Can you believe it is May...time for more Nichols nonsense!

I know it has been a while since I updated and I am sure that I will be able to come up with lots to tell you. We have a busy month. The kids continue to amaze us with everything that they do and say.

For example: Little Walter is now fascinated with everyone that is different than him...meaning Mommy, and I think you know what I am getting at. He is already asking TONS of questions, pointing LOTS, and Daddy only helps to explain in the most inappropriate way of course. What more do you say about a really curious little boy....isn't it going to be fun. He also very fascinated with your nose and the things in it. He has had a stuffy nose for the past few days and we have taught him to blow his nose. He thinks that is really cool and says "let me see my booger". Gross I know, but he is all boy. Today we were sitting at the breakfast table and he got down on the floor face to face with the dog and says, "Mommy, Molly has a booger." GREAT! So I reply with "Thank you for telling me Walter, but please don't touch it." What in the world??
He is getting so big and chatting more and more everyday. Still sassy like his sister. He has begun to say the blessing with us when we eat, trying to say what Sissy says..it is very sweet. He may be a boy, but he does have a really sweet side. He now just comes up to you for no reason and tells you that he loves you and gives you a hug. No matter what he says, a hugs and I love you from a 2yr old makes up for everything.

Ann Elizabeth is doing great. She loves school and has made really sweet friends. She did have a rough week this week. She had a splinter in her heel that needed to be removed. It has been there for about 3 months, and we didn't realize it. We knew that she had gotten a splinter from our hardwood floors, but we thought we had gotten it all. Evidently we didn't. She started to get a knot on her heel and it began to hurt. Our ped. said to just let it work its way out, our ER MD friend said that it should come out and our Dermatologist said that it should come out.....but.....no one would touch it. They knew that it was going to be tough. So, they sent us to a podiatrist of all people. We told her all about it and tried to warn her about the pain (ie shot in the foot). She did great once her foot was numb and wanted to watch them take the splinter out. Being just like her mother, she asked if she could take the splinter with her to "show it off". They put it in a nice specimen cup and off to school she went with it. Needless to say it has been the topic of conversation around here, and everyone she sees has to see the splinter and hear the story about it. Hopefully she will be a nurse one day...she sure has the curiosity for it!

Enough for now, I don't want to bore you......lator gators!

Time of change in the Nichols house!

Not sure how to start this, but my heart is really heavy. I have been reading some "friends" blogs from church and am very motivated, but heart heavy too. I am so not where I want to be, or where I was a yr ago (physically and spiritually). So, in saying that, I have to apologize to those of you whom I have not been a good influence to. Life has thrown our family some curve balls the last year and I have not taken them well. I have let myself fall into a time of being needy and not strong. SO, my goals have changed! I am getting out of the rut and the family and I, are going to change some things. I have been in a wonderful bible study that I need to start acting out what I am learning, and Walter and I are in a wonderful small group that we really should "be a part of".
Thanks to all of our friends who have stuck by Walter and I through our changes this year. We won't let you down! Please continue to pray for us and our challenges that we still face with being in a new town and continuing to get settled. Thanks again!

Lator Gators!!

Time to Catch up!

It has been a week since my last post so I thought that I should catch everyone up to speed and add some new pics of the family.

We celebrated Walter's 40th birthday with old friends from Charlotte and new friends from Nashville. We all had a great, long, fun weekend and really enjoyed catching up with our friends who made the trip here from Charlotte. Walter had a blast also and I am sure that Watermark Restaurant downtown has never seen what they saw the night we were there.

For those of that know Walter well, this is so out of character for him. Our friends from Nashville gave us matching singlets and Walter decided to put his on while we had dinner. HYSTERICAL!!!

We also celebrated Easter the next weekend with some friends who were in town from Charleston. It too was a fun weekend, but with 4 children in the house under the age of 5, it was CRAZY!! We did an Easter Egg hunt at the Nashville Zoo and then had one of our own in our back yard. I do have to say that the Nichols children are really aggressive when it comes to competitive activities-I have never seen children go after eggs like my kids did. The Lord has truly blessed us with good friends and a beautiful new home. We have so much to be thankful for, and for me, Easter and spring time really brings it all full circle.

Have a wonderful Spring and pray for sunny weather, Ann Elizabeth has her first soccer game on Saturday after 3 weekends of rain outs! We are very excited!

Soccer Star!

I am officially a soccer mom. Ann Elizabeth had her first soccer practice last night (finally after 3 being cancelled due to the weather) and she loved it. She is playing on the same team as the little girls across the street, Zoe, so she is very excited about that. This is a cute pic of them when they received their uniforms last night.

Thanks to everyone who asked about Molly. I took her to our vet yesterday and they want to see her every Friday to ck her out, but think that she will be fine with no longterm problems....YEA!!! What a relief!!

And to Mr. Henry.................YOU ROCK, and little Walter asks for you all the time!!!!!

What a weekend-Glad it is over!

WOW! Where do I begin? We had quite a weekend in our house. Walter's 2nd b-day party was scheduled for Saturday morning-pony rides, jump castles, the works-all outside of course. Well, on Friday it started snowing and was 29 degrees on Saturday morning with about 2-3 inches of snow in the ground. So, no pony! The party was moved to the basement and thank goodness we had a small jump castle that would fit inside. We managed to salvage the morning and all children and adults had fun. So that was fun until.....
I went to let our dog Molly out after the party. I put her in the backyard (that is fenced in ) so that she could play around in the snow, which she loved. I turned my back brielfy, went back outside to get her and couldn't find her. I knew that she had gotten out under the fence (only the 4th time this week she had done this), so I went around to the front, through the kitchen-inlisting help from all our friends to find her as I past through, and out to the garage where I was sure that she was. I went to the front yard, only to find that she had been hit by our mail lady. Molly was limping, but running back towards Chip (our dear friend) and I. Being the sweet soul that Chip is, he scooped her right up and asked for a towel and began to get into Walter's car. While we were all running around trying to get more towels, call the ER vet and find Chip's shoes, that Mr. David retrieved, after he sat holding/loving and calming our sweet dog in the car. We took her to the ER vet, who was fabulous with her, and found out that she didnt't break a leg, just lots of cuts and maybe some ligament damage, but she was going to be fine. We had to leave her overnight for sugery and observation but picked her back up this morning (Sunday). Molly is said to be doing well and hopefully no longterm effects from the injury. Once again no one told me that I would be so attached to that dog-she is like my baby #3.
So after a brief breakdown over my dog, morning the fact that my 2yr olds party did not go as I had so well planned it out, and a couple glasses of wine, all was back to normal in the Nichols house........other then little Walter having a meltdown when we got back from the ER vet, and trying to get dinner ready to celebrate big Walter's b-day with ALL the parents that were in our house (yes, everyone)-things were normal!

Wow, am I glad that it is Sunday and it is all over!!! On to next weekend for big Walter's 40th!!! YE HA!!!!

Walter is 2 today!

I can't believe that my baby is 2 today. It seems just like yesterday that I was pregnant, with my house full of people waiting for his arrival. I almost want to go back to that morning when I went to the hospital to have him and big Walter and I awaited the arrival of our 2nd child. It was such a sweet time for us! Time has really flown by fast with him. We have been so crazy in the last year, or 2, that I have to look back at pictures to see really how much he has changed. He is so big and talking up a storm. He actually talked on the phone to my parents this morning, without jabbering.
He and I have enjoyed our morning together (Ann Elizabeth and her daddy were still in bed). Walter and I have had suckers and waffles for breakfast, and eaten cake batter as we made cupcakes and a little cake for him. It was so much fun!
We will have our party later and I will post pics so that you guys and see how big our 2yr old is!

Happy Valentine's Day!!!

SNOW DAY!!

So today we wake up to snow really coming down here in the confusing state of Nashville, TN. It really can't decide if it is going to be 60 degress, 30 and raining or snow. It is so beautiful when it snows. Ann Elizabeth, however, wasn't all that excited that she didn't have school today. Her class was supposed to have their Valentine's party today. So needless to say she is disappointed about that. Once we convienced her that they would have the party on Friday, then everything was great and she wanted to play in the snow.

That took all of about 5 minutes. After spending 25 minutes to get everyone dressed, rope the dog up and convience daddy to go with us, we get outside and......."it is cold" is what I hear. They did enjoy it, but seriously 5 minutes was all they wanted. At least we have pics to prove that my children have seen snow.

Now, what do we do the rest of the day....................

Here is a picture of Ann Elizabeth with her Prince Charming on her 4th birthday. We hosted a Tea-Party at our house and Walter dressed in his tux and served the 13 little girls that attended. He was a BIG hit, especially with the Moms.

Crazy day in our house!

So, I don't think that my children have been sick more in there sweet little lives, than since we moved to Nashville. Ann Elizabeth has had a cold that she just can't shake since Monday night. And let me say that she is really bored with her little brother and I.
Speaking of Walter, we survived the tornadoes this week, but we had one of our own this morning. He managed in, 10 min, to pull out all of the board games and puzzles in the playroom and throw the pieces everywhere. And now, he is in the "treat drawer" trying to shove every piece of candy/gum in to his mouth that he possibly can. The picture is worth a thousand words-doesn't he look like he gets into TONS on trouble!
The babysitter gets here at what time?????? Not soon enough i can tell you that!

Hope all is well with you guys! We send our love to everyone!!!

This is the first time I have ever done this so...forgive me if it is a little crazy. Ann Elizabeth is sick in the bed and Walter Jr. is climbing all over me.

The children are growing like weds. Walter J will be 2 in March and Ann Elizabeth was 4 in Nov. Ann Elizabeth is is a church school here in Brentwood and really likes it. She has met some really sweet little girls so it has helped with the transition. She will start to play soccer this spring at the YMCA and is very excited about her hot pink soccer shoes.

Walter J is wild as ever and with me everyday. He will be in school next yr though-THANK GOODNESS! He is talking in complete sentances and yelling all the time. He looks just like his Daddy and just as silly too. We do Gymboree once a week and he has found a sweet little girl to torture (her Mom is super nice and we have the same birthday). He mom just laughs off all of Walter's antics and talks about how sweet he is. Time will tell!
Molly, the dog, is driving us crazy and is almost to much for us to handle. She is really sweet, but insist on chasing the children and chewing on everything

Hopefully this will be a better way for me to keep everyone-the parents mostly, up to date on the latest happenings.
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Until next time......