Go Bears!

I am a UT graduate so that makes me a longhorn fan. But, as everyone knows Randel is a die hard Baylor Bear fan. So even though I live in the city where most bleed orange I find myself cheering for the Bears today against the Longhorns in tonights basketball game. I just can't bear to see Randel once again sit down with hope in his eyes and then see him be crushed so I really hope that the Bears pull it out and gain their first victory over the horns in a long long time. I think the stat is the Bears have lost the last 35 games against UT so here is hoping for a big miracle.
Speaking of the Bears, last weekend Anthony was able to join Randel and Jud in their annual father son trip to waco to watch a little basketball and baseball. This was the first time in 21 months that I was left all alone with no husband or child. I realized that as much as I sometimes want some alone time that I ended up missing them and thinking one night apart was just enough time. Mia (anthonys grandma) put together a little slideshow of their weekend so I figured I would post it for everyone.

Marbles,marbles, marbles!!!

Ok, so I try not to blog about my kiddos at school much. But if I did then man would you crack up. I have an awesome set of pretty funny kids who make me laugh everyday. The last few days there has been a marble situation. They are everywhere and every kid seems to have them. I am pretty laid back with my kids and it actually works pretty good, they are a good set of kids and respect me. But I have had to pick up marbles a lot this week. Today I picked them up from student "L". I was asked by student "L" if they would be returned at the end of the day. Since I know this students mother is very involved and would take care of this problem I said that I would happily give back the marbles at the end of the day to Mom and if Mom wanted to give them back then it was up to her. So at the end of the day I gave them to mom and she told me that her child had actually asked for a dollar the night before to buy some chips at lunch but later admitted that the dollar was to buy marbles from another student in class who said that for a dollar "L" could get 25 marbles. After my conversation with Mom I went over to "A" (the student aparently selling the marbles) When I asked "A" if marbles were being sold for money, student "A" said "Noooo, I didn't sell anything I was just giving them away." Of course he couldn't look me in the face and was giving all the tell tell signs of a kid that is lying to the teacher. I said that the selling of marbles was not allowed in the classroom and that they should be kept at home. Today there were no marbles in sight.

The thing that cracks me up is that for the past week this student has actually been a smart kiddo. It wasn't 25 marbles for a dollar it was actually 4 marbles for a dollar. A quarter a marble!!! No wonder this kid can afford those brand new Air Jordans every 3 months!!! At least he is finally learning how to count money.

Ok and since Randel said I wasn't allowed to post something without having a picture of Anthony here is a random pic.


Proud of his block tower.

Happy Birthday Dr. Seuss

Today is the Birthday of one of the most favorite book authors of many children. Dr. Seuss had his first book, Mulberry Street, rejected 27 times before it was finally published. He was 33 years old. Talk about never giving up. My students loved hearing about that.


In other news, I signed up to have my classroom adopted. As many of you know, I work in a very low income school and anything helps. Check out the link to the right and adopt our classroom. Thanks so much to our first very generous contributors, Jud and Sherry and Stacy and Stephen!!!! Woohoo you made my day!

Dance, dance

It's been awhile since I put some videos up of our little dancing machine. I don't know where he gets it from since his dad and I don't like dancing at all. In the first one he is dancing with Elmo who is standing on his dresser. He had actually been doing it without a diaper but we decided to spare him the embarressment and let him dance again with at least a diaper on. The last two are him just dancing away. I had to put both on so you can see that he will dance to any type of music so make sure you listen to what he is dancing to. The very last video I liked because you can see the seriousness in his face as he tries to follow along to the guitar hero notes on the drum set.

But before the videos I had to put this pic up of Anthony. He had a major blowout at school and only had an old onsie left for spare clothes. I found him in this outfit and the teachers said he was not very happy about parading around showing off his chunky legs to his pals.

Sesame Street Rocks!

We decided that on Sunday we were taking Anthony to see Sesame Street live. As the time approached I was starting to get a little apprehensive since anytime we have been in a stadium we spend most of our time climbing stairs or running in the corridors instead of watching what we went there to watch. We decided to just go ahead and just get the cheap tickets in case things went bad. Though 13 dollars a ticket can still seem steep if you have to leave 5 minutes in. We watched a woman with a little girl on one of those human leashes already regretting her decision as they walked into the Erwin Center. "But I thought you wanted to see Elmo, don't you want to see him? It's going to be fun!! Fine! there goes 40 dollars!"
Well I have to say that this was one amazing show. The show was 90 minutes long with a 15 minute intermission in the last half hour so they could sell you more Elmo stuff. Anthony sat for the first hour just fascinated by what he was seeing. As the show progressed he started getting up out of his chair and dancing and clapping and just cracking up. He had so much fun that he went right to sleep on the way home before 7pm. Lovely!

No time for pictures I need to go see him in person.

Dancing along




Randel bought Guitar Hero this weekend and him and Anthony had fun rocking out in their new band.

Woohoo some new pics

I realized that when Anthony was a baby I took tons of bath pics but I have no updated ones so here he is still still squeezing himself into his little tub but loving it.


He finally conquered that darn cow in the mall. He was able to climb up all by himself and this was him cheering when he reached the top. He was quite proud and kept looking over at us to make sure we had seen him.




There are times when Anthony insists on choosing his own outfits. He felt that with the wonderful green shorts he should only have to wear a jacket. Later he decided a jacket wasn't needed and strutted the sidewalk with no shirt. Oh and yes he insisted on having his shoes on the wrong foot.







I may be asleep but I will still not give up the lollipop. He has started saying "pop pop" for lollipop.

He just isn't messy enough.

We are starting to think....

that Anthony might have a paci problem.




As many of you know Anthony loves to dance, here he is take it up a notch and trying to master the dance dance revolution machine.



Another favorite is driving cars. Here he is making sure everything is ready for the trip and then he concentrates hard on his trip.


Loving the carousal that he rode about 20 times. (Thanks Tio Frankie for giving us an endless amount of free tokens)