Soccer

Tate played I-9 Soccer this spring and really enjoyed it. He has never played before so we heard that I-9 was a good way to introduce kids to the sport. On the first day of practice the coach let the player who chose a number closest to the one he was thinking of choose the team name. Tate guessed closest and named the team the Bobcats. David and I were relieved because of his affection for deer, nature, and dogs, we weren't sure what he might say. The Bobcats had a 2-6 season. They won the first two games and lost the rest but each player got better and most importantly they had fun while learning the rules of the game.

My Mom by Grant

Grant's school had a Mother's Day brunch at last week to celebrate moms and grandmothers. He didn't want to go and chose to sit like this during the whole program. At least he gave me a sweet card. It said:

My mommy is ? years old.

Her hair is BROWN and her eyes are ?.

My mom likes to relax by WATCH THE NEWS.

She loves to cook EVERYTHING.

Her favorite household chore is EVERYTHING.

Her favorite TV show is THE NEWS.

Mommy always tells me SHE LIKES ME.

When my mom shops, she buys EVERYTHING.

If she could go on a trip, she would go to COLORADO.

I really love it when my mommy GETS Wii GAMES FROM THE REDBOX.

My Mom by Tate

The following is from Tate's Mother's Day book he made at school for me. See if you notice a theme:

Happy Mother's Day

by Tate Walker

My mother is the most wonderful mom in the world! She is as pretty as DOGS.

She weighs about 54 lbs and is about 4 feet tall. Her favorite food is PASTA. In the good old days when mom was little she used to LIKE TO READ. I think mom looks funny when she is wondering about dogs. I know she is really angry when she SCREAMS. I wish mom would RUN with me every day. I wouldn't trade my mom for A DOG.

My favorite thing about my mom is SHE DOES NOT FREAK OUT IF WE GET A DOG.

If I could give my mother somethings special from me it would be....I WOULD GIVE HER A DOG.

My mother loves me when I ......CLEAN UP.

My mother looks prettiest when.....SHE IS IN THE WOODS. (picture of me and deer on this page)

My mother's favorite thing about me is.....WHEN SHE TICKLES ME.

THE END.

Easter

We had a great Easter! We normally spend it with family but with David traveling back and forth to Tulsa each week we decided to stay in town and enjoy one last Easter in Austin. We had a few friends over to have lunch, hunt eggs, and throw lots of confetti eggs. It was a wonderful day!

Happy Birthday Grant!

Today Grant is 4 years old! He is so much fun, our secret nickname for him is "fire and ice" because you never know what you are going to get with him. He can be so well mannered and sweet one minute then immediately turn and be very stubborn and hot tempered. David says its the red in his hair but I don't think that is necessarily true. Some of his favorite things right now are playing games, going fishing with dad, playing "soccerball", and following his brother around. He is really liking Batman, Beyblades, Bakugan and all sorts of computer games. We hope he is our techy, able to figure out any technical, computer, phone problem we might have. Grant enjoys going to school most days and loves his teachers and friends, especially Reid and Nic. He is going to miss them next year. We had a small party for him and a few friends at Chuck E Cheese on Saturday. He had alot of fun with his buddies. Happy Birthday, G-dub, we love you so much!

Wacky Wednesday

A few weeks ago Tate's school had "Wacky Wednesday" for all of the first graders. Grant thought this was a great idea and wanted to dress up to go to his school, too.

HOWEVER, he got Nutella on his cape at breakfast so he went as this:

He got a little shy as we were walking in, but thankfully another friend was there who decided to wear his pajamas that day so Grant didn't seem too out of place in a policemans uniform!

Nashville

Grand Old Opry- We saw Vince Gill and Craig Morgan and Little Jimmy Dickens

On the main street where all of the honky tonks and bars are we got to hear some great live music.

One night we went to the Opryland Hotel. It is fabulous! I haven't been there in 25 years and it had changed quite a bit. At night they had all of the lights dimmed, that's why the pic is so dark.

Main Street where we heard live music. From 10 am on you can go into any of these places and listen to music, and have a margarita....so we heard.

The famous Loveless Cafe. We had an hour and half wait here, breakfast turned into lunch, but it was so worth it. It is delicious!