Brains vs. Beauty

Who says you can't have it all? Sydney has been working so hard on her letters. Here's my very studious child working on letter E.

Now here's the beauty part. We all know Sydney has her very own "Punky Brewster" style. She loves to pick out her own clothes and has no sense of "matching". Here's her outfit today. The best part is not even captured in this picture. The one white,satin bow was not enough. She found a red bow to wear right next to the white one in the middle of her hair. LOVELY! Too bad it wasn't picture day at school.

OUCH!

Sam fell of a ride-on toy at school today and got a HUGE bump on his head. These pictures don't really do it justice. Apparently when it happened it was even worse. We even had to pick him up from school.

Diamond in the rough!

Dinner conversation tonight:

Syd: Mom, I don't want you to call me Sydney anymore.
Me: Really? Okay, what do you want me to call you.
Syd: Diamond.

Surely she's not hanging out with strippers in pre-k???

Dinner Conversation

Sydney had a color change at school today. For the 2 readers of this blog that aren't teachers, this is a color card system for behavior. Green is good, yellow is a warning, orange is bad, and red is really bad. Sydney went to orange today. She's been to red so don't be too shocked. She actually does stay on green most days and for Sydney, yellow's pretty okay in our book. So here's how our dinner conversation went:

Me: So you had a rough day, huh?
Sydney: Yeah, I did.
Me: What happened?
Sydney: My listening voice went on vacation.
Me: Really? Wow!
Sydney: Yes, and it hasn't come back.

I hope this listening voice returns soon.

Family Pics

We had family pitures taken Saturday. Click on nataliekphotography in the "Blogs I Read" section to see a sneak peek of our pictures.

Big Hair, Big Fun, Big Teeth

Now you must be interested in this post just by the title. This post could not be any more boring as you will surely see if you keep reading. It is a sad day when your kid brushing his teeth makes it to the blog. That is exactly how boring things are around our house. It just so happens the camera was in the bathroom (I know you are wondering but I don't know why) so I snapped a few pics. Syd's hair was just too funny not to capture on camera - I'm thinking this camera in the bathroom thing is really working for me. Finally on Sunday we went to the park. Nothing big like the title suggests... just the park.

I'm not really sure how Syd's hair got like this. I just kept poofing it up (no teasing required, it's actually that puffy).

More - Sam has mastered the baby sign of more
And please - when this kid starts rubbing his chest for please, it is really hard to say know. It is so darn cute.

Sydney has on the "extra" outfit that has been in her school cubbie for a year. You all know I am way too cheap to have a cute outfit in the cubbie as a back up. These shorts are hideous!

Big boy brushing his teeth.

Watch This

I rarely forward cute emails or funny stories... most of you know me and I don't get all sappy over things like that. But someone sent this to me and it's really pretty good. This is from DISD convocation (first day back for teachers, "rah-rah let's have a great year" kinda stuff). If you have a few minutes, watch it (click on the link below).

http://www.dallasisd.org/keynote.htm