Music to My Ears

With the Stanley Cup finals going on....all we do is watch hockey. This is just a little more than this Texas girl can handle! While watching the game, not only are we pausing and rewinding to watch special moves, plays, and fights (Thank God for Tivo!), but John and Tucker also have to play their own hockey game between periods. The area between the front door and back door is the "hockey rink". Once again, a little too much for this mama to handle.

When John or Tucker scores, they each have a theme song that they sing out. Tucker's song is Katy Perry's "Waking Up in Vegas" song chorus, and even more specifically..."shut up and put your $ where your mouth is, that's that what you get for waking up in Vegas". When John scores, he starts singing "Just a Friend" by Biz Markie.

I found myself in the kitchen playing around on the laptop and trying to ignore the two boys, when I hear Tucker just singing at the top of his lungs his "theme" song. Rather annoyed, I go into the entryway to see what provoked such a loud, eardrum busting outburst with his song rendition. He just looked at me and smiled and sort of shrugged his shoulders, "I was singing in surround sound." All I could do was laugh out loud. I am betting that he kinder teacher will really miss him over the summer. :0)

Do you feel sorry for me?

I guess that John felt that Tucker was having too much fun with all of the Photo Booth business. He had to figure out a way to get in the process. I really don't know where I was when they were busy making this precious gem.

Just wanted you all to see what I deal with every day?

Anyone what to join this craziness?

Sports News

As it turns out, Tucker and the macbook are getting to be really good friends. He is making little "shows" daily. I guess I am now the show "producer", so I took the liberty to do some cutting an editing for his new sports newscast. He is going to have to work on his isight camera shots. I was in the kitchen when he was working on this, but he didn't need any prompting to talk. This is a little long (even after my editing), but it is worth watching. He actually did this a couple of weekends ago. I was actually surprised at the different subjects that he talked about because they happend so long ago (like the Super Bowl). I guess when you are young, your mind just soaks it all in. I just finally sat down long enough to put it all together.

I swear this child talks just to hear himself. However, I think that he gets it naturally. My grandmama can tell you all kinds of stories about me and my mouth. I used to go with her when she would get her hair done at the beauty salon. She swears that she could never get me to stop talking either. Hopefully Tucker will turn his blabbering into something positive one day. Maybe Tucker is a sportscaster in training...Channel 8's Dale Hanson needs to watch out!

Early Mother's Day Shout out

So, I am sitting in my hotel room in Austin trying to clean out some of the videos that Tucker has recently created when I come across this little jewel. Now that he knows how to make videos, that is pretty much all he does when he gets on my computer. I wish I could share them all with you, but you would get tired of the faces and crazy things that he says and does. This one is sweet and I actually don't even know when he created it! Good thing we have a bunch of tech savvy grandparents so that they can hear/see Tucker's shout out.

Mac Attack

I showed Tucker how to use Photobooth on my Mac laptop. Here is a little nugget of his creation. I am afraid that there is no stopping him now since he found out how easy it was to record himself. I can see lots of silliness in the future so just get ready. :)

American Idol

Tucker and I like to talk to each other about out day as we drive home. I ask about his day and then he asks about my day. Most often, I share what a great day I have had, but it has been a hard week this week. One of those weeks, where you are only at your desk about an hour total and otherwise are in meetings in various buildings all over the district. I have also been interviewing for a new tech facilitator. We had some great applicants which also makes for very tough choices.
So today was the day that I made a final decision for the new hire and offered the applicant the job. I was explaining the process Tucker and that I had to call some of the other applicants and tell them that they were not the "chosen one." This always makes me feel bad and I really hate that part of my job! I was telling Tucker that one person gets the job and four others have to be told that they didn't get the job. Tucker listened intently and asked questions. After a few moments of silence, he says, "You know, that is like American Idol. You have a winner and everyone else gets voted off ." I told him yes, but I was ALOT nicer than Simon.

Last Las Vegas Post

Our last day in Las Vegas had Tucker and I looking for things to do. We decided to visit Ethel M chocolate boutique at the Flamingo Hotel. I actually wanted to visit the factory, but we never actually made it there. I had visions of Tucker and I trying to take chocolate off of the conveyor belt like Lucy and Ethel from "I Love Lucy" show. Tucker and I would be fine with shoving chocolates in our mouths! At the "chocolate boutique" we picked out a box of chocolates with lemon filling, coconut filling, caramel filling, peanut butter filling, and chocolate truffles. We loved them all, but the lemon and caramel ones were my favorite! With our belly's full of chocolate, we then moved on to Jimmy Buffet's Margaritaville and relaxed on a couple of painted chairs. It was a great place to watch the people go by. I didn't blow out a flip flop, but I still wasted some time away. :0)

Later in the day, we went to the Hawaiin Tropic Cafe at Planet Hollywood.

While we were there, in walked a young girl who looked really familiar, but I couldn't place her. She went on to sit in a cabana at the restaurant. When John looked at her, he immediately proclaimed that she was "bikini girl" from this year's American Idol. He would know...he is absolutely in to American Idol, which actually surprises me a bit. While I am all over reality T.V., he doesn't get into TV much at all unless it football or golf. He will watch a movie, but he will not watch any series of shows except for American Idol. When it is on, basically the world is on hold. So with his American Idol knowledge, he KNEW that the girl was "bikini girl". He and Tucker were brave enough to go to her table to get a picture (all for Tucker, right?) Sometimes being a dad is really hard work. So that was our brush with fame while were in Las Vegas, if you can call it that. Tucker was excited about meeting "Makini girl" as he called her.