Wednesday, September 30, 2009

The adventures in Starkville continue

Joshua was so very glad the rain finally stopped. Even better-the sun came out and brought a smile to his face. A smile which now contains 2 teeth!

We have had to start barricading Joshua in the room with us. He has discovered that we have more than one room in our house and now wants to explore the other ones. The exersaucer, also called "Checkpoint Charlie" by Dave, fits perfectly in the doorframe. However, Joshua has figured out how to sneak past by squeezing around the side or crawling through the bottom.

Joshua is quite pleased with himself when he makes it to the other side.

Our friends the Liens taught us about pillow pits. While Joshua is not yet launching himself off furniture into the pillow pit like the Lien kids, he does love to be tossed into the pit.

This is Freddie Milons-former Alabama star receiver and Starkville, Mississippi native. He often appears on the local news station discussing upcoming SEC football games and works at the local Wal-Greens. As you know from last week's post, Joshua is now signaling touchdown frequently. Today as Joshua and I were shopping in Wal-Greens he started signaling touchdown. I responded by calling out "Touchdown Alabama!" Freddie Milons was working on the aisle next to us and came over to see what all the Alabama talk was about. I had seen him there before and knew who he was when he came on the aisle. He said, "I used to play football at Alabama and had to come see who was saying 'touchdown Alabama' over here." I replied, "I know who you are." I introduced him to Joshua and told Joshua, "This is Mr. Freddie. He used to score lots of touchdowns for Alabama." Freddie smiled and said, "Oh, I don't know about that." I got Joshua to signal touchdown for him, which doesn't usually happen on command. So we had to make sure to post about this historic meeting of a past Alabama football great with a future Alabama football great.

2 comments:

Beth Gladney said...

Roll Tide!!!!

bensmom said...

not trying to be mean, but why is an Alabama college grad working at Walgreens? Should have gone to UF I guess... :)