Covington Family: January 2009

Tuesday, January 27, 2009

Movie Time

Tyler's new 'thing' is Land Before Time movies. Last week Tyler stayed home all week b/c he was sick with a cold and cough so the week was dedicated to resting up so we watched movies all week. Tyler got in his chair and told me that he wanted me to put Kaleigh in her chair so they could watch the movie together. What's even crazier is that Kaleigh watched almost the entire movie which was 70 minutes. They were super cute !!!

Thursday, January 22, 2009

Dad's 50th Birthday

Jan. 21

My daddy turned 50 yesterday. He's finally growing up !!! LOL

We went to the house for pizza and cookie cake.

The grandkids and pawpaw

These two were on fire last night. They had so much fun running and playing throughout the house.

Two Peas in a Pod

Random shots from the last week or so.

Philip and Kaleigh having a conversation. She loves her some daddy.

Changing Kaleigh's diaper is probably her favorite thing to do. She gets so excited. She stretches and kicks and swings her arms wildly while cooing up a storm. I think it's because she is free of her clothes for a while.

She fell asleep on my lap and when she woke up she was so happy. This is probably one of my favorite photos of her.

My Beast of a boy.

Look at those blue eyes? Please let them stay blue.

Ethan turned 9 this year. He's a New Years Day baby. He had his party at the Science Center downtown. The kids love this place. This is the second party we've been invited to here and they love it.

Collectively Tyler, Philip and Sonia made a kaleidoscope.

After that they did some other experiment that required goggles. They were mixing alka-seltzer with something and it would fizz and explode. They loved it.

After the party part they sent the kids to the science play area.

Kaleigh loved the party too. Between Michelle(Valerie's friend) and Kelly, Kaleigh was held the entire time.

After the party we went about a block down to visit the train. As everyone knows, Tyler loves trains and this was the first time he had ever seen a real train up close so he was ecstatic.

GO WILDCATS !!!

Ryan is in the 9th grade and he made the Freshman Basketball Team. We are so proud of him and we wish him the best. We were even more excited to hear that he would be starting the first game of the season. His first game was in Chalmette, LA.

Lori's family is from Chalmette so it was nice going somewhere familiar and also having family there. Sandra, Madison, Scott, Mrs. Laura were there in support. Chalmette spanked Walker but we still had a great time.

Ryan is #55

Taking the ball in.

After the ball game we went to Mrs. Lisa's house (Lori's cousin). We enjoyed a great dinner with Lisa, Mr. Rick, Jaime(she's my age, we hung out as kids), her husband Jeff, her daughter Hayden, Scott(2 years older than me), his wife Andrea, Jaime's in-laws and us. It was a lot of fun.

Each year we invite our very best friends over for New Years Fireworks. This year we did it a few days early b/c we weren't sure that Philip would be home for New Years, which he actually was, so it worked out that we had TWO New Years.

Kalli, Kaiden and Tyler having a great time watching the fireworks from the backyard. Ryan, Joe and Philip were the fireworks masters. Robin and I just watched after the kids.

Isn't this the cutest picture of Kalli ??

Or wait, could this be the cutest ??

Best Buds

Afterwards we headed indoors for a fierce battle of Uno. They stuck Ryan by me which meant that I would surely lose and sure enough I did. The kids watched a movie. Tyler cracked us up with his creative footrest.

Weems' Family Christmas

Saturday, December 27th.

I am so behind on blogging that I can't have everything in order so just hang in there... The Saturday after Christmas we celebrate with my dad's side of the family. We are a big gang so I'll try to give good details. You'll notice that our family likes the "K" sound b/c most our names start with that consonant. We have Katie, Kaleigh, Cassie, Cassidy, Callie, Crissy, Kylie, Kaden and Caston. We're weird that way.

My dad and Tyler playing with his new trains.

Kaleigh and Sandi - Sandi is the oldest daughter of my cousin Cassie. Cassie's picture follows this one.

This is the entire crew of kiddo's. From left to right starting with kids on the couch: Kaleigh, Sandi, Bailey, Kylie, Matthew, Kaden, Kyle and Dylan. Bottom Row: Tyler, Rebekah, Jordan, Darian and Cassidy. Explanation of kids: Sandi, Bailey, Kyle, Dylan and Darian and Cassidy belong to Cassie. Matthew, Rebekah, Kylie and Kaden belong to Crissy. Jordan to Gary and of course Kaleigh and Tyler to me. Some of the kids are step-children but I don't look at it that way so I don't introduce them that way. Crissy and Gary are both expecting little girls so next year we will have two more to add to the list. JJ and Suzanne weren't able to make it either so Ashley wasn't in the picture. These kids make up the great-grandchildren for the Weems' Family.

Tyler holding Kaleigh. Doesn't Kaleigh look thrilled ??

Tyler swinging with Kaden.

Callie holding Kaleigh. Callie is the daughter of my dad's sister Angela. Callie, Crissy and Cassie are sisters.

Philip bought this outfit for Kaleigh so I just had to post a full view of the outfit.

After a long day . . .

Christmas was the never ending day. We had a great day visiting with family and it was wonderful being with JJ and crew for the day. It has been years since we've celebrated Christmas together. For that I am truly blessed.

The kids were whipped. Tyler didn't even make it to bath time. He crashed fully dressed with food on his face.