Lunch Date

After looking at the lunch menu for Thursday at Tucker's school, he asked me to bring him lunch from Sonic instead. No problemo, little man! Here was my chance to meet the love note queen. :0)

I did meet Tucker for lunch. As part of the lunch ritual at his school, Tucker is allowed to invite one friend to also join us at the special "parent" table. As soon as Tucker saw me, he was ready to pick a friend and all of a sudden a girl grabs him and tells him that she is eating with us. Mmmm...little bit pushy, but the girl isn't afraid to get what she wants. As luck would have it, I am now sitting face-to-face with the love note queen. She is a cutie and a little spitfire, definitely one who can hold her own against the mighty T.

We had a fun time during lunch and they were excited/silly enough that I was ready to hand them back to their teacher. Let me just say that 25 minutes can be very long when you are sitting at a table with Kindergarteners. I think that they ate in about 8 minutes and had rest of the time to play around. This is a very uncomfortable feeling for the teacher in me. I felt like I needed to break out a book to read to them or something.

As Tucker was finally able to line up to get ready to go back to the classroom, I had a little reflection of his first day of school and how anxious I was to let him go to the classroom without me. I am glad that I get to spend lunchtime with Tucker every once in a while. I enjoy seeing him confident and content with where he is and who he is. I was concerned that it would be a challenge making friends just because he is not attending his neighborhood school, but that seemed to never bother him and he has made friends with everyone in his class. Friends, I can handle...I am just hoping that we don't receive any more letters from the girls.

I'm not ready for this!

So, evidently, we have a little budding relationship going on in the old kindergarten class. Tucker swears that he has nothing to do with it, but some priss pot is trying to sink her little claws into my son. :0)

What is this? You learn to write a few little letters in the past few months and then suddenly compose a "you are my boyfriend" note to my son. He probably had to get some help to even read the note! She didn't even give him a chance to check yes or no! Look at the note, she isn't even old enough to use capital letters properly.

I think that it may be time to play private investigator and eat lunch with my boy to see who this little girly is. We have been working on memorizing our phone number, but maybe I should rethink that...imagine if we started getting phone calls? I really thought that we had until at least 3rd grade to deal with this kind of stuff, but I guess I was wrong. I actually had to giggle just a little bit when I saw the note, but still think that its a bit crazy. Tucker told me not to worry...it wasn't like he was going to talk to her or anything. No, I guess not, you seem to be communicating just fine in writing. I guess this is one way to practice your newly acquired writing skills. Is this an example of "real world learning"?

Movie Marathon

Since we had the day off on Monday, Tucker and I decided to go see a movie at Studio Movie Grill after a doctor appointment. We time is just right to see Hotel for Dogs.

We love being able to eat our pizza and chicken tenders while watching a movie! It was a cute movie and we enjoyed just being together. Afterwards, we decided to run to the mall to look around. While at the mall, we shopped around for more Heelys for Tucker. Evidently it is a little more "cooler" if we have black ones now. As we passed (rolled) by the mall movie theater, we saw the poster for Bedtime Stories. So, Tucker and I decided to see movie #2 that day.

We really liked Bedtime Stories and I almost always like movies with Adam Sandler in it, anyway. Tucker gave it 2 thumbs up and said that we would definitely buy that one on DVD. So, out we go with the rest of the crowd.
As we are walking out, we see another poster for Paul Blart: Mall Cop. Tucker looks at me with a little twinkle and grin and asks to see movie #3.

We are having so much fun that I can hardly tell him no. We had about an hour to waste so, we decided to go enjoy a drink and cookie from the food court. I really didn't know how Mall Cop was going to turn out, but we actually enjoyed it as well. It was a great day with Tucker and I think that seeing three movies in the same day will be something that he remembers for a long time. John was busy that day so he didn't get to share in our marathon madness, but Tucker couldn't wait to tell him about it. I couldn't help but giggle when I heard Tucker talking to his daddy, telling him about our day...In Tucker's words, "Daddy, we saw three movies today, because I am wild like that!"

Too much info

Tucker, for some reason, has really started watching all of the infomercials on TV. In case you have been hiding under a rock, here is a list of the most common infomercials: Big City Slider Station, Snuggie, Blendy pens, Bendy hangers, etc.
For some reason a lot of commercials are played during cartoons on Nick. I really didn't think much of it until the other day he paused the TV with a big phone number across the front, ran to get the phone and started dialing away. He is absolutely convinced that we NEED the Big City Slider Station for the ultimate mini cheeseburger. Excuse me...he doesn't even like burgers!

I thought that I had talked him out of ordering anything on the TV by telling him that none of that stuff ever works, you have to been 18 and older, and that is just a scam. He replied back with a "you are probably right because the Snugglie looks very soft, but it probably feels like a towel, right?" Yeah buddy, not to mentioned that we would all look pretty silly sitting around watching TV in our Snugglies. Basically last Sunday, we would have bought about 5 different products if I would have let him. I really thought that this conversation was over, but I guess he was still trying to figure out why I still wasn't for the whole TV product thing. We were driving home from school the other day, just talking about school and such, when he suddenly says, "Mama, the bendy hanger is probably something that you need, but I bet it doesn't bend like they show you on TV, right?" Hmmm, we have got to get that boy away from the TV.

We are making it

Just wanted to say that we are making it just fine after our Christmas break. Tucker popped out of bed Monday morning ready to get to school. Got dressed and brushed his teeth without any nagging from me. I had to pinch myself to make sure that I wasn't dreaming. He was ready to "present" his star student poster to "his kids" as he refers to his classmates.

Tuesday, my how things change so quickly, he was grumbling out of bed and referring to how much school stinks. What a different 24 hours make! Come to find out, it was just going to be a normal day and not fun anymore because he didn't get to present anything. Really? He already likes to talk in front of a group of peers. Who in their right mind REALLY enjoys that? I do it because it is part of my job, but I can't see that I look forward to it.

This morning, I would rate it as being in between the two above mentioned scenarios. We made it through the morning without too much stress and even are making it to school on time. Tomorrow, I am just praying for a early start. We have our clothes ready to jump into because we have to leave the house even earlier than usual so that I can get to a meeting.

I had to laugh a little as Tucker called me out earlier. He and Willy were doing there usual thing of playing tag and being too loud, so I guess I was a bit snippy in trying to calm the boy and the dog down. I heard Tucker sort of reply to Willy, "someone's a bit grumpy, aren't we Willy!" I just had to laugh at his response. I pretty sure he has heard me make a similar comment to him. I guess he listens more than I realize.

Hello Cupcake

Today is the last day of our Christmas vacation. I am usually ready to go back to work after being home for two weeks. Tucker is actually looking forward to going back to school and seeing his friends again. Hopefully this semester will be better than last semester. He is very excited because he was chosen to be the "Star" student for this coming week. We worked on his "Star" student poster this morning, so he is ready to go! I, however, could use a few more days home with Tucker. We have had so much fun reading, playing with new toys, and playing games on the Wii. I have actually read 5 books, but now that will come to a halt. I tend to not be able to put a book down until it is finished, so I can't really fit in reading all night with the whole working thing.
I have also spent a lot of time cooking, and have actually enjoyed it. This morning, I started thinking about a fabulous cake that my Aunt Carol used to make at our family Christmas gatherings. It was a white cake with white frosting and coconut sprinkled all over it. I think that she called it a Martha Washington cake, but I just remember it being a yummy, pretty, coconut cake. I found the recipe in my cookbook, so I decided to try to make it. After making the batter (from scratch...not from a box!) I decided that we needed cupcakes instead of a 3 layer cake. I figured it would be easier for our family to eat. Once the cupcakes were baked and decorated, Tucker and John quickly grabbed a one. Tucker really didn't like it much; he is more of a chocolate cupcake lover, as he explained to me. John seemed to think that they were pretty good. I haven't tried one yet, but I did have plenty of nibbles of the frosting and cake batter, at least that tasted pretty good. Oh well, my cooking streak is over...back to work, which means the kitchen is now on vacation. :0)

Deer Golf

John had won a free trip to Horseshop Bay resort outside Marble Falls, Tx in a golf tournament a few months ago. It was about to expire so we decided to go as a family (as Tucker would say). It included one night at a hotel and 2 rounds of golf. We left early Sunday morning and as soon as we pulled in, we played our first round of golf at Apple Rock. As we were checking in for our starting time, Tucker and I looked out on the 18th green and saw about 10 deer eating grass in the fairway! It was an amazing site to us, but as we started talking to the locals, they said that they see this everyday. Throughout our 18 holes of golf we pretty much saw deer at least 16 different times. Sometimes they were in the fairway or appeared where we needed to tee off. They were always in at least groups of 2-3 and sometimes even more. I just never got tired of seeing the beautiful creatures!

John played all 18 holes, while Tucker and I would have a teeing off contest. We had a great time just being together and being outside in the cool, nice weather. Tucker drove the golf cart a little bit and only tried to wreck it a couple of times! Luckily not many other players were out that day, so it seemed that it was just us and the deer.





After golfing, we went back to the hotel and checked in. We knew that they had a heated pool and hot tub, so Tucker was ready to get in the water. After loading up on hot chocolate, we jumped into the pool and swam for a little while. Tucker found a couple of girls that were there as well and had a fun time swimming with them. Such a ladies man! After swimming, we cleaned up and went to dinner in the hotel restaurant. We had a nice dinner and then went to bed. We had to get ready for our second day of golf and the trip back home! The second day, we played RamRock. This time we had a playing partner, who was a big fan of Texas Tech. Tucker asked me if he was the man that was on the popcorn box...He thought that he looked like Orville Redenbacher. Even though I told him that his name was Glenn, Tucker still positive that this man made popcorn. We didn't see as many deer the second day, but the course was MUCH busier, too. We probably drove Glenn crazy, but we still had a very good time. I even outdrove John and Glenn on a couple of holes! (Although John was teeing off from the Pro box, while I was on the Ladies tee box.) I almost like golf now!