A Book Fair, Soccer Game, and Scratches

This past Saturday, Ed and I decided to go to the book fair in my hometown. Of course, whenever you think of a book fair, you think of the small book sales in your neighborhood school. In my hometown, they have to have the largest book fair that I’ve ever seen. Green Valley Book Fair is a great place to go if you like books. They have so many books that you can spend a better part of your day there and you can always come back and see new ones. Of course, I went searching for books for Tate. I think that he’ll enjoy them when he gets older. He even enjoys them now when I read to him, which I try to do every day. He can usually sit through about two stories. I’m hoping to get a pattern started early so that he’ll want to read when he’s older.

Ed also reads to him. Here he’s reading Tate a book about Sherman – can’t you see Tate taking it all in?

Here are a few pictures of Ed playing with Tate after their reading session...

On our way to the book fair, I decided to call my sister to see what she was doing. During the fall on Saturdays, my nieces will have soccer games. I found out that my oldest niece, Cela, was playing. So…we decided to stop by and watch the rest of the game. My sister’s three oldest children play soccer – Cailin and Ambria on one team and Cela on the older team. It’s always a lot of fun watching them play. When Ed was Iraq, I lived in Harrisonburg and I used to referee the soccer games with my father, which was a lot of fun. I think that Tate enjoyed watching the kids play – he always seems to like watching kids play sports. I just hope that he likes to play sports when he’s older.

After the game, I took a few pictures of my nieces and nephew.

Here’s Ambria and Cailin. Cailin is #38 and Ambria is the one carrying the folding chair. Earlier Ambria proclaimed to my sister that she could carry the two folding chairs because she had been “working out in gym”. My sister let her carry one – the chair is as big as she is!

Here’s my sister and her youngest, Joey/baby Joey.

They have to put Joey on a leash because he has a tendency to run out on the field during a soccer game (Ed really got a kick out of the leash – I just wonder if we’ll have to do that with Tate).
I also thought that I put insert a couple pictures of Tate. Lately, he has a tendency to scratch his face – I even cut his nails and he’s still able to scratch his face. I’m not sure if the picture really does the scratching justice, but I thought that I would include it.

I’ll end with a couple more pictures of Tate and a video.