Citadel Homecoming

Haven't posted because Mommy was down with a stomach virus. Thankfully, the rest of The Baums avoided it, and our sweet neighbors supplied Daddy and the twins with REAL food on Turkey Day (We're grateful for Mindy!)--while quarantined Mommy had Gatorade and toast for several days. Daddy took 2 days off of work to be Mr. Mom, and the threesome fared well--okay, they played hard! Except for the "tacetti" for dinner (Daddy accidentally used taco-seasoned beef from a prior meal in their spaghetti sauce), the 3 kids got their groove on. :-)

The weekend before, we hosted dear friends for Daddy's birthday--only his 38th, but he taught Grace to chant "Lordy, lordy Daddy's almost 40." Chris, Eric's best friend from college/The Citadel, and his wife and 2 boys stayed with us for the weekend . . .

The guys cut Daddy's ice cream cake from Ye Ole Fashioned (better than Cold Stone, y'all!).
Zeke donned our cat "mask," to Chance's delight--Grace, smitten with Matthew, hardly noticed. :)
Citadel Homecoming weekend: the barracks were briefly open to the public, so the fam saw first battalion (Delta company) and Chris and Daddy's former rooms.

A female cadet (yay!) with Tracy and the boys. (During Daddy's senior year, the "first female cadet"--Shannon Faulkner--attended The Citadel.)

Daddy and Chris with former classmate.


While the daddys golfed on Sunday morn, Mommy, Tracy, and the kiddos played at Wannamaker park.