Garrett's Band Concert 12.5.2011

Garrett is a second year band student and plays the trombone. He performed a couple of holiday tunes at the concert with his sixth grade band. He also gets to play the African drums during music class and we got to see how he wails on the bongo at the concert too.

Disclaimer: I have a very old camera and the lights in the gym were horrible. Also, I had about the worse seat in the house. Please have pity on me when you look at the following pics. Garrett is tucked in between the girl in the red hat and the girl in the green shirt. You can barely see the top of his head! Can you believe this was the best pic I got of him playing the trombone??
Don't know the official name of this African instrument, but he basically taps a hollow stick with another stick.

Garrett (third from left) waiting to play

Garrett getting his turn on the drums

Feeling Better?

Emily was down and out this week with a double ear infection and a case of bronchitis. She was home with me for two days, very clingy, eating very little, and was up every hour of the night. Needless to say, our house was a tense place to be for a couple of days! So you could tell that she was starting to feel better because she waited til I was changing over the laundry from the washer to the dryer and she scooted herself into the bathroom. I found her a couple of minutes later, unwinding the whole roll of toilet paper! She had a good laugh and I tried to be stern but ended up just laughing with her! A Lesson in Cause and Effect

"I don't understand the problem....isn't this one of my new birthday toys?"

Picture Perfect Reminder

When I went out to visit Carrie in OKC while pregnant with Emily, we did some birthday party shopping for Britton (who was about to turn one). Carrie had a great idea to personalize a picture mat with Britton's info and have everyone at her party sign it as a reminder of who was there. I "borrowed" this idea from her for Emily's birthday party so that we would have a momento of everyone who was there to share in her special day. Most of the party guests walked up to the picture mat, paused, bit their lips, and said "Ummmm.....I'll come back when I have something awesome to write!" I was just hoping to get some signatures, a few doodles, and maybe a "happy birthday!" scrawl across the bottom, but these people really delivered! We had some wonderful little messages left for Emily, and I'm sure she will love them as much as we did!