TRIP TO PAM'S OCT. 2009

This picture was taken out side of a Kirklands store in Edmond. It is so beautiful!

Dalton and Margaret in their Halloween shirts.

Margaret and Dalton on the trick or treat hayride.

Dalton and Margaret on the pony rides.

And the kids playing on the trampoline.

Dalton and I spent last weekend in Edmond Oklahoma with my friend Pam and her family. Dalton and Margaret are just a year apart (she is older) and they get along really well. We participated in some Halloween fun sponsered by the church they attend. We went on a hayride where we got out in a field and the kids went on a trick or treat trail, they played games for prizes and rode the ponies. It was great getting together and look forward to more get togethers with them! Pam and I have been friends since high school and I am proud to say she is one of my best friends! :)

GOOFY

This is Goofy being very patient as Dalton pushes her around in a stroller. I love the one where they are kissing!

2009 COUNTY FAIR

This is Kiley and Dalton on the mini roller coaster. I know the background looks fake but it was getting ready to pour down rain on us!

I know it has been a while since the fair but I have had some problems with down loading my pictures.

REPORT CARD DAY!!

Yes, I said report card day with excitement in my voice, for I have already been for my parent/teacher conference and have his report card in hand. We are proud to announce that Dalton got straight A's!!! We were very surprised due to the fact that at progress report time he had 2 A's and a B. (they only have 3 grades right now) We have worked really hard with Dalton trying to get him to understand why homework is important and why good grades are important. I guess some of it is starting to sink in. He will be rewarded with something special in hopes that it will be additional inspiration for him to continue to do well and improve.

WAY TO GO DALTON - WE LOVE YOU!!!!

HARVEST HOE DOWN 2009

Last night was the 2009 Harvest Hoe Down at school. This annual event is a big fundraiser for the school and a lot of fun for the kids. Along with games to play for prizes they have inflatables, face painting, temporary tattoos and a paper auction for items like gift baskets, services, food, entertainment and a getaway or two. The kids also sold tickets for the spaghetti dinner which was quite yummy this year.

We are pleased to say that Dalton actually wanted his face painted this year! I know it doesn't sound like a big deal but it really is. He let me paint his face earlier this year at his Kindergarten graduation party here at the house but would never ever let anyone anywhere do it. Dalton and his shyness has come a long way and I just hope this was one more baby step into being a more social child.

DECISIONS DECISIONS

Like most parents I often ask Dalton what he would like to do when he grows up. I can honestly say I was not prepared for tonight's answer of "I would like to just lay on my bed and watch T.V." "Seriously Dalton? That is what you want to do when you grow up?" "Well, no mom but I haven't got to watch much T.V lately so I would just like to watch some. Okay, so he is almost seven. I am really not going to sweat it too much right now since he would probably change his mind a million times before he ever leaves high school anyway.

This does remind me of last year, when he was in Kindergarten, and I had picked him up from school and the first thing out of his mouth was "mom I've decided I don't want to be a teacher any more I want to be a cowboy!" That decision was made the day the "cowboys" came to school and brought their horses, did tricks and let them pet the horses. HELLO CHILD we just moved from a farm and my cousin has a horse farm. It's not like he was never around horses!!

OUT WITH THE OLD SO WE CAN BRING IN THE NEW

THE FOLLOWING IS A WALK DOWN MEMORY LANE-SUMMER OF 2008.

We moved here in May of 2008. It took me quite a while to get everything unpacked or at least gone through. Once this task was done I decided it was time to go ahead and get rid of the things that were no longer needed, wanted or used. When I was going through Dalton's toys I was trying to pick out the items that he NEVER played with or had out grown. This is extremely hard to do when he is here-I think my son could be a hoarder. On this occasion he was in the playroom with me and of course he was fighting me all the way on my choices of elimination. I came across a stuffed animal of Big Bird that had motion sensor eyes and would talk to you. This was an item I was putting in the get rid of box because Dalton NEVER played with it. Dalton didn't even really care for Sesame Street. He did like Elmo. So, as Dalton watched me throw the bird in the box he started yelling "STOP YOU CAN'T THROW MY ERNIE AWAY I LOVE HIM!!!!" That is not a typo he really did call it Ernie!! Once I stopped laughing and explained that he didn't even know who he was he thought I was lying to him and he did not like me laughing!

MY BLOG

I have decided to use my blog as a diary-sort of. I want to put in writing some of the things that goes on in our lives, especially things that involve Dalton. We are printing out my blog and keeping it in a binder so that he has something to look back on when he gets older and we are too old to remember anything.

So hang on as from now on we may be taking the occasional walk down memory lane.

DALTONS FIRST HIGH SCHOOL FOOTBALL GAME

It has been several weeks now, but I am behind on my blogging, but we took Dalton to his first high school football game and it was extra special because it was 1. homecoming and 2. Jeremy our next door neighbor plays on the team. It was an exciting game and they won!
Now, Dalton's version of it may be slightly different. Partly because he doesn't know much about the game but mostly because there were several of his friends there and he was all about the socializing. Yes, we are still talking about Dalton here. He wanted to stand at the rail in front of the cheerleaders with his friends and he wanted to eat stuff from the concession stand. He said he had a good time and wants to go to another one.

A NOTE FROM DALTON TO MEME

Children today learn at a faster pace than what we did when we were kids but it still amazes me when Dalton reads me books, sounds out words until he gets it right and he takes pride (finally) in what he has accomplished.

While I was shopping earlier this week Dalton was home with mom and she was on the phone. Dalton knows he shouldn't interrupt when someone is on the phone unless it is an emergency so he decided to write meme a note and give it to her. This is exactly how it read:

hugre for a samwij penut butr and jele

I know I am his mom but I think he did a pretty good job and we knew exactly what he wanted. I love that little boy!!!!!!!!

WHEN CHILDREN ARE SICK

There is nothing like feeling helpless when your child is sick. This past week Dalton came down sick. He first started out with a small cough and was hoarse then on Tuesday evening he was complaining of a headache and by the time he went to bed he had a fever of a 102. Here is where it got complicated and I am glad the neighbors didn't call children's services....... Dalton wouldn't take ANY kind of kids OTC medication! I have all kinds. I have the liquid that you pour in a cup, the kind that you chew, the ones that is a strip and it dissolves on your tongue, eye droppers to use. OK so I think I have started to paint this picture pretty well. We crumbled up the chewable and put it in applesauce-that didn't work, put it in pudding-he tried it but claimed it was making him sick. This went on for an hour+ and we were so aggravated we couldn't see straight. I even threatened to take him to the hospital. Have you ever tried to put an unwilling cat into a pet carrier and it seems like they suddenly grew about 8 extra legs and you can't get them in?? Well, that is exactly what it was like. I picked him up and all of the sudden legs were every where and I couldn't get out the door. That kid has some amazing strength. No matter how bad Dalton felt he fought me at taking the medication. He went for the first 24 hours with out eating or drinking which really scared me. He was weak and since he didn't feel good he said he couldn't walk to the bathroom so most of the time I carried him. I know I am a pushover. When he finally decided he would drink something he wanted milk. WRONG-O LIL BUDDY! I told him if he would take the medication so his fever would go down he could have some. He decided he wanted a watermelon slush from Sonic. I gently spiked a small cup full with the Tylenol liquid but he fell asleep before drinking very much so I don't think it did much good. So the next time he wanted a drink I tried to give him some and I guess I didn't have enough slush in there and he said it tasted sickening and he now wants nothing to do with a watermelon slush. He doesn't know that I was "spiking" his drinks. So my next shameless act was while he was asleep I took an eye dropper and squirted it in through a hole where he has lost a tooth! He made a couple of noises as if I had just gave him peanut butter but then he rolled over and out the rest came. The fever is gone now, thank you lord, but I don't know that I ever got enough medication in him to help with the fever.

And for the record: while trying to get him to try the different types of medicine I was tasting them to see if they really were as nasty as he said. The liquid is not wonderful but it is not worth keeping a fever over and the grape chewables are quite yummy!!

BLOGGING

I find it hard to keep up with my blogging these days. So forgive me as I start to try and catch up again and start blogging some more "Daltonisims". Dalton comes up with some of the funniest stuff and some things are so stinking smart. I wish he expressed his intelligence in his school work like he does with other random issues.