Bones and Flowers

Refer to the last post about the play and that will give you more insight into what I'm talking about now, but anyway I helped every Wednesday at drama club practice, helping the children learn the music as Dalin was in it this year as well. I was rewarded at the end of the play very surprisingly with flowers and a fruit basket it was very nice to be recognized. Oh and the reason I have pictures of skeletons is because I made their costumes!! The white bones on their shirts were cut out vinyl stickers... turned out pretty cute even if I do say so myself!! ;)

"My" Jasmine

So who out there doesn't know about disappointment?? Definitely not my little girl Destinee. Six months ago she auditioned for a part in her schools drama club performance, and left for winter break feeling she had done a really good job. Winter break ends and parts are announced... now as most things in the world seniority takes precedence and so therefore the fifth-graders would get the best parts right? For most this is true but as parts are announced it came down to Destinee and one other 5th grade girl for the main part in their play. They just so happen to be friends and as you can imagine by my title Destinee did not get the part and was very crushed, especially as her drama teacher announces that she will be the understudy which as the drama teacher announced to everyone, "This means this person doesn't really have a part but they'll be on stage a lot.". Can you imagine how you would feel if an adult told you that. Well fast forward six months to opening night of the play... Destinee has done the part that she was asked to do and has memorized every line she was supposed to for the main role knowing she probably wouldn't ever even get to say them. Yet at two minutes until the play is scheduled to begin,there is no Jasmine (the play was Aladdin) so Destinee was ready to take on her role and perform to the best of her ability happy and proud of her chance to shine. She is miked and ready for the first scene when the real actress shows up, takes the microphone from her and once again crushes her spirit. Now Mama is usually a pretty tough cookie on Destinee but this moment in particular got me very sad and I felt for her as I started to cry... so sorry this is turned into a novel however she went on, did her few lines that she had, did a wonderful job and even in such a show of maturity that usually I get on Destinee's case about not having she hugged the actress at the very end of the play and told her how good of a job she did. I told Destinee she will always be my Jasmine!!

Did I have it this easy??

I guess that question is for my mom but I pose it to all of you mothers out there... do you remember the end of your fifth grade year being so easy... picnics and games and fingernails and movies!! That's all Destinee has done for the last week of school!! Some of the pictures are dark in her classroom but hey when you're in a portable trailer outside what do you expect? The man is one of her advanced language arts teachers and he's pretty okay not as gruff as he looks. ;)

Dalin's Mini "Mii"

Yes it physically pained me to miss spell the word me in the title as I hate misspellings, but I meant to spell it this way because for an event at school a multicultural night to celebrate all the cultures in the school they have each child make a mini "Mii" of something that represents them and this was Dalins. Can you see the five finger shoes?? ;)

Silly things that make me laugh

So we were at the mall yesterday looking for church shoes for Dalin for an event that I will post about in a few minutes for Dalin... so while we were in the shoe store I look around and this is what Kyle has on his feet... he called them his slippery shoes. Can you tell what they are? Then the other picture in case you can't read the bumper sticker was on the back of a Honda Element and it said, "You just got passed by a toaster.". I would definitely agree that that is a good representation of the shape of a Honda Element!!

A Sweet Mothers Day Tribute

So pretty much everything other than I have to pay for it is wonderful and perfect about Kyles preschool and this was their day before Mother's Day tribute. They sang, they made us cool hats with newspapers, the kids each served us awesome snacks. So sad it's going to be over soon. :( Oh and before we even got there they had made a pretty glass bowl covered with mod podge fabric all over for our little knickknacks. So cute!! ;)

"In My Element"

So the next event that occurred after the Chris banana picture on our camping trip was a birthday party for one of Dalins really good friends that we rushed back from the campsite to go to and I was asked to be one of the characters for the birthday party. 'Twas a Harry Potter party and the boys mom (one of my good friends) asked me to be Prof. Trelawney, anybody know who that is?? Well I only had the slightest of clues and so the whole way back from the camping trip a 3 hour rd. trip, I was researching everything I could on the Internet... what does she sound like,what does she look like etc. Well... to tell you how it went that next day I had some of the children at church see me and say: "You are SO funny and then some children that I didn't even know went back and told their parents that they didn't know who the funny lady was but that they wanted to come back to a party where I was because I was so awesome!! Oh and to explain the picture of Chris with the sorting hat on...he was the voice, so he sat in his truck away from the party and spoke through the mom's cell phone that was hidden under the sorting hat!! The kids were amazed!! ;)