Day 316---Tuesday

My car is old, and has carried me many places. I thought this number pattern would be worth mentioning---98989. I might not get to show you the 100000 during this year of photos!

Day 315---Monday

This is B's third grade school photo. The outfit and the hairdo were all her ideas, so it's just as she wanted it. She was happy with the photo. Good thing---this fall shot is the one that goes in the yearbook.

I had to scan it in---not that I want to infringe on any copyright Lifetouch has! As a commercial for Life touch, I have to say I have always gotten good photos from them, and I really like that each family can pick the background color and they add it in later. And so affordable! They really do take great school photos.

Day 314----Sunday

This was taken during The Great American Melting Pot, from J's show this past weekend---and this coming weekend, too! The show is Schoolhouse Rock, Live, Junior. J wears this costume for two songs (at least), and he was disappointed his hat looked like this when he saw the pictures. In his first song, the BIG part he wanted, he's the Bill. (I'm just a bill, yes, I'm only a bill, and I've got as far as Capitol Hill . . .) I'm glad to get a picture of the Statue of Liberty, too. This young lady is a friend to J; they really share a sense of humor (that frankly, few people possess!).

Congrats, J, on a job well done!

J did a blog post with some of the songs. It's long and weird, according to his commenters (classmates), but funny.

Day 313---Saturday

The second day at camp, the Parks and Rec majors at A&M worked a renaissance faire for us and we stayed outside all day. Here, B made a candle. She chose to make it a lot bigger, right after this. There were a lot of things to make and do all day. I am still tired today from all this activity! I will have to make a post about this on the other blog with all the cool pictures.

Day 312---Friday

We went camping on Friday night with our troop. There were 5 girls. This night we got our tents up, and it got dark before we'd even build a fire. we were out in the woods---but not far out from town. Actually, all night I coud hear cars on the highway, and for a while, airplanes (we were near our small airport).

This picture was in the morning, really. This was our camp, and the girls were watching B draw.

Day 311---Thursday

My class has a little hamster, but we got to visit with Roxanne, one of my co-workers' son's pets. The kids loved her, nd she was so cute when she held a cracker and nibbled it.

Day 310---Wednesday

B was climbing a tree after school. Again, we're trying to kill some time before J gets out!

Day 309---Tuesday

I learned a lot with J doing this project, an altar for Dia de las Muertas---Day of the Dead. It's a tradition for people in Mexico or other Latin American countries to set up these displays in their homes. J did his project on his Papa, who passed away in August.
The altars contain:
A photo
A cross
Food for the spirits returning (fruit and pan de muertos bread)---I thought it was interesting that the living are welcome to eat the food dedicated to the loved one. The spirit would return and eat the spirit of the food, and therefore, the food is there with no nutritional value.
A candle---and maybe an extra for a forgotten soul
Papel picado---cut paper; J and I made some miniature ones for the box
things to freshen up from his long trip from the spirit world---in this box, a comb
some candy that Papa would like
other things from Papa's life---a coin and a ribbon that had his Masonic symbols on them, and he used red and white colors to represent Axtell, where he lived a long time and was on the school board for a long time.

All in all, we wouldn't really believe in this spirit coming back to our home quite like this, but it was a good exercise in gathering things that were meaningful and special to us.

Day 308---Monday

Some of the Korean kids at my school.

They are very cutte. This little girl is a Mommy to all the kids in her class. The little boy in the striped shirt was crying because someone was hitting him (I think). She was comforting him.

Day 307---Sunday

This is J with a little something he had bought at a garage sale in our neighborhood the day before. He's very into Pandas, so he bought this along with a few other animals. The seller wouldn't break up the set so he could buy just the panda one! ;-)

Pandas---this too will pass!

Day 306---Saturday

I pick this one as the official picture of the day---B got to be a "ball kid" for the A&M women's team. This really meant she was a sweat-wiper-upper on the court.

But she enjoyed it, and got her face up on the big screen that day.

But also of note was who we were playing---the Chinese National Team. You can't tell really well from the picture, but these are some tall women! Imagine how they would stand out in their country!

In the end, the Aggies won. Whoop!

Day 305---Friday

The kids are on top of Larry's truck---tailgating before an Aggie soccer game. This was the last game of the season before playoffs, and our women's team is doing relaly well. J and I went home after the food and Lar and B stayed for the game.

Day 304---Thursday

B stayed home one more day from school, since she ran a fever in the night again. (I should not have let her go out to trick-or-treat!!!) Here's some of her body-parts candy.

Day 303---Wednesday Halloween

Happy Halloween! I have done this 2 years now---set up a little candle display in front of our glass door for Trick-or-Treaters to see when they walk up. J made a potion (in the glass bowl). Anyone without a costume was supposed to drink some to get some candy. No one had to---but one kid only got one little sucker from J!

Day 302---Tuesday

Happy Birthday, J!

We went to a hay maze, and J made a little video of his walk through it. His birthday, being a school night and busy with Troupe and homework and "stuff" wasn't all that extra-ordinary. I ordered Double Dave's Peproni Rolls for his dinner (they're 2 for one on Tuesdays, too!). I still owe him one pumpkin pie for his birthday dessert (in lieu of cake).

Here's the Hay Maze video:

Day 301---Monday

The Spooky Old Tree

Day 300---Sunday

Can you guess where this Q was? I have decided to try to collect the whole alphabet with my camera. I think I could use them to spell out my name for a header or something on MySpace. I don't know. It's something to keep me amused.

Day 299---Saturday

It's our church fall festival, and here's the sack race. The boy who's not my kid won this heat! It was a beautiful fall day here.

Day 298---Friday

B and I killed some time between school pick-ups by playing at the park. It's cheaper than going to McDonald's! (And less calories) B gets out at 2:45 and J gets out at 3:40. Ug! It's time during my day I can't get anything done, and we just have to waste time, mostly. I like going to the park now that it is cooler! ;-)

Day 297---Thursday

Since we did letter I this week, we made ice cream. Everyone took a turn stirring!

It also was orange day at school!

Day 296---Wednesday

I wanted to show this easy, fun activity from my classroom. We put bubble wrap on the easel and painted it. Then we put a piece of construction paper on top of it, and made a print. The cool thing this month is, we're focusing on circles, and it makes circle prints. You can see the end results hanging on the board behind this student.

This little girl spent a long time painting the bubble wrap, painting every circle before she printed onto her paper. She has a pretty ponytail, I think!

Day 295---Tuesday

This one I like because there is such a genuine expression on each of their faces. J has a mouthful of chicken McNuggets. B has a blue tongue for some reason!, and her head was in motion, laughing.

Day 294---Monday

Monday night, B slept with 9 braids in her hair so she could have "crazy hair" for school the next day. It was "Scare off Drugs" day at school. We didn't get a picture of it the next day. :-( We just let out the braids and pulled it out of her face. Kinda frizzy! But fun and cute (not scary to me!).

Day 293---Sunday

Whew! I just did more than a week of pictures!!

Today I got to go to Larry's show with BV Troupe. It was a grown-up/Theater High production of Carol Burnett sketches and songs from some of the guests that were on her showat some time.

Larry did no singing, but he was in 3 skits. This was this most memorable character. He played "Gaylord" a character that Harvey Korman did. You can guess what he was like by the name and by his costume! It was in a recurring CB skit called "As the Stomach Turns."

That is my dress on the girl on the left---I bought it for a 70s party before I had kids.

I took this photo with no flash!

Day 292---Saturday

B would love to have a little sister. So we have to borrow them form others. This little one is the daughter of one of my co-workers.

Today was our school's benefit Lunch/Golf tourney/Silent and Live Auction. My pre-school was raising some good money this way! I was designated the face painter. It was fun, and a beautiful day.

Day 291---Friday

This was really Saturday--but I have more for Saturday!

b and I made some brownies and she's licking the bowl. The shower cap was her idea.

Day 290---Thursday

J took this one of himself taking a picture of a mirror. He was pleased with the result!

Day 289---Wednesday

This was just a weird moment at school---they were each taking something from their lunch and putting it on their heads. One boy put the ham from his sandwich on his hair! Had to stop that.

Day 288---Tuesday

We got a class pet on Tuesday. We took a vote, and her name is displayed there on the cage. Pictures of her later! She's getting used to us now---she runs very fast!

Day 287---Monday

B and I went to McDonald's this week. We are drawn there by the Monopoly game, and she's pulling off a game piece right there. In the foreground is B's story about Ru-du, a mouse.