that she is already 11 years old? Here's a picture taken on her 5th birthday. She was in kindergarten that year. Isn't she sweet? Look outside her window: snow! Today is going to be 60 and it was 68 yesterday. MUCH better!
Anyway, I did the usual stuff this birthday morning which includes jumping on her bed at 6am and yelling "Happy Birthday!", smothering her with kisses, then logging her height and weight in her baby book. 
From 9-10 she grew 5 inches, now from 10-11 she logged only 3 inches (which is still a lot). I'm not sure if when you click on this you'll be able to read all of the individual entries, but she was quite proud. She likes that she has Sidney beat, as you can see from the doorjam of my pantry. I'm guessing that she'll pass Sidney in the next few years.This was a busy week for us. On Monday all of the 5th graders dressed up and went to the OPERA. Yes, the opera. She wore the dress she had on New Year's Eve and I curled her hair as per her request. Have you ever seen the TV show "That 70's Show"? If you have, she ended up looking like the older blonde sister. It was very 70's looking, but that's what she wanted. She did, however, ban me from photographing her so I think she had some idea of what she looked like. When she got home she told me that they had fun and it was very short, "not even long enough to get bored and fall asleep". Ha! That was Monday.
I worked all of last weekend (three 13 hour days) and I was reminded as I fell into bed Monday night after a "short" day at work that I had volunteered to help make cookies the next day (my first day off) in Alyssa's classroom. Be there at 8:00, OK? Only because I got to bed at 9 was I able to pull this off. Actually, it was quite fun. We were making those chocolate / peanut butter / oatmeal no-bake cookies. Do you remember those? Well, they had some tabletop burners to help melt the butter/cocoa/sugar and then an assembly table to add in the cold ingredients. Back to the desks to finish mixing and rolling into cookie balls to place on the waxed paper.
They were divided into groups of 4 and took turns at each station. Sounded good, except the recipe was wrong. Alyssa's group had too much milk and peanut butter and theirs wouldn't hold their shape. When I got them home I added some more oatmeal and they were fine. Anyway, only 2 other parents showed up (another mom and a dad). The dad manned the table with the burner coils and I helped with the cold ingredient additions. The other mom supervised the mixing. When it was all over I looked around and it looked like an explosion at Dunkin Donuts! What a mess! The worst part? I got stuck on KP. If any of you know what a 5th grade classroom looks like, there's only one little hand-washing sink (low to the ground) and the water doesn't get very hot. I had to wash 6 huge spaghetti pots, 6 massive mixing bowls and tons of spoons and measuring cups...with no hot water OR soap! Yuck! All they had was hand washing soap which didn't work very well. Her teacher was very thankful for my efforts, though, so all was well.Wednesday started tryouts for Track and Sid was very excited. Tuesday afternoon while I was still tired from the weekend and picking oatmeal out from under my nails from my cookie morning she reminds me that she needs to get a physical before tryouts (that were the next day). My "you've-got-to-be-kidding" look didn't seem to phase her, nor did the Death Rays emitting from my eyeballs, so off to the doctor we went. Two hours we were there. Yes, TWO HOURS! She owes me. Clean bill of health, no big surprise, and $20 less in my wallet to be told that. Gotta love it. Anyway, she did really well at tryouts Wednesday (she had to run the mile) and also yesterday (she ran the 400 meter). Today is the last day and they will get the results on Monday. I'm pretty confident that she made the team.
At a school assembly today the choir (excuse me: chorus! Sid corrected me....) that Sidney sings in will get to perform. Her she is in her CHORUS uniform shirt. She's really excited because they are singing a fun song. If you've never seen Sister Act 2 with Whoopi Goldberg you really need to. They are singing one of the songs from the movie - Joyful, Joyful. If you want to see a clip from the movie, click on this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C_c_MHkba5c It's a little grainy, but you can get the idea. Sidney said that they even get to do the dance moves. My face lit up when she told me that and immediately she got a horrified look. "NO, parents can't come and especially parents with cameras!". Fine. I'm going to eat lunch with Alyssa today anyway. Ha!Tonight is the party at the hotel. Wish me luck!!! I'm sure the POW next week will be all about it. Have a great week!
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