The Wheels on the Bus...

Haley had her first field trip and her first bus ride all in the same day, November 3, 2008! The Kindergartners went to The Thomas and Mac, to see a show. The Thomas and Mac is the Theater at UNLV, the kids got to watch a puppet show. It is quite a ways from the school so the bus ride was a good one. Haley had been waiting for this since the first time she heard about it. Up until the morning they went she did not really even care where they were going, the only thing that mattered to her was that she was going to ride in a School Bus! Her excitement can not be put into words and I think a little nervousness too, but she tried hard not to let that show. When I picked her up from school that afternoon she said the bus ride was fun but very bumpy, and that the puppet show was good too.

Me, being the silly mom that I am, was at the school in the morning taking pictures as Haley got on the bus. Their were about 3 other moms taking pictures too, so I was not the only one. But I was one of three that did not leave until the "wheels on the bus" rolled away! Mikayla started crying when the bus went away, she has not had a problem dropping Haley off, but she didn't like seeing her sister get taken away on a bus, it was kinda sad to see. I know, weird, but it was sad. Must be a first time mom thing, and sister thing! Next time we will be more emotionally prepared!

California Trip

Haley is out of school the entire month of November. It is her first track break. She was so excited to have a track break, I think it means she's now a "big kid"! We went to California for a week to visit family and friends. We didn't have BIG plans, just a week of relaxing and playing! We did go see High School Musical 3, I loved it, but I'm a Musical girl, Brett was not as impressed! Haley and Mikayla loved it. We have already downloaded a few of the songs and the girls love to show me their rendition of Sharpe, Gabrella, even Troy and Chad!



We love Fall in California. Leaves, leaves, and more leaves! Not too many leaves for us to play with in the Desert!!


Some other fun things we did while we were in California:
Have a "camp out" in a homemade fort, built by mommy!

Have a picnic at Shamel Park. Tammy and I use to go to that park to play when we were little. We had our swimming lessons in the pool that is still there. It has been updated a whole lot but it has so many great memories for me. I love going there whenever we visit. Brayden had his first enjoyable swing ride. He usually screams, cries and wants out, but for some reason this time he actually had fun and relaxed.

My mom's neighbor Celia brought over her new puppy "Bella" and the girls fell in love with her.

We went to Victoria Gardens for the afternoon. Victoria Gardens is a really nice outdoors mall in Rancho Cucamonga. When we lived there I use to take Haley and Mikayla there allot. There is a playground and a train and allot of really neat shops and resturants. We went to dinner at Lucille's, a barbique joint that Brett loves. The weather was beautiful which made the day just perfect.

I took Mikayla to feed the ducks at Fairmont Park in Riverside one evening. We had a bag of old "duck" bread to throw out to the ducks, but when we got out of the car to walk towards the water the ducks began to charge us angrily yelling at us. I have to say it scared me to death, I thought we were going to get pecked to death. They looked mean!! I grabed Mikayla's arm and ran back to the car. When Mikayla finally realized what was happening she was scared too and started crying, she barely made it up into the car when the ducks and geese arived. We rolled down the window and threw the bread at them from the car where it was safe!

Waiting for the Toothfairy

So, Haley has had this loose tooth for weeks now and every time she would wiggle it she would freak out. She was not worried about loosing the tooth, she was worried that it would fall out in her sleep, or that she would not know it fell out and she would literally loose the tooth and have nothing for the Tooth fairy. This tooth has been wearing on my patience, so when at McDonald's Haley started worrying about her tooth I was like not again, "stop whining". She was very insistent that I wiggle her tooth, and for a while I blew it off. All at once I saw a look of sheer panic come over her. I put my finger in her mouth and wiggled the loose tooth almost out of her mouth, it was hanging on by a string or two! We were now in real panic mode, she almost broke down in McDonald's. She winced and whined the entire drive home, all the while trying to wiggle her tooth out. I gave her three choices; one, she work at getting it out and get it out, two, she let me wiggle it out, or three, I take her to the dentist and he would get it out. She decided that she wanted to be the one to get it out, so when we got home she went right to work. I had to change Brayden's diaper and put him down for a nap so I asked her to not pull it out until I could get a pic. I honestly didn't think I had much to worry about, she was so scared about it hurting. I didn't think she would actually get it out. There were two screams in about 2 min. the first was one of pain and tears, the second was one of joy and excitement, it was that fast, the tooth was out and I did not get my picture. She was just thrilled that the tooth fairy was going to come.

I screwed up, I did not give my daughter enough credit. The night the tooth fairy was to visit our home I only had a 1, a 5 and a 10 dollar bill. I wanted to give Haley 2 dollar bills for her tooth, just so she would have two "paper monies" (that's how Mikayla talks about dollar bills, so cute). I ended up putting the 1 and 5 under her pillow thinking she would just look at it as 2 "paper monies". Later when I had a 1 dollar bill I would just switch it for the 5. It sounded like a good plan at the time. Around 6 am Haley came in my room singing "the tooth fairy came, the tooth fairy came!" "Look mom I got 2 dollars" she told me with so much excitement. Then she calmed down and was staring at the money, it was like a light went on in her brain and she perked up and said "Oh My Gosh, look mom their is a 5 on that dollar" She dropped the money and held her fingers up to help her add 5 + 1. When she got her answer she had a great big smile on her face and said "the tooth fairy brought me 6 dollars!" oops... I guess I'm not switching out the 5 for a 1 now!