Thanksgiving Sing-a-long

Today was our first official school function. It was a Thanksgiving sing-a-long at daycare. I think there are 4 general types of kids when it comes to these kinds of functions.

1) the "perfect" child...he or she stands up with everyone and sings along like a dream

2) the "ham" ...he or she stand up with everyone and then acts silly and kind of sings along and kind of just plays

3) the "scared one"...he or she stand up there, but looks terrified and doesn't sing. It is just enough that they are standing up

4) the "cryer"...he or she may or may not even make it up in front of everyone because they are to scared of everyone or they see Mom, Dad or some other family member and want to go with them but can't....so they cry.

Which one of these 4 categories do you think my child fell into today????

YEP...he is a cryer. All he had to do was see Pa and Gran and he lost it. He sat in his teachers lap the whole performance crying. He wasn't done crying, because when he finally saw us after the concert was over, he was still crying. Still crying while I was holding him on the way back to his room. Still crying when I said go bye to him as he was off to lunch with Gran and Pa.

Luckily Chris and I have probably heard the entire performance at our dinner table for the last week. It was a bummer he didn't sing in front of everyone, but Momma had a funny feeling this is how it was going to go.

I was able to snap pictures of many of his daycare friends. Here are all the pics.

I was able to stop by and see Archer to..he doesn't get as upset yet when we come and go from school.

So new rule for family attending performances at daycare....HIDE!!!!!!! Don't let him see you until after the performance is over.

Tour of Texas 2007

This Labor Day weekend our tour of Texas took us through some lovely Texas towns.

Just about every Labor Day we travel to Wichita Falls to visit Gammy. The first leg of our journey takes us to Marble Falls. We went there on friday afternoon to visit with Gran and Paw-Paw. We played in the water and had a good ol' time. We spent the night and started out early on Saturday for Wichita Falls. Our trip takes us up HWY 281. This take us thru some nice little towns like Hamilton, Texas.

Some how we always forget the big parade in Hamilton. We get stuck in traffic just outside the town square and then it hits us. NOW I REMEMBER. It is the Dove Fest parade. This year we took our normal "follow everyone else because they seem to know where they are going" detour, but they didn't know any more than we did. We ended up turning around in the front yard of someone's house near the deadend we all traveled too. Ulimately our detour did find us a nice spot to just stop and enjoy the parade. Well Christian and I got out and enjoyed the parade. Chris just felt like watching it from the car. We noticed there are several Queens in this parade, but we aren't sure what they all are Queen of. Here are the parade pictures.




Christian especially enjoyed the Dum-dum lollipops that parade floats were throwing out.


Our next stop on our tour of Texas was Old Doc's Soda Shop in Dublin Texas. Dublin Texas is home to the older Dr. Pepper bottling plant in the state, where they make their Dr. Pepper with pure cane sugar, not that yucky old high fructose corn syrup.

Here we enjoyed a nice sandwich with our Dublin Dr. Peppers. We also bought some Dublin Dr. Pepper Syrup . We hear it is some great stuff. We can't wait to try it out. Christian also has a nice new shirt telling the world he is a "Little Pepper". We bought a few things for our cousins the Thames', who are the biggest 10/2/4 Dr. Pepper fans we know. Their visit to Austin motivated us to make this stop in Dublin..thanks guys!



Then we were on to our final and most important stop of our trip...Wichita Falls. Home of Gammy and Uncle Mark !!!!!!!!!!



Here we enjoyed singing, swimmng, eating cake and ice cream, playing ball with Gammy, sharing toys with Gammy and all around hanging out with Gammy,Uncle Mark, Memaw and Dodaddy.



We had a really nice visit as usual. We can't wait to see Gammy again over Thanksgiving.