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.

Losing Ms. Amy

Friday night was a blast! Amy, Kim, Tonya and I went to the Melting Pot downtown. Ohhh it was wonderful. We were there from 7:30pm until sometime after 11:00pm. My favorites were the cheese fondue and the cookies and cream fondue. Even the house salad was terrific, and the company was the best. We laughed so hard tears rolled down my face. When I told Lexie where I had been, and with whom, she actually got a little jealous mad. I have pictures of that to post as well.

Birthday Party

Lexie's birthday party was a blast! she had 13 kids there! Some from pre-school, some from day care, some from kindergarten, some neighbors some from my work, and Lucas. It was so much fun! She got a lot of Polly Pocket stuff, which is perfect. Her reaction to her big present was perfect. I'll post pictures soon. Lucas spent the night, and the next day we all went out for Brunch at Reedville Cafe.

Lexie's investiture into Daisy Girl Scout is next Monday. I'm going to try to take video as well as pictures. Last night I went to a Girl Scout Council meeting with her troop leader, Michelle, to learn about cookie sales. We're excited about that too.

Christmas Teeth

Now Lexie can sing, "All I want for Christmas is my two front teeth." She lost her second bottom front tooth Saturday. I actually pulled it out, eeeeeewwweee! The first one came out when we were wrestle fighting. I elbowed it out. I felt awful, but she was just laughing!

Lexie loves her Daisy Girl Scouts soooo much. She got her vest on Sunday, slept in it and wore it all the next day, her birthday. Grammy came over in the morning to watch her, her normal Grammy-Lexie day fell on her birthday. We woke her up in the morning with a cupcake and the birthday song. Grammy took her shopping and she got two new pairs of shoes, an outfit, and a doll. She kept telling me all evening that she had the best day. She had her third girl scout meeting last night. We made Christmas decorations to give to the elderly when we go caroling at a retirement home in the next couple weeks.

We're looking forward to her b-day party this weekend.

Lexie's first dance

Raise your hand if you've ever played the raise your hand game!

Lexie's new game, "Raise your hand if you like chocolate", raise your hand if you don't like chocolate, raise your hand if you have a cat.... it's cute, to a point.


Have some cake!

For Myra's birthday today, Val made sponge cake... literally! She smoothed chocolate frosting all over a foam sponge. We watched many people hassle with that thing!

School pictures

Lexie got her very first Kindergarten school pictures. Here it is...

Tinker Bell

And she flies too!

Lexie was Tinker Bell for Halloween and it was a hit!

No dance card?

Well, she finally did it.  I was beginning to think I was going to be one of the few LuckyMoms who have children who don't "trim" their own hair.  Not!  Last weekend, Lexie decided she wanted bangs.  She walked into the room, and my jaw dropped.  She actually didn't do too bad, but I still had Grammy take her in for a straightening.  Amazingly, she did this AFTER her school pictures!  Phew!  I'll post her school pictures and then compare with the post kid-with-scissors.

Today is Halloween.  Lexie's school doesn't allow costumes, but she will get to put hers on in about an hour, after school at YCamp.  She is Tinker bell. This evening we are going trick-or-treating with her friends Sam and Alex at a local mall.  Should be fun. 

Tomorrow, Lexie's Grammy is coming down to stay the night with Lexie.  I will be attending a party, that I go to only very reluctantly.  I'm not much of a party person.  This started out being five people, Cherri, Ryan, Hollie, and Josh.  It has added a bunch of people, NOT happy.  I tried very hard to cancel, but was essentially guilted back into it.  Since I'm bringing the RV, if I decide to pout, at least I have a good place to do it.

And now, the story behind the title of this blog.  When I went to pick Lexie up yesterday, she complained and was sad because we would miss the "sample" dance class.  I had not heard anything about this, but they are going to give dance lessons Thursdays at 5:00 at the gym there.  So, we stayed so she could try it out.  She loves to dance and has been excited for quite awhile about dance classes, and then this dropped in our lap!  Should have been perfect, but there is one ginormous hitch!  In Lexie's mind, dance class entails turning music on and everyone just dancing.  Very early on into the stretching warm-up, she became unenthusiastic. She wasn't impressed by learning moves and putting them together.  She was so put off by the end of the class, that not only wasn't going to join, but she specifically wanted to put the flyer they handed out in a hiding place where it wold never be found again.  Strike two for organized, structured instruction on how to learn something.  Maybe if I pick her up a little later and she sees the other kids having a good time with it, she might change her mind.  I think there were too many children there and if the classes are smaller and she gets more one-on-one attention, she might enjoy it.  We shall see.

We are starting Daisy Girl Scouts next Monday!  First and third Mondays, I'm excited.

Name Club

It's been so crazy, I tend to let the blog ride. I really should discipline myself to do a daily not at break time.

Yesterday, Lexie got into the "Name Club" at her kindergarten! I am so proud of her, and she is too. That means that she can print her name clearly. They teach print WAY differently then I remember. They put little curly tails on the letters to get them ready to learn cursive. Pretty cute.

Tonight is McTeacher night. I'm not positive, but I believe that means that the school teachers will be working at the local McDonalds to raise money. I think Lex and I will go take a peak.

Her first tooth is coming in nice, and she's got another loose one.

Fishing!

A spontaneous fishing trip occurred this weekend.  Friday, Tracy called and invited Lexie and I to join them at Horning's Hideout for a fishing trip with Cub Scout troop 819.  It's a stocked fishing lake.  We had a blast.  Lexie's been fishing in Alaska, but that was quite a while ago.  We rented her a pole (.50!) and away we went.  She caught for trout!  She was so exited.  Happy and scared at the same time.  Each time we would reel one in on her pole, she would start screaming.  They actually have RV camping there also.  We are definitely going back!