T-ball and Trophies

T-ball is fun! This is Tyler's first t-ball experience, and we are all enjoying it. Minus the 92' + humidity weather. That leaves for a bunch of sweaty little boys and girls, along with some anxious moms and dads.

Coach Amy and her husband are really great for the kids. She is always complimenting them on their achievements and encouraging them to do more. Tyler is so talented he likes to always do offense and defense at the same time. He goes to bat, hits the ball between second and first...then hustles to get ball, ... then runs on the first base. The advantage I see is that nobody else can get the ball, right? It's great! and so funny.

Yesterday was picture day and they were all so precious. It also happened to be "Pick-out-your-trophy-day" for the end of the season... which is only about 4 weeks away. So, I got designated as the "picker-outer" and I had some other moms come look for me, so I couldn't do too much damage. Well, they pretty much were all similar, except two small trophies that consisted only of a mitt and ball.... very simple, very nice, original. We ALL agreed on those two, then picked one and called it good. SO, I decided (the nice mom that I am) to show Tyler, so he could be soooo excited! Well, do you think he wanted the "simple" trophy? NO. He didn't like that one. He wanted the most obnoxious, TACKY, 1 foot high of fake gold and shimmery accents trophy. Too bad. There will be plenty of those later, I'm sure. Hopefully he likes it when he doesn't see all of the other ones around.

La Cucaracha

Jeff and I have prepared a very special dance for all of you to view. We spent a lot of time for this presentation... check it out!

http://www.jibjab.com/starring_you/receipt/915241

ps. we are soooo HOT!

GRILLZ

David, or Uncle David I should say, is slaving away at Baylor Dental School, and apparently making a name for himself. I can't remember if this is his first year or second... but I definitely have gotten a few good laughs out of stories. Doing MRI's on a gorilla head, cadavers with implants, (implants not related to anything dental that is; yes, mom told me about that), and studying bats teeth. He has given Tyler PLENTY to talk about by showing him his text book with X-ray pictures in it. (BONES are so cool!)

Enough said, here's the link to a free viewing of the most popular video ever made about "grillz."
(I'll just preface this by saying Jeff and I thought that was some new BBQ thing...WE are soooooo out of it!) ENJOY!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kAsclxa-HAw

Care for a mint?

You might have heard that from a restaurant server before... Or maybe from your husband, or wife, after an Italian dinner laced with garlic, and your breath really needs a pick-me-up... But, when Brooklyn offered a mint to Tyler the other day, things got a little crazy. Minutes later, Tyler was screaming that his nose burned... Yes, it was stuck up his nose. (Now, I'm going to add right here that this was in the back seat of Jeff's car, and I was not present.)

So, Jeff finished driving home (he can function much better than I can under distress... ) and asked Tyler to blow his nose into a tissue. Jeff said, "A lot of snot came out" and assumed the mint did too. I guess actually checking that massive amount of snot in the tissue wad was just not on the agenda.

So, for three day I agonize whether the mint actually did come out or not. A mint up the nose could be dangerous if it got stuck somewhere weird... at least I imagine it that way. And from doing that insane test a few months ago where they stuck a cord up my nose and into my stomach (Don't even ASK!) I know exactly what that feels like, EXCRUCIATINGLY painful, it put me to tears... I usually don't cry when I'm physically in pain, but I think all that stuff is pretty close to the tears ducts.

Still worried (typical mom---JEff was over this about a week ago), I even got down on my knees about this a few times. (I even combed through that snotty tissue---NO MINT IN IT.) I even rehashed the whole event a few more times and asked Jeff a million questions about what happened, what was said? and who did what? (That is always the woman's job, right? Someone has to find out EXACTLY what happened, and who said what?) During one of those interrogations, I discovered Jeff actually never saw the mint in the nose after they got out of the car. That presented a whole new slew of scenarios. What to do? Since there were no further complaints about the nose, I decided to put it behind us.

Then, late last night in our bathroom, after I had taken one of my nightly baths... I see IT. A single, beat-up looking mint on the bathroom floor. Who knows if it is the same mint... but it's good enough for me. Case Closed!

Dancing Queen...

Brooklyn is officially in her first dance class! That's a big deal for a 6 year old girl, right? She's especially lucky enough to be the same class as her sweet little friend Grace (who is her "TWIN", because they have the same birthday, not to mention happened to be born in the same hospital, basically we could've been right down the hall from each other and didn't even know it, pretty crazy!) and another cute girl from school, Fallon.

This is actually her second day going, but I'm not counting the first day, because she was sick. She insisted she felt fine enough to go, so we went to dance. I thought she must not have been that sick, right? She totally put on a happy face the entire time, hugged me right when she came out of the class, said goodbye to all her new friends... then, she threw up IMMEDIATELY upon entering the car. So, I'm not really counting that day.

Well, here's to jazz dance class!

OK, It's final!

We finally chose a brick. It wasn't our first, second or third choice... but we are happy!

The Brick Dilemma

All I'm going to say is that it's not over!!!

Tyler's school

Tyler started his last year of preschool today. HOORAY!!! I have been waiting all summer for this. (Having only one kid at home now feels so much more easy than it did when I just had Brooklyn).

Tyler is going to the same great place as last year, with the same teacher Brooklyn had at 4 yrs old. She is the sweetest teacher EVER and we're so excited to have one more year with her! Tyler has many of his friends from his class last year in this new class along with 3 kdis from primary too. That should be so FUN!

After his first day he told me all about the "REAL" alligator he saw, (I'm thinking.... on a picture, on a nature video?) then he explained it was a "REAL" alligator puppet, and his name is Al. I'm glad he still thinks puppets are real, nice to not have them them grow up too fast. Looking forward to a really fun year, this is one of my favorite ages!

She's a BRICK.... HOOOUUUSE

OK, For those of you that haven't been following the brick saga... we finally picked one. And that was NO small feat!!! WE had actually picked a few other colors previous to this and were told those selections were discontinued... Come on people, be a little more flexible!

Our sales representative will probably use us as an example now when he's helping other customers..."Yes, it's a little hard to decide, you might want to look at the brick on an actual house first... I had this one neurotic couple who drove all around the city over and over and over again (and missed the deadline a few times) before they could decide..."

My good friend actually told us we were spending more time picking out brick than she did on her children's names... that's funny, but she pretty much hit it on the mark that time.

The problem was, we both like the traditional red bricks, but the house is a very "Texas style" (a little rustic looking, wooden shutters...), so it's no surprise the brick selections we were allowed to chose from were called the "Texas Collections." Well, the dilemma came when we tried to match traditional red brick with the rustic looking Texas house. After Jeff knocking on several doors and asking people what color their brick is (if someone asked me that, I'd have no earthly idea), we think we have a winner!!! It's called Santa Fe Trail. I know in the future I will want to remember what a fun journey this was.