A couple weeks ago we drove to Gastonia to pick Raspberries. The swings were Brigham's favorite part. Ha ha He was great while I picked the raspberries. He helped a little bit but he mostly just watched me or played with Aubree or walked around. Scarlett and Carolina met us there a little later and he loved playing with Carolina. He threw a small tantrum as I drug him away from these swings. Aubree was beyond tired and I had a doctor's appointment to get ready for,

At least 2 times a month during the summer we have family dinner at Melanie  and Brandon's neighborhood pool. 

Brigham is really loving swimming this year. 

This is a selfie I found of our boy on my phone

He loves playing his guitar

Today he touched a pot of boiling water and burned his hand. He was falling asleep sitting at the table with his hand on the ice pack so I moved him to the couch. He slept with his hand on the pack for an entire hour. The best part was his hand didn't hurt anymore when I woke him up.

This made me laugh when I walked into the living room yesterday.

On the way to the pool/family dinner and Mark offered his sunglasses to Brigham but Brigham said he had his goggles. Ha ha ha (his hands are his "goggles" keeping the sun out)

Brigham's last soccer practice/game for the season. He loves practice and doing drills but he does not like being a part of the herd of kids chasing the ball during the games.

Fun at the Beach

A couple weeks ago we went to the beach with the Winn's. It was great! The week leading up to our trip I was worried a out the weather since a tropical storm was headed straight for the coast with landfall expected on Friday (the day of our arrival). We had to drive through the storm to get there but the weather was great while we were there! The condo we rented was awesome and the kids had a blast. 

On Saturday morning we were going to go to the Surf Shop for their delicious breakfast but our cars were over run with ANTS! I have never seen so many ants in my life. There were thousands of ants in both of our cars. It was a mess. Mark and Kenny cleaned out the cars and then drove them to a car wash in Wilmington that vacuumed them. There were still hundreds of ants left but by the time we left on Monday they were mostly all gone.  We had to pay for parking the rest of our time at the beach so that we didn't have to park beside the giant ant hill that was right beside our assigned parking spots. 

Brigham's First Soccer Game

Brigham has had soccer practice every Saturday for the last 3 weeks. Today they decided it was time for the 2 three year old teams to have a game against each other.  After 20 minutes of practice they played. I expected the kids to just all run after the ball and kick it. That is what most of them did. That is not what Brigham did. Ha ha. He was pretty much just standing on the field watching everyone else run. I spoke with him and told him he could have candy if he chased the ball and tried to kick it to the goal. After a little hesitation he began just chasing the pack of kids trying to get the ball. A few times the ball went right past him and he just watched it. 

He was just not into playing the game. He loves practice and talks about it all week but he enjoys drills better than just chasing a ball along with 18 other kids. 

I hope he begins to understand the game better and that he will enjoy it. I loved soccer. It is my sport of choice for our kids. Baseball takes up way too much time and it is such a slow game to play. Football comes with head injuries. I also enjoyed basketball. Maybe in a couple years if Brigham doesn't want to play soccer then we will switch to basketball. If he really wanted to play baseball or football I would support it but I will not be the one telling him about baseball. Ha

Today was also picture day. 

This is a picture I pulled from the video I recorded of the game. Brigham is on the far left.