Smurfville

Plano Children's Theatre has classes for elementary school age kids on up. One of Payton's classmates sent out an invite to her end of semester performance of Smurfville. Payton really wanted to go and one of her friends down the street wanted to go, so I took them both (plus Ian) tonight.

The skit was only about 10-15 minutes long, but super-cute. There were a couple of missed entrances and lines, but for their first performance, I think the 6 year old performers did great!

Ian's School Christmas Program

Ian did a great job at his school's Christmas Program. All the 3 and 4 year olds sang about 5 songs. They sounded pretty good. Ian stayed focused for most of the program. By the last song, there were a couple of yawns and funny hand motions going on...

I did not have front row seats, as the video seems to show. Payton and a bunch of other kids got to sit down front on the floor. I let Payton take my camera phone :) She did pretty well considering she's six :) At one point I was worried that she would just make one long video of the entire performance. But no, she recorded each song, individually.

This video is the shortest one she took. The other videos are of the songs and end up being huge files. I have to take them into iMovie to edit, but haven't got the energy to do that yet, so.....here you go.

All I want for Christmas....

is my two front teeth....

my two front teeth....

see my two front teeth!

:)

And the occasional whistle when she talks is super-cute!

Cowboy Stadium Tour

Scott, Ian, Han, Joop and Opa went on the Cowboy Stadium Tour. They seemed to be very impressed by the enormity of it all. Ian enjoyed running around on the field. He took a liking to the tour guide and stayed with him for most of the tour.

Unfortunately the tour guide took advantage of Ian's trust a little bit. The tour guide wanted to show just how big the football pads were and decided to use Ian as a model. Without much warning, Ian ended up in the pads....

He wasn't too happy about it....

 On the way out, Fox News was interviewing people about the Cowboys. Scott and Leo stepped up and gave an opinion.

 We recorded the news to see if they were on, but alas, they were not.

Which is probably a good thing. According to Scott, Leo told the Fox News that Philadelphia has a better team than Dallas :)

Han and Joop Visit

We've been quite busy this past week. We've had Oma, Opa, Han and Joop (from the Netherlands!), and Kate, Kennedy, and Collin - all come visit us this last week and weekend. Whew!

It was nice to visit with everyone. Some of the sight seeing tours included the Celina Balloon Festival, visiting South Fork Ranch (from the show Dallas), and touring the Dallas Cowboy Stadium.

Here are some pics from South Fork. 

I didn't get to go on this excursion, but evidently Han was a big fan of Dallas. 

Everyone really enjoyed it - even Ian! I think he really liked the longhorn cattle :)

Tooth Fairy Visits Ian!

On Monday, Ian came out of school with one less tooth in his mouth!

He was very excited. He said that during music, he was wiggling it with his finger and it just fell out. He said there was a little blood.

Ian's only 4-1/2 which is a little early to lose his first tooth. But there is a story behind the loss. Back in May or so, Payton and Ian were climbing the stairs to go to bed. Payton somehow kicked her foot backwards and hit Ian in the mouth. Lots of crying and a little blood in sued and Ian's tooth was loose.  The dentist said that he had an abscess under it and that it wouldn't heal. But the dentist thought he would lose it sooner than later, so he didn't want to pull it at the time. The abscess thing worried me a little bit, so I tried to encourage to wiggle it :)

Happy Halloween!

The kids were so excited yesterday, they were almost literally bouncing off the walls. They could not sit still or be quiet - and they hadn't even had any candy yet. The anticipation of the evening's festivities was almost too much for my two little ones - Halloween! - where you get to dress up in fun costumes, beg for candy, and actually get to eat it!

Payton was Aurora this year and Ian was Bumblebee. They went trick or treating with some friends, escorted by Daddy, while I got to stay home to hand out candy.

After their acquired enough loot to make their pumpkin baskets heavy enough to complain about, they came home.

Then they had fun answering our door and handing out candy to other trick or treaters.

This was the pumpkin we carved this year. Payton helped, a little. She stuck her hand in to retrieve seeds about  four times. I told the kids, that if they didn't help, I wasn't going to carve pumpkins. Ian did not care. He sat by and put together a Lego thing.

The pumpkin was Payton's design....

Then she decided to, ah....dress her up.

Pumpkin Jester?

Pumpkin Pirate?

Pumpkin Princess?

Happy Halloween!