Spanky's Summer & The First of Second

This summer, Spanky was able to take a couple of classes, spend a lot of time with friends, attend his first Cub Scout Day Camp and visit with family.

Feeling brave:

Swim class:

Making faces....

...for this reaction:

Loves his Gramma:

Day camp awards:

Drama Class:

And now my big boy is at school, workin' the second grade:

Maybe they'll teach him how to smile. And don't feel too bad for him...he was up at 5:15am and in the shower, dressed, made his lunch, ate breakfast and was ready to go by 6:30am. School starts at 8:30am. These pictures certainly don't show it, but he was so excited.

*And for the record, I held it together today. I got a little misty-eyed, but talked myself out of it! Still 2:45pm can't come fast enough....

The Kids Called It.........

......at Spanky's school Obama won 61 to 18. Spanky was a tiny bit quiet about not being on the 'winning team', but then he shrugged his shoulders and went to color a picture. Over 300.000 AZ Kids voted yesterday at their schools, this is the website: http://www.kidsvotingaz.org/
..........the daycare kids elected the blue frosted sugar cookies over the red. Neither of the candidates looked very great, but they both tasted equally delish. I really need to learn how to make frosting though.
As far as the election goes:
It wasn't my particular choice. That being said, as a Regan Era girl, I believe the office of President of this amazing country deserves respect. I will continue to speak of Obama politely and pray he surrounds himself with intelligent and capable people in his presidency. I'm glad that his supporters are so excited. I couldn't get really excited about any of the choices this go around. I hope he lives up to what people expect of him and brings honor and respect to our country.
So, moving on........Soule Mama strikes again! Check out her new endeavour and make some baby caps (AZ girls, my box of caps will be sent out on December 5......should you like to save postage, bring them over to my casa and add them to my flat rate box!) I am knitting some 100% cotton caps for starters, but will probably make a few cotton t-shirt ones as well.

Betcha didn't know this...

Little Known Fact: Sarah Palin is the “other” whom Yoda spoke about.

Someone with way too much time on their hands created this: www.palinfacts.com
I am not sure how I ended up at this site, but I dang near pee'd my pants reading some of these little known facts about our future VP (fingers crossed.) Check it out!

Little Known Fact: Sarah Palin will send Biden a pre-debate cheat sheet. The sheet will have tips on defending against Kung Fu Death Grip.

Little known fact: Sarah Palin is on loan from the Justice League.

Little known fact: Sarah Palin would have just had an Eagle drop the Ring into Mount Doom.

Little known fact: We don’t know who would win in a Chuck Norris - Sarah Palin cage match because they’ve never invented a cage that can hold Sarah Palin. (there's lots of Chuck on this site, and I {{heart}} chuck norris~I know, I'm special!)



If you don't at least snicker, there's just no pleasing you.

The Man Who Walked Between the Towers

I hadn't heard of this kids picture book before. It was originally published in 2004, but just recently came out in paperback. A couple of weeks ago I saw it in the kids section at Borders and started reading it, became absorbed, started crying, kept reading through the tears and then...my husband walked up. I tried to tell him about this book and started crying more. I put it down and ran off to collect myself.

I think this would be a good way to remember the events of 7 years ago. Most of our children weren't concieved yet when the towers came down. I know for me, it's important that my boy understand and remember throughout his life. I will ad this lovely book to my sons library, but I doubt I will ever be able to read it to him...much like The Three Trees. Those will have to be Dad books.

Vote!

Get on out there and VOTE!