Slow it Down People!!!

This morning while i was driving Andrew to school right in the middle of the road was a little dead kitty. I told Andrew to look the other direction so he wouldn't see this poor little black and white kitty dead in the middle of the road in our own neighborhood.

It makes me SO MAD to see stuff like this in the streets where it should be safe for pets and kids to play. I blame many of the teenagers that drive through there like bats out of you know where! So to those who read this.... SLOW DOWN!!!
It could be my pet or child next! It's a neighborhood for crying out loud!!!

Saturdays with Sussa

We have seen Sussa for the past 3 saturdays in a row now and i must say we quite enjoy it. Andrew talks about seeing her all week now and he thinks that come saturday we are just supposed to go hang out with her.
For some reason or another Melissa has come down here or as of this last saturday we snuck up to San Marcos and hung out and did a little shopping. I say snuck because Melissa is technically not supposed to do any traveling or driving long distances. We just couldn't help ourselves though so we met up there after I got off work. Actually I don't think she cared as much about seeing me as much as it was just to spend time with Andrew.
I took our wagon with us for the boys to ride in while we shopped and that was the smartest thing I could have done. They have one of those comfy wagons with seats and cup holders so they rode in comfort.
We didn't do too much shopping, with a pregnant girl and two kids you can't do a lot of shopping but we went where we wanted to go, got the boys stuff mostly and had a great dinner together before we went home. It was a great saturday with our Sussa!

And now I have two sick boys at home to take care of. We all have the crud. Cough, fever, runny noses.... *sigh* at least saturday was good

Baby Poppy's Room

So Melissa isn't the pink vomit all over the room kinda girl when it comes to this baby stuff. THANK GOD!!!

But if anyone knows Melissa you will know that she is artistic in the sense of what she wears and how her house is decorated. She is very stylish...

So when deciding how to decorate Baby Poppy's room is it any wonder that she recruted the help of my also artistic mother? (how did I get skipped in the creative catagory?)

So here are pictures of what her room will look like. I will post more when it's all done and decorated.

Report card

I was emailed Andrew's third report cart for the year yesterday. I think they have 4 semesters and I get all of the info pertaining to Andrew via email. Gotta love technology!





So they don't grade K5 kids like they used to do us where it was an A,B, or C. Now they have "mastered, almost always, sometimes or never" on the reports.





Andrew is by far the youngest in his class. Some of the kids are almost a full year older than he is. I think we may have jumped the gun on him going to school. he was too big for where he was at though and he needed a challenge. he turned 5 in july and started kindergarten in august. Because of his birthday he was old enough to start school, old enough but not mature enough. He has worked so hard this year, harder than I think most kids in the class. And he has struggled so much too, it breaks my heart. We do worksheets with him at night too to help him catch up to the other kids. Even with all the work we have done together he is still going to end up repeating kindergarten. But with his age he won't be any older than his classmates next year. Thankfully his best friend is going to a different school next year too ao he won't be behind him and in the same school. All of this stuff is a heart wrenching thought process. I have spent many hours thinking about this stuff. We want him to have a better foundation and if he's not where he needs to be for 1st grade than i would rather him repeat now and have an easy time is 1st grade.

Anyway... back to report cards

I got Andrew's and it showed he was greatly improved! He also came home with ribbons pinned to his shirt that said "most improved" AND "best conduct".
While I'm not too surprised with the best conduct it is still great to see. And i'm so glad that his teacher has noticed how hard HE has worked! I don't expect my kids to be the smartest in the school but we work hard on manners and being respectful and polite.
I am so proud of Andrew and all he has accomplished this year and i know next year will be even better!

Some more pics and ramblings

Here are some more pictures from the shower. Yes i know i have more than one chin so spare the jokes! And as you can see Andrew couldn't leave Sussa's side.

Oh, and you put Melissa and i together and we usually laugh that hard, always...like we are 12 years old again... go figure

Also, now i am stumpy. I barely have a voice wich isn't good when your job is talking to people all day. My head feels like that comercial where those people's head floats away like a baloon.

I think i just need some rest. I keep going and going and going and going... and I am not the engergiser bunny!

And taco night was soooo good. i wish i'd had some more for lunch today.

Taco night

Some days things just work out differently from what you plan.
Paul called me a few minutes ago and said his sister is having taco night at her house tonight. Score! This means I don't have to cook!
While I'm not to thrilled with not being able to go home right after work at least I don't have to cook. Tacos sound really good tonight too.
Now i know what you are thinking... "what's so great about tacos?"
Well for starters they don't use regular taco shells. They use corn tortillas cooked in crisco until they get crispy and then you put a slice of cheese on it for just a few seconds till it melts.
We also dice up sliced pickles and put those on tocos along with refried beans. And while I don't eat guacamole my kids love to eat it with their tacos too.

So I planned on going home but I'll make a pit stop for tacos first.

So much in such a short amount of time

So where to begin....

Friday night's Wild About Wine at the zoo went great. A cold front came in while we were there so it got a little chilly but it was so nice anyway. The food was great and the wine was good too. Then we got the boys and headed home for an early bedtime.

Saturday was a very busy day. Melissa's shower went FANTASTIC! These are only the pics I took with my phone. I completely forgot to take my camera but Melissa brought hers so she will email me those pictures when she can. In those you will see that Andrew is in every one of them. He thought she just couldn't open her gifts without his help. (austin didn't care about anything other than cake and his trains so he's not in many of them)

Andrew was so funny though, she would open a gift and you would hear him say things like, " that's so precious, or it's so beautiful!" And then he would try to remember the name of who gave the gift and say thank you to the group mostly, he didn't really know who that person actually was. It was funny.

As you can see the cake turned out well, not as block like as I wanted but it still came out and tasted great. Melissa had most of the bottom half to take home with her, she said she liked cake.

After the shower was over Mom, Melissa and I headed to my grandma's house to practice our song. Sunday i was so proud of all of us, I think we did great considering we hadn't sung together in 8 years. I actually saw many tears from some of the people in the aduience that have known us our whole lives and singing careers. They may have been crying because it was bad and they just lied to us and said it was good, who knows...

Today i barely have a voice left at all, we practiced a bunch on saturday.

That's all for the moment, I will post the other pictures when I get them.