Emily and Connor had fun playing together today.  Then we picked up Anthony, Christian, and Carysa from school. Anthony got his first report card for this year.  He got all A's.  Tonight he's going to the Seymour High School football game to watch Corban play.  He went with Celina, Christian, Connor and Caleb.  Emily and I were planning on going, but with all the excitement today she missed her nap and was getting cranky.  She was so cranky, she refused to get in the tub....until Daddy got in.

Last night we went up Bluff mountain to get pictures of the sunset. This afternoon the kids and I watched The Jungle Book together.  We're reading Anthony's wolf book for cub scouts.  It says that the man who originally started the cub scouts based it on a story from the movie.  We read the short story from the book and then watched the movie.  Then Anthony called his den leader to recite the cub scout promise, part of his requirements to earn his bobcat badge. We only practiced it twice so I was surprised he learned it so fast.  I'm so proud of him.  Tomorrow I'm watching Connor.  I'm sure Emily will be excited.  Our first event for scouting is Saturday morning.  We're going to a Civil war reenactment and then Anthony should be earning loops for his belt by shooting bb guns and bow and arrows.

Junior

Playing the "as if" game.  Pretending to be seagulls

playing in the dirt instead of listening to the fireman

Spring 2010 - when Anthony first met Junior at the pet store

Helping build Junior's cage

The picture we buried with Junior

Today has been a sad day for our family.  Anthony's pet rabbit, Junior died.  We found him this morning right before school.  We let Anthony stay home from school. He joined Emily today for library day.  It's fire safety month so the Seymour fire department brought a fire truck for the kids to see.  Later we had a small funeral for Junior and buried him in the back yard next to our garden.  Anthony built him a wooden cross and put a picture of himself and Junior in his box.  It broke our hearts to see him cry.  He handled it better than we would have expected and we couldn't be more proud of him. This on top of finding out recently that our neighbors Carysa and Connor will be moving away in a few days has made him pretty sad.  It's made all of us pretty sad actually. 

We made a craft today to try to help keep his mind off of things.  We made owls out of paper plates and later went to his first den meeting for cub scouts. He had a lot of fun there.  The boys got to play on the playground.  Then they played 'the name game' while playing catch.  The parents played too.  It was actually kind of fun.  Then the boys had a snack and one of the mothers (Kaden's mom, Jamie) brought in instructions on how to make different paper airplanes.  Most of the boys took off with ones the Jamie had already made as examples. A few attempted to make their planes while their parents either helped (did most the work) or made made them instead of the boys.  Not Anthony, he didn't need or want help.  A few minutes later he was off to join the other boys, with a plane he'd made himself.  At one point in the meeting, he sat back on a bench and said, "This is the life."

Anthony joined Cub Scouts this month.  We've gone to sign ups and one pack meeting so far.  His friend Huck from CCD is in his den, and also Kaden from his kindergarten class.  Saturday he got to get into the car races for free if he wore his uniform.  He looked so handsome. Grandpa took him and Anthony can't wait to go back. 

So far, second grade is going great.  He's gotten 100% on his first three spelling tests.  And extra credit for knowing his vocabulary words too. 

Yesterday while taking a shower, Emily sat on her stool and serenaded me while she colored.  She sang Twinkle Twinkle Little Star and the alphabet song.  She reached in the shower and said, "Here you go Mommy." She was handing me one of her bath toys.

Trouble and more trouble

Emily got the pizza box off the stove tonight and when I went to put it away she said, "MINE MINE!"

We only left the room for a minute, to find Emily had used a tube of diaper rash cream (again) as finger paint.  When Anthony found out, he wanted to join in.  So I let him.  If you can't beat em right?

Sunday was the 10th anniversary of 9/11, they day that terrorist hijacked airplanes and crashed them thru the twin towers (The World Trade Center buildings in New York City)  We watched the specials on the History channel and Daddy and I were both thinking how strange it was the our kids will read about that day in their history books at school.

Monday, we watched Connor.  We took Emily and Connor to the first story time at the library.  Connor had a good time.  I asked Connor to take Emily's hand and walk her up to the front to grab an ice cream cone number to add to the chart. He took her hand, but then she walked him to the front to the lollipop basket. She thought library was over.  Both Connor and Emily were standing at the front holding hands looking confused.  It was so funny.  When we got home, I put them both down for a nap. I told Emily to tell Connor good night.  Instead she made fish lips and leaned in for a kiss.  Connor backed up and made a face.  I told him it was ok, he could give her a kiss if he wanted to.  He said "But I don't want to" in his cute little southern accent. 

Anthony's school was having an event at school.  U.S Cellular is donating $150,000 to which ever school gets the most votes.  For every vote you turned in, your child got to have their picture taken with a character.  They had Clifford the big red dog, Cinderella, Belle, The Texas Roadhouse armadillo, and the shark from Ripley's aquarium. Emily was excited to see Clifford but wasn't to excited to get his picture taken with him.  Then we had spaghetti dinner at school and watched two plays put on by a 1st and 2nd grade class.  Emileigh, who Anthony's known since day care was in one the first play, The three little pigs.  She was the cutest little pig.  Then we watched the 1st graders perform the same play, but from the wolf's point of view. It was hilarious.