Highlights of Newport

The scuba diver from the show was nice enough to poss with Lexie after the show at the underseas gardens.

Lexie at the beginning of the wax museum

Lexie and Johnny Depp??

Eeeeeee...

Inauguration and Investiture!

Yesterday Barack Obama was inaugurated at the 44th president!  Lexie watched the inauguration in Mrs. Jenkins kindergarten class.  She was pretty excited about it when I picked her up.  She wants to remember it to tell people when she grows up.  We talked about the huge bow on Aretha Franklin's head.  She talked about the thousands of people with their tiny flags.

Tonight is Lexie's Girl Scout Daisy Investiture.  We're are all so excited!  I'm going to try to videotape and photograph.  "On my honor, I will try, to serve God and my country, to help people at all times, and to live by the Girlscout Law."


We need to work on Lexie's sleep habits again.  We got so good for a while, but now she is getting tired at school again.  Got a call from teacher letting me know it's been happening again.  Poor girl just doesn't like going to sleep.

Some of Lexie's Daisy troop at the Satruday bowling.

penguin pajama day

I love the second Friday of the month!  One of my biggest joys is being room mom in Lexie's kindergarten class.  I sometimes get to do prep work for projects like tracing out giant mittens on colored construction paper or going down to the supply room and using the cutter to make 8"X 8" dark blue and 9"X9" white squares for a snowflake project.  I love hovering over the tables as they work on their work and answering questions and helping them out.  Last Friday was pajama day.  It was great at recess to watch four kindergarten classes of children running around the playground in pajamas.

This Friday is Maxwell's birthday party.  Lexie is pretty excited.  We are going Pokemon shopping later this week.

It looks like we may be having a Daisy Scout bowling this Saturday too.  That will be fun.  Lexie Daisy group finally got a troop number this week.  We've been waiting long enough, jeez.  They've earned two "petals" and their investiture ceremony will be at Shute Park library a week from tomorrow.  Gotta remember to charge the video camera batteries.  Scouts started selling girl scout cookies last Saturday.  As of this morning, she's sold 43 boxes!  Her goal is 50, I hope she makes it.

Tons of presents

Largest birthday party.

13 kids! Whew.

Losing Ms. Amy

Girls night out at the melting pot. What a blast. From left to right; Tonya, Kim, Me, and Amy.

Lexie's superbig birthday surprise.

Tiki is also taking over the house.

We already broke the stairway banister. Time to find the hot glue.

Christmas 2008

A sign of Tiki's advanced years. He didn't mind taking a little nap with Griffen.

Some of my favorite creatures.

Our "living" tree. Last minute decision. Can't wait to see how much it grows before next year.

Lexie "Wii" Keller. I love Endless Ocean and we both love Super Mario Party 8 and Meet the Robinsons.

Snow fun

Sonja brings me out some coffee. She is my neighbor, my friend, and Lexies' best friends mother.

Flying dog. My cats don't appreciate the snow much, but Griffen sure does.