365...Day 9

For the church talent show, Sarah m'ceed using her puppet Cindy-Lou.  She participates in Kid Serve on Wednesday nights to practice scripts to perform on Sundays for Shane's class.  The other pre-k kids also enjoy the weekly puppet show.  Sarah has really come out of her shy shell the past year!

365...Day 8

Just like her Momma...she loves to take pictures.  I'm anxious to see if she uses her new DSi to take pictures while they are on the Disney Cruise with Grandy and Papa.

365...Day 7

Tri-Shane-O-Saurus. 

Last Thanksgiving, we went to Dinosaur World in Glen Rose.  We took many pictures of Sarah with the Tri-Sarah-Tops.  One day while bathing (Jan 2010), Shane called me in to take his picture... Tri-Shane-O-Saurus...was his self-chosen dinosaur name.

365...Day 6

Funny picture from Shane's birthday at Let's Jump.  Notice his mismatched socks.  He doesn't get the "socks have to match"gene that both Steve and I have.  He loves the character socks from the Target $1 bins.  Here he has on one dinosaur scok and one Lightning McQueen sock. 

 I am in the process of printing pictures for my upcoming scrapbooking weekend get-a-way, so that's why I came across this picture.

365...Day 5

We were the last family to leave a Ft. Worth police carnival last Saturday at Home Depot.  Sarah wanted a pink balloon, but it was tangled with 9 others, so the lady gave her the whole bunch.  She was estatic!  Who would have known that having a BUNCH would be so fun.  The cats are loving the strings as much as the kids love running through them.  The strings are so long, the kids can let them float to our living room's 20 foot+ ceiling and still get them down.  Kids are on the the stair landing with coat hangers, "fishing" for the strings to pull them back in.

365...Day 4

30 minutes is a long time to wait to pet kitties.  Only 2 minutes and 48 seconds to go...can he make it? 

Little boys that carry kitties around too much, have to have limits set. 

(On a side note, Shane has been very good not to traumatize said cats, and they seem pretty tolerant of him.  They often initiate contact and playtime with him.)

365...Day 3

Here is where life finds me these days.  I am doing a long-term sub job at Granger Elem for 7 weeks.  I teach math, science, and social studies to 4th graders.   I started Sept 7 and will go until Oct 21. I love being a my kids' school, love seeing them in the hallway and at lunch.  Love spying checking in on them when I see teacher's in the lounge.  I don't love staff meetings, parent conferences, or grading papers.  While this is fun for a while and a nice change of pace, I am glad it's not FULL time.