Monday Monday

Hello friends!

Anderson had to get his ear rechecked this morning by the ENT. He had to do a follow up hearing test after his tubes had been put in. He did great, much better than the first time!And, he has been cleared to go swimming again, but with ear plugs in. Oh good, cause that's not gonna be a fight or anything. :)

Would you believe that I have NO pictures from Friday night when we cooked out with our neighbors? It was a lot of fun and Anderson had a great time. In fact, at one point when I checked on him, he was jumping on his bed as high as he could go!! He didn't go to sleep until 11p.m that night...he was so hyper!

And yesterday our car air-conditioner went out and that's been pretty fun, especially in the 105 degrees temperatures! Ugh...getting that fixed tomorrow, with a hefty price tag, I might add.

A has been playing by himself lately. This has just started. I can hear him talking to himself and it just delights me! His favorite is putting all of his animal puzzle pieces into the laundry basket and then getting in there too with the blanket.
My Momma is coming to stay in one week! Hooray!

Surprise from Nunna!

Hello friends!
Anderson and I got a nice surprise yesterday from the mailman. Nunna(my mom) had sent a huge care package to us. That's one of the perks about living 12 hours from your family in Alabama. I have mentioned that I really love getting real mail, other than bills. We were excited when we saw what was inside!!!A purse for me! Yep...my momma knows what I like :)Puzzles for Anderson,with animals of course
Adam got a couple of Alabama shirts....ROLL TIDE!!! These are impossible to find out here in Longhorn country...ugh.

Wet dog food for the Annabelle and Gus. We make them eat just dry dog food and so they love it, when they go to their Nunna's house and get something besides dry food.

Mom also got these cute shirts for Anderson and they all have shorts that match. If you like them and you're in Dothan. You can find them at the store Yard Youngans on Main Street. Caroline Henderson has a new section on the side of the consignment store, where she appliques and monograms.
I've gotta run clean.We are cooking out tonight with some of our neighbors. Hope you have a great weekend!

Thursday!

Hello friends! Following up from yesterday(a good teacher always reviews what you did the day before) my question to you was who opened the first library in the U.S. and my friend Laura got it. It's Benjamin Franklin! P.S. She's also a history teacher too, like I was...so don't feel bad if you didn't get it.

We got up this morning and I decided to make Anderson some grits and bacon. When I was little, I would beg my momma and Mimi(my step-mom) for grits...starting as early as 5a.m.! A LOVED the grits and bacon and ate three plate fulls of grits!! Can you believe that some people have never heard of grits?!! When we went to NYC, my aunt couldn't believe that we ate them.She thought they looked so gross, but oh... they are so stinkin' good! ;)

I am so sick of this heat. I was ready for it to get warm, but now it's too warm...103 today with the heat index it feels like 108! ugh.... I'm really ready to dress like this...again. Oh well. I'm sure come this winter, I'll be wishing for warmer temps again...and so it goes :)Since, we can't swim until A sees the doctor again for his tubes, we went to the mall and played a bit and rode the carousel. Fun, fun! Anderson always wants to know everybody's name. Any animals he sees, he says "name"? And we name them, whatever name we can think of. If you don't name them, he keeps saying "name, name, name" until he drives you crazy and you give in. My mom always tells me not to name people if we don't know them. Today, when we were riding on the carousel, a little girl was waving to A. He wanted to know her name. I told him it was Jessica. As soon as we get off the ride, he makes a bee-line for the girl and says "hey Jessica"...I was so embarrassed!!! We had to find out her real name....OOOPS!

I'm so awful at printing out pictures from our digital camera. But I found this site and you get 40 free prints and 6 cents prints with no limits. Check it out here.

Story Time...Scmory Time

Hello friends!I really don't know we are ever going to get Anderson to sit still in kindergarten. We tried story time again today and it was a FAILED attempt. Although pretty funny, but I'm pretty sure I'm the ONLY one who thought that ;) They were reading some story about a monkey and it was completely too old for him(the literature) and the brought out these stuffed monkey. Anderson said "monkey, hold him"? And I said "no bud" then he said "ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh" kinda loud-ish! Who am I kidding super loud-ish! I escorted him out to the bench in the hall and the whole time we are walking out, he saying "momma, I sorry" then I felt terrible, like these people probably think I beat him. I can count the times that I have spanked him on one hand.
We invited our friends/neighbors Casey and her kids and Clara and her kiddos. After story time, we hung out in the library for an hour and a half. It's amazing, how much fun you can have in a library for free! (Casey and Anderson reading;) The kids had fun and so did us girls!

And cause I'm feeling kinda teacher-y today, here's some homework for you or maybe you already know. Who started the first library in the U.S.?? Do you know??

Hot day at the zoo and Happy Birthday!

Hello friends!

I had the smart idea to take Anderson to the Ft. Worth Zoo this morning! Smart....maybe not. It wasn't too bad when we got there at 10a.m., but when we left at 12, it was already 101 degrees! Seriously, it wasn't too terrible. A loved it, as usual. We almost had the whole zoo to ourselves...because nobody else was crazy enough to get out in that heat!! :)

But, all of the animals were very interested in us, probably because they had no attention at all. If I would have remembered my camera we would have had some cool pictures. Oh well..you've seen a dozen pictures of our trips to the zoo.

Happy Birthday to my FIL, Mike(aka Pappy)!! We hope you have a
wonderful birthday!! Everybody likes to say Anderson looks a lot like Adam. But who he really looks a lot like is Pappy!

Here's the video of Anderson dancing! Ha! And please read the post below this one for the other pictures of our fun with The Wiggles! :)

A Wiggly Night

Hello friends!
Friday night, we took Anderson to see The Wiggles. If you haven't heard of them and you have younger kids, you've been living in a cave for the last 10 years :)Anderson has LOVED The Wiggles ever since he has been 6 months old. We had GREAT seats! Only about 12 rows back, front and center. We wondered how A would do, but he was THRILLED when they came out on stage and he knew exactly who they were and was pure giddy with excitement!! This picture of Anthony(the blue wiggle) is for my mom...he's her fav!! ;)
The Wiggles came through the crowd . He was dressed up for the song, Fruit Salad...Yummy Yummy! But, instead kinda looks like Elton John in his younger days! Ha!and collected roses that the children had brought for Dorothy the Dinosaur to eat and Jeff(aka the purple Wiggle) gave Anderson a high five!! He was SO SUPER HAPPY!! And so was I! Ha!

They put on the BEST show I've ever seen! They were pretty entertaining even to us adults. And the funniest part was that all the moms and dads were singing along to the songs...we have to hear them enough!!Anderson's favorite part of the concert was when he got to dance in the aisles! He put on the best show!

In fact, we got him a t-shirt that says "The Fifth Wiggle"!!

We are SO glad that we took A, he had the time of his life and so did we!! Who knew five years ago that we would be having this much fun at the Wiggles concert on a Friday night! :)