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July 22, 2011

Chase Adoption Tribute

Jay made a video that is posted on Youtube as a tribute to our son, Chase.  Feel free to check it out.  If you do watch the video, please be sure to leave a comment.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m4h3elS6yx0

July 21, 2011

Golf Anyone?

Chase loves to play with any kind of ball. Recently he got a toy golf set that he plays with all the time. He has a pretty good swing and it should not be long before something gets broken in the house.

July 11, 2011

Swimming At Grump And Mee-Maw's House

It has been pretty hot that past few days, so this afternoon Jay came home from work and we decided that were going swimming at his parent’s house. After dinner, we packed up our swim stuff and headed over to Grump and Mee-Maws house. Jay’s sister and nieces are visiting from Georgia so we all jumped in the pool. Chase loves the pool and we think that in no time, he will be swimming all by himself.
After swimming around with Chase for some time, Jay got in a water battle with his nieces.
We are still not sure who won the battle, but after that, Jay told Madalyn and Baleigh that he could throw them high up in the sky. Baleigh went first and requested not to go too high.Madalyn is much braver and wanted to be thrown up as high as Jay could get her. He did not disappoint and Madalyn was full of excitement when she came up from under the water.
Once Chase saw what was going on, he too wanted Daddy to throw him up in the air.
We are not sure how it is possible, but every day Chase seems to be more and more like his Daddy…now he is also a daredevil.

July 9, 2011

Chase's First Braves Game

This afternoon, Chase went to his first Atlanta Braves baseball game at Citizen’s Bank Park. That’s right, Jay says that as long as Chase does not care which team to cheer for, there will be no Phillies merchandise in our house.
We knew that Chase would not make it through the entire game, so we arrived at the stadium at the third inning.
When we got to our seats, Chase kept saying, “baseball.” He was also very excited and throughout the game would randomly look up and point to the Direct TV blimp that was flying overhead.
For some of the game, no one was seated in the seats in front of us so Jay and Chase were able to talk baseball strategy in the first row of upper deck.
We left at the end of the bottom of the 8th inning and even though we did not stay to see the Atlanta Braves pull out the 4-1 victory, we had a great time at our first of many baseball games.

July 2, 2011

Tractors, Tractors, Tractors

Chase loves balls. In our house he has baseballs, footballs, golf balls, ping pong balls, soccer balls, and a basketball. He loves balls so much that “ball” was one of the first words that Chase ever said. Now that it is summer time, we are finding out that Chase also loves tractors. Whenever he sees a tractor, he gets excited. If we go to Lowes or Home Depot and Chase sees the tractors on display, he wants to ride them. Whenever Jay is out mowing the yard, Chase watches out the window yelling “tractor!” Tonight when Chase saw our riding mower out of the garage, he wanted to go outside and sit on it. Baby also came outside so Amy put them both on the tractor.

June 26, 2011

Sports Jamboree 2011

This year, Jay went to the Sports Jamboree all by himself as Amy stayed home with Chase (too young), and Shann had just moved to North Carolina a few weeks prior. He was sad that he had to go alone, but once he got to the Fort Indian Town Gap, he had an awesome weekend clowning and reconnecting with all the kids and their family members.
As with past years, Jay performed a skit, "The Candy Store" at the Saturday evening talent show with another friend, Brian Adler.

June 22, 2011

Laundry Helper

Today Chase “helped” Amy with laundry.

It was turned into a teachable moment for Chase to learn clothing identification and also how to repair the inside of a dryer.  Check out the video.

June 19, 2011

Fish Family

Since Chase loves the gold fish that he won at the Lacher And Associates summer carnival picnic and Jay did not want to have to flush a dead fish, we went to the pet store tonight and bought a five gallon fish tank. While at the pet store, we also bought five other fish that have now become part of the Gardocki family.
The fish do not have any names as of yet, but Chase sure does love looking at them each night before going to bed.