Today, July 28th, Jane took off! She has tempted to take a few steps on her own, but today she walked several times. They, of course, caught me off guard so I didn't get them on camera. She first took 4 steps from her high chair to the refrigerator then she walked 12 feet from the coffee table to the kitchen door. Katherine Callon was with me when she did it so it can be verified! Hyde walked in right after she sat down so we got the camera out. Here are a few steps documented.
We are in trouble!
Wednesday, July 28, 2010
Thursday, July 22, 2010
Play Date with Mary Laine
While in Greenwood, we were able to go play with cousin Mary Laine. We had a great time, but with two mobile babies, I wasn't able to get many shot where they both are in focus. After playing, they stopped to have a cracker. Deacon was very jealous. We look forward to our next play date in St Simons.
You can see from this picture, they played very hard!
You can see from this picture, they played very hard!
Jane's First Photo Shoot
We were honored to be asked to be in the Spring 2010 catalog for Kelly's Kids, a Natchez based children's clothing line. Jane shot seven different bubbles and had a blast working with everyone. Jane felt at ease once she saw a familiar face, Webb Ratcliffe, who was also taking pictures. Check out both Jane and the Spring line at Kelly's Kids
Alice Broughton was able to come with us and take pictures of the shoot. Thanks ABC!
The photo shoots were taken 2 months apart (July and September) and Jane was walking by the second photo shoot so it is fun to see in the catalog which photos were taken when.
Below are two shots that made it into the catalog.
Alice Broughton was able to come with us and take pictures of the shoot. Thanks ABC!
The photo shoots were taken 2 months apart (July and September) and Jane was walking by the second photo shoot so it is fun to see in the catalog which photos were taken when.
Below are two shots that made it into the catalog.
Monday, July 12, 2010
Jane's First Step
ahhhhhhh! July 12
We were swimming with Max Mason (mother Hannah) and Leah Tillman (mother Katie). Helen and Randy Smith also came to the playdate along with Stella, Philip and Hyde. Hannah just happen to be videoing on her phone when Jane stood for the longest I had seen. I was shocked to see her take a step with one foot then take a step with the other to catch her balance!! Uh oh...
We were swimming with Max Mason (mother Hannah) and Leah Tillman (mother Katie). Helen and Randy Smith also came to the playdate along with Stella, Philip and Hyde. Hannah just happen to be videoing on her phone when Jane stood for the longest I had seen. I was shocked to see her take a step with one foot then take a step with the other to catch her balance!! Uh oh...
An Owl Says "Whoo"
Stella has taught Jane what an owl says and when asked, Jane responds "whoo, whoo!". She will even hoot when she sees an owl. We are very impressed!
Jane has also perfected her finger pointing. She points to what she wants or where she wants us to take her. She loves to stick her finger in the wholes that the Hungry Caterpillar leaves in its food. She also points at your brain through your nostril!
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Another quirk worth noting is Jane's interest in earrings. She will grab your chin and turn your head to the side to closely check out your earring (which is why I always wear studs now) then she will put her hand on your opposite cheek and turn your head so she can study the other earring. Then she turns your face again just to make sure they match. I laugh every time she does it.
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Side Note from Philip and Stella's house: "I Do", the goldfish from Bettye Jane and Charlie's wedding (December 13, 2008), and "Katie Scarlett", the goldfish bought to be I Do's companion are indeed friends. It turns out that they definitely get along because we just discovered four baby fish! No names yet for the little ones....
Jane has also perfected her finger pointing. She points to what she wants or where she wants us to take her. She loves to stick her finger in the wholes that the Hungry Caterpillar leaves in its food. She also points at your brain through your nostril!
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Another quirk worth noting is Jane's interest in earrings. She will grab your chin and turn your head to the side to closely check out your earring (which is why I always wear studs now) then she will put her hand on your opposite cheek and turn your head so she can study the other earring. Then she turns your face again just to make sure they match. I laugh every time she does it.
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Side Note from Philip and Stella's house: "I Do", the goldfish from Bettye Jane and Charlie's wedding (December 13, 2008), and "Katie Scarlett", the goldfish bought to be I Do's companion are indeed friends. It turns out that they definitely get along because we just discovered four baby fish! No names yet for the little ones....
Tuesday, July 6, 2010
Ewing Carruthers, 93, Commercial Appeal Article
Article from THE COMMERCIAL APPEAL, Memphis on Tuesday, July 6, 2010
PHOTO BY MIKE BROWN
Ewing Carruthers, 93, still puts in a full week as an independent agent for Mass Mutual, for whom he has worked more than 70 years. He is a member of the Estate Planning Hall of Fame and a 55-year member of the Million Dollar Round Table.
Ewing Carruthers shows up at his office 5 1/2 days, each and every week.
Nothing remarkable about that -- except Carruthers is 93 years old and he has been at it a long time.
"I've been working since I was 12 years old," Carruthers said. "I enjoy it. It's rewarding. And it pays well."
Since 1939, Carruthers has sold insurance for Mass Mutual and recently was inducted into the Estate Planning Hall of Fame by the National Association of Estate Planners & Councils.
Born in 1917, he grew up in Evergreen in a house built by his grandparents at the corner of Evergreen and Autumn, near Overton Park where his grandfather, A.B. Carruthers, tethered a black bear named "Natch" to a tree, the beginning of what would later become the Memphis Zoo. Nearby is a small street named for his family of land developers who also had a hand in developing the Evergreen neighborhood.
"I quit being a Boy Scout to go to work selling papers on a paper route," he said, to help take care of his mother and two sisters when his family's money ran out during the Depression.
He did other jobs as well while in college, such as selling shoes for $3.85 a pair (he got to keep 10 percent), and eventually bought a Model T Ford that set him back $5. He sold that car several years later for $7.50.
Upon his graduation from Southwestern College, in 1939, Dr. William Atkinson, a psychology professor, guided him toward a career in the insurance industry.
"He said to me, 'You ask questions, you want answers,' " Carruthers said.
Carruthers signed a contract with Mass Mutual and never looked back. An independent operator with the company, he is the oldest agent and has sold its products for 71 years, an astonishing feat in this day of high turnover and rampant job dissatisfaction.
"When you're in business for yourself, the sky's the limit," he said.
An old black-and-white photo of his uncle, Louis Carruthers, is displayed in his office. A World War I aviator, owner of Carruthers Lumber Co. and a founder of the Memphis International Airport, Louis Carruthers introduced his nephew to Charles Lindbergh, sparking a lifelong love of flying.
"As a little boy he'd take me out to his flying club," Carruthers said. "I was just crazy about him."
Ewing Carruthers served during World War II as a Navy aviator, flying a Martin Mariner PBM-5 flying boat, then spent 10 years in the Reserves.
Flying became a lifelong passion and he owned several small planes himself, finally giving the hobby up only two years ago.
In 1953, he married a stewardess for Memphis-based Chicago and Southern Air Lines, which merged that same year with Delta Air Lines. He and Jane had four children -- daughters Jan and Tracy and sons Chip and Cage.
He passed his work ethic along to his children and encouraged the oldest, Jan, to take a route selling eggs in the neighborhood, an enterprise that would be handed down from sibling to sibling.
Their father taught them that "hard work pays off and it may be frustrating along the way, but if you just do the right thing, you will prevail," said son Cage Carruthers, 52, now a financial adviser with Wells Fargo Advisors.
Ewing and Jane recently sold their home and moved to Trezevant Manor, a move Carruthers says he's having trouble adjusting to because "they've got a routine over there and eat dinner at 5 o'clock while I'm still out here working."
For Ewing Carruthers, work has always been more than just earning an income.
He looks at selling insurance as helping out a friend; indeed, he considers his clients friends and feels fortunate to be in a position to not work with anyone he doesn't want to.
"If you had a friend with a problem and he came to you and said he wanted to take care of his family and asked how you could help, that's pretty nice, isn't it?" Carruthers said.
Carruthers said that he wouldn't trade places with anybody.
"I've got the world by the tail."
Life of achievement
In more than seven decades as an insurance agent, Ewing Carruthers has amassed a long list of honors.
They include being a 55-year member of the Million Dollar Round Table, president of the National Association of Estate Planners & Councils and a Hall of Fame inductee of the Tennessee Life Underwriters.
He has even written a book about his career and life in the insurance business, titled "A Way of Life."
The Commercial Appeal
PHOTO BY MIKE BROWN
Ewing Carruthers, 93, still puts in a full week as an independent agent for Mass Mutual, for whom he has worked more than 70 years. He is a member of the Estate Planning Hall of Fame and a 55-year member of the Million Dollar Round Table.
Ewing Carruthers shows up at his office 5 1/2 days, each and every week.
Nothing remarkable about that -- except Carruthers is 93 years old and he has been at it a long time.
"I've been working since I was 12 years old," Carruthers said. "I enjoy it. It's rewarding. And it pays well."
Since 1939, Carruthers has sold insurance for Mass Mutual and recently was inducted into the Estate Planning Hall of Fame by the National Association of Estate Planners & Councils.
Born in 1917, he grew up in Evergreen in a house built by his grandparents at the corner of Evergreen and Autumn, near Overton Park where his grandfather, A.B. Carruthers, tethered a black bear named "Natch" to a tree, the beginning of what would later become the Memphis Zoo. Nearby is a small street named for his family of land developers who also had a hand in developing the Evergreen neighborhood.
"I quit being a Boy Scout to go to work selling papers on a paper route," he said, to help take care of his mother and two sisters when his family's money ran out during the Depression.
He did other jobs as well while in college, such as selling shoes for $3.85 a pair (he got to keep 10 percent), and eventually bought a Model T Ford that set him back $5. He sold that car several years later for $7.50.
Upon his graduation from Southwestern College, in 1939, Dr. William Atkinson, a psychology professor, guided him toward a career in the insurance industry.
"He said to me, 'You ask questions, you want answers,' " Carruthers said.
Carruthers signed a contract with Mass Mutual and never looked back. An independent operator with the company, he is the oldest agent and has sold its products for 71 years, an astonishing feat in this day of high turnover and rampant job dissatisfaction.
"When you're in business for yourself, the sky's the limit," he said.
An old black-and-white photo of his uncle, Louis Carruthers, is displayed in his office. A World War I aviator, owner of Carruthers Lumber Co. and a founder of the Memphis International Airport, Louis Carruthers introduced his nephew to Charles Lindbergh, sparking a lifelong love of flying.
"As a little boy he'd take me out to his flying club," Carruthers said. "I was just crazy about him."
Ewing Carruthers served during World War II as a Navy aviator, flying a Martin Mariner PBM-5 flying boat, then spent 10 years in the Reserves.
Flying became a lifelong passion and he owned several small planes himself, finally giving the hobby up only two years ago.
In 1953, he married a stewardess for Memphis-based Chicago and Southern Air Lines, which merged that same year with Delta Air Lines. He and Jane had four children -- daughters Jan and Tracy and sons Chip and Cage.
He passed his work ethic along to his children and encouraged the oldest, Jan, to take a route selling eggs in the neighborhood, an enterprise that would be handed down from sibling to sibling.
Their father taught them that "hard work pays off and it may be frustrating along the way, but if you just do the right thing, you will prevail," said son Cage Carruthers, 52, now a financial adviser with Wells Fargo Advisors.
Ewing and Jane recently sold their home and moved to Trezevant Manor, a move Carruthers says he's having trouble adjusting to because "they've got a routine over there and eat dinner at 5 o'clock while I'm still out here working."
For Ewing Carruthers, work has always been more than just earning an income.
He looks at selling insurance as helping out a friend; indeed, he considers his clients friends and feels fortunate to be in a position to not work with anyone he doesn't want to.
"If you had a friend with a problem and he came to you and said he wanted to take care of his family and asked how you could help, that's pretty nice, isn't it?" Carruthers said.
Carruthers said that he wouldn't trade places with anybody.
"I've got the world by the tail."
Life of achievement
In more than seven decades as an insurance agent, Ewing Carruthers has amassed a long list of honors.
They include being a 55-year member of the Million Dollar Round Table, president of the National Association of Estate Planners & Councils and a Hall of Fame inductee of the Tennessee Life Underwriters.
He has even written a book about his career and life in the insurance business, titled "A Way of Life."
The Commercial Appeal
Monday, July 5, 2010
Come Sip , Come See, Come Meet Kathryn Carby!
Saturday, June 26, Kathryn was introduced to the ladies of Natchez. We had a lovely time showing cousin Kathryn off and she had a blast at the party in her honor!
Tin Roof Beer
Jane is the newest model for Tin Roof's children's apparel. Charles Caldwell and William McGehee ( Hyde's cousin) have lauched a new line of craft beer in Baton Rouge called The Tin Roof Brewing Co.! They have gained distribution rights with Anheuser-Busch (Covington ,LA) and are trying to team up with LSU too. The brew pub is still a year or so in the future, but be looking out for it soon! www.TinRoofBeer.com
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