Lily's First Day of Kindergarten

It was tough for me to be away for Lily's first day of school, especially after spending the whole summer with her and CJ. Emily was able to drop Lily off on Monday, and Nana and Papa picked her up at the bus stop in front of the house. Here are some pictures of her, CJ, a sneak peek from Thatcher, and Papa who was apparently unaware someone was taking his picture.

The Battle of the Black and Gold

So Emily's loyalties were tested on Saturday as the Wofford men's soccer team came to visit Wake. Fortunately, Nana and Papa were here which allowed me to watch the game by myself from the student hill....enjoying a few pumpkin ales in my new Tommy Bahama chair (thanks Dawg)! Wofford is in the black and gold stripes, and Wake is in white. The final score is posted in the last picture below.

Doc Em on the sidelines!

The Demon Deacon is not a bad keeper!

Parkland Mustangs Football

We went out to our second Parkland football game and once again had an enjoyable time. Highlights for the girls were the Parkland band, the opposing band (who at some point did a bicycle kick to our band....not sure what that was...), the cheerleaders, and the Gatorade. Fortunately, even though Parkland took a beating on the scoreboard, none of its players were seriously injured :)

Airbound

We went to the indoor trampoline park today....here is a video of the fun!

Back to School

Back to school night at Sherwood Forest was last night. We got to meet Lily's Kindergarten teachers Ms. Horton and Ms. Katz. It turns out that Ms. Horton is from Kingsport! Afterward we went to Yoforia for some delicious frozen yogurt. Here is Lily standing outside the school as we left.

Crazy Hat Day!

Even a hat is sufficient to entertain CJ during Lily's swimming lessons. For Lily's part, she was swimming with no floats for a little bit towards the end of practice. The instructor recommended that she continue lessons because she is at a critical point where she can either get it down or lose it all. Hopefully we can convince her to continue.

And when we got some, she had a go with one of the play hats from the dress up trunk.

Whack-a-rachna!

So this moderately sized spider was building a gigantic web in one of the windows in the girls play room. We decided to do an exploration on it and see if we could identify the spider. We searched long and hard (actually we googled for about 5 minutes) and believe it may be an American house spider.

But we weren't satisfied with this sloppy identification and decided to examine it closer with my shoe.....after which we were able to definitively classify it as a dead spider.

Swim Lessons

Today at swim lessons Lily was doing so well that she graduated to two floats on her belt from three! Way to go Lily!

Caroline looked on, keeping big sister's towel warm :)

The Dash

This is the first post made on our slick new computer. Its rocking 10GB of RAM, a six core 3.5 MHz processor and 2 TB of memory. Lets just say that getting pictures uploaded to the blog just got a little bit easier. In honor of us purchasing this computer in Winston Salem, and its body-rocking speed, we have named it the "Dash" after Winston-Salem's minor league baseball team.

As impressive as the new computer is, it does bear a disturbing resemblance to a cylon centurion.

In recognition of my duty hours with the girls, Emily let me spend the day yesterday at the Winston-Salem Open with some friends. It turns out that this is a pretty popular tournament. We were there on qualifying day (because Emily could get us free tickets for that day) and got to see Roddick warming up. We also watched matches from great seats that had Benjamin Becker and Michael Llodra in them. I am told by Gran that those are moderately big names on the tennis circuit. Here is a picture from Court 1, Llodra is in the orange shirt on the court. The Wake Forest football stadium is in the background.

Doing a little school shopping last night for Lily, CJ and I took the opportunity to clown around a bit in Crazy 8's.

Where the Wild Things Grow

Stopped by the garden on my trip to JC today and was impressed with its growth! Basically, the corn and squash (pumpkins and gourds) have gone berzerk. No complaints here....though when I start making my regular trips back in a couple of weeks I will definitely do some weed eating around the garden and fence line. Below are some pics from the garden. Items of note include the height of the corn (approx. 8 feet based on the 4 ft fence), the wildflowers, the tiny woolly bear gourd, and of course the infamous white pumpkin.

Demon Deacons vs. RU High?landers

Emily did her sideline doctoring for the first time at Wake Forest with a Men's Soccer home again against the RU High?landers. Wake is in black and Radford is in red. In a nod to the Board of Visitors for the RU High?landers, Wake let them win this exhibition match by a 1-nil margin. But the real reason we were there was to support the good looking blonde doctor in the background of this picture.

Mama came over to visit at halftime...and forgot something....

....that Caroline quickly founded and declared as "MINE!" But was at least willing to put on a bit of a show for us :)

Tomato and Carrot Pizza

Monday was pizza night at the Campbell household, and believe it or not it was Lily and Caroline that chose the toppings. Since they made the menu, they got to help make dinner. Here are some pictures of them helping....at first, they actually put cheese and toppings on the pizza (and then they both gradually shifted to taking cheese and toppings off the pizza and putting it in their mouths). Speaking of opportunistic mouths, you can see Thatcher in the background of one of these pictures, ever vigilant for that piece of food that is dropped on the floor.