The Growing Caldwell Family

Here are some fun snippets of Charlie. Post sleepover breakfast al fresco! Made his own fried rice (and loved it!) Hanging with his bestie! When Sissy has early morning activities on Wednesday, we get a breakfast date together! Love the chance to sit with him one-on-one and hear about sixth grade.  School canceled for hurricane Helene and Charlie took the time to bake a skillet cookie! Warm and gooey like at Chili's! At Epiphany, Aaron gave the four of us tickets to see Hootie and the Blowfish. Unfortunately, Sarah Graves had a game to play at so she wasn't able to go. Instead, Charlie brought Ziggy and we had a great time! It was intensely hot until the sun went down! These guys enjoyed walking around and getting all the freebies from concert sponsors! Edwin McCain opened and he was great - very humble and funny! Collective Soul also played and who knew they were from the Atlanta area and I knew more of their songs than I remembered! It was a fun night! Not sure we convinced t...

High school brought the opportunity to attend the homecoming dance. A hurricane in the area the day before homecoming brought lots of wind and some flooding, threatening to mess up the kids' plans. Luckily, the school was safe and their plans went on! We found this dress in an online shop and took a chance ordering it. It turned out so cute and we loved it! Sarah Graves made plans to meet up with a group of friends for dinner before the dance. They looked so pretty and were so relaxed. Such a great way to go to a dance! The moms all enjoyed dinner together and I had a great time getting to know them! So glad this girl and I had a fun time together! I love that the school designates a time for each grade to meet up and parents get a group picture of the class! With pictures finished, the girls slipped on their comfy shoes so they could enjoy the dancing!  She had a great time and really enjoyed being at the event, dancing, and taking in the SEC football they had showing! While SG wa...

Charlie played for the Iron Birds in Majors this fall. The Iron Birds are a real minor league team in Maryland. It was Coach Andrew's team and Charlie likes him as a coach.  Even with a good coach, this was a tough season. Charlie couldn't find his groove for pitching or batting. Definitely hard to go through, but there is a lot to.be learned in losing.  His biggest fans! His season wasn't going so well, especially batting, so he decided this new bat might do the trick.  At a game in October, he was giving it his all in the outfield and then he horribly was hit in the face with the ball. It happened so quick. He was running to get the ball and lost it in the lights. His team was very kind to him. Immediately it was swelling and he started to worry about kids judging him as a poor ballplayer for making that error. I felt terrible for him. His face hurt and his pride was so wounded.  The next morning he could barely open his eye it was so swollen. Thankfully, he had on...

  Charlie dove into school activities and started running cross country. He really liked Coach Lyndy and her son, Anderson was very nice. He did miss Coach Goodwin and Coach P.J. with a smaller team at St. B's.  Their first meet was hosted at Whitefield and it was HOT! Fun to attend a meet hosted at our school! He worked hard over the season and cut his time some, but was disappointed he didn't make top 7 boys to go to the championship meet.  One of the best parts about playing a sport is getting new spirit wear! They can wear any hoodie except on chapel day and on Fridays they wear spirit shirts, so yay for more1