Puppy Love

Seth loves his puppy!!! They are so cute together. They both love to stare at the lake and watch all the Cormorant ducks. He hugs her and says, "Love CoCo". It's sooooo darn cute. Here's some pics.

3 kids

Okay, so it's been a while. With a third child in the house (CoCo) there's not a moment for me to sit down and update my blog. Every time I try I have Seth climbing up and down on the chair I'm sitting on, banging on the keyboard, slamming the drawers all the while checking to see what CoCo's chewing on every few minutes. Currently he's preoccupied with his big sisters black patten leather shoes. Doesn't he look adorable! Jason hates it when he wears her shoes. But he's obsessed with shoes right now, heels and all.

Ashlyn had her first sleepover last weekend with her friend Jaden. It went really well! She hasn't stopped asking to have another one. Here some pics. We all went down to Straub park to see Santa and the lights. Jaden was a little scared of Santa so she opted not to sit on his lap.

Ashlyn and Jaden

Seth, Ash, Jaden and CoCo

Seth hitching a ride looking at the "Pitty Lights"

Seth is into and on EVERYTHING. There isn't a drawer or door or closet he can't get into. There isn't a table chair or anything else for that matter that he doesn't climb. He is so mischievous!!!! Such a boy. Totally unlike Ashlyn. She wasn't really in to stuff and was very clean. We go to the dog park yesterday and he hands me a piece of dog poop. Lovely!!!!!

Here in our house we celebrate both Hanukkah and Christmas. The kids have been taking turns with daddy every night lighting the candles. They love it! We celebrated the 2nd night of Hanukkah with Jason's brother and the cousins at PaPa G's house. The kids had a fun time exchanging gifts.

The Christmas tree and decorations have been a challenge in our house. Seth and CoCo can't keep their hands off them. I only decorated the top 2/3rds of the tree and sparse at that. They keeping yanking the lights off so I may just move those up to the top as well. Seth loves Christmas lights. Every evening when we are the car he is a maniac yelling, "Wow, uuuhhhhh pretty lights". He can't get enough.

Opening Ashlyns Parrot - she loves it

Michaela helping Seth

The Goldstein Boys - Unlce Adam, Seth and Michael

We just got back from Mickey's Very Merry Xmas party last night. The kids loved it. Seth was an Angel. He went till 12:15AM with just a 20min nap yesterday. I couldn't believe it. His favorite ride was the "Small Word". He just starred in amazement. Ashlyn said her favorite was the "Pirates of the Carribean". She swore the pirates were real. She wanted to go on the ride a second time. She was also very happy to get her picture taken with Snow White and Prince Charming. She wouldn't stop posing and look at the camera for the picture. My favorite was the castle. It was beautiful. Seth enjoyed the character dance. There was a little place called "Ariel's Grotto" where different characters came out to dance while the DJ spun the records. We happened to catch Cinderella's step sisters and the step mother. Seth LOVES to dance so he jumped right in. Ashlyn on the other hand wanted no part in dancing with the Step Sisters.

Seth cuttn' rug with Cinderella's stepsister "Anastasia" I think

How could I forget an update picture of our CoCo

Our New Puppy - CoCo

Here's our new little puppy CoCo. She's a Brittany Spaniel. So far she is an Angel. She's great with the kids. Hasn't pottied in the house and so sweet and lovey!!!

What's new with us???

Well, as I mentioned in my last post, we visited Georgia with our friends Tim, Tanette, Aaron and Tana the first week in October. We had a great time but it could have been cooler. It was Florida hot. We all packed for cooler weather. Maybe next time. As well as visiting Burt's we went to Hillcrest Apple Orchards which was great. All kinds of things for the kids to do. Petting Zoo, milk the cow, slides, tricycle races, contests. It was a lot of fun.

Seth enjoying the hayride at Burt's

Aaron and Tanette on the hayride


Ashlyn holding a baby chick at the petting zoo


Ashlyn was being licked by the baby cow. The goats were eating her hair as well. That really scared her.

Jason was just going to take Ash into the petting zoo but Seth had an absolute fit that he couldn't go in. He was outside screaming, "Doggies, doggies!" All animals are doggies to him.

Tana wanted to pan for gems and gold. We went to the Grisson's Gold mine in Dawsonville. It was fun but the kids really weren't into it.

Tana and Tanette panning

The kids playing in the stream at the bottom of Walnut Mtn. (where the Goldstein house is in Elijay)

We also were lucky enough to visit Tim's sister at the Chatahoochee Nature Center. The kids got to see all kinds of animals, eagles, owls, beavers, snakes.... I think their favorite was the snake.

Jena showing Ashlyn and Aaron the snake

Tanette giving Jason "the horns"

The Beaver

Daddy and Seth looking at the Beaver

Seth is turned into a little smarty pants.... talking up a storm. He's like a little parrot repeating everything I say, also glued to me. His pediatrician is amazed by how well he talks and communicates. He can say 3 word sentences all ready. He's also starting to recognize places that we go. We'll pull up at Jason's office or just drive by it and he'll say, daddy, Dinah, Cheryl and start listing everyone that works there. Or we'll get near Uncle Chris and Aunt Lisa's and he'll start naming them and there dogs. Also, if you name a person he'll name the rest of the people in the family. And....... he started to sing the ABC's. He was playing on the stairs the other day and just started singing "EFG, QRS". So we've been singing them to him and he'll either sing along with us or fill in the gaps. He's also living up to his "Seth the Destroyer" name. He is into just destroying anything that Ashlyn is playing with or building. Jason says Ashlyn will be the Architecht and Seth will be the demolition man. Enough about Seth

Ashlyn is doing great in school. She loves it. We were out for vacation and she missed about 2 wks. When I brought her back. Her teacher commented that it wasn't the same without Ashlyn and her humor. She's always repeating little comments and phrases she hears from daddy. I'm so glad the teachers find it humorous. I never know what she's going to say and am so nervous everytime I pick her up and her teacher says, "Ashlyn said.....". I always cringe and hope it's not too bad. So far it hasn't been. She still taking dance and asking to go back to Karate. She also has Spanish and music in school. Let's just say she definitely doesn't have a singing career ahead of her even though she sings her little heart out all the time. She's growing like a weed. It seems like everything she puts on is too short or tight. I feel like were getting rid of clothes every day. I went to wipe her hands with a wipey the other day and said, "When did your fingers get so long?" Where did those little chubby toddler hands go.

The kids are sooo looking forward to Halloween this year. Ashlyn's going to be a Cheerleader and an Angel and Seth is going to be a Spider and Devil. We have a couple different things to go to this year so since she can't make up her mind what she wants to be we'll just use both costumes. One was a gift for her birthday and the Angel costume I got at the consignment shop for $4.50, so what the heck. We have our usual Ginormous spiders up on the roof and in the house, webs everywhere and our Lemax Haunted Village set up. Seth is constantly walking over to the village and screaming, "See it, See it!" He wants to be picked up so he can see it. We've been lucky that he hasn't pulled it all down. We've had a few close calls. If you don't get over to it immediately after he starts yelling see it, he starts pulling on any dangling cord or backdrop he can reach. Eeeee!!!!

Jason had a golf accident a couple weeks back. He was hit by a golf ball, in the head, while driving the golf cart. For those of you who know Jason and how much of a baby he is when it comes to pain and needles can just imagine how this went down. For those of you who know our friend Mike K, you'll have to have him tell you the story... absolutely hysterical.. wish I had it all on tape. On a more serious note, he is really lucky. He was hit on the Left side of the upper head. He had to have 4 staples. They did some neurological testing and a CAT scan in the ER and everything checked out. It could have been a lot worse. He could have been hit in the face or eye or even the temple. He/we were very lucky!!! Ashlyn was very worried about daddy and still is. When I was driving her to school the morning after it happened (daddy usually takes her) she said, "Daddy's never going to be able to take me to school again. He has a big boo boo on his head and I want him to get a football hat so he doesn't get hurt anymore!". She insists that he wears a football helmet when he golfs so he doesn't get anymore boo boo's.


Tana and Tanette removing Jason's staples. When we left the ER here letting them know we would be out of town when the staples were due to come out they handed us the staple remover and said have at it.

Well I've talked about everyone else except me. Nothing exciting going on with me. Just being mom.

Wild Turkey on Walnut Moutain

There were wild Turkey roaming all over Walnut Moutain

Happy Fall Ya'll!!!!

Here's some recent pictures of us at Burt's Pumpkin Patch in Dawsonville, Georgia. I love this place!!! The kids did too. They have every kind of pumpkin/squash you could imagine. This place has been featured in Southern Living magazine. If you ever get a chance to check in out.... you should!! I'll post more later but just wanted to get a few pics up here. It's been a while. I see some of my other friends are slacking too.... Michele uhum..... I see the McKinley's are back on track. Check back soon. Maybe I'll get some more stuff up tonight.

Ashlyn wins the award yet again.....

Strangest place to fall asleep....... Today Jason and I were sitting on the couch watching the Bucs game. Ashlyn was up in her room having a little concert with her new microphone that her PaPa G gave her. It was AWFUL!!! About 30 minutes or so went by and we realized it was a little too quiet. So I snuck upstairs to see what was going on. At first I couldn't find her. I looked under her bed and in her closet but did't see her. I knew she was in there and her room certainly isn't big. It's funny how I can never find her in her little room. Finally I saw her feet and found her passed out.

This is what I saw when I walked in her room. The pink tubular thing onthe left side of the bed is her hamper.

I moved the guitar off of her feet to take the picture. Her feet were barely showing and her legs were covered with a pink blanket which blended right in with the bed. I noticed she even has her Aerial pillow inside.

Sorry, I haven't posted in a while

We've been crazy, sick, busy, you name it. Ashlyn started preschool on the 17th. She goes M,W,F 8:30-11:30. It was a rough start but it's going good. She went from having about 10 kids in her class to having about 18-20 so it's taken a bit of getting used to. We took a break from dance for a few weeks but are starting back after Labor Day. Seth is finally walking!!!! Yippee. I'll see if I can figure out how to post a mini video. All of us have been sick. Jason's over it. Ashlyn's close and Seth and I are trying to get through the coughs. We've been to sooo many party's this last month. birthdays, baby showers, batz mitzvah's.....Jason has taken up golf again!!! He's been getting some coaching from a friend of his who's an Ex Pro.

Ash wearing daddy's golf hat

Seth is getting so big he's sitting at Ashlyn's big girl table now. He likes to eat with her

Here's Seth pushing his sister around the house on his truck