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Austin Kieff and Football

Austin Kieff has a true passion for sports, especially baseball. I was hoping that would be it. Unfortunately for me, he LOVES football, too. I took him to my high school's homecoming Friday night and he had a blast!! He loved the pretty girls on the homecoming court (Congratulations, Kirsten!!). He liked the cheerleaders with their yelling and stunts. He enjoyed dancing to the band's half-time show. His favorite activity was watching the football players. I heard him scream "Go Rebels!," more times than I care to count. He also would say "did you see that Wessy Black (Wesley Black), that twenny-four?" Wesley is a friend of his Uncle John Wayne's and Austin Kieff knows him from this past basketball and baseball season. Here are a few pictures from the weekend:

Don't you just love the dirt on his cheeks and chin?

Fixing his cap Friday night
Saturday afternoon playing at Grandmama and Papa's


The lizzard he found

Promised photos...

Monday at the Doctor

Austin Kieff and I spent the morning at the doctor's office. He was so cute saying "I go see Doc Block. Her make me feel better." He has a couple patches that have shown up on his face and is running a fever. We also wanted to have his eye checked b/c he was kicked in the eye on Saturday.

After some blood work and a nasal smear we have two new antibiotics, a new nasal spray and new doses of our asthma and allergy meds. Bacteria seems to be the culprit and hopefully the new medicines will get rid of it! Dr. Block thinks his eye is fine, but if he continues to complain with it she wants it re-checked.

We had a wonderful surprise as we were leaving...Grandmama walked in for her afternoon children's clinic. Austin Kieff took an elevator ride upstairs and played in the chart room for a few minutes with Grandmama. David met us in the parking lot on his way back to work from lunch. Austin Kieff said "surprise to me," meaning his daddy's visit was a surprise. He was definitely glad to see him.

We finished our visit to Troy with a quick lunch at Santa Fe so that he could start his antibiotics as soon as they were filled. He is currently resting and hopefully on the fast road to feeling better!

I have a few new pictures to post and will try and do that soon. I must get to work (via remote connection) so that I can salvage some of the day!

Has it been that long?

I am becoming more and more aware of how quickly time passes! Here are several photos from the last few weeks:

We are still here!

It has been a while since our last post. Austin Kieff has started a new class at school, Sunday School and Mission Friends. He loves all of his new teachers. He was lucky in that his 1 year old teacher moved up with his class to their new 2 year old room. Austin Kieff is officially a Caterpillar!

We enjoyed a quick trip to Auburn last Saturday. Austin Kieff enjoyed wearing Jacob's power ranger swimsuit and swimming in the big pool. He claimed to be Michael Phelps! If you had been in our home the week Michael Phelps was swimming the following are a few common phrases you would have heard, "go Michael Phelps," Phelps for the gold," "I swim like Michael Phelps," and my favorite happened in the bathtub one night after a gold medal win..."I big boy, I swim like Michael Phelps in my big pool (bathtub). Where's my gold metal mommy?"

Austin Kieff also enjoyed the gymnastics. He has danced, flipped and stood on his head more than I can count. His favorite move is, "watch me, watch me bust my butt." This is followed by him stripping down to his pullup and getting a backwards running start to fall flat on his bottom. He has had the most fun pretending to be in the Olympics! He also likes to watch those "naked girls play bolley ball." He is quite fond of saying "they need some close on" (think he has heard someone say that??). Of course this all while he prances around in his pullup!

Well we have spent a lazy day at home listening to the rain. We hope you have had a great couple of weeks!