Life, Blogs, and Birthdays

I have been trying since Friday to finish a post about the Fall Festival that the kids went to, and I can NOT find time to finish it.

Part of the reason is my wonderful, fabulous dad came and picked up both kids on Saturday, and they played with my wonderful, fabulous parents at their house for most of the day on Saturday.

I honestly can not remember the last time I was away from both kids for that long. (6 hours) Well - probably for the last Junior Miss program. Funny, because I spent most of the time Saturday that the kids were gone working on the choreography for the Fitness routine for the upcoming Junior Miss program, and got it FINISHED. Huge weight off my shoulders. I still need to really learn it, fine-tune it, video it, and get it ready to distribute to the contestants...... BUT, the major choreography is done. I had to tell two friends from Birmingham who were in town that they couldn't come by to visit, but I got it finished! (I still feel bad R&M!)

Sweet Tooter was really quite distressed when GaGa dropped them off and tried to actually leave Toot at home ::gasp:: with his mother. He ran back to the door and grabbed hold of GaGa's neck and held on for dear life. Saying "eeeeee", his non-speaking way of saying "don't go GaGa! You're way more fun than Mommy!" I've never seen either of the kids react that way to someone trying to leave.

Mom, Dad - THANK YOU for that much needed and MUCH appreciated break. I know the kids loved being with you as much as I loved the time to get some things accomplished. It was a sacrifice of time for you, and I appreciate it so much.

Mr. Tooter has a birthday tomorrow - poor thing still hasn't had a proper birthday party because his birthday is so close to Thanksgiving, and he still isn't going to get one this year. But, he's turning two, so he doesn't really know what's going on. Next year, though, we'll have some big fun for him!