You Gotta Be Kidding Me!
So I get this letter in the mail that says on or about 8/3/09 I "failed to stop at a red light" These are these Automated Red Light Enforcement cameras we have here around the DFW Metroplex. I thought that, "Well, maybe the light was yellow and I sped on through." I could live with that. Well, I go online to pay the 75.00 dollar ticket and see that they have video of my "offense" I watched it and couldn't believe what I saw. I made a right turn on the red light without stopping. I bet the truck behind me got a ticket too. 150 bucks for no work isn't that bad of a deal. Maybe I should get an Automated Wedding Video Enforcement Camera. At least I'd be home on the weekends.
Big School: Here We Come...Ready or Not!
So tomorrow is the day...that's right we teachers have to work once again. Hannah and Andrew will be starting their year at the DC tomorrow. Hannah is SUPER excited to be in the 4's. "Mommy, am I a tall 4 yet?" is ALL I have heard all summer. I don't have the heart to tell her that VERTICAL is NOT her strength!
Anyway, we went to Meet the Teacher on FRI. Hannah was glad to see that Emmy and Logan would be at her table. She can't wait. She promised me NO reds this year. "Mommy, last year I got 4 greens and ONE red." Um...her memory is not her strong point either!
Andrew...well, we met his teacher. Good thing is that it is Hannah's teacher from the 3's class. They moved her down for the year. She already knows how BUSY our little man is and she is ready. He just played and played and played. I had to PULL him out of there. He is ready!!!!
No, he hasn't napped on a big boy bed yet, but he doesn't need his cup anymore and he does have a backpack. What else do you need?
Here's to a great year!!! One free of reds, swine flu, and ear infections! Hey, a girl can dream, can't she?
One WILD Day!
As summer quickly draws to an end, I am making a MAD dash to my to-do list.
It seems ALL of the things that I had planned for us, hasn't happened (even
though we have been busy). One of them was to do a MAJOR update on our
blog. I know..it has been a LONG time. Well, that hasn't happened yet so I
moved on to the fun side of our list.
So in attempts to knock off a few more fun things off of our list, I decided
it was time for a family day. With the heat blazing down on us, whatever we
do MUST be inside these days. So where else to go? The mall...Grapevine
Mills to be exact with lunch at the Rainforest Cafe.
The last time we took Hannah she was around Andrew's age. We went w/ K and
Angie and Walter. She wasn't thrilled w/ all of the animal noises one bit.
This time she was ready to go and even remembered when we took K.
Andrew just wants to go ANYWHERE. "Shoes, please." So he was game.
However, when we got there, it was another story. He HATED the elephants.
He sat quietly on the daddy's lap while Hannah and I walked around.
"Elephants scare me momma."
Through the whole lunch, he was very scared when any of the animals started
to move and make noise. Thankfully, the waterfall was drowning out his
cries.
Enter the balloon man: He made Hannah a pink unicorn and Andrew this way
cool airplane with a handle. They LOVED them! He saved the day!
We left the cafe and walked around the mall w/ our balloon animals.
Everyone loved the plane. It was pretty cool! Everyone was happy...until
Andrew bit a hole in his handle and popped it...then there was crying. Oh,
well...that is something we do every day, so no big deal!
Hopefully, with any luck, we will continue to update some passed events. We
are getting TONS of requests (AKA...complaints) about the lack of news feeds
coming out. We have been having server issues (AKA: just being lazy!).
Hoping
I can't even think of a title for this.
Seriously...
My budding little "Artist"
We have a lot of artists in the Gode Family. Maybe Hannah has 'the gift' Can you tell what it is?