Playing Catch Up

Yikes!!! I have not journaled in so long that I am just going to quickly play catch up and write down the things that I have made notes on - mental or otherwise - so that I can have these sweet memories captured for posterity sake.

Quite some time ago, my Nephew - Nicholas - and his girlfriend broke up.  Of course these are never easy times and conversations were heard by my boys regarding the end of this relationship.  One day I am in the car with Evan & Maddox and one of them broaches the subject.  In the midst of that conversation it was very evident that they were hurting for Nicholas and did not understand why someone would stop dating him.  Evan makes a comment along the lines of how silly Miss _____ (insert girl's name) is for choosing to stop dating Nicholas.  He further goes on to say how sad he is for Nicholas and how he will be praying for his heart.  I adore Evan's kind, compassionate heart!

Maddox, in recent months, received his first "love note".  Our sweet Caroline Goodwin wrote Maddox a love note on a paper towel during their brothers' karate class.  She presented it to me - so proudly - and it read, among other things, "I love Maddox".  I read it, and asked her "Does this say 'I love Maddox'?" She looked at me with confidence and said "Yes ma'am" and then smiled her sweet smile with just a touch of pink in her cheeks and walked away to go sit where she had been sitting.

This kindergarten year has apparently created a little Ladies' Man out of Maddox.  He gave out his digits (my digits) to a sweet girl in his class.  Her mom - who happens to be a friend of mine - texted me and informed me that Norah came home from school declaring "Maddox gave me his phone number".  She said he gave out the right number.  I guess that is something.  When I asked him about it he said "Yeah, I gave it to her." I then asked him why (curious of his response).  He said "Because she asked me for it".  Oh my, I might have to lock this one up.

Maddox has many little friends at school, from living in the community, from going to preschool in Bluff Park, and from having older brothers.  His closest buddies are Shepard Nations (who he has known his whole life because his mom & I are such good friends) and Cooper Gossett (who he has been friends with since he was 2 years old because we have been in small group with his parents that long).  The three of them have became quite a little crew in kindergarten last year.  Cooper & Shepard ended up in the same class so they got to know each other.  At BPES, the entire grade is on the playground for recess together so Maddox was able to play with them both and they formed a little bond. One day after school, Maddox was talking to me about this group and he refers to them as "The Bros".  I said "The Bros?"  And he said "Yeah, that is what me, Shep, and Coop call ourselves".  Trying not to laugh, I said "Oh Yeah.  That is cool." He responded with "Yeah, and I am the leader of the Bros."  Me: "Oh, really, how did you become the leader?  You are younger than both of them.".  He answered with "Yeah, but I am taller and I can run faster when the girls are chasing us on the playground to kiss us"  OH.MY.WORD!! This kid!

Brittney's wedding was a bit crazy to say the least, with the ice storm and all.  We did end up having a lot of fun, especially when Evan started off the dancing....yes, Evan!!! I have never seen that side of him before then. It was AWESOME!  He started dancing on the dance floor, kinda toward what seemed like the end of the reception, people were starting to leave, all the "have tos" had been done, and it was COLD.  The DJ was playing some kind of fun, dancing song and Evan was out there just doing his thing.  Then others joined him - Britt's Dad, her uncles.  Next thing you know lots of us are out their cutting a rug.  It was a lot of fun and, I know, something Brit really wanted her wedding to have - fun dancing - so I am glad we (Evan) finally got the party started.  Watching him continue to bust moves, smile so big, and have fun was so heart warming for this Momma.  People would form a circle around him on the dance floor as he was dancing, it was GREAT!  Since we have never seen this in Evan before, at one point, Chris asked him: "Hey, Bud.  You having fun dancing out there?"  Evan's response: "Yeah.  When I feel the music I just wanna move my legs"  PRECIOUS!!!