My April Fools Day Prank

Ok, so I'm not always so nice. Yesterday, I posted a thread on my board that said, "OMG -- BFP this morning". Some were not at all convinced. A couple of other replies were, "darn, I thought for sure it was true!".

It's not. So, I'll have to plan something different for next year. I managed not to get scammed at all, which was a pretty good thing, well, for me anyway.

A little bragging

Poor Anna hasn't had any pictures posted, now that's just not right!



Showing off her pretty Easter dress!



Being a silly girl!



Sitting with Granny & Granddaddy.



The obligatory under the tree shot, as long as she had her milk, she was ok with that!

It's March Already?

You're making that up! I do not believe you. Easter has already come and gone, the wildflowers are blooming and I have so many things coming up I can't believe it.

Let's see, April 5 is a shower for Robert & Laura. That should be a fun drive to and from Dallas with the sisters. Although, if any of them decide to procrastinate, I will be having a fun drive to and from Dallas with Anna. Laura's mother, Anne, (yes, Anne with an e) has invited us all for dinner after the shower. Everyone is very excited about that.

April 19, Laura and her mom are coming down to meet the whole family for a get together/shower at John & Sue's. When we're not showering, I need to take Laura and Anna to look at pretty little dresses for Anna. How fun will that be!

April 30, is the 2nd anniversary of Anna's birth. Let's not even go there! I haven't started planning anything for that, so I'd better get on the stick!

May 19, Amanda graduates from Emerson. OMG, I cannot believe it. It really seems like just yesterday she was going to kindergarten. I can't wait to go up there and see Boston later in the spring (for them anyway). By then, the tulips may be spent there too, who knows. Robert didn't have a graduation, this will be an exciting experience for me, although I know I'll be crying when her name is called.

June 9 is the big wedding date, in San Diego. Wow, hard to concept that I'm going to have a married child and a child who is young enough she won't remember the wedding.

All in all, I think that's a good bit for a 2 month period. What do you think?

Jingle Bells

Anna had her first program the other night. It was the most precious thing, she and the other kids mostly forgot what they were supposed to be doing until they were prompted by thier teachers, but there wasn't a "MAMA!" to be heard from the stage. I was so proud. I was trying to remember the first programs of my other children and realized I could not. My experiences with my Anna is so much different from my experience with Robert & Amanda. To begin with, I was home with them full time until Robert was 3 and Amanda was 2. So, I guess neither of them were on any stages until way after that. After I had no choice but to go to work, they were in a home setting for a couple of years and then they were pretty close to going to school.

Robert's first program was in Kindergarten. They sang "Down by the Bay". We had gone to Seaworld on vacation that summer and he had a Shamu float. He had such a hard time keeping the little float up, and kindergarteners are just the cutest things! Everything is sooo serious for them. Robert got a certificate for perfect attendance for the year at that event. If he read this he'd be surprised I remember, because I would be he does not.

Amanda's was also in Kindergarten. I don't remember anythign about it, except that the principal came in and asked the children what they wanted to be when they grew up. The little girls wanted to be nurses and teachers by and large and the boys wanted to be firemen mostly. But not my Amanda, she had serious goals. She wanted to be President. She'll be 35 in 2020 and so any presidential year after that, look for the name, Amanda Wade. Hopefully, by then the country will not be as afraid of strong minded women who have a brain and know what to do with it.

But in the meantime, I'll have my little 47 second video of my little surprise package shaking her little arms with bells on them and shaking her little bell. And look at that little angelic smile. That one was for Daddy, mommy got arms up and Ma Ma. Fortunately, the teachers are very good at peeling unwilling little girls off their mommies without bringing about any tears.