Hump Day

Eugh it's only Wednesday. My little petri dish has brought me home a cold. Or as Scott would say, and I quote "if you and your daughter would stay put for more than a minute, and stop getting so tired maybe you wouldn't get sick". SIGH. Men just don't understand.

So we are half way through the week. Em is excited that she gets to wear her costume to dance class tonight. They are also having a Halloween Party at the Y on Friday, so she is thrilled. I really do love the B/A school care program there. They have no school on Monday for parent teacher conferences, so on Monday they have a "German day" planned. One of the counselors (Patrick) has just returned from a trip to Germany and they are going to teach the kids about the culture etc. They also are going to make a German lunch with the kids. On Tuesday there is no school due to election day. They are planning a field trip to Maymont Park. It is amazing the adventures they take these kids on and the things they learn there.

She will really get her use out of her costume this year, as she has a birthday party to go to on Saturday that is a costume party.............

The beat goes on...........

Yesterday the girls had cheer competition, we were so proud of them. All the stunts went up, no one fell and everyone did great. The girls were so excited. It has made for a very long fall, all these practices and games. But now it is coming to an end. We have three final practices this week and competition on Sunday at Virginia State University. This is the big one. Em has quite the busy week this week. Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday are cheer practice. Wednesday dancing. Friday Halloween - trick or treat finally, but she also has a field trip to Henricus park from school. Saturday is a birthday party and then Sunday competition.

We had our last football game on Saturday, and while it was raining the girls did great. I can't say that our football team fared so well as they go their tushes kicked again!!!!! I can't wait for the day that we can actually start coming home in the evenings, but that will be here soon enough.

Emmie and I got a new game for the Wii this weekend. Mario Kart, and we spent Saturday and Sunday evening battling it out on the couch. This system is so neat that it lets both of us play and be competitive with each other. Needless to say I kicked Scott's butt. The poor man has no hand eye coordination.

We have booked our Disney trip for next Christmas, and I don't know who is more excited Scottie or Emma. We are going to stay at Disney's Caribbean resort. Should be fun and I can't wait to see Scott and Emma when they see Main Street all lit up and decorated.

The downside of planning a big vacation is we don't know when we will get back to Buffalo again. As far as Emma goes, she needs to make a decision again if she wants to dance with the Richmond Ballet this summer, as she has already decided she wants to cheer again.

We don't know when her recital will be yet this year, sometime at the end of May beginning of June (Sorry dad, I hate that you have to pick vacation so early, but there is nothing I can do about the dates). Hopefully you all will still be able to come.

So it is Monday and back to the grind. I'm off to draft my witness subpoena's.......................

My brave little cheerleader

So my Emma, is a brave little cheerleader. We had practice on Friday, and while she was scared, she got right back up in her stunt group. I am so proud of her. She was a little shaky, but all of her friends were so supportive and really helped her get through it. We finally finished their competition routine on Friday night at practice, and the girls are looking good. The game on Saturday was quite cold, but the girls toughed it out. They did part of the competition routine for half time and they DID GREAT!!!!! - now if we could only get our football team to stop getting slaughtered we would be all set. They lost 0-27 this week again.......

Even Scottie noticed that the routine was different and said that it looked great (kudos to me for choreographing it:)

So we are back to practice this week Tuesday, Thursday and Friday. Our final football game is on Saturday and competition is Sunday morning.

Wish us luck. It is weird for me to be on the coaches side of things and not the participant, but yet, I can see so much of me in Emma.......................

Cheerleading disaster

So it finally happened last night. Emma got dropped during a stunt. She was in a prep and was doing a cradle down, her back spotter backed away and she came down and knocked her head. First before I get 50 phone calls, she is fine. No bump, no dizziness, no nothing. I think more than anything she was just scared. Tonight at practice will be the real test if she will get back up again and try. Although I don't know who was more scared for her, the coaches (and momma) or her stunt group who dropped her. Only time will tell what happens tonight.........................................

My little ballerina

Emma just keeps surprising us. At dancing last night, her teacher asked me what we do on Monday nights. I looked at him and rolled my eyes and said, that is the only night of the week we have nothing to do........... He wanted to know if Emma would like to join his advanced ballet class. SIGH!!!!!! I am so proud of her. We told him yes of course, once cheerleading finishes in 2 weeks. I don't think I could take one more night on the run......... So we are now dancing 2 nights a week starting in November. Monday nights ballet and Wednesday nights tap and jazz.

Every time I hear a stay at home mom complain how tired they are, I roll my eyes and bite my tongue (which we all know is hard for me) as I think of our schedule. Emmie has been so busy, but loving every minute of it. And she has been doing really well in school this year. Her papers are coming home with great grades and she is finally enjoying reading and writing (never thought I would see that day).

So we are ready to close out the week. Cheerleading practice tonight, tomorrow night, and Saturday afternoon, a game on Saturday night, and cheerleading competition on Sunday. Only 2 games left, and 2 competitions left after this week. Not sure what we will do when we can actually come home at night.

Oh wait I know, I'll be preparing for trial!!!!!!!!!

Homecoming 2008

So Homecoming 2008 came and went. We had a beautiful day for the game and festivities. The girls put on a great show. Unfortunately our team lost (again) 0-12. Our little men just keep getting shoved around. Hannah was chosen as Homecoming Queen for the Minors (Em was a little disappointed). But otherwise they had a ball. She has now learned how to do a full with her stunt group and we are getting ready for competition.

Welcome October

Can't believe that we are already a month into school. It is just flying by this year. Em is having a really good year, and seems to be surging ahead with her reading and language skills. Her social life is abound with play dates and phone calls. She has been doing awesome in cheerleading, she is the littlest one with the most volume. We had one cheerleader drop off the squad so she is going to do the competitions this year. So we are back to practices on Thursday and Thursday and dance class on Wednesday. This week is exciting as we have our homecoming game on Friday night. The boys FINALLY won a game this week, so their record moves to 2-4 (the other win was a forfeit!!!)

We decorated for Halloween this weekend, and Em has some friends sleep over after the football game. Life is crazy but great.

Hugs