Blog is alive and well

Ok, so maybe most of you or all of you (especially kim) have given up on me and blogging...well I've decided to come back and come back strong!  I've been a very busy lady since....well October, so please give me a break!  Now stay tuned...I will be blogging soon!

Where the wild things are

We are having fall festival at our school on Friday and we get to dress up as Wild Things from the book Where the Wild Things Are.  Me and Grace and my mom went to see the movie...which is pretty deep and emotional but strangely enough we all 3 enjoyed it.  Maybe because it is one of my favorite books to read to my class, who knows!  Grace loved Judith in the movie, one of the two female wild things and she told me that she wanted to dress up as her.  Well trying to find an outfit has been quite challenging.  I found footsie pajamas, a tail, some ears, furry boots and some fur.  My friend Shannon and I went to Party Plus and found these great claw slippers so we all got a pair.  They are huge and you can barely walk in them.  Grace tried hers on tonight and we both were laughing so hard we couldn't even talk.  I don't know that she will wear them on Friday....because she won't be able to walk, but I think her other slippers will work okay.  Tonight we also cut out squares of discount fur I found at the fabric store and hot glued them onto her PJ's!  I think she is going to be very cute...I mean very scary!  I'll eat you up I love you so!

Sally the pumpkin cat

Grace had to decorate a pumpkin for school and she told me that she wanted to make her pumpkin look like a cat.  So we got the black paint, a black boa (fyi, when you cut a boa, feathers go everywhere), pipe cleaners, eyes and cat nose.  Grace painted the pumpkin all by herself and I added the ears and put on the tail.  Brandon put on the eyes and then she stuck on the mask and added the whiskers.  She has had a bow on that pumpkin since the day we brought it home so it was only natural that she would put the bow on the cat pumpkin too!  She named the cat Sally.  She has wanted a cat for over a year now and we can't have one because I'm allergic, so this is as close as it gets for her.  It was a lot of fun working on it as a family and she was very proud to take it to school and show everyone!

Sunday play

Grace had another great day of play!  She was busy dressing up babies and pushing them around the house in her shopping cart.  One baby didn't like all this and would "cry" so Grace decided to play with the smallest of the two babies most of the day.  She played beauty shop and curled her hair and added bows.  She went shopping all around the house with the baby.  This baby would just go with Grace and didn't seem phased by any of it all...this baby is my first baby...Daisy, my Shi Tzu!  I've never seen a dog take it like she does.  Maybe she, like Grace, enjoys the attention.  I could not believe she sat in the shopping cart and just let Grace push her around!  Priceless! Who needs siblings?  By the way, Duke, my other dog was the one that cried...he wanted no part of any play!

Soccer Star

So we all know that there have been some ups and downs during Grace's first soccer season, so why should this weekend be any different.  Grace did great at practice on Monday and told us that she was going to make a goal Saturday at her game.  Mrs. King her teacher from last year came to watch her and we were all a little nervous about this due to Grace's "stage fright" when others watch her, but she started the game and was smiling and running so all looked good...until this little blonde....no, I 'll say it....this big blonde on the other team whom I'm pretty sure has been playing since birth hit Grace in the face.  Grace started crying and would not go back on the field.  Brandon and I tried our hardest to motivate her...you know, balloons, a new dress, you name it, but she just wanted to go home.  She also wanted Mrs. King to go home...I'm still sad about this!  Mrs. King said that she understood and knows Grace well and wasn't upset at all.  Well Grace continued to cry and would not go in, so it wasn't Mrs. King being there either.  The last quarter Brandon gave his little girl one heck of a pep talk (no bribes included) and she ran out there and did great...so great that she kicked the ball, she kicked it in the goal.  She was very excited, but not nearly as excited as me and Brandon!  I'm a little embarrassed now that I think of it.  After the game we took her picture by the first goal that she scored in!  We also had to go get one balloon because that's what this other little girl gets when she scores a goal. Grace later told me that she didn't really want Mrs. King to leave she was just embarrassed that the big blonde girl hit her in the face and Mrs. King saw her crying!  It was another emotional soccer day!

This is Grace's soccer team...cute bunch of girls aren't they?

How I love to watch her play!

Grace will be 5 in January and when she plays it is so fun to watch.She is an only child most of the time (her half sisters are here every other weekend) so she gets pretty creative with her dolls and her animals. And I tend to play with her much of the time too, even if she is a little bossy! I walked into the playroom this weekend and she had her blanket layed out on the floor with her favorite animals (lots of pigs, her favorite) and she was watching a movie.  She had dug through her drawers and found this little red hat and put it on too. I asked her what she was doing and she told me that her and her animals (all named Sally) are about to

 go to the festival and it's cold there!

On Sunday she was playing with barbies and I asked her how many barbies she has (keep in mind that she has inherited most of these barbies from her sisters).  Well she lined them all up and counted and there were 20 barbies.  We decided that we would put some up and only keep 8 out to play with.  She said that we could give them to another little girl that didn't have barbies.  I'm trying to decide whether to keep the barbies forever or actually give them up.  What to do?

Soccer Star???

Okay so maybe my dream of Grace being the next Mia Hamm may not be very realistic but she is really cute when she plays soccer.  She likes to run up and down the field and she stays right there with the ball and smiles the entire time.  However, if the ball is in front of her she will not kick it!  If someone tells her to kick, like after the other team has scored AGAIN, she will kick the fire out of that ball, otherwise she will just run and smile.  I even caught her watching herself run at one point, just running and looking down at her side and smiling!  She must think she looks really good in those pink and grey soccer shoes...and boy does she!  Her BBFF (boy best friend forever) Cade was playing on the field next to her and he scored 5 goals, way to go Cade.  Then he came to watch Grace run up and down the field smiling!  Grace loves this picture because Cade has his hand on his hip...she laughs every time she looks at this picture.