mis-pronounciations they share. Anyway, we headed toward the raffes and of course, grandparents love to spoil, so they got to feed the raffes. Fun times... I'm sure we'll be expected to buy lettuce for the giraffes every time we go. Hopefully, we'll be back there often. We had a big enough group that we went ahead and got a membership. 
Let us not forget, the other major event of the weekend was Clemson's first home game. What a way to start a season. We couldn't watch the game... well actually, we could have, but we didn't know it, so we just listened. Remarkable the attention span of a 3 yr old for football on the radio. Scott at least listened quite intently and asked a million questions. I actually got out the little people to stage the game for him. I'm very excited to take him to a game live and we are even planning on going to some local pee-wee games. That's partly inspired by my dad who officiates, mostly high school, but some pee-wee too. Anyway, here's the picture of our 3 little Tigers from last weekend. They look about the same today, except one has grown plenty since Saturday. We'll be watching the game tonight on the computer. Too bad for Scott, it doesn't start til bedtime... I told him he could watch it on the computer tomorrow, we'll see if he remembers and how much of it I get to watch twice. GA Tech is always a close game, so hopefully it will be a good one and hopefully it will be a W.
Finally... here's the little man up close. Finally got a relatively good picture of his smile. It's still best in person of course. Actually, giving credit where credit is due, Scott took this picture.
I absolutely love this picture that Jessica took. Michael found his thumb while hanging out at my parents one evening. Evening isn't his favorite time of day, so it was very nice for everyone. Now if he could just learn to find his thumb consistently and when he needs it.
Blaise is in fact cutting his bottom 2-yr old molars. We'd been wondering, since he's been stuffing things into the back of his mouth lately. It was when he stuffed his finger back there at bedtime that I caught a glimpse of them. The top molars are still not in sight at all, so he's still not finished with the whole teething thing. Scott's latest phrase is, "I'll eat you up." Can you guess where he picked that one up? I'm just wondering if he's wanting us to send him to bed without eating anything?
Go Tigers!
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