Grandma Nancy and Papaw Rick, First Day of School, Lost Tooth, 1st Birthday!

So getting our hardwood floors refinished this last week has put me a bit behind. We had a great weekend with Grandma Nancy and Papaw Rick who made a quick trip down from Indiana. The kids love having visitors and enjoyed seeing their grandparents. We swam, took rides on the golf cart, swam some more, played and showed them around a little bit. After a quick weekend, they had to head home Sunday morning. Sunday evening we began preparing for the hardwood floors to be refinished. Jeff recruited some guys from church to help him move our furniture off the floors. It only took them about 20 minutes, so it was nice to have help. We crammed everything into the bedrooms and out on the back porch. On a scaled down version, it almost feels like we are moving again. The kids and I headed to Atlanta Monday morning to escape the fumes. We spent three days at Grandma and Grandpa Griffeth's where we did some shopping, some swimming and lots of playing. Jeff managed to tolerate the fumes and slept in our basement for the first 3 days. Thursday morning was Bayley's first day of school, so we woke up at 6 am Georgia Time, which is 5 am Alabama time and made the quick trip home so that we could drop Bayley off at school. She is excited to be starting first grade and we hope that she has a wonderful year. Her teacher's name is Mrs. Reid and seems to be a great teacher. Thursday night we all braved the fumes and spent the night in the basement. Despite the heat wave, we have had to keep a couple of windows open to allow for ventilation. Needless to say it wasn't the best sleeping conditions, but we survived the night. Thursday night before bed, Jeff asked to see Bayley's loose tooth. After convincing her that it was time to get it out, he pulled it. There were some tears...she was more scared than hurt, but she was very excited. The tooth fairy came over night and left her $2...Bayley said that the tooth fairy must have left her so much because she had such a clean tooth! Friday was Trey's 1st Birthday! He took about 11 steps in a row yesterday, so we can say that he started walking on his first birthday. He is still trying to get brave, but he will be running around before we know it. After Bayley got home from school, we went swimming for a while then had dinner on the back porch. We sang to Trey and afterwards put a cupcake with a candle in front of him. He wouldn't even take a bite...it was like he thought something was up. We never give him a whole cupcake and he really wasn't too pleased to have a whole one in front of him. He threw the cake and frosting everywhere, then began to cry. After a busy day, he ended his birthday early by heading to bed. We had a very eventful week...but a fun one nonetheless. I will be excited to get our stuff moved back in this evening, and hopefully get things put back together. Hope you all enjoy the pictures!