War Eagle Fly Down the Hill

We are teaching Mary Margo how to be a True Auburn Tiger.

Lesson #1: The correct response to "Roll Tide"

Her friend at school introduced her to two little four letter words that no true tiger ever lets pass over their lips - Roll Tide. She started saying it one Friday afternoon after spirit day at school and it took all weekend to get it out of her vocabulary. Everyone knows, it's simple. Someone says "Roll Tide" to you and you say "War Eagle" back! This is hard for a 3 year old. She just kept saying Roll Tide back to Dusty. Poor thing, by Sunday I said "Roll Tide" to her and she looked at me all sad and said in a half whisper....."I don't want to say it". This was the turning point and from then on she yells War Eagle every time.

Lesson #2: The Fight Song

war Eagle Fly down the field ever to conquer never to yield (the correct words)

War Eagle Fly down the Hill never to conquer never to yield (Mary Margo's Version)

This needs a little work. thinking I should have started with Glory Glory to ole Auburn instead.

Lesson #3: Sitting thorough the WHOLE Entire 6:45 Game

We took her to the South Carolina game last weekend and she was SO GOOD! She loved it and had a great time watching, cheering and entertaining herself and everyone around.

Our little Tiger in Training. I asked her to smile pretty and this is what I got...we will work on this in tiger training too

This is the seat you get when you don't really have a ticket, on the floor with mom and dads feet. (I know - it's gross. But at the time it was entertainment)

Cheering for Auburn! Go GO GO!!!

3rd Quarter Entertainment - Free shaker from Tiger Rags. Pop out the coupon coin and you have a camera. Say Cheese!

And the Finale - Toomer's Corner after a big win! Two happy girls @ 10pm or later....I can't remember.

We Must Ever Be Friends

This past weekend we had Mary Margo's birthday party. A good friend was nice enough to take pictures for me. Just got them back today and she captured so many good times with great friends. But this has to be my favorite. This is several still pictures of Francie's arrival at the party. If only you could hear the squeals and laughter coming from Mary Margo and Francie as they run to each other. They are the best of friends and I hope this friendship last a life time.

We must ever be friends; and of all who offer you friendship Let me be ever the first, the truest, the nearest and dearest! - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Convo about Sister

Mary Margo - "this is my brother"
Mommy - "your brother! In a pink dress? I don't think so. That would be your sister. She is a girl"
MM - "this is my sister"
Mommy - "Do you want to be a sister? Like Francie is Foster's sister and Aunt Mandy is My Sister. You want mommy to have a baby so you can be a sister."
MM - "NO! I don't want to be a sister."
Mommy - "Good. That works for me."


Now the new baby doll is known as Sister. That's her name.
And I say, "Yay! The baby has a name."
I was afraid her name would be "breakable baby" It's porcelain - Mary Margo always names things what they literally are. Big, Little, etc. Read the last blog for more explanation.

Mary Margo with sister and big baby

Side story - way before the convo about sisters. I was telling Mary Margo that we needed to give the new doll a name. I said what about Amanda. I don't know why. She just looks like an Amanda. Guess what that is my sister's name. Weird!

What a busy week!

Mary Margo and her new friend "Trudy" the dog. I had to come up with a name. A real name! If we had left it up to Mary Margo the dog's name would be black dog. Just like the bigger baby doll is "big baby" and the smaller baby doll is "little baby". We are working on imagination here. So I named the dog Trudy. If you are wondering where this name came from.....well, our current TV obsession is Mad Men. Trudy is a character from that show. I kinda like it!

We started our week with a new class, new teachers, and a new name for school...PRE-SCHOOL! Mary Margo loves it! She loves her new class and teachers, Ms. CeCe and Ms. Toya and playing on the BIG playground EVERYDAY! Her teacher says she is doing Great. On the first day she cut a perfect straight line with scissors (Mommy is SO PROUD) and today they told me that she loves to clean! Ha.. hopefully she will love to clean in 10 years when it counts. As for the word preschool.....I prefer not to use it. Makes her sound so BIG and although she will tell you all the time that she is a BIG GIRL I prefer to hold on to my baby girl just a little longer. : )

Tuesday night we started Dance class at Nix dance studio with our best gal pal, Francie. I really hope they are best friends forever! They are so cute together. The class is closed so we can't see what they are doing but from the sound of things they were having a BLAST! Mary Margo got her first pair of ballet shoes and tap shoes to bring home. Might have to limit the use of tap shoes at home. They are a little loud on the hardwoods. : )

All the little twinkle toes got suckers at the end of class! What a wonderful treat!

"I like that dance" is what Mary Margo kept saying when we got home that night.

Then Wednesday came along, Mary Margo had to have her first set of ear tubes. She looks so pitiful in this picture but she was a real SUPERSTAR! She didn't cry one tear. She hopped up on the bed and rode down the hall with the nurses like the biggest little girl I'd ever seen. She did great afterwards too. We came home and played and watched movies even did a little grocery shopping. By Wednesday night, you never would have known she was in the hospital that morning.

She even got a special delivery .... BALLOONS! How fun!

BEACH 2010

Every year we head to the coast with our dear friends, the Webbs. They have a little boy, Warren, that is exactly Mary Margo's age. They had so much fun playing with each other and swimming and jumping. Here are a few pics from the trip!

Sun Bathing in the HOT HOT Sun!

Tuesday we took a little road trip to Pensacola to see the Blue Angels practice and visit the museum. We saw a GREAT show, Mary Margo and Warren had fun driving Airplanes and the best part........IT WAS ALL FREE!!

We went to the beach only once. Our "condo beach" (what the little ones called it) was not on the beach so we had to load up everything and drive to the beach. This was a bigger job than we had anticipated. It was a good time had by all but it was extremely HOT! but I am happy to report the beach was beautiful as always. NO OIL!

Can't go to the beach without going to the arcade/gocart park atleast once. We had so much fun watching Warren and Mary Margo ride all the rides and win tickets in the arcade. Mary Margo won 105 tickets. She picked out all her prizes....a rubber ducky that looks like a horse, 3 plastic rings, a tiny neon plastic cat and a few stickers to finish out the tickets.

Daddy and Mary Margo

Mommy and Mary Margo

All dressed up for dinner

The Hall's and The Webb's

We have been vacationing together for 5 or so years and this is the first picture we have ever taken all together. Shame on us.

Time to go home.....Riding the cart down to the car. When we left Warren, Mary Margo started whining "I don't wanna go home" all the way to our car.

Aunt Mandy!

Every summer Aunt Mandy pays us a visit here in Auburn to spend some quality time with her favorite niece....and her baby sister.

Here is a little glimpse of what all we got into.

Here we are watching the fireworks show in Auburn. Or as Mary Margo called them fire truck works.

Miss USA on the 4th of July.

We went to see Toy Story. This was Mary Margo's first trip to the movies.

We walked down to town creek park to feed the turtles. They like to eat Ritz crackers. Mary Margo likes to eat them too. It's a bite for me bite for the turtle kind of adventure.

We did a little shopping! Cuz that's what sisters do when they get together.

We played at the park and taught Mary Margo how to swing like a monkey.

And swing like a human

Sweet Aunt Mandy carried Mary Margo all the way home.....she said it was a workout.

Walking on the walls. A highlight for Mary Margo on her stroll with Aunt Mandy

HOT FUN in the SUMMERTIME

We have been spending lots of time outside! Here are just a few highlights of what has been going on in our little world here in Auburn!

Nana and Dodaddy came to visit and brought their dog, Molly, with them. Mary Margo loves playing with her and chasing her around the backyard. Don't be fooled. Molly loves it too!

Auburn University has Family Fun Day every year for all University employees and their families. They have all kinds of games and food. All Mary Margo wanted to do is See AUBIE! She talked about Aubie from the minute she woke up that morning. When we finally did see him, she touched his tail and blew him kisses. She was all about him as long as he kept his distance. She locked her knees and started pushing back when we started to take this picture. I don't blame her. At her age, I would have NEVER got within 5 feet of him so I think she is doing great! Still to this day, Aubie is just about the only character I get this close to.

Auburn Art Walk 2010. Last night we went downtown for the Art Associations block party. They have all kinds of artist and things for kids to do. These tissue hats were one of the activities the kids could make. Mary Margo just borrowed this one from the girls making them. She didn't want to make one. She had too many things to do and see. Oh and we were trying to find Aubie. No time to stop when on the prowl for Aubie.

We never found Aubie but we found the band and danced. She ran around and helped the band entertain the crowd. She LOVES dancing to the music.

Making a request - or flirting with the band - or maybe doing a little of both.