Weekend Update

Better Call SC Department of Natural Resources They Are Going To Want To Come and See This

So Saturday morning started out most Saturday mornings in our house. Wyatt wakes up around 7am, I get him changed and I take him to our bed to see if he will go back to sleep or if he really is awake which means our day has officially started and it is play time with mommy and daddy. Aubrey woke up a few minutes later calling for "Daddy". I went into her room and our conversation went something like this:

Me: Good Morning, Baby Girl
A: There is a bear
Me: Where?
A: pointing out the window - In the tree. Do you see it?
Me: I sure do...figured I would go along, it might get better - it did...What's the bear doing in the tree?
A: Talking to the Lion
Me: There is a bear and a lion in the tree?
A: Yes
A: Mommy, there is a bear in the tree.
LA: Really, What's he doing?
A: Bear is talking to the Lion. I want to get some chocolate milk for the bear.
LA: How is the bear going to get down?
A: I am going to get a pink ladder for Christmas.
Me: thinking to myself - pink ladder? where is this coming from we haven't really even talked to her about a ladder?
A: I want to get the bear down and feed him
Me: When we go outside, you can show me the bear and lion
A: Okay

We went outside later and she showed me the tree (a tree that she couldn't see from her room) and showed them to LA and I. This could get even more interesting, if she gets a pink ladder from Santa.

Wyatt Update
Wyatt pulled himself up yesterday. He is very active and is very curious and likes to follow mommy, daddy or Aubrey around. I lowered his crib yesterday to keep him inside...they need to put a motor on those beds to raise them up and down because he is so far down now, it is difficult to pick him up if he is laying down.

We had our first injury with blood involving Aubrey or Wyatt on Thanksgiving Day after dinner. Wyatt had left the dining room and crawled into the living room at my mom and dad's house. He was close to a wicker basket and Aubrey decided to pull him by his neck from behind. When she let go of him, his head went forward and his mouth hit the wicker basket. From the table, we told him he was ok and not to cry (because you don't want to baby him...be tough don't cry..suck it up). After about a minute, Aubrey told us that Wyatt spit up so I got up from the table and walked over to Wyatt. When I got there I realized that he hadn't spit up but was bleeding and had blood on the floor and on his bib and around his mouth. I picked him up and took him to his mommy for some TLC and to find out where he was bleeding from. Aubrey was very concerned about her Wyatt. It was nice to see her be nurturing towards her brother...she might have been sucking up and worried about going to time out or getting a spanking since she was the one who was playing with Wyatt when he got hurt. He cried for a couple minutes and was back going at full speed.

CLEMSON vs SC
*Aubrey Pregame


Take 2


Just a few thoughts for my loyal SC fans who read this blog for some reason
*1st a Thank You
...for kicking our arse...it would have been much worse to lose by a touchdown or less and actually have to live with the fact that we had a chance to beat SC and let them off the hook just like we did with Auburn, Miami, UNC, Boston College and Florida State.
...reminding me the we really are not a good football team and as much as it painful to admit - a much better team top to bottom - players and coaches than Clemson
*Mentioned pregame we had to control the big play, Lattimore and Jeffrey
...We held Lattimore in check...defensive line was one again impressive
...Jeffery and our secondary made Garcia look like a Heisman candidate
*Dabo's two biggest losses in his short 2.5 year career are against SC
*If FSU had missed the 76 yard field goal to win the game, we would have had the opportunity of getting our arse kicked by Va Tech in the ACC Championship game on national tv.
*Dabo's has to make some changes...he needs to hire a staff that he believes in and let them do their job and manage everyone instead of being involved - show me one other head coach that signals in plays in the FBS. As many scholarships as we hand out to non players/walk-ons, I am sure one of them is smart enough to signal in the plays. My personal opinion keep the defensive staff and let go all the offensive staff (you can keep, OC Billy Napier if you stop meddling in the offense)
*Pretty sure Dabo said "great bunch of guys, were doing the right things, we are building a program...blah, blah, blah" - I think he only has one more year - year 3 is going to have to show some serious progress which shouldn't be difficult since we were terrible this year but a new quarterback and no Da'Quan could be difficult
*I am getting my Sister In Law to talk Da'Quan into staying (let her know, Karissa)
*Are we really going to a bowl game? That's the problem with our society - We continually reward mediocre performance so what do we continually get mediocre results. It all started when parents got upset about Johnny or Sally finishing in last place and not getting a trophy and wanting to be fair got them a trophy. Life isn't fair. Someone wins, someone loses and someone gets a trophy and someone needs to go home empty handed (even my child).
*K Parker the next plane to Denver, CO is tonight at 7:30pm. Do you really want to play in a bowl game? I will trade you playing in the bowl game for continually replaying the pass to Jacoby Ford to beat Miami last year on this blog. Think about it you have 1.4 million reasons to "officially" hang up the football cleats. See you in single A with the Asheville Tourists when you come to Charleston to play the Riverdogs...good luck, it's a long climb to the big leagues.


*Congrats to the Gamecocks...Hail To The Victors
*Sorry your victory over us didn't help you in the BCS poll - actually lost one spot in the BCS (19), Harris (17 - same), USA Today (16 - up one spot)
*Northern Illinois (NIU) Huskies (who? that's right, who?) are ranked and Clemson is not (It's official, we are terrible.)
*My blood still runs Orange
*To my friends traveling to Atlanta for the SEC championship game - drive safe, avoid rush hour in ATL, go eat at Bones (what a steak) or Fogo De Chao (a man's dream, where veggies are an after thought - Danny this is your spot. Trust me on this one!)

Black Friday Shopping
A BIG thank you to my wife for getting 90% of the shopping done on Black Friday. There evidently was a picture taken of her and her mother leaving the Target in West Ashley on the Post and Courier's website on Saturday but I can not find it (if you can find it or saw it let me know). They were worried they were going to be on the front page. Somebody should have done a story on them...left at 4:30am and got back home at 10:45pm...I don't know why she enjoys it but she does.

California Dreaming

Burrrrrr...it was colder on the inside than it was outside. They blamed all the windows. I said they were too cheap to run the heat overnight and it hadn't caught up yet.