OKC Thunder Exhibition Game

Beau was one happy boy last night. He got to go with Dad to the Oklahoma City Thunder and Dallas Mavericks Exhibition game last night at the Intrust Bank Arena.  He said it was a great time and was one tired boy when he got home.  Brian loves taking him to these events. He is really getting into the games now.  Good bonding time for my boys.

Brenley Parent Teacher Conference

Brenley had her first preschool parent teacher conference. I couldn't attend, but Dad took good notes. Here are the highlights.

1. Her writing has improved from the first day of school until today. She writes her name soooo well!!! She also does what she is told. Ms.Darla told her to write her A,B,C,D's and 1,2,3's and that is exactly what she wrote. Nothing more. Nothing less (even though Ms. Darla meant the entire alphabet and numbers to 10).

2. While she does listen to directions, she also knows what is right and wrong. She knew not to color the fox's tail white even though she wasn't specifically told not too. Ms. Darla told her two days before she colored the paper that fox's have white tails. Look at the picture below. Tails are white!

3. In a separating blocks exercise, she gave more blocks to Ms. Darla then herself because "Ms. Darla is her friend."

4. She also can give explicit instruction on stringing beads. They practice in her class to improve eye hand coordination, but she could teach the Class according to Ms. Darla. Just ask her next time you see her.

My little rock star. Oh how we love that smartie pants!!

This is her handwriting today

This is the fox tail example

This was her handwriting when she first started pre-school.

Sorry the pictures are out of order. Blogging via mobile phone again! Saves me so much time.

The weekend

So we had a pretty full weekend. Brian was out of town for his annual college baseball gathering. He left Friday morning. Sister had a birthday party Friday night. Brother had a football game Saturday morning. They won. I just missed him ringing the celebratory bell after the game (#31). See pic.

Then sister had another birthday party Saturday afternoon.

Sunday morning at 11:00, Brother had a baseball game. Then sister and I headed to the zoo for her final party of the weekend. She got to pet (but she chose not too), a gecko and hissing cockroach. She then got to touch a 15 pound rabbit. She loved that. She answered the zookeepers questions on what nocturnal means. She is freaky smart and I love it!!

Then we ended that party with a quick walk around the zoo. Whew! It was a quick weekend and we missed Daddy, but I think the kids had a good time. Here are the pictures that Brenley and I snapped! They may be a little out of order as I am typing this on mobile phone, so I lose ability to plant pictures where I want!

Brian is 37!!

Whoop whoop, my main squeeze is finally as old as his sugar mama!

While we had to squeeze in football practice tonight, we still managed to make a fun birthday party for Daddy tonight.  After a fish taco dinner, we celebrated with presents and ice cream cake. Then Daddy wanted some pictures taken, so we much obliged.

Love you, Daddy. Hope you had a super day!

Putting the candles in the cake.

Helping Dad blow out the candles

Fake smiler, Brenley

Better

Brenley being tickled

Brenley mad about being tickled.

Ahhh......our family..... Happy Birthday, Brian. Here is to a wonderful 37th year!

Tiny Dancer

These are B's new tap shoes. She is "putting on a show" for us.

Random shots and thoughts

Wanted you all to see the "after" pictures of our tree. We also did some landscaping. Bit more to do, but we cleaned up a lot. I didn't get a shot of the backyard, but we discovered under a mountain of ivy, that we had another brick retaining wall. We had no idea. We just thought it was a cement wall with a lot of ivy growing over it.  Geez, we are bright.

Between landscaping, football games, baseball games, travel, and just getting ready for Fall, we really haven't done much in-between. Mom and Dad came up on Saturday to watch Beau play football and it was SO COLD, windy and rainy.  It was ridiculous. But Brenley did manage to snap a few pictures of them before the game,  and I think she did a pretty good job. 

Pa Pa

This is so cute!

Don't ask why we are just sitting at the bottom of the staircase, that is just where we ended up. And here is a three generational picture of us also. I like how this turned out.

And today is Daddy's birthday!  Happy Birthday, Brian!  We had donuts to kick off the day. Tonight will just be football practice for Beau, followed by cake. But we'll celebrate with a nice dinner tomorrow night. We love you, old man! Hopefully Brenley can snap some pictures of Dad today to mark his 37th year!