Man I am such a slacker lately! Well, today was a fun day so I knew I had to sit down and post something about it.
Every year our great city of Roanoke has a celebration for the members of it's community, aptly named Celebrate Roanoke. They have several vendors giving away free things and information, food galore, fun things for the kids to do, etc.
I walked around with Grace for a while, avoiding the meltdown she sometimes has when her Mom is also with her sisters (she gets very jealous for some reason), although for the most part she was very good, even with the rest of the family there. Dal was off watching the UT/OU game in the morning (and UT won, yay!). On a side note, Forest had a terrible morning because the Cottonbowl (where they played today) is in Dallas, so it took him forever to get to work. Poor guy.
So, anyway, several booths had loads of candy and Grace can't eat chocolate or anything really gummy, so I thought I would try a Smartie. It touched her tongue for a nanosecond before she chucked it on the ground. I didn't think she would like it, but it was worth a shot! There was a huge tent that had several fun things to do, including caricatures, clowns, awesome balloon animals and spray-on tattoos. I was holding Grace to get hers and she looked at me with a look that said "please don't hurt me!". In the last few months every time she has been held still like that it's been so someone could inflict pain on her. She looked very cute with her little butterfly though. It stayed very well too, mine hasn't changed at all and Gracie kept whacking it with her slobbery hand, she must have thought it was quite strange. The older Grace gets, the more fun we have on outings. She finds more things fun and she seems more willing to explore new things, it's great. I took a few pictures, but the only one i have access too right now is this one:
I left my camera at Jennie's house (silly me), but I should have the rest tomorrow or Monday and I will upload them into an album.
Grace turned 6 last Wednesday and Jennie threw her a party at the Incredible Pizza Company, which is like a Game Works and a Cici's Pizza combined. I took Grace on the go-carts and she was beyond thrilled. She giggled the entire time, she was so excited. We played games and games and more games and all of our tickets combined got the girls some really fun things. Gracie also enjoyed the kids rides. I took a ton of pictures, you can find them
right here!I set up a better picture system at Flickr (still debating if I want to bite the bullet and get a paid account there...) and hopefully that won't crash a million times like my gallery was. I would get it perfect and some silly file somewhere would get corrupted. Very frustrating. It might eliminate my need to pay for server space and Flickr is much cheaper too!
We've had a productive few weeks and they have been fun. I have a lot of fun with Grace, as you can probably see. Today we went home and were relaxing and I was watching SNL from last weekend, pretty much just to see the Killers play. Their second song was called "Spaceman" from their new album and Grace just loves that song! She was laughing and bouncy throughout the whole thing. I guess the Dendys have another Killers fan :)
