We picked these up today at a dollar store, thanks again for the idea! We may go back for more
My boys both play travel baseball and it is crazy tha amount of $$ that costs.But we will do whatever we have to do...right?
I was so relieved to get the passport! I wouldn't have really left her behind but still - the thought had crossed my mind! Well, not really - well maybe just for a second!
She got her passport the next afternoon though - lol!My surgery is next week. I couldn't be moved up because I was sick last week and the first part of this one so I am stuck with the date. Oh well. Not anything I can do about it now.
Here's some good mojo for the procedure 
But they're enjoying themselves and keeping active, and that counts for so much.Another computer geek! My DH will be happy to read that someone else is dissing my Mac!
I see you are another west-coaster! When is your trip planned for? We are driving down from Vancouver and flying out of Seattle. Once I get on that plane I just want to be there but it takes so long......
Going there will be great, it is coming back that is going to be a drag 
HI! I hope the surgery goes well and you have a speedy recovery.
Kids activities and $$.
I love the hippo story.
Glad to be here, thank you for the warm welcome
Yes, the passport thing can be a real hassle. I have a friend who is going to England/France in November and her U.S. passport request had been bogged down for over 5 months and she kept calling and it was stuck at stage 3 of 5 and was showing no sign of moving forward. She ended up calling her congressman
Well you gotta do what's best for your health, and you certainly couldn't chance going into surgery with any sickie ickies
Oh yes indeed ...and at this point we'd just hoping they've settled on something so we wouldn't have to keep buying new uniforms and equipment and such
Hehehe, well I work at a college in IT and the adage is "MACs are just fine, just keep them off of my network" ;-] Yup, northwesterner and wouldn't have it any other way.
We're flying out the second week of January and for once don't have a long drive to the airport, having found decent airfare taking off from the next town over
Thanks again! I've had a busy couple of days, but I'll certainly partake of any and all things fun
Chapter 14 - Hippo Hippo!
Am I on chapter 14 or 15? I can't remember. Can't remember much these days! Must be getting old.....
Oh well. I am going to call it 14!
A little background......
When Belle was little HG (that's Handsome Genius for those who may not have read the first page also known as my husband!) and I thought it would be fun to conduct a little experiment with brain washing (yes, we were that evil) on our little girl.
From the time she was very little when we were teaching her that dogs say "woof" and cats say "meow" and cows say "moo" we also taught her that hippos say "hippo hippo". Thought we'd plant that little seed in there and see where it took us.
Well everything was going along great until her first day of preschool. Hugged her and kissed her and told her that we loved her and had no idea that 4 years of careful brain washing was about to come completely undone in 2 hours.
When I went to pick her up from her very first day she came stomping out of her classroom mad as anything and yelled at me "Hippos don't say hippo hippo!".
All that work for nothing.
Anyways......
When Tink came along she was way too smart for that. She was on to us from the very first time we tried to tell her that.
But Tink is obsessed with hippos so maybe all our work wasn't for nothing. She has a stuffed hippo that she doesn't go anywhere without and knows all sorts of interesting hippo facts but had never in her memory seen a real live hippo. Of course she has seen one but not since she was a year old so fair enough - she wanted to see one.
On Thursday we went on a hippo party and headed south of the border to Seattle in search of hippos! Woodland Park Zoo here we come!
She had a ball and spent most of her time infront of the hippo pond yelling "HIPPO" at the top of her lungs! It was very cute and was exactly the kind of escape we needed.
Here come the hippos!
Going there will be great, it is coming back that is going to be a drag
That's a cute story!
I've never seen a hippo that close! I would have been tempted to throw it some bubblegum balls. (that's what they looked like in the game)
All will go well, then you can move on to all things Disney!!!
That would have been cool to see :-] We saw several of them at the Oregon Zoo in Portland - it was really cool seeing something that big swimming through the water
Sarah, I'll be thinking good thoughts for you on Tuseday!
Ugh, talk to me about kids' activities....I've got two in dance and cheerleading and wanting to add gymnastics in the winter and DS plays inline hockey. The initial output ($) for hockey equipment was alot but hopefully he won't outgrow everything too quickly. Dance, yes, I agree, isn't so bad, until you get all of those recital expenses...costumes, t-shirts, dvd's, tickets...yikes!!!
Whoo hoo!!! you guys got me all excited!! mine should be a week or so behind you!!! YIPEE!!
I got mine today too! I am so ready to go now! 
