The Ferrero Four

Not going to the beach. Doesn't that sound awful? If you have read my previous posts you would know that we were supposed to be going to the beach again this weekend for a wedding with my parents and my brother and his wife. Unfortunately with the way things have been lately we have decided that paying bills is a little more important. (Although I would like to disagree!) So off to the beach everyone goes.....except us! So we will have another quiet weekend at home and be taking care of my parent's dogs! I must say though that last weekend I was able to get quite a lot accomplished on my "quiet" weekend at home. Saturday we finally went and picked up Kylie's new furniture that was so graciously given to her from my boss and his wife! We then went to my parents to watch Georgia beat Tennessee with my brother while my parents were at the game! Oh....wait....need to back up to Friday night. I had mentioned that we would be going to the pumpkin patch to get our pumpkins, yeah right they wanted almost $20 per pumpkin. We had to go to Walmart Friday night so guess what....they had big pumpkins for $3.88 a piece! What a steal! Kylie could really care less where it came from, she was just glad to get one! Ok, back to Saturday. Previously, I also mentioned the Kylie wanted to be Hannah Montana for Halloween. Well the costume I found was over $30 so I told her that if she wanted that, then she would have to help pay for it with her Target gift card that she got from Uncle Dain, Aunt Amy, and Gianna for her birthday that she still had not spent. She did not like that idea at all. Papa Richard had been going through all of the boys old costumes trying to give her an idea when he came across a wedding bouquet from my wedding and suggested she be a bride. It was like a light bulb had gone off...."Can I wear my white wedding dress, Mommy?" "Of course...all of the weddings are over now, you can do whatever you want with it. You can even wear my veil and we will do your hair and you can wear makeup!" She was sold! I also found a Halloween costume in a box of clothes that came from our friends KJ & Michelle for Makenzie!!! So with what could have turned out to be pretty expensive (pumpkins and costumes) it cost us under $10 for just the pumpkins! So while Daddy and Uncle Steve were watching football on Saturday, I took the girls to Target and Kylie was able to spend her $20 on what she wanted. Of course she wanted new dry erase board markers, a notebook, and some new Halloween pens and still had money left over! Not toys! We went to the toy area and she said "what are we doing here? I don't play with toys!" Her room is done up like a class room. She has a bulletin board, a dry erase board, her new desk that came with the furniture (that looks much more "grown up" then her last one, a table with chairs for her "kids", a rocking chair and a rug for story time, she even has transperancies (sp?) that go on a projector machine, stickers galore for grading papers, math and english workbooks, markers out the wazooo, crayons of every color known to man, pens that will last a lifetime, and the list goes on and on. I think I have a teacher in the making. If she does not grow up to be one I will be really suprised. I know, I know, kids will change their mind a million times, I just have a feeling! So, if any on you prior teachers have anything still in the closet, Kylie would love to take it off your hands! Man have I gotten way off track. So, on Sunday we cleaned and rearranged Kylie's room to make way for her new stuff. We moved a couple things into Makenzie's room that Kylie had outgrown. We had our usual Sunday night dinner with my parents and then went home for an early night in bed. This week has gone well so far. Kylie has had Benchmark testing for the last two days and report cards come home tomorrow. I will be anxious to see how she is doing although from the looks of things that get sent home, she is doing wonderful. She started 1st grade on a reading level of 3 (they label everyone at this level at the end of Kindergarten) and by the end of the year she has to be at 18. Well at the conclusion of the first 9 weeks, only half way through the first half of the year she is already at 10! Hope everyone is having a wonderful week and thanks for tuning in! Be back soon!