The Dodson Family

Snow Snow Snow!!!

2009-03-03T10:19:00.006-06:00

The kids (and their daddy) had a great time playing in the snow on Sunday. We had somewhere between 2 and 3 inches at our house. They went in and out 3 times during the morning and there were so many wet clothes for me to wash, but I'm glad they had fun. I stayed in with the boys, although Robby did take them out for a minute on the deck to check it out. I KNOW they are not bundled up in the pics below, but I promise they were only out there about one minute each. Enjoy the pics!

Bundling up for the snow!

The view up and down the street and the snow coming down.

The first snowman of the morning.

Nate and his Daddy

Nate

Nate tasting the snow.

Josh tasting the snow.

Josh touching snow for the first time.

Emily and her third snowman, built with help from Daddy! It's as tall as she is!!

Me and Bailey enjoying the view of the snowman from inside...nice and warm. Bailey has stripped down after coming in cold and wet and is sitting on the heater.

Josh and Nate's "6 month pictures"!

2009-03-01T20:07:00.002-06:00

Nana, Poppy and I took the boys to Northport on Saturday to have their 6 month pictures made...OK, they were 7 months because I waited too late to schedule appointments:) Kim got some really cute pictures, especially of them individually, but they (i.e. Josh) was not cooperating when it came to getting pictures made with his brother.

Here's a link to her blog with a couple of the pics:
http://www.kimlawsonphotography.blogspot.com/

Uncle Scott's Birthday

2009-03-01T19:53:00.004-06:00

Scott's birthday was this past Monday, so we celebrated last weekend. We went to Dreamland for dinner (yummy, but messy) and then back to Nana and Poppy's for cake and presents. Happy Birthday Uncle Scott!!!

The menu...all of the grown-ups had ribs...except for Robby.

Scott enjoying the ribs.

Allison and Ansley...I'm not sure why she's so messy, she had PB&J!

Nana and her boys.

Blowing out the candles. I think 29 were missing:)

Scott and his present from Allison and Ansley.

Mercedes Kids Marathon

2009-02-14T15:07:00.012-06:00

This morning we went to Linn Park in downtown Birmingham to watch Emily complete the Mercedes Kids Marathon. Since the fall, her PE class at school has been training and logging their miles during classtime. They complete 25.2 miles during PE class and then can participate in the final mile as part of the Kids Marathon. It was a good day to run, not too hot and not too cold and Emily had a good time and wants to do it again next year. Bailey can participate next year if she wants to, with her Kindergarten class. It was a fun day and Emily did a great job!

Nate before the race...he was very happy today and full of smiles.

Josh before the race...not quite as happy as Nate, but they were both good today.

Emily and Bailey running around in a blur before the start of the race. We were a little too early and they were starting to get bored.

This is the crowd of 2nd grade parents and kids as the 2nd graders were called to line up. There were tons of people there.

The 2nd graders about to start and chanting "2nd grade"...we never found Emily in the crowd, but she was in the last group to start.

Emily in action as she approaches the finish line.

Big Al joins Emily to help her finish up.

Em and Big Al about to cross the finish line. Great job Emily!!!

Emily and her Mercedes Marathon medal just after the race.

The big crash

2009-01-24T08:36:00.003-06:00

once when Calerapage WAS SLEEPING OVER (now Mommy is typing), me and Clara Paige were playing my Hannah Montana "guitar hero". It was Clara Paige's turn and I was dancing and I tripped over the cord and in a few seconds there was a big CRASH, KABOOM, KABAM and the TV was on the ground with the big corner broken off, but none of the glass broke, which is very interesting and the TV cord broke and Miss Michele touched in and it shocked her. It was like a big CRASH, KABOOM, KABAM. Everyone was OK.

Bye,
Emily

(Note from Mommy: Luckily no one was harmed in this incident, it could have been a very bad situation.)

*Just added these pics...but please ignore the dust, it WAS on a tall dresser:)

Emily

2008-12-11T19:27:00.002-06:00

Hi this is Emily i am from the dodson family. I am a girl and 7 years old. i am my parents fist child. You might have nodesd me from some of the pictures. I have blond eyes and blue hair. Opps! I ment to say blue eyes and blound hair. i dont like to typh so my mom is going to thyp for me. Sometimes my sister is crazy. She has brown hair and brown eyes. She's the second oldest kid. Josh is the third oldest and Nate is the littlest in the family. Of course, our parents are older than us all. And I am in second grade. Um, this week I have a substitute and her name is Ms. Morrison. I like to sing and so does my sister and my brothers sometimes they smile big at me only. Everybody dance now. My second grade teacher Mrs. Bruno is kinda crazy. My grandparents next door neighbor is named TJ and they have a dog and he licked me on the lips. The dog is named Buster.

Merry Christmas!
Love,
Emily

More Pics from Halloween

2008-12-10T10:03:00.003-06:00

New Pics from Halloween

2008-12-10T09:48:00.004-06:00

I know I'm not very good at keeping this blog up-to-date. These pictures are long overdue, but here are a few pictures from Halloween. It is very strange to see Emily with that hair...I didn't get any good pictures of Josh and Nate, but at least you can see their costumes. It might take me a couple of posts to get these all in.

Roll Tide Roll!!!! Bama is Back!!!

2008-11-30T07:34:00.000-06:00

Pics from the Beach

2008-10-15T22:13:00.008-05:00

We took a long weekend trip to Destin/Ft. Walton this past weekend before I started back to work this week. It was the boys' first trip! Here are a few pics I took of the kiddos on the beach.

What a beatdown on Georgia!!!

2008-09-29T12:30:00.001-05:00

Bama Boys

2008-09-12T13:17:00.009-05:00

I know we need to post some more recent pics of Josh and Nate. Here are a couple of pictures of them dressed for the Alabama-Clemson game. To make Daddy happy, we have several different Alabama outfits for them, but most of them are still a little too big, but they should be in them by the end of football season. Roll Tide!!!

Here is Nate.

Here is Josh.

Bailey in the Boobies

2008-09-12T13:01:00.003-05:00

I just thought I'd share a story about Bailey. A couple of weeks ago, me and my Mom stopped by Target for a few minutes with Bailey and the boys after going to her "school" for Meet the Teacher day. Josh and Nate were getting a little fussy and it was time for them to eat so we were trying to hurry through the back of the store. Bailey wanted to get a toy and kept asking if she could have different things. I distracted her and we kept moving along until she veered off into the little girls underwear section and asked if she could have a pack of panties. I thought, "why not, at least it's something she can use and not some junky toy", so I walked down the aisle with her. She soon lost interest and ran around the other side of the aisle. I gave her a stern "get back over here Bailey", to which she quickly reassured me "I'm OK Mommy, I'm over here in the boobies!" It took me a second to figure out she was in the training bra section. I thought this was hilarious, but she kept saying it over and over, rather loudly I might add. Thankfully, there weren't too many people around, so I don't think anyone else heard her :) She is a handful, but she's always good for a laugh!

Roll Tide!!!!

2008-09-07T19:23:00.000-05:00

It was not pretty, but it was a win!!! 2-0 Baby!!!

Here Kitty Kitty...

2008-08-26T11:48:00.006-05:00

This weekend my best friend Michele and her daughter (and Emily and Bailey's best pal) Clara Paige came to sleepover at our house on Friday night while the rest of their family was at the beach. As usual, the girls had a great time with a little mischief here and there, but for the most part, nothing major. Just before they were getting ready to leave on Saturday morning, the girls all headed down to the playroom downstairs to play. Emily came back upstairs and told us that Bailey had thrown some cat food and we told her to stop tattling on her sister. We looked on the stairs and sure enough, there were probably 10 pieces of catfood on the stairs as you can see in this picture. I think you can only see 1 piece in this picture because Robby had already made her pick most of up when I decided to take a picture.

So, as I mentioned, Robby told Bailey to pick all of the cat food up and she went downstairs for a few minutes, but came back up and he asked her if she'd picked it all up yet. When he asks her this she LOSES it and is crying "I can't do it, I can't do it..." over and over. So Robby keeps telling her she had better go pick it up or else. Well, Emily finally steps in and says something about it being a lot of cat food and I ask her if there is more downstairs (other than what we see on the stairs), to which she answers yes. I finally head downstairs and am shocked by what I see. See for yourself in the picture...it was actually worse than it looks because I couldn't get any farther out with the lens I had on the camera so you can't see the whole room, but it was EVERYWHERE.

Robby ends up making Bailey AND Emily clean it up. Well, Emily had just asked for a snack when this happened and had a bowl of pretzels and marshmallows and took them down with her to clean (I know this is gross). Robby saw her eat a pretzel and then pick up some cat food and told her she was going to accidentally eat cat food. Well, sure enough, a few minutes after that Emily runs out to the garage where Robby and I were and tells us Bailey just ate cat food. Bailey comes out and is crying and spitting. She didn't get much sympathy from us and I must admit we laughed (and meowed) at her. Robby sent her upstairs to get something to drink and when I checked on her later she was laying on her bed and had drooled all over her comforter and said her mouth still tasted like cat food. Needless to say, I don't think she'll ever do that again.

Oh yeah, when I told my Mom, she asked what flavor it was. I never thought about that, but I checked with Robby, and in case you are curious it was seafood. Yuck!

Here are some more pictures!!!

2008-08-10T21:15:00.012-05:00

This is for you Joy!!!

Twins First Photo Shoot!!!

2008-08-10T20:29:00.003-05:00

On Saturday, Josh and Nate had their first photo shoot. Kim Lawson came out to our house and took some wonderful pictures of the twins. As Kim says in her blog, she did get tee-teed on, but I don't think she minded too much! Here is a link to her blog where she has some samples posted: http://kimlawsonphotography.blogspot.com/ Thanks Kim, we really enjoyed having you and can't wait to see the rest of the pictures!!

Our New Additions!!!

2008-07-29T13:04:00.005-05:00

Josh and Nate were born on July 21, 2008. Aren't they cute!!!

Joshua (Josh) was born at 7:49 am and weighed 6 lbs 10 ozs and 21.25 inches.

Nathaniel (Nate) was born at 7:50 am and weighed 6 lbs 2 ozs and 20 inches.

Both boys had to spend the first week of their little lives in the NICU due to some fluid in their lungs, but both are doing wonderful and eating alot!!! Josh had lost 10 ozs, down to 6 lbs and Nate lost 4 ozs down to 5 lbs 14 oz. After a doctors visit today, both have gained their weight back. Josh is now back up to 6 lbs 8 ozs and Nate has surpassed his birth weight and is now 6 lbs 3 ozs!!!!!

Our Family

2008-07-27T22:28:00.000-05:00

This is our first blog. I am just going to say a little bit about who we are. I am Robby. I am 35 and I have been married to Rachel for 10 wonderful years so far. We have 4 beautiful children, Emily -7, Bailey -4 and our new additions, Josh and Nate -1 week. They are identical twins and we are so happy to have them!!!! We will post on here updates and happenings about what is going on in our family's life.