A Family Afternoon

J has been out of town for basically the whole month of August. With the exception of the weekends he has been in two different states for the last three weeks. Gus and I have missed him terribly and were so glad to see him Saturday morning (he got home around 1:ooam)!! Needless to say we hijacked him for the day, hooked up the boat and headed for Suwannee. It was a great day to be out on the water, it was overcast and there was a slight breeze!

Gus wasn't crazy about the lifevest we made him wear.

It was the same lifevest that all of the Ayers' kids have worn including J. At one point we were riding around and Gus started licking and chewing on the vest and when I pointed it out to J he said he used to do the same thing when he wore it!! After our big ride we went inside for a cold drink and Gus had a blast exploring. He loves the big windows that face the water and playing behind the drapes. He also had fun going through the books that cousin Allie had left down there! He also wanted so badly to swim in the "pool", which is what he kept calling the river!! I don't think he meant head-first daddy!!

It was a great afternoon topped off with a yummy supper with J's parents. We are so glad to have daddy back home again!!

Muddin'

One positive outcome of the rain we had everyday of last week is PUDDLES. Saturday evening while we were on a family walk we ran across this huge puddle in our driveway. Gus made himself right at home! Ya'll he ran from one side to the other, he crawled, he splashed, he threw mud, he even walked right out of his shoes!! (note the floating shoe below)

Every time he fell down he took a deep breath like he was afraid he might go under!!

Who needs a pool?? He wanted to show me his bellybutton! See him pointing?
Look at this face! We stripped him and hosed him down on the carport before we let him back in the house. He had dirt is all of his little wrinkles!!

HE'S ALL BOY!!! :)

Shaggy no more

Gus has been in serious need of a haircut for several weeks now. I mean it was curling around his ears and in the back to the point that brushing it did no good whatsoever and it was driving me crazy. So now that my friend, Kalyn who cuts my hair and did Gus' first haircut, has started her new job at a local salon, Gus and I headed over on my day off yesterday. We decided to butter up Kalyn by taking her out for lunch before the big cut and we had a great time visiting with her. Then we headed back to the salon and plopped Gus in the chair and covered him with his very own camo cape!!

(look at that hair)

I think Kalyn was a little nervous since the last time she cut Gus' hair he was not happy with her and he squirmed and cried most of the time. This time, however, he was really good especially once he was given "the pink bottle".

Ya'll he sucked the yucky city-chlorenated water out of that bottle the whole time she was trimming his hair! That and he stared at the other customers in the building.

On a side note: Gus is probably going to grow up thinking that his favorite color is pink. All of the toys he loves at Ma'am's house are pink because they were first Allie Claire's. Don't get me wrong, he is ALL boy but it makes me wonder sometimes what all of this pink influence is doing to him:)

Well the finished product was a big WOW for me! My baby looks so grown up. I looked at him the whole way home thinking "Who is this kid in my backseat?". What do you think?

(Kalyn & Gus)

This weekend we had a great time on the Rainbow River. It was an incredibly hot day, perfect for floating down a really cold, crystal-clear river. We had around 26 people from our church that went, aging from 11 to 77. Gus had a great time. He rode with lots of different people like: his dad in the ganoe, his papa in a float, me on a fun noodle, and some church members on the big boat. We floated and talked and ate boiled peanuts. It doesn't get much better.

I think we could go every weekend. I was able to swim about half of the way down while Gus was hanging out with everybody else so I was as happy as I could be. I love to swim and dive down in the holes and look around! J was happy riding in the ganoe with the trolling motor most of the time but he did jump in a few times. Gus was out like a light as soon as we strapped him in the carseat! We are already planning next year and maybe going twice next summer!

For your comedy relief this morning I'll leave you with these pics of Gus eating a porkchop bone. He was having a great time if you can't tell!!! (This was all my mother's doing since I don't gnaw on bones, but Gus didn't seem to mind:)