HAPPY 7TH BIRTHDAY

Wow !! Seven already?! I is showing her normal toothless look . . leotard and whispy hair.
Today I is seven. Her brothers presented her with a couple little gifts, her Grandparents sent her a few gifts and her parents are LETTING her get her ears pierced on Saturday. She has been asking for her ears to be pierced for at least 3 years so I think I have held back long enough. I will try to post pics of the piercing but make no promises as she is the third child of a working Mom. Enough said. :) Oh, by the way . . happy birthday to Mrs King as well.

Ahhhhhh, Saturday.

I know I say it over and over again but life cannot possible get ANY more hectic. We have been going in so many directions I am dizzy. C had his District Swim for the high school swim team all day on Friday so the students missed classes. The top 16 out of 700 swimmers came back in the evening for finals. I knew we were safe on that one as C is without a doubt the smallest swimmer in the pool. He is swimming against "men" with hair under their arms and everything. BUT, he is a year round swimmer so he can hold his own against SOME of them and even beats a few of them. I'm sure the other "men" are thrilled with that one! Anyway, D's former tours were in West Palm and he had secured all access passes for the family. All was going according to plan until C's freestyle relay team made it to the finals due to another team (of men !) disqualifying.
Ugh. So even though we knew his team would not go onto Regionals (they are just little guys) he and I had to go back to the pool (about 30 minutes in the opposite direction) for his swim. Then . . . driving rain. Delays. More driving rain. More delays. Meanwhile, M, Is and D are hanging out backstage with the Brooks & Dunn/Alan Jackson people. C and I finally made it down there around 9:15 and the whole family got home around 1 am.
I was PLANNING on the kiddos sleeping in this cloudy but warm Saturday morning. But M had other plans as a friend of D's GAVE him, which D presented to M, an ocean kayak!! So . . as I staggered in the kitchen to get my first of probably three cups of joe, I heard them closing the garage door. I ran outside and gave D the sign language for "DON'T FORGET LIFE JACKETS!!" Even in deep fatigue, Moms have to function. Now . . did he remember the Alligator repellent?

Can you hear the Island Music?

This is an excerpt from Connor's school online paper. He was one of the students that stayed for the master class. I'm thinking a cold frozen drink with an umbrella straw and a relaxing day under an umbrella hut. Ahhhhhhhh.

Students get a close-up experience of steel drums and percussion instruments.

Lower School Goes Caribbean

For an hour on October 3, the Ashley Carroll Student Center vibrated to the music of Caribbean Sound as this musical group led the Lower School students through a lively history of the steel drum, or steel pan. The program was conducted in cooperation with The Fort Pierce Jazz Society. For the second hour of the program, some music students were able to participate in a Master Class and try out the instruments for themselves.