April 28th

LEXIS made it to the next round of Class Elections today!!! This means that now only she and one other boy is running for Junior Class President! Very proud of her! They are doing a skit tomorrow morning for the whole school. They can then continue to campaign until the winner's are announced at the dance on Friday. Many of her friends from volleyball are helping her campaign as well as her regular circle of girls. She has really put herself out there in talking to everyone she can and is excited about the possibilities this position could bring. We have been working over-time to come up with clever slogans, hand-outs and the like but in fact Almost called Uncle Bret to ask for his ingenious input.

NOAH is Loving his new lacrosse sticks! He has been carting them to and from school so that he and friends can play at recess then once home he wants someone to play with him out front. Gratefully, he will start on a team next month. :) He did a fantastic header at his soccer game on Monday and played defense like a champ. When I mentioned the header, he told me "that was nothin'!"

GRACE read Twilight again, made up her own "Chore Chart" and is walking with me every day! We set a goal for ourselves that we might be able to successfully run the 'Fun Run' in May. (I am not a fan of running!) While walking today she let me know that for "every 60 steps you take you can eat 60 calories." Coincidentally, the blue raspberry AirHead in her jacket pocket was 60 calories... we counted our steps.

MICHAEL is headed back to school after another hard week off and his ears seem to have healed to a certain degree from last week's incident. His aide from school ,Miss Rachel, will be driving to our house in the morning to ride with Michael on the school bus to and from class. This should be very helpful and protects everyone but specifically Michael from the possible reoccurence of last week's events. (His poor little ears are finally back to somewhat normal size after being terribly swollen. The ER doc said his right ear, if not also the left, will surely have "cauliflower ear." See Mike Tyson.)

I worked almost all day in the yard today and Loved it! After Michael slept well last night we were up early and ready for the day. I mowed the lawn, weeded, set up an extra sprinkler to catch some flowers... Had a nice lunch break with Lexis to help her stick More "Vote4Lexis" labels on More candy to pass out and I even had time to put in a few chunky highlights in the front of my hair! (Lexis says I look "EMO" but I told her I don't need a name for this kind of cool.) Then at 2:30 I got a call from Lexis' cell where without a word I was put on speaker phone so that I could hear them announce who the final candidates for Jr President were! (So thoughtful= her idea!) I yelled WooHoo when I heard her name called and the phone went immediately dead... oops! A Proud Mama can not be blamed!
P.S. AND I lost another 3 lbs! YAY!