Halloween Night

Lexi, I Owe You Some Cottonballs...

he he

During the FEROCIOUS game of Pictionary at the Halloween party I HAD to go to the bathroom. Laci offered to cover for me on her turn by stalling just a little. I ran to the bathroom and peed, only to look around and find no toilet paper.

At first, I just thought I wasn't sure where the toilet paper was located and then I saw it...

...the empty roll. Confirmation that I was really without.

No big deal. I am close with Lexi and I know she won't mind if I look around. I am also close enough to the cabinets to reach them so I start to open them one by one, but I don't find any toilet paper.

I do find some insanely large cottonballs.

A handful of those did the trick.

So Lexi if you were wondering about those cottonballs in your trashcan...it was me. I didn't know if they were flushable.

I was back to the game quite quickly, and on went the night.

Little Dancer

Kenzee loves to dance so much. We ask her if she wants to dance and her face lights up and she shakes her arms and runs to the computer. She likes hip hop music the best...even though they are mostly not nice songs. She has lots of different moves as you can see on the video. She just started the head shaking recently all on her own. Of course, I am quite proud of my dancer girl and her Daddy is too.

Football Games

Both of my cousins play football for Springtown. They are in the 8th grade. Mckenzee loves going to sporting events. She sits and actually watches the game and points at birds and airplanes. Her first sporting event was when she was 6 months old. We took her to one of my cousin's basketball games and she had the best time. She watched the whole game and followed them back and forth across the court and was ready to fall asleep by the end of it.

Anyway, I took some video clips of my cousins playing and they are pretty cool. The first one is Colten. Colten is my mom's brother's son. He plays running back and safety and special teams. This is a clip of him at running back. I was proud of him:

The next one is Jacob. Jacob is my dad's brother's son. He plays quarterback, but this was not a passing play. I believe it is called a 'quarterback keeper.' He did a great job!

And now for my sweet Mckenzee. It was chilly at the game, but she didn't seem to mind and she kept her hood on. We had a great time!

A Great Day!

I have been keeping a little boy at my house while his regular babysitter is on vacation. This is the third week. He is soooooo good, but I have felt very trapped here at home. Not that I usually go out and do stuff during the day, but I don't like having the option taken away. Sometimes I just go over to my parents house to see my mom. This requires no planning or getting ready. She has food, diapers, crib and she doesn't care what I look like.

Back to the point...yesterday he stayed with his grandmother and I was free for a whole day!

Chris called and asked me to pick him up for lunch because it was Taco Tuesday at Rosa's. I found out later that he knew some women from his work would be there and he wanted to show Mckenzee off. It was a nice lunch and it was fun to be out with him and Mckenzee acted so nice.

After we took him back to work Mckenzee and I went to Kohl's. Chris told me I could spend all of my babysitting money on clothes for myself. Part of it I am spending and part of it I am putting in the Christmas cash. Anyway, we had shopped for me this weekend and got a few things so I was already feeling good about myself in my new clothes and my daughter was behaving like a little angel and then we went shopping together some more.

I found a shirt I loved on sale regular $40 and I got it for $17.50 and I got Kenzee two cute little outfits. It was so nice just to be out.

When we got home she played for a little bit and then it was naptime.

When she woke up we went to watch my cousins play football. It was a lot of fun and it will get it's very own post.

Hairbows

Connie and I had a hairbow conversation just the other day. I am just going to throw out my opinion here because that's what blogging is all about.

Part of being a little girl is getting your hair fixed. That means learning to sit still and let your Momma put your bows in.

Little girls feel good about themselves when they get fixed up. I always tell Mckenzee how beautiful she is after I fix her hair and then we go show her Daddy and he gushes over her too. The other day I made her some pig tails and then she looked in the mirror and smiled at herself real big.

I am helping to build her self esteem.

That doesn't mean that I fix her hair everyday for just being around the house, but I do fix it when we go out.

I LOVE hairbows and I LOVE fixing up my little girl!

Okay...this blog might have been about me wanting to post that picture of my blue-eyed baby with her new hairbow in!

HALLOWEEN............

....................should ALWAYS be the last Friday in October. It could be like Thanksgiving is always the fourth Thursday in November. It would be so much easier on EVERYONE!

From a teacher's perspective: You do not want to spend all day with a bunch of kids that got sugared up the night before, went to bed late, and then conned their parents into a few more pieces of candy after breakfast and in their lunchbox the next day.

No thank you, not me!

When are the holiday making/changing people going to wise up to this?