Field Day

Today was Field Day at Lyndall's school, they make it more like a fun family event. They do the fundraising all year long for this and the kids always look forward to it. The school also gets a lot of sponsors to come out, such as: Chick Fillet, Texas Road House (both have a mascot running around and giving out free dinners) Gymnastics (they bring mats to tumble on) Karate, some Gladiator Fun Center Place, and a bunch more. They also have a free BBQ. Yum!We had face paintings, she got a "panda" I know it looks like an owl. The face painters are only middle school kids. LOL!

Lyndall on the huge blow up relay race thing. He lost to the little girl Colista who lives across the street, twice.

Sable in the relay race.

Lyndall being a gladiator, yes he won!

We had lunch.

Lyndall got to drive the police car. There was also a fire truck and ambulance.

Sable on the blow up slide. Over and over and over and over.....

Bouncing ball relay, glad he didn't choke on the candy ring in his mouth.

No More Training Wheels!

Today Sable finally got on her bike with no training wheels, only took about a year and half to do it. I had quit running behind her a long time ago, she was always stubborn to learn to ride. She would go about 5 feet and tell me "See mom I can't do it" even though she was doing it. And now she can do it all the way down the sidewalk. Yeah!

Choir Concert

Tonight was Lyndall's choir concert at school, boy its cute seeing all those kids sing. They sure do work hard.

They sang:

Weave Me The Sunshine

The Rainbow Connection

Shenandoah

Stand By Me

Swinging On A Star

Jessica, Mr. McGarry, Lyndall and Penny.

Adams 12 and Swine Flu

Yesterday Lyndall brought home a paper from the school saying that, so far to their knowledge nobody in the Adams 12 School District has been tested positive for the swine flu. However they are sending kids home immediately that have any signs of illness and they are not to return to school for 24 hours. I thought that to be crazy, how do you know whether it is a cold, flu, or just allergies? It is that time of year now where people get allergies. I hope they are at least taking their temperature and what not first. If my kid gets sent home for a sneeze, when I know that he is not sick I'll be livid. On top of that the school made automatic calls to every parent in the school district saying exactly what the letter had said to try and make sure that everyone does receive the message.
I do realize that the schools are only taking very good precautions, I just hope they use their judgement well. Lyndall's class had 11 kids absent yesterday.