The Last Day

Today was Kaylee's last day of school until 2007. She got to wear her Tinkerbelle pajamas and her Tinkerbelle slippers and bring her princess fuzzy blanket and princess pillow. She was feeling quite queenly. In fact, her little friend Jordan was upset because SHE wanted to wear her Tinkerbelle pajamas but her mom said no because they were short-sleeved. I let Kaylee wear hers, though they are short-sleeved. Oops. But hey, who cares, it's warm in there and not that chilly outside either. It's not often you get to wear pjs to school, she ought to wear the ones she wants. ;) They had a party today, and I brought in nicely arranged fruit and yogurt. They got gifts, and I was even prepared enough to bring a Christmas gift for her teacher. They also had a book exchange today. I got a nice "Angelina's First Christmas" book for Kaylee to take for the exchange. When she got home, she had gotten a Princess "hunt for the picture" book without words. She told me that Jordan (who apparently was not having a good day) got her (Kaylee's) book, and cried, because she wanted the Princess book that Kaylee got from Abby instead. Then Kaylee looked at me and said all sad "She didn't even like the book I gave her, Mommy." I told her that Jordan loved princesses too, but that I bet when she got home and looked through the Angelina book, she's love it too, because Angelina does ballet and so does Jordan. Kaylee just kept looking sad and said "But she CRIED Mommy. She CRIED when she got my book." I am such a wuss on this kind of stuff, it made ME sad that Kaylee was sad that Jordan didn't like her book! *sigh* I hate this childhood social interaction stuff!!

Kaylee had ballet today at 4:30 pm, and she wore her Tinkerbelle ballet slippers there too. I have to admit, it was pretty funny looking, all the little pink and black slippers, and here's Kaylee in a purple outfit with pink tights and neon green Tink shoes with puffy balls on the top. She was on top of the world! My vivid girl! We have a new video camera--digital--and I took about 10 minutes of footage of her at dance today. I'm going to see if I can figure out how to put some on the website one of these days. I was watching her, and all of a sudden I hear her voice say "Oh no!!" I look for her, and she's standing there looking at me, her arms down by her sides, her head down, her face totally bereft looking, tears running down her cheeks. Her pom-pom on her right Tink shoe had broken loose and was dangling. She was about to have a breakdown right there! I called her over and hugged her and promised her we'd fix it! She asked me how, and I said "we'll sew it." She said (loudly) "YOU don't sew!" Okay, okay, keep it down! I told her "I can too! Besides, if I can't, we'll let one of your Grandmas help us out!" She believed THAT, and went off to finish dancing a bit happier. Tonight was also the last ballet class until 2007, and she'll start up gymnastics then too. But tonight her ballet class had a little Christmas party. I thought it was funny to see a group of little ballerinas sitting on the floor eating giant frosted cookies. It was cute though. :)

Steve today submitted a proposal to the aviation board to run a flight school out of Kokomo as well. We'll see if it's accepted in what, a month or so I think.

Me? Let's see. Today I took Kaylee stuff to her class and helped out for a few minutes. Then I came home, did a tiny bit of work, then headed out to Glenndale. We (Ty, Chuck, Nate, Steve, me) hit lunch at Applebees. When I left Glenndale, I realized I was cutting it close, and I raced home, grabbed Roadie, took her to the vet for what I assumed was a drop-off at 2:45 p.m., which should give me 15 minutes to get back to pick up Kaylee right at 3 p.m. Except the vet place couldn't get their act together. They decided I shouldn't drop her off, I should stay for an appointment. Finally I was still standing there at 3 pm and I said "Listen, I'm sorry, but either I need to leave and take Roadie with me and come back later, or I need to leave Roadie here for her spaying, but either way, I have to leave! I have to pick up my daughter, I'm already late." They got a litle uptight about it, I obviously annoyed them, but I was polite and I apologized, but I'd set this appointment up to DROP HER OFF at 2:45 pm so I could have time to get Kaylee. I ended up leaving Roadie, and got to Kaylee at 3:05 pm. Poor Roadie. She's going under the knife tomorrow...man I hope that fixes her peeing problem. Tonight I went to dinner with Ellen, Andrea, Michaele and myself, and Andrea said her two cats just started peeing all over the house after they moved to a new house--they were fixed and had no other problems, and they wouldn't stop...so the cats are now outside only cats. I'd Hate that because Roadie has no claws and we have a lot of wild cats around here, and it gets bloody cold up here. She'd be dead meat. She HAS to stop peeing in inappropriate places once we fix her!!

At 6:30 pm, I went to dinner with the above ladies as a birthday celebration for Ellen. Ellen wore a pink princess crown, and we had a toast with sparkling grape water in Princess Martini-looking glasses, and we each got a little princess compact. Who says you can't have a Princess Party when you are 47 years old? :) We stayed there until 9 pm, and it was nice to get out and about with some friends!

I got home, caught up on email, got into comfy pants for the first time all day, and sat down to watch the Colts game (much better than last week so far!), write up some bills, and panic over what I don't have done yet that I need to do before we leave for Christmas on Thursday. Somewhere in here I may have to take a flight to Iowa and Steve may have a flight to Florida. As in within the next two days. :O

Okay...I think that's it for today!