Kindergartner Elle

The much anticipated day has finally come. Today our sweet daughter reached an enormous milestone. Elle Bug went to her first day of Kindergarten! This morning her eyes were big with excitement and expectations.

She always strives to be the best at everything she tries, we can’t wait to see her grab hold of the many opportunities headed her way in school!

We’re so proud of you Elle and love you more than we can say!

Toothless

She always meets the next adventure with excitement and readiness. Why should losing her front teeth be any different? In fact the best part, according to Elle is that she can now start Kindergarten, without her front teeth!!

I think we could all learn a lesson from her.
Life’s so much more fun when we focus on the bright side of things!

Pink Tomatoe-Mint Pops

Poppy isn’t a normal dog.  He’s ½ human ½ dog….  usually. 

Unfortunately today I have to say he’s really regretting the choices made this morning.  Instead of using his human-like side and choosing to sleep in, he let the dog-side take over.  Early this morning, somewhere around 4:30 am…  Poppy met a skunk!

I can only imagine how the whole thing unfolded.  Perhaps his best friend Biscuit the cat noticed it first.  She probably saw the creature in the corner of our yard, alerted Poppy and the 2 of them went to investigate together.  Poppy, in all his sweetness, probably gestured something like, “hey there, how are you?  What do they call you” towards the skunk.  Sadly, this wasn’t a Disney movie and the skunk didn’t reply with anything other than a full on frontal face spray of our beloved border collie.
 



Stinks!!



Poppy - AKA Kujo



His face of humiliation ...  Pink Poppy



I spent the better part of a day cleaning him. In the end we went through one large bottle of peroxide, 3 boxes of baking soda, 6 cans of tomato sauce and finally some mouth wash.

He’s now a pink and black dog that smells like minty tomatoes. 

If you can’t tell…  he feels pretty stupid.



Tomato Storms

Being able to watch the news, keep up with the weather and follow the latest from work is not always as much fun as it sounds. Incredible storm cells burst into action suddenly Tuesday afternoon. As quickly as I realized this was severe, I realized Coppell, my home, laid in its path.

Keep in mind that I am not at home.. I am at work. Instead my 3 children are in schools in the path of the storm.

Thankfully my teenager Jules kept her cell phone close. The 2 of us were able to text while a small tornado blew a mess of our streets, schools and homes. When the storm finally cleared enough for a safe journey home I passed cars with missing windows hail littered lawns and downed trees.

At home we found our trees damaged and large hail stones still thawing in the lawn. A closer look discovered our storage shed popped full of holes and leaks in our roof from the large hailstones.

When we finally had everyone home safe we asked the kids if they knew what had happened.

Liam quickly answered with excited bright eyes,
“We had to hide in the kitchen at school, because there were bad tomatoes banging on the doors to get us”.

I guess when you’re 3 and someone tells you about a tornado, you might just hear tomato, and the banging of Hail would sound like insane Tomatoes trying to get in.

Thank God everyone was ok!

Elle's First Play

This morning Elle woke before the rest of the house and started working on her play. She had been talking about writing one for a few days now, but her first masterpiece well exceeded any of my expectations! I love how well she writes, and spells!!

In case you can't read it clearly, here is the translation:

"Elle is a little Girl"
"Liam is a little Boy"
"But we love to pick berries"
"Mom is a cooker"
"Daddy is a waiter"
"Elle and Liam skip to the restaurant"
"It's Over"