Real Camera, a Warning and a Spider

The camera on my phone has decided it really doesn't like to work (as you might have noticed due to the quality of the morning pictures going downhill at a very steady pace) so I've brought of the big guns.  Low and behold the pics look soooo much better!  Silly phone!

Thursday, October 24, 2013

Talking at rest time ended the on going streak of all green stars yesterday.  Mia was so upset.  Lesson learned.  On a much happier note she scored 6/10 on her sight words - the 4 missed were ones they haven't worked on yet - so go figure.  She's doing phenomenally in school and obviously loving every part of it... well, except for the part where she has to get up while it's still dark.  

Friday, October 25, 2013

Today is PINK OUT DAY at school for Breast Cancer Awareness and also Show and Tell for the color Black.  as you can see Mia decided to take her remote control spider as show and tell.  There are no batteries in it and I had her leave the control at home - less likely to freak people out that way... hopefully.   (She was being a spider in the picture.)

We are having someone over for dinner and board games tonight!!!!!  I'm so excited!  It will be my third time hosting people since we moved - nerve wracking but great progress in the whole "get to know new people" area.  

T-ball pictures, Last day of swimming, Company picnics and a visit

Last week/weekend were super busy with the last day of swimming, t-ball pictures, Ben's company picnic and a visit from Mom and Tettie.

As you can imagine, I'm sure, t-ball pictures were absolutely dripping with cuteness.  All the tiny kids in uniforms way too big for them - oh my goodness - adorable overload.

Ben's company picnic was at a local water park (and by local I mean like 15 miles away LOL).  It was interesting.  I got to meet some of his co-workers and their wives.  It was more of a free for all event tho so there wasn't much interaction other than Hi, This is, Nice to meet you and so on and so forth.

Mom and Tettie's visit was a lot of fun!  We took them to Cameron Park Zoo and a couple of our favorite restaurants.  It was a nice low key visit.

We took Mia to the pool last night and realized just how many little friends she has made ... actual friends - not just a child she has seen before.  It was so cute to watch her, 2 little girls (S and T) and one little boy (J) sitting on the steps of the pool all playing together.  Even better when we were walking thru the gate J's dad recognized us and was like "J! Look who's coming thru the gate" and J got all excited to see Mia.  Now if we can just learn the parent's names.  LOL

Ben and I are working a lot on our eating habits and working out every day right now.  I'm personally stretching my skills and attempting to learn how to cook all types of vegetables in interesting ways so we don't get bored with them.  Last night I made what I'll kindly call beef and mush...  It started out beautiful with fresh squash, purple onion, eggplant, jalapenos, banana peppers, and bell peppers (all from the farmer's market) and ended up looking like ... well, beef and mush.  Needless to say one of my projects for the week is to scour the cookbooks and educate myself on proper vegetable preparation and cooking.