Yellow Ribbon Picture

Well, this is the official picture. I can't find a link to the local news story about it, but it was on. Grace said she was a movie star and, if they made the paper, a paper star too. :-) If I am not mistaken, the kids are at the top of the loop. MWR only planned for 2000 people and over 2100 showed up (which is why there is a patch of non-yellow). Pretty cool.

**UPDATE** found the link -- http://www.fox41.com/Global/story.asp?S=9305581

be sure to watch the video

On a seperate note... my heart broke tonight. We were sitting on the couch together reading and a truck came into the neighborhood. The truck was loud like ours and Bubba's eyes just lit up and he almost jumped out of his seat saying "Daddy's home. I hear his truck"

I explained that it was another truck and that daddy is still in california -- "is he going to be gone forever?" is what he asked. :-( Sometimes it feels like it.

Guiness Book of Records

G is participating this morning in a bid at a record. Over 2000 people are expected to be at the airfield onpost. They will be forming a gigantic yellow ribbon formation. ACS (Army Community Service) is providing yellow shirts to all of the interior of the ribbon and active duty Soldiers (in uniform) are forming the outline. Should be pretty neat and G will be a part of a record. Pretty cool, huh? The picture above is the current record making ribbon, with 1358 people. The ribbon here should break the record easily! I don't know if the record will technically go down, though. I heard a rumor that the schoolkids aren't going to count because there is a crazy 8-page parental consent that has to be done on every kid. It was going to be too logistically difficult to do - so I hopefully there will be over 1358 adults there!

I have to admit that it made me quite paranoid to let her go. I don't like the idea of her being there without me. But a good friend of mine is helping with the organization and staging and she told me the plan that all of the others (non-onpost schoolkids) will be in position before the kids get there. They will walk off of the bus, get in formation, have the picture taken and then they will be put back onto the bus. I am sure G will have some great stories this afternoon.

Bubbaism -- post #3 of the day :-)

So, I have started a new program with Bubba at home. Since he is not going to a preschool this year, I feel like I need to do something to get him ahead. I did an internet search and found a homeschool preschool program that is pretty easy and is only done in small batches (we do three 10-minute sections throughout the day to keep his interest).

Anyway, one of the things we do all week is learn a nursery rhyme (one a week). This week's is Hey Diddle Diddle. He is doing great at learning it (since this may be the first time he'd heard it) *except* he doesn't know what a fiddle is -- he says "the cat and the skittles"

Post #2 of the day... Sense Memories

I was magically transported on Saturday to 13 years ago. The kids and I piled into the van early Saturday morning and headed down to Elizabethtown to get diapers for Samboni. We left Target and went over to Kohl's (because Grace is growing TOO fast and has no longsleeve shirts). We went in and there must have been a sale going on (early bird type stuff) and so I abandoned the hunt for longsleeves because of the insane lines - with only one register open which is a whole other blog topic.

We head out into the parking lot to get back in the van and then it happened. One little sound and I was transported back. The sound resonating in the air was -- drums. Drums? Yep, drums. Specifically, a marching band's drum line warm up activities. Apparently North Hardin High hosted a band competition this past weekend. The drumline warm ups were one of my favorite sounds on competition days. Sense memory.

*On a funny note, when looking for a sound/movie for this post, the one that I found was from a high school band competition from Waynesville, Missouri!

Graceism

Yesterday morning, Grace woke up and RAN into my room yelling that we had all overslept. I knew that we hadn't, since I was up feeding Sam and watching the Weather Channel. I tried to explain that she was mistaken but she wanted nothing to do with my explanation. She said we MUST have overslept because "why does it look like that outside?"

Look like what?

It was light out. Last week, when it was time to get on the bus, it was still dark. I didn't talk to the kids about Daylight Savings Time, I just changed the clocks. Honestly, I don't know what to say about it. She was SO confused as to why I changed time. I started to tell her about the whole history (or what i know of it), but decided that it may be a little over her.

WARNING***CRUDE****Bubba-ism

I am proud to report that Bubba is officially potty trained (still needs a pull up at night, but completely accident free for 10 days now).

He still wants me to be in the bathroom with him. Today, he was pooping (I warned you) and talking when he got pretty quiet. I wasn't looking at him and asked him what was the matter. He said (CRUDE WARNING) "Nothing is the matter. The poop just fell out of my butt."

How do parents not laugh? I had to turn away from him so he didn't think I was laughing at him.

Who is who?

Today I put Sam in the NC State shirt and Bubba immediately told me that he wore that shirt too. I agreed that he had and asked if he wanted to see a picture of him wearing it. I pulled it up on the computer and it was taken exactly three years ago today! Talk about a feeling of deja vu! So, who is who? I'll comment with the answer :-)