First Parent/Teacher Conference

...or parent, teacher, student conference. Yes, V had to come to the meeting too. It is the parent/teacher conference of the new era. Overall it went well. Victoria is doing well and making a lot of improvement. She is really good at patterns which is the base for multiple things including reading and math. She does need to work on counting and sight words. She needs to know 39 sight words before the end of kindergarten and she already knows about half. Her teacher did mention that V doesn't really like to eat lunch. A lot of time she eats it on the way home. I think she just isn't hungry. That being said we did make a trip to the store on the way home to pick out some different things for her. We'll see if she eats.
Eddie and I are very proud of her. She is a smart, funny, beautiful, sassy, strong girl and we love her more than anything in the world.

Mama's Birthday

So today is my birthday and anyone who knows me knows how much I LOVE my birthday. No matter how old I get I will always be a kid on October 19th. Victoria helped me celebrate and we had a very good day! My Mom and her dog Wyatt and Melissa and Sammie came over. It was a nice celebration.

Hello Kitty Shine Star

Victoria has decided she does not like her name and wants to change it. It doesn't understand why Eddie and I picked the name Victoria and has asked us to call her Hello Kitty Shine Star. So there you have it...I told her when she is 18 she can go and have it legally changed. Her response was...fine, but please call me Hello Kitty until then.

It's finally fall in Arizona

Today, October 5th, we finally turned off the air conditioner. It was a beautiful day! It was so nice to open the house and get some fresh air. It has cooled to the mid 80s. It is actually kinda chilly, well chilly when you are used to 100 plus degrees. But it is days like today that remind us why we moved here, remind us why we deal with the hot summer.

Now that we only have Stella we are able to go to the dog park. We found a park, Friendship Park, that is huge and has a dog park as well as a park for V to play on. Stella found some mud to lay in...

We had such a nice time!

Hiccups

One of V's very cute quirks is that when she laughs very hard she gets the hiccups. Every time. And she really hasn't ever gotten them except when she laughs hard. Well yesterday for no reason whatsoever she got the hiccups. And then she got them again a couple of hours later. She was getting really frustrated and said..."what the heck is going on? I haven't even been laughing." I found this so funny because it is sometihng she jsut picked up on. I never said hey, every time you laugh you get the hiccups. She just picks up on things...

Bye Wrigley...

We made a very tough decision and had to give Wrigley up yesterday. About a month ago Stella just got fed up with all the humping and bothering and started to attack him. Since Stella was our dog first and a better fit for our family we gave up Wrigley. It was a very hard day and we were all pretty upset. To make matters worse we had a little drama, okay a lot of drama. Eddie did not want to drop him off so I asked my Mom to go with me. I drove up to Scottsdale, picked her up and we headed to the AZ Humane Society. I went to fill out the paper work and the lady informed me they were full and not taking any more animals. I got upset. Just earlier that morning Stella went after him and V was standing nearby. I did not want to take him home. I did not want to risk V or Wrigley getting hurt.

So my Mom called her vet and they gave her 4 numbers to shelters. They were all full. At this point I was losing it. I was so upset and the last lady that I talked to made things worse by telling me..."I feel sorry for you. That is a reallt bad situation. Either the dog or your daughter will end up getting hurt". I was thinking that but for someone else to say it out loud, I lost it. I was very clsoe to dropping him in the desert (I know...terrible...but I didn't know what to do. I was NOT going to risk my daughter over a dog!). Then my Mom says...what about Tucson? She was kinda half kidding but I immediately dialed the number. They were excepting dogs. Next thing I know we are drving down to Tucson to drop off Wrigley.

After a 2 1/2 road trip we got there. I must say I got a better feeling from it than I did from the Phoenix shelter. I filled out the paper work and said goodbye. I totally started to cry. It was really hard especially when I started to leave and he tried to follow me.

Although it has only been one day I know we made the right decision. It is so much calmer in our house and Stella is back to the sweet fun dog she was when we first got her. We took her to the dog park today and she had a blast.

We will miss Wrigley very much and he will always have a place in our hearts. Sometimes you have to make hard decisions that are better in the long run...

The Constitution

Today is National Constitution Day so in honor of this V school had an assembly this morning. Parents were invited to stay. Let me start by saying it was held outside and although it is Sept 17th it is still 88 or 89 degrees at 8 am. All the students sit together and the parents stood on the side. So I am standing there watching Victoria, oh and I left my sunglasses in the car so I am squinting. The boy scouts and girls scouts walk in carrying the flag and the 2nd graders are singing about the Preamble and I start to think about how my baby girl is at her first school assembly. I can not even beleive it, she is getting so big. And I start to cry!! Yes, I am standing there sweating and crying. And I am not talking a little bit, there are tears streaming down my cheeks. I am sure these parents were wondering why I was so emotional over the Constitution.