She's Too Young To Drive!

But her Daddy lets her anyway. Who can resist that dimple and her cute, scratchy voice? Any grandparents reading this need not be worried... the blade was never engaged. We just wasted alot of gas letting Kamryn "drive" the lawnmower.

The Human Jack-o-Lantern

Todd lost his first top tooth yesterday! We've have been waiting for that thing to come out for a while, now. He bit into his supper and out came his tooth. I was hoping he would lose it before Friday, because that's school picture day. Don't you think he has the perfect smile for the Halloween season?

And The Winner Is...

KAYLEE WALKER! Seen here with her PE teacher, Coach Watson. I'm sure it had nothing to do with the rollers in her hair, but whatever it was, she made student council again and we are breathing a sigh of relief around here. Sam and I knew how bad she wanted to make it, so when her teacher emailed me and told me that she won, I did a happy dance.

Her posters were cute. They said," Are you smarter than a 5th grader? Only if you vote for Kaylee" and "Don't be nerds, vote for Kaylee." The latter was decorated with nerd candy boxes. I was up at the school setting up for next week's book fair when the principal announced the winners at the end of the day. I already knew she won, but she didn't, so I went to her room and stood outside the door to watch her face as they announced her name. It was priceless! She saw me and jumped up and ran out the door and gave me a big hug. If only all her days could be this happy.

One quick story about her PE teacher: It was the first week of school. Coach Watson asked the class if anyone knew the difference between offense and defense. Kaylee raised her hand and very matter-of-factly replied, "Offense sells the tickets, defense wins the championships." There's no denying she's my kid!

Monkey See, Monkey Do (part 2)

Tomorrow is the big Student Council election at Neblett Elementary. Kaylee is running for 4th grade representative from Mrs. Anderson's class. She has her speech all ready and we made posters this week to hang in the school's hall. I can't believe this stuff starts so young, but she was on Student Council last year, so we know what to expect. As much as she loves sports, she is equally "girly." It took her an hour to decide what she wanted to wear. After she got out of the shower, she brought me the sponge roller bag. Sponge rolling that child's hair takes so long I usually only do it for church and school picture day. But, tomorrow is important to her, so I rolled her hair. Note to self: next time roll Kaylee's hair after Kamryn is in bed for the night. I got about 6 rollers in and Kamryn started with, "Me next, Mommy, PUH-LEASE!" Well, you know what happened - Kamryn got her hair rolled, too. My girls have alot of hair! Well, my girls that have hair have alot of hair. I didn't put as many in Kamryn's as I did Kaylee's... mostly because it takes divine intervention for my lovely 3 year old to hold still longer than 30 seconds. I managed to get some in, and I took pictures of my beauties with their heads full of sponge rollers!

Kite Flying With Ike

The Walkers are making lemonade from lemons today. The anticipation of Ike forced the

postponement of some weekend activities and we're staying close to home. Kamryn asked her daddy why we couldn't go to the softball game like we had planned (she has some little friends that she loves to play with during the games) and her dadddy replied that, "We're waiting on Ike." In true Kamryn fashion she turned on her heel and went out the front door. I followed her a few minutes later and found her out on the driveway... waiting on Ike. After explaining that Ike was the name of a storm and not a man coming to visit, we remembered we had a kite in the garage. So I decided to post some pictures of the kids taking advantage of the wind before the rain comes.

Todd in a Sack

Todd had his first "project" this week in 2nd grade. He came home with a brown paper lunch sack with instructions from his teacher to fill it with NON-living items that would describe what Todd liked. At first he was a little bummed that he couldn't put the tadpoles he caught down by the creek in the sack, but after he got over that initial disappointment, he really got into it. Parents could help as much or as little as they chose to, but I held back a bit because I was really curious as to what he would use to describe himself. He chose: a magnet with his basketball picture on it, a lot of legos, a picture of himself with legos on the airplane to Disney, a picture of himself with his sisters and cousins on the beach in Florida, a picture of him, Kamryn, and Goofy at the Magic Kingdom, a book about space (he said that counts as 2 things because he loves to read and he loves space), a packet of macaroni and cheese, his magic wand he got when he went to Great Wolf Lodge with his Grammy and Poppy, and the bobber from his fishing pole. He did a great job, huh?

I love his teacher. Kaylee had her in the 2nd grade as well and she is just awesome. Every day they write in their "forever journal." It's just a spiral notebook that his teacher has him write in everyday. It may just be a sentence or two, but he's supposed to share on paper what the best part of his day was (or the worst, or the most interesting...). Today he wrote that the best part of his day was his mom coming to eat lunch with him. What a sweet, sweet boy!

My Granddad Was Green

I'm getting a little annoyed at all the celebrities who are so proud of themselves for "going green." Good people have been doing the right thing for a long time without the need for publicity. My granddad would have been 90 years old at the end of the month, and he was a conservationist long before some of these yayhoos were born. Sorry Al Gore, you don't have the market cornered on recycling. My granddad reused the aluminum foil his hamburger from Dairy Queen came in. He hand washed plastic party cups. He never left a light on in a room when he walked out. He drove to the farm everyday in his pickup truck with windows down to save gas. He wore his house shoes until they had holes in them, then he would tape them up and try to get just a few more miles out of them. He would save the bows on the presents at Christmas. Not only that, he would open his presents so carefully as to save the paper for presents next Christmas. Leftovers were never thrown away. Rain runoff was saved to water flowers. My granddad was a true friend to the earth, and he never owned an expensive hybrid car.