Gala

So the Gala was Monday night and it was pretty cool. We hung out in the social area to begin and moved over to the stage area for the later part of the evening. I took a few pictures of her "skit" as Jess put it most accurately, but they are really no different or better then hers. Stroll over to her place to get a few more details on the shin dig. It was a nice evening. : )

Caterpillars and More!

Well, the pic and one word pretty much sums up our weekend; caterpillar. That child and I found more of them then you'd believe. id guess we found close to 30 over the course of 3 days. We were out Friday playing detective when she came across the first and second ones. I told her I would get a box and she could fix it up like a home and put them in there...and it was on from there on out. We hunted, admired, and showed them off to the whole neighborhood. Here the best part...we have cocoons...and not just one or 2....but 10. yup, 10 cocoons. She had seven caterpillars the first night when we went to sleep. she had said she hoped they would make cocoons and to my amazement and her expectedness one had spun one over night. Wow! We got to witness the making of the others over the weekend. Neto. One even escaped and spun a cocoon on the couch. We cant wait for Butterflies! Oh...we did do other things beside caterpillars tho.

Saturday we were getting ready to head out for a trip to Wal-Mart when MaryJane asked when we were going to Home Depot again (for a children's workshop) and my response after a quick moment of thought was....Today. She had seen some construction across the way and it sparked her head to think about Home Depot. How crazy cool it all that. So I ran back in to grab her apron and we were off. She built a pencil holder w/ wooden flowers to put in it. I think it is the one of the best things she's built there. Aside from he holding a few boards together she did it all by herself, glue, hammering, and stickers. How proud I am/wuz of her and she was very proud of herself to boot. Im gonna get a pic of her with it but she is not finished yet. she says she wants to paint it before she puts the rest of the stickers on it. Can you say Ar-tist? hehe. We hit dollar tree where she got her a new bear w/ a dollar of hers. it was a big deal too cause she got a bear w/ clothes for a dollar when it usually a dollar for the bear and a dollar for the clothes. it was the only one there w/ clothes on to so it was a very special find for us. yea. hit Donald's for lunch and play, then it was home and outside for the monkey.

Sunday was church. she had been anxious for church all week, which I just love. She wore a beautiful dress her mommy got for her. It was a good time. We were going to go to have lunch at Grandma Doris' but she had fallen and hurt her hand. Hope your feeling alright Grandma. : ) So instead it was back to the house to play the day away. Lots more outside and watched Alvin & the Chipmunks, which is very good. She read me a couple books too. She is such a good reader. last Tuesday she read me 4 books too, 2 at the library before we left after her library class and 2 when we got home. I do love reading to her, but enjoy her reading to me even more.

Tonight MaryJane is having a "Gala" at The Jones Center. What exactly is a Gala???...well, not real sure myself, but I know its gonna be great. Her last day of Treehouse was last Thursday so its kinda like a little celebration of the completed semester. I know we are having food and M.J. and her classmates are doing some performing. Ill have details when upon my return.

Later.

Hello Weekend!

Man am I ready for the weekend. Going to get my gurl after work, then its home to probably do our routine for the week. Every nite this weeks been go home, eat dinner, play outside for bout 30 minutes, a quick dunk in tha tub, a little cartoon action, and then a few chapters of Junie B. Jones before tickling to sleep. Don't see why tonight will be any different and like it that way. It will be nice to have lots of time to do stuff over the weekend. No big outings, but surely lots of outside playing. supposed to be pretty nice it looks like, especially Sunday. I'm thinking a trip to Gully Park over on Township in Fayetteville is in store. We've both been wanting to get over there. Lots of ideas here and im sure that child of mine will come up with who knows what to do. Fill you all in on Monday.

Counting Crows - You Can't Count On Me (Late Show-Letterman)

Ok...so this is a long time coming. Well, not really a long time and not really this. Let me explain. About a month ago one of my top 10 bands, Counting Crows came out w/ a new album entitled "Saturday Nights and Sunday Mornings" and along side released a Music Video of there first single "You Can't Count on Me". So I found the music video on You Tube and thought I would put it on my blog only to find out they wouldn't let me cause of some copyright mumbo jumbo or sumdin. So here is there performance of the song on "The Late Show w/ David Letterman" just a few days before the release of the album. No matter what your musical preference your bound to love this.

The Musical Adventures of Flat Stanley

Just a tit bit on what MaryJane did today. Her and one of her friends from Treehouse, Shayla, and there mothers went to the show this morning. You may remember her learning about and reading Flat Stanley in Book Club at Treehouse this semester and her making and sending one of her Stanley's to Hawaii. Jess even got her a couple of sequel's to the original book. So needles to say she was super excited to go and mother says she had a wonderful time and loved it.Based on the book by Jeff Brown, Flat Stanley is the story of an average boy who is squashed flat by a falling bulletin board. Rather than mope about his problem, Flat Stanley decides to mail himself around the world in a big envelope - as a human letter! In a whirlwind musical travelogue, he's stamped, posted and cancelled from South Africa to Mexico, from Russia to England to China and beyond. And wherever Stanley goes, he meets new friends, learns about different cultures and closes in on his goal of becoming a three-dimensional boy once more.

LOST

Well, im officially LOST...literally. I must admit that my "tru fan" label is not sticking. I didn't watch the return on season 4 (episode 9) on Thursday due to my behindness (its a word in my book). I have not seen episode 7 or 8 yet. I blame my lack of viewing on basketball (SEC tourney; NCAA Tourney). The good newz is that i have everything recorded on my handy dandy DVR. So tonight...finally....I get to catch up. I just got a DISH remote today so good-bye commercials. Forget watching just 7, 8, and 9.,,,im down for them all tonight. Going home, sitting down, and getting LOST....

Spa, Springfest and Razorfest

Miss MaryJane, her mother, and Gua Gua took a trip to the Spa Saturday morning. Check out the recap over at her place. I meet up w/ Dad, Oleta, and Diana on Dickson. Enjoyed the very nice "scenery" ; ) while we waited for Diana. Watched a little of the bed race and then headed over to grubs for some....well, grub. I was pleasantly surprised and overjoyed to find out M.J and Jess were still in town and I got to go meet them very close at a flea market we used to go to. good memories. I picked up the monkey and we headed over to Reynolds Razorback Stadium to meet back up w/ the gang for Razorfest. Saw Cody and Robi briefly when we got there then it was off to enjoy the fun and games. I didn't get any picks : ( cause im an idiot and have not gotten a case for my camera yet. I have always used my coat and well, now that its warm I have no safe place to care it. Shopping list: 1 Camera Case. MaryJane had a blast. She played games, got lots of freebies(her fav being the glasses), and played on the inflatable's. Very happy she got to come and despite my mild sunburn and sore calf muscles im very glad we went.