shows

We went to see midget's little show last night. I mean little. We spent 20 minutes parking, to see her sing 2 little songs. It was so crowded, and they actually asked you to leave if your child was done singing so others could see theirs. They really didn't plan for the growth the school has had. She had fun though, and it was really cute.
Monkey was glad to see his former teacher. He was the one who took the pictures for me, as i was too tall and blocked the others views. He did pretty good. He's been doing so good in school. He has been the teachers helper in 2 of the classes. He's even made his teachers power point presentations for them. How funny is that? My little Bill Gates :)
Here is a pic of a tomato plant in our garden. It has some little ones on it already!!

waiting, waiting, waiting

I'm still waiting for hubby to give us some news. Hopefully good news! Midget is singing at school tonight. They gave us no notice, so absurd. It's not like we wouldn't want family to come. It's only two songs, and the parking is a total nightmare. Their poor little school is way to crowded. From what i hear, they will be laying people off too. How? I mean the classes are too big already. Makes no sense.
Still playing with my photoshop. I've gotten a bit better. Being the nerd i am i went and got a book. Thank you for the encouragment Polly!!

icky day..

You know it's not going to be a good day when you wake up, it's raining and you have a splitting headache. Love the weather here, 49 to 80 in the same day.
It's not going to be a good day either when the 7 yr old is crying because she can't cut her pancake right, the pieces look ugly.. what in the world??? Calgon.....please? Can we have a do over?

Am i that old now??

I have seen all these adorable pictures where people turn certain parts colors, and the rest black and white. I have always wanted to learn to do it. So since i have gotten pretty good with picassa, i decided how hard can it be? HA!! Hubby tried to warn me, it isn't as easy as it seems. So i took his advice, tossed it, and got adobe photo shop elements anyway.
HUBBY, Stop reading this now.
omg, this is so complicated! I will, learn to do this, because he can't win.. But, there are layers, and all kinds of nonsense. I must get a book. To pour salt on my wounds, Monkey can use it. He took a pic of himself, and cut the whole background out, and put a sky behind him, so he looks like he is up in the clouds. Am i so old my child can now do things on the computer? I can't deal with that, so i must learn to do this!!
HUBBY, i can use the program fine, it's great ;)

study study

Well, monkey had the dreaded TAKS test Tues. and Wed. I had volunteered to help out as the school was short staffed. So I had to go to training, and sign a oath saying i wouldn't speak or cheat with the little test takers. I was an essential part of the test, a potty monitor. How funny is that? An oat and training to sit on a chair outside the bathrooms! I sat next to a very dull technology woman, who was not so friendly. I think i found out why talking to monkey. Apparently, my son, who is a know it all, just like his dad, helped her. This translated in lamen turns is a 1o year old told a grown woman how to do her job. She was doing something and her printer did not work, so he "helped" her. He made it work, in front of everyone. Not good... So i think i was tained by association.
Yesterday i had a great time. Funny.. They have a very funny gym teacher, and his music teacher. They love monkey, say he is a super smart kid, and like to raz him. His music teacher is actually in a rock band, and have evenplayed [with Linkin Park. How cool is that??
It's funny to see the different sized kids. Little ones, some looked 16. Strange. It's only two grades, but they are all sizes. I'm glad to know though, my little man talks nice about me, and his friends all said hi. Some i didn't even know said hey, you are monkey's mom! Nice, guess that makes me cool, since they said it like it's a good thing. Now all the teachers... another story :)

Happy Easter!!

Happy Easter!! We dyed eggs, and all the obligitory easter fun things. :) I had tied strings from their rooms, to their baskets all over the house last year. Well midget wanted to know what i was going to do this year.. Darn creative things, i should have just shoved them on the table. So i had googled fun ideas, and we ended up with a scavenger hunt. I put clues all over the house. Midget loved it, monkey thanked me later :) We went to my mom's house and had some lunch. It has been a nice low key day.
on a side nots, i will NEVER ever, get the stringy stuff for the baasket. It is now all over my floor. Monkey got skate stuff, and midget got her just like me american girl doll. They are thrilled with their loot.
Also my mom has been going through some of my grandma's things. She found the most beautiful ring my grandma had in an envelope for me. It was my great grandma's ring, but it is in little girls size. It is a bit big for Midget, but so pretty. She loves it.

Skatepark/beach

We went to the beach/skatepark on Friday. It was a neat one, with some ramps and things that were easy for monkey. Midget liked the sand, but it was way too windy. It was good for him to try some new things though. She had fun taking pics of him.