Delta Fair

We went to the delta fair yesterday. I won free tickets to get in from the radio but we still spent about $100, it was worth it though. The kids had a great time. We bought the kids wristbands so they could ride how ever much they wanted, that was smart and the way to go on that deal.

We watched the high school musical 2 performance.



Kaitlyn and John rode the monster truck. Kyle would not ride, I couldn't believe he didn't want to ride.






Then they rode lots of rides. Kyle's favorite was the "houses" that were like a maze. He would get through and just get right back on. He kept saying 'just one more time'. Kaitlyn was again fearless and would ride anything. She did ride a lot with Kyle too.









Then she also did the bungee jump. I have a video of this too but I will upload that tomorrow when I can upload faster at school.



The weather was really nice and it was not crowded at all. The kids didn't have to wait in line hardly at all for the rides. We got there about 10:30 and left about 2:30. Kyle says he can't wait for the fair to come back next year.

First soccer game

Kyle is playing soccer again this fall (he also played in the spring) and he had his first game. He is actually pretty good this year. In the spring he was just learning but this year he has picked up on a lot. John thinks we should get him a private coach. Seriously he is 5! I told him I might ask one of the kids at school on the soccer team if they wanted to meet me a park and play around and teach him some stuff. I am sure they would be delighted to make some extra cash for playing with a 5 yr. old. Anyway his team got demolished this morning. The green team they played were way better than our team. On this league most of the teams are pretty equal in ability but not this team. Every little player they had was good. John said they must have recruited them.

HSM on Ice

We went to see High School Musical the ice tour tonight. I took Aaliyah with me along with Kaitlyn and Kyle. And yes I am an idiot for taking 3 kids to the FedEx forum by myself (because I know you were thinking it). It was pretty entertaining and the forum seemed pretty empty. Kyle sang along almost the whole time and Kaitlyn and Aaliyah danced along.

Getcha Head in the game



Bop to the Top



We're Soaring, Flying...



Troy and Gabriella



The End











All wore out

My baby turns 5

Kyle turns 5 today. I was in labor on Labor day 5 years ago. I told him it was his birthday and he was 5 years old and he said "are my friends coming?". I had to explain (again) to him that his party wasn't today, it came later. After John got home last night we took him to best buy and he got a blue Nintendo DS. He has been wanting one since Kaitlyn got one for Christmas. He also thought he needed a new game but I told him he would have to play the games we already have for now. While we were in best buy he kept saying "I'm the birthday boy". Then he wanted Chic-fil-a for dinner even though he really didn't eat it. We then went to my mom's house so she could give him her gift, she got him some cars and a case.




We bought an ice cream cake and took it to Luke's while everyone was over there watching the Tennessee game. He was still too busy playing with his cars to even eat the cake, I barely got him over to the table so he could blow out the candles.





Then he discovered the racecar game on Luke's computer and played that the rest of the night.

A day at the Zoo

John's work, Buckeye, had family day at the zoo today. Of course John had to work so my mom went with us. We had lunch there and the kids saw most of the animals, they also got to ride the rides.

Kaitlyn took this notebook and wrote down all the animals that we saw.



Tiger

Red Panda

Meerkats (aka Timon)

Toucan

Penguins

Butterflies (this was my favorite)


Giraffes, they are looking over the wall at the new baby giraffe that was recently born.


Elephants


Panda, they are always sleeping.



I tried all day to get some good pictures of my kids but they just were not having it. They were much too busy doing other things. But these two are okay.

First caller of the day

FM100, a local radio station, has a first caller of the day deal that they do every morning about 5:45 a.m. You can just call about that time and they give you a prize just for being up early. It is a once in a lifetime thing (so says Ron and Karen) so I have been waiting til I thought they were giving away a prize I could use. So this morning I called and got through!! I talked to the DJ, Ron Olson for a minute. I tried not to say too much because I was still half asleep and sound really dumb on the radio. But he gave me 4 tickets to the Delta Fair this week!! We were planning to go on Wednesday anyway so this will save us some money. Now I just have to find the place this afternoon to pick up the tickets.

Mommy take my picture

I take a ton of pictures of my kids. It is the scrapbooker in me that has caused me to try and develop my photography skills (which are slim). The key to a great scrapbook page is a great picture. The more pictures I take the better I get so my poor children have to look at me and smile a lot. Kyle however loves this. He has that cheesy grin. I wish I could find a way to get him to act more natural with his smile but the cheesy grin is so cute. He is always showing me something and says "take my picture with this" or "take my picture here". Kaitlyn does this too, just not as much. So while we were at Susan and Shane's on Saturday he noticed they have a porch swing. He came and said "mommy come here and take my picture". Glady! So he posed several times before running back off to play in the water slide.

Need a laugh

I was turned on to this blog today: Cake Wrecks
Hilarious! **Warning, there are some offensive things on the blog but there are lots that are good for a laugh (and an out loud laugh at that!)

New Niece

Susan calls me at 6:30 this morning. She was almost to the hospital and had been having contractions all night. So I get up and leisurely take a shower and begin getting ready. I was taking my time because I was going to need to take my kids to my mom's house and I knew I didn't want to wake her too early. So then I talked to Lora about 7:25 and she said Susan was 5.5 cm and her contractions were about a minute apart. I thought okay well I guess I better get a move on things. I dropped my kids off and called Shane at 8:05 and he said she was now at 7 cm. So I am racing down g-town pkwy to get there. When I got there she was getting her epidural. By 9:30 she was at 9.5 cm but her water still had not broken. The doctor came in about 10:30 and broke it for her. At 12:15 she was still at 9.5 cm and the baby had pooped in her stomach earlier so they decided to go ahead and do a c-section. So then I had to leave (I was going to get to stay in the room for the delivery but only person can go back for a c-section). At 1:03 Peyton Elizabeth Davis finally arrived. We didn't get to see her until about 4:30 but she is so precious. She weighed 9 pounds 4 ounces. She wins the award for biggest baby by far.

Jade's birthday party

We went to Jade's (my niece) birthday party today. She turned 2 yesterday! She cracks me up with everything she does. We had waterplay and finger painting along with cake and ice cream, oh and a chick-fil-a nugget tray (that was really for the adults).

Sliding down the big slide:



We were too slow for her on cutting the cake and singing Happy Birthday, she grabbed a fork and starting digging in:



Then she finally got to blow out the candles.



Painting



Opening presents (I love her facial expressions)

Find me some earplugs

Kaitlyn bought her recorder for music class today. I did not have a recorder until the 5th grade so I was hoping for a couple more years without that. It only cost $6.25 so that is a little bit of a plus but I thought for sure they would leave that thing at school. Nope, she brings it home today. She calls it her flute and loves to play it. I told her to quit playing it and she says "but moooooom I have to practice" I said well then we are going to have to have a designated practice time each night (like 6:00 to 6:05 maybe).

Off to the 3rd grade

Kaitlyn was off to the 3rd grade this morning.

Just isn't the same

I went back to work this week. We just have inservice this week. I am starting my 10th year teaching. This is the first year that I haven't had my friend Abbie there with me. (see this post if you need an explanation for that). It just isn't the same. I've always had her to complain to, roll my eyes at, sit in all the boring faculty meetings with, and basically keep me from getting too much work done (ha!, I'm just kidding bout that one). I told Jeff (a fellow math teacher) earlier this week that I was going to need a new work BFF and he was it (jokingly), he just laughed (a little scared I think). So Wednesday morning they make an announcement that the Army was here and they brought us Chick-fil-a for breakfast, it is in the cafeteria. I grabbed my keys and went downstairs and my new BFF had already left me. I caught up to him and said "Um, we need to have a chat about the rules of being my new best friend, you cannot leave me like that". He laughed (again slightly scared) and said "I'm a guy and there was food involved!". Abbie would have not left me for food so Jeff is fired, he didn't last long did he?

So I get to sponsor SGA this year by myself. That should be interesting. They messed the lunch schedule all up. Upstairs north has D lunch and downstairs north has E lunch. I do have 4th planning so I can eat whenever I want but I am not sure I can wait until D lunch and I know I can't wait until E lunch so I can eat with my friends. But I do have all Geometry so that is good.

New teacher

I went to register Kaitlyn today for school. Can you believe I have a 3rd grader?!! I took her with me because they get to meet the teacher and see where her classroom is located. Her teacher's name is Mrs. Blaylock and she seemed very nice. We were not too pleased with her 2nd grade teacher and 3rd grade is a tough year so I really praying for a good teacher. Kaitlyn is one of those students that if she likes you, she will perform better. We will see ut so far so good!

because you have kids

Tonight I went back to my room to watch some tv. John was working and I thought the kids would watch a movie in the den. It does not matter what I am doing or what room I am in, it seems as though my kids always follow me. So of course they followed me in my room and I looked at them and said "ya'll go on and watch your movie", they ignored me and I then said to them "why can mommy not ever watch tv by myself?" Kyle looks at me very plainly and says "because you have kids mommy!". Yes thank you for pointing out the obvious and what I have grown to know all to well.