Big City Fun

Last weekend we travel to Charlotte to visit Uncle Jeff and Aunt Lori. They also had free tickets in the box for the local minor league hockey team. We rode the train downtown, ate dinner there, and went to the game. How cool is all that for these kids? Needless to say, the kids were excited:



Andy in particular loved the train ride:



After a few stops, James turned teenager on us:



And look how excited these kids were about watching the hockey game.



To be honest, while the rest of the stadium was cheering the team, Andy and James were cheering the cotton candy.



They let kids ride the zamboni? How do we sign up? Is it cooler than a tractor?



And apparently the blue collar tour is coming to Charlotte Nov 11th? To bad we have Clemson football tickets the next day.



We all had a great time. The favorite thing for the kids was to find all of Scrabble's toys and throw them hoping he might chase a few. Scrabble really just ran away from the kids!

More guilt - gymnastics

Another sad thing with me starting my new job is that Andy does not get to be in gymnastics anymore...and he LOVES gymnastics. And I LOVE gymnastics. The teachers are great, the activities are so good for Andy, and Andy, well, he loves the two other people in his class. They start off with stretches:



Somewhere during stretches, they make "yucky tacos", you know with things like dirt and eyeballs, etc. I will have you know that Andy is always the only one to eat his yucky taco. Can't get him to eat a peanut butter sandwich, but a yucky taco for Ms. Kip, no problem.

From there, they go to different stations and they do very specific things at these stations. Somewhere in going to the first station, Ms Kip might have said that Andy had to learn a lot since it was his last day. Oops, I actually had not told Andy it was his last day, but he didn't seem to notice. WHEW! Here is Andy at the first station.



Yep, his last day was backwards day...the hardest day! Here he is going backwards on the balance beam. Hopefully he doesn't try to walk the "balance beam" in front of his school backwards.



Another station, this was right in front of me...yikes!




The rope swing at another station:



And finally, the end circle song. How weird is this? Andy would always improvise and just sing "every body hums in a circle". Ms Kip loved it!



And the "hands on your head for stamps" That is how I roll!



And this is still the naptime blog!

Mommy's guilt

You may or may not have heard, but I got a job. I got a real big girl, no not teaching job. I am really excited and I think this is a good opportunity for me. However, even though I have wanted this job and know that it is the best thing for me and my family, it is still hard to make the switch from being a mainly full time stay at home mom (AND a pretty much full time technical college instructor) to a full time working mom (AND still a pretty much full time technical college instructor - yikes!) A big part of that is that the kids will have to be in school all day every day. No more lazy mornings and afternoons, mo more getting out early to beat the crowds. This past Friday was going to be our last free afternoon. I picked the kids up from school at 2pm and then we walked downtown to get ice cream. We went to spill the beans which you can see from the back of their school. The pictures aren't so good because I was talking them on my ipod, but you get the idea that they really like ice cream!



Next week went shopping so I could get a new visor. Let's face it. Pink and orange just don't match. I bought visors all around. Again, mommy guilt.



Then we went to Bowman field to check out the homecomings floats. It was pretty impressive to watch these go up all week as we drove to school everyday. It was even more impressive for the kids to see them up close.





Look at this guy and his visor. Like a little Spurrier.



Also impressive was the habitat for humanity house. The "construction zone" as Andy would call it every day



Driving by this week it was just as impressive to see them all broken down on Monday!