The girls danced at the Talon Craft fair last night. I just had to post this because there's a little boy at 1:40 that has had us CRACKING UP!!!! The look of horror on his face when the girls go down into the splits is hilarious!!
(ok so maybe we're easily entertained)You have to double click on the video to bring it up on youtube.com so that you can see his face.

Welcome Rebecca

For our schools Fall Fundraiser, we sold Little Ceasars pizza kits and Sports cups/popcorn buckets. Since we have 3 kids in school, we've started combining a lot of our efforts. For example, Preston gets all of the Lin's receipts, Shelby all of the Box Tops and Morgan got all of the Fall Fundraiser sales. (each year, we'll rotate) Morgan sold $501 worth of pizza kits and cups/popcorn buckets and won 3rd place for the entire school. The prize she picked out was an American Girl Doll.
Let me tell ya... it was quite the process picking out exactly which one she wanted. She wanted one that looked similar to her, but they don't make one with BOTH green eyes and short brown hair... needless to say, we went through a few tears because in her little mind that meant that combination was weird... sheesh... girls! Finally, we found one!!!!! It's actually one of the regular characters. Morgan picked "Rebecca" .
If you aren't familiar with American Girl, it's a book series. Each character represents a young girl living through a different period of American history. For instance: Addy is a young slave; Felicity is from the Revolution; Kit-the Depression;Molly-World War 2 etc. Rebecca is a young girl growing up in New York City in 1914.
Shelby loved the books when she was going through her American history craze. I think they're great because they're fun but still have something to teach the reader about what it would have been like to be a little girl during those periods.
Morgan hasn't really gotten into the books (mostly cause she HATES reading... wonder where she gets that from...) but she LOVES the dolls. She was SO excited when she got home from school and it was on her bed. (I couldn't find my camera, so you'll have to deal with cell phone pics..sorry. And she'd just come from dance. Don't want ya'll thinking I let my kid run around half naked in this weather)
Morgan was so sweet with her. She wanted to change her clothes for bedtime, so I dug out a pair of Morgan's old newborn jammies. We'll have to get some that fit Rebecca later, but these work for now. When it was time for bed, she read the book that came with her, "Meet Rebecca", out loud to the doll. I was listening to her read and noticed she was replacing "Rebecca" with "you" as if she was telling the doll a story about herself. It just melted my heart!

GOBBLE GOBBLE

When Morgan was a baby, she had this little beanie baby. I'd hold it in my hand and tickle her neck saying, "Gobble! Gobble! Mama's little tukey." She would LAUGH hysterically every time. That precious deep belly laugh. I swear there's no better sound in the world! Even now, whenever I come across it I have to tickle her chin and she still cracks up!
Each month, a grade is assigned the bulletin board in the main entrance of the school. Each student gets to design something for it. This year, the 2nd grade is decorating little turkeys for the board. Here is Morgan's contribution... She started with Reeses Pieces for the feathers and Twizzlers for the gobbler...
Colored the rest... and added an M&M for the eye...

FINISHED!!
Her paper turkey is darling, but it's nothing compared to "Mama's Little Turkey."

I'll go, but I'm not cheerin'

Ya'll know that I am a die hard Gator! Through! And! Through! Cheering for other college teams is just simply NOT allowed in my house. However, Chris got us some free tickets to the SUU game, so we figured we might as well use them. (Hey, SUU isn't even in the same division, so it's alright! )
Ok now, here's my problem with SUU sporting events...especially football. My tiny little podunk high school stadium is bigger than Eccles Collisuem. I'm sorry, but the T-Birds are basically a glorified high school team. Chris says I'm a football snob and I have to admit..HE'S RIGHT!!! But really, let's compare.... THE SWAMP!

SUU

hmmmmm..... SUU's colors are red and white and they were playing Dixie State... I swear I felt like I was back in high school watching a Williston vs. Dixie County game...

Sometimes the view here isn't half bad though..... heehee

Me and my honey.... Morgan caught a "tamborine" that was thrown into the crowd by one of the SUU cheerleaders. (mmmhhmmmm... glorified high school team...) How sad is it that she didn't know what a frisbee was? Bless her heart, she started slapping the frisbee on her hand and then said, "Mom it's doesn't work..." Shelby looked at her in complete disbelief and said, "Seriously?"... oh mercy.....
Morgan had a blast, Preston played video games the whole time and Shelby looked like she'd rather be ANYWHERE but there!!! The final score was 52-0 SUU!

Braithwaite Art Gallery

This morning, I went with Preston on a field trip to the Braithwaite Art Gallery and a tour of the Shakespearean theaters. Have you ever been anywhere with 40 Kindergarteners???? Um... yeah... HA! Actually, for the most part, these kids were EXCEPTIONALLY well behaved, for 5 and 6 year olds.
I've been on this same field trip 3 times now. Every time, the kids have LOVED it! Half the kids went to the gallery and the other half went on the theater tour. Then they switched.
The kids are learning how to make prints..AKA stamping...
After the stamping activity, they got to draw a picture on a wall....yes, you read that correctly... a bunch of 5 and 6 year olds were encouraged to color on the walls to keep them entertained. Obviously whoever came up with that idea doesn't have little kids... I'm not criticizin', I'm just sayin'....
Preston's contribution to the mural.. A Crocodile
During the theater tour, the kids did a few acting exercises. Preston and his partner were supposed to be "mirroring" each other... yea... they didn't quite get the concept. lolPreston was so much fun today. He was sweet and well behaved and he even got a little snuggly! I always love it when he gets that way, cause let me tell ya, it doesn't happen very often!! I'm so grateful that I have the type of job that allows me to do things like this! I can't imagine not being able to be there for these little things.