Spiderwick Chronicles Are True!

And a big fat thank you to the director of Spiderwick Chronicles. Tonight we watched it with Ty. He saw it in the movies and had to leave after 30 minutes because he was scared but tonight he wanted to rent it. He promised he wouldn't be scared watching it at home with mommy. So we watched it. Kaycie's mermaid movie ended early and she caught the last 20 minutes of the movie...the scariest part. Anyhoo, after the movie both kids were scared and didn't want to go to bed. I tried explaining that the movie was pretend but could tell they didn't get it. So a lightbulb went off over my head. The DVD's these days have "Making of" special features on them. So I explained to Ty that we were going to watch how the movie is pretend. I go to the special features menu and see "Spiderwick Chronicles: Are True". Thinking it was a sarcastic reference to the "making of", I clicked on it. On comes the director...perfect, he'll explain it. He says "Hi I'm [so&so], the director of The Spiderwick Chronicles. This movie is true. All the goblins and creatures you've seen are real. Everyone working on this movie has seen them...." and on and on he goes. The words might not be exact but that's the jist of what he said. I couldn't believe it. Ty said "See mom! It is true." Thanks director [so & so].

Scott's New Office

I've been meaning to take pictures of Scott's new office for a while. Luckily his equipment company took some and posted them on their website. I hope they don't mind if I borrow them.

Check In.

Check Out.

Inside Operatory

Outside Operatory

Part of Lobby

2nd Thoughts?

So Scott's family has a family website and I posted the bus story on there since a lot of them aren't blog savvy. This was one of my sister-in-laws responses...

"I fell asleep on the bus once and they forgot to check for me. When I woke up I was in one of the bus parking lots and the bus had been locked up. I pushed down the window and tried getting help. Eventually some one walking by saw me and came and got me out. All I remember is that the bus driver (who was an employee at my day care) had to take me to the circus for making a mistake."

I wonder if I should be having 2nd thoughts about this bus thing? Luckily Ty's not prone to falling asleep during the day. Also, does anyone else besides me have a problem with the end of the story? Bus driver taking a kid to the circus. Um, no.

Hello School Bus!

So in the last couple days I decided to break down and let Ty ride the school bus. He only asked me every day for the last 2 weeks. The whole pick up routine at his school was getting very tiresome and was always guaranteed to make you nice and sweaty. So today we headed to the bus stop and I waited with him. He saw some kids in his class which made me feel better. Then the bus came and I freaked out a little. We got in line and I told the bus driver who was my age and had a goatee that Ty was a "first timer". He didn't seem to care. Ty sat down in the very first row and waved out the window. I sat there for a minute and then decided to beat the bus to the school and watch Ty get off. You know...make sure he found his way to kindergarten land. I thought for sure there would be a teacher or someone helping the kindergarten kids to their area of the school. No one met him though. Like a big boy he just followed the herd of kids through the gates (there was a teacher making sure all the kids went through the gate). He didn't see me spying on him during all of this. So I made my way to the k-playground and waited for him to show up. And show up he did. What was I worrying about? He said "Hi Mom! That was fun!" And the afternoon was so much nicer. I left my house 40 minutes later than usual to go to the park at the corner. He got off the bus with a big smile on his face and I breathed a sigh of relief. Tonight he told me that in the morning I don't have to wait at the bus stop with him...I can just drop him off and leave. I don't know if I'm ready for that yet.

I got a new look...just for me!

So my friend Tamara overhauled her blog and it was so cute. So I asked the very talented darcy at Graphically Designing to help me with mine. She's really good at what she does and with my design ideas and her design ideas and talent for putting it all together in the blog world, we came up with a unique, and if I do say so myself, awesome blog. Thanks Darcy!

A Look Back

My friend Tif posted her little baby's first haircut and it reminded me of Ty's. This is a before and after at about 10 or 11 months old. I always laugh when I see it.

First Day of School!

I don't know what to think about this day. Our house seems so empty with just Kaycie in it. No brother to tease. No screaming. I can't believe Ty is old enough to be in school now. He's gonna love it though.

Video my sister made.

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