A Froggy Day in Lindentown

Tonight was Liv's 1st grade play (see blog title) and she was the finest pollywog I have I ever seen portrayed in all of the theater.  Her song, Polly Woggle Doodle is sure to be a classic.  But seriously, it was super cute and I loved Liv's costume.  I found out last night that she was supposed to be in all green rather than a white shirt and overalls like the other kids.  I got lucky at Target and found the shirt, pants, little frogs and green headband (which had antlers when I bought it).  Josie and I rounded out the shopping today at Hobby Lobby and then my mom crafted the headband with us this afternoon.  Liv and her fellow first graders have been working on the play for almost two months so she was super excited to finally perform.  She had quite a Denler audience--Granny, Aunt Jodie, Cole, and Jordan, and of course her Denler housemates.  Even Black Judy made it--and supplied our flowers for the evening.  Afterwards, I told Liv she could choose anywhere for dinner and out of that the city offers, she chooses Chik-Fil-A.  Yum!  We're still working on getting the face paint off....

Also, I meant to post a blog about Liv's Honor Roll assembly....but it has been almost two weeks ago and I am over that motivation.   But she did make the Honor Roll and also got awards for perfect attendance and getting an A in conduct.  I am so proud of her!!

I love Fall Days

While Kevin was hard at work in the yard (per usual), I was hanging out with my three fave ladies--Liv, Josie, and my mom.  This is the first year that Josie has loved crunching all the fallen leaves and Kevin grabbed the camera just in time.  Liv and grandma had a big girl date today, complete with slumber party after the Mudbugs hockey game.  We had a pretty uneventful week...but in the next two weeks we have our first Honor Roll assembly for Liv, 50th day of school celebration (think poodle skirts), Grandparents Day, Liv's school play (she's a lily pad), and something else I'm forgetting right now.  And that's just my scheduled school events for Liv.  I love it when we have lots of stuff going on....so, more from me soon!!

Liv opens a savings account!!

So, my kid is a miser--always has been.  I can only remember one time when Olivia has spent her own money and not cried afterwards when she realizes she would rather still have her cash than that piece of crap toy she bought.  I have been telling her that when she gets to $100, I would take her to the bank and she can have her very own account.  This appeals to Liv's "I'm way more grown up than my six year old birth date suggests" sense of self.  She met her goal last weekend, so today we had a date with Chase.  Liv was really excited to tell all the kids at YEP that she was bank bound.  They didn't care but Liv didn't even notice.  She counted her money about 28 times on the way there, to make sure her money wasn't evaporating.  She gave Wesley, her personal banker, all of her own personal information.  And in 15 short minutes Liv became an account holder.  

Who doesn't love feeding giraffes?

It's State Fair time here in the Port City.  Now, I hate the Fair--by the time you pay to park and walk in with your family you've spent $50.  Then there are rickety old rides you pay more money to ride and ridiculously priced, over processed food and don't even get me started on the carnies.  The Fair's only redeeming quality is the zoo.  And the fact that the day we went we lucked out and parked for free and got in for free.  This was Josie's first time to be at the Fair and she loved the tigers and camels and zebras and goats--all animals she has seen in books at home.  Liv mostly tolerated the animals because she knew she had to before it was time to ride anything.  The carrot sticks were a dollar a bag.  I bought 9 bags.  No, seriously, I bought nine bags. Excessive I know, but giraffes are crazy looking animals, especially when you get to look at them up close.  Just look how excited I am to have my hand in that giraffe's mouth.  Josie was mostly confused but thought it was funny to be sniffed by the huge "dog".  The giraffe is not pictured in our books at home.  Liv was hilarious b/c she thought the giraffe tongue was long enough and strong enough to rip her arm off.  She and the giraffe came to an understanding and she did have fun with the carrots.  I had a cup of tea and the giraffe also helped himself to that.  I could only drag the giraffe visit out for so long, so eventually we left and Josie watched her sister ride all the rides with Jack.  I should have said at the beginning that we had dates for the Fair--we went with Candance and Baby Jack (who really can't be called Baby Jack for too much longer since at 3 y/o he outweighs Liv).  Anyway, we did the rides and fed the kids everything the Fair offered and by then everyone was worn out, so we went home.  And, that's all I have to say about that...

the last act of Halloween 2008

In looking back over my 2 billion Halloween themed blogs, I can tell I posted them at the end of long days.  I stopped giving a lot of details about the pictures...you know in keeping with the old phrase "a picture is worth a thousand words".  Halloween night Kevin and I thought it would be fun to Josie do some actual trick-o-treating.  Josie disagreed.  We went to the Boardwalk and made a mild attempt to have Josie go store to store and ask for candy.  Instead, we ended up playing Josie's new game called "This Way".  She grabs your finger.  And, to be clear, we can't hold her hand but she will hold ours.  It's all about control with that little lady.  Anyway, she grabs a hand and announces which way to run.  It's always the same--towards a curb so she can practice doing steps with an immediate 180 to go back down the curb and head back to the starting point.  Over and over we do this.  I figure surely I am burning more calories doing that than any sedentary activity.  Kevin's hunger overtook him, and to Notini's we went.  That ended our whirlwind Halloween.  I undecorated the house today, and the pumpkins will go out with the trash on Monday.  These pictures are from different Halloween activities.  My fave is the one of the girls at the Pumpkin Patch.  Josie watched a plane until it flew out of sight and the picture is her asking Liv where it went?  Where is our favorite question at home.  I guess that's all I can say about Halloween.  I have a State Fair blog to do next, but I am not sure I am up for it tonight.  Until next time....