Family Memories

Honey, there is no free lunch . . .

Sydney has a great friend at school, Haley.  Haley is in Sydney's kindergarten class and Haley's mom is the teacher of the other kindergarten class next door.  This makes it kinda handy for finding out what is going on at school and the story behind, the story if you know what I mean.  Today was one of those days that I had to take advantage of the situation, call Haley's mom and get "the story." 

For the last couple weeks Sydney keeps coming home and talking about the breakfast at school.  She has mentioned it a couple of times but I guess with all of the other things going on around here I just kinda filed it somewhere in my brain.  Yesterday she started complaining about how the bus is late  and she is getting to school later than normal.  Today she was downright frustrated about it, I asked her why and she said because when I get to the "free" breakfast line we are so late that all the chocolate milk is gone.  Of course this peaked my interest because nothing is free and so I asked, what do you mean it is free?  She said, "yes mom it is free, Haley showed me how to get it, you just go and get in line and get the free breakfast but the bus has been so late that I haven't been able to get it and when I do get there the chocolate milk is gone. "  So I pressed a little further and said, "so you just go and get in line and they give you food?  Is anyone else in line or are you and Haley sneaking into the cafeteria and getting things?"  She said, "no mom, lots of people are in line and you just have to tell them your last name and they give it to you for free!"  

OK, now it is making a little more sense to me, the "free" breakfast is apparently a "charged" breakfast, and I will soon be getting a bill.  I guess we will need to have a little talk about the no free lunch and hopefully she hasn't wracked up too many charges with the "free" stuff!

My Easter Bunnies

The girls all got bunny ears from MeMaw for Easter and she wanted a picture of all three of them with them on.  What a chore that was, trying to get them all to stay in one place.  The first picture of Alex is of her talking to Memaw telling  her why she won't cooperate with mom.  Rikki was into running around and I could hardly get her to slow down long enough to get into a pictue.  Alex has quite the fashion sense, capris and cowboy boots.  Sydney was the only one being helpful and it was hard to get her to stop posing!

Superstar!

Alex with her crazy sunglasses.  She is such a little ham, always making faces and always posing for the camera.

Happy 6th Birthday Sydney

Sydney turned 6 on April 2nd and Nam and Papa had a birthday party for her at their house.  Nam made all of Sydney's favorite dishes and Sydney was hoping for an Ice Cream cake from DQ with a horse on it and guess what, Nam came through. On the way home Steve asked her what was her favorite birthday gift and she said, "I got so many great things, I can't pick just one."  Sometimes they can sneak a little unexpected thoughtfullness up on ya.  Nice to hear from a "grown up 6 year old."

Rikki and Alex were in awe of the cake and just couldn't wait to get their little fingers in it.

Butch

That is Alex's new nickname, "Butch."  Steve came home the day she cut her hair and he said, "hey Butch!" and she said, "no, I Ala Cathryn."  We all started calling her Butch because we thought it was funny when she said, no Ala Cathryn.  It was starting to get a little old so we began calling her Alex again and now she says, " no Bu-tch."  She really cut it good, bangs and both sides and left a little mullet in the back.  So now she has a bob, or something.  We had our hairdresser "fix" it but we rarely go out that someone doesn't politely ask, "did she cut her own hair?"  YES she did.  (This picture was actually taken before we had it fixed.