Orange Fabulous

Today's color was orange, which Madison wore well.  Actually, she wears everything well - she's like our little Sharpay.  I make that reference because we watched that recent Disney movie tonight:  "Sharpay's Fabulous Adventure."  Although Sharpay would wear pink, and not orange.

Anyway, I don't think we have pink this week at kindergarten.  In fact, tomorrow's color is yellow.

Madison is enjoying kindergarten, no matter what color she wears.  She even told us she made a new friend today.  His name is Jacob, and he has Batman on his book bag.  Instant cool mark for Jacob, at least in Madison's book.

Today after school, Mommy was there to pick Madison up.  In order to be thirtieth in line to pick up Madison, Mommy had to get there at the school forty-five minutes early.  I don't remember pick-up and drop-off to be that big of a deal while I was in school myself, but this week has been a real eye-opener for us:  The line to drop off Madison was - and I am in no way making this up - one mile long at least.  It stretched behind the school, and then back again to the front, and then made it's way out onto the road and down to an intersection.  That's where Daddy's jaw first dropped as he got in line.  Like... wow!

Of course, Madison was a few minutes late.  But so were the forty cars behind us.  At least there was still someone there to guide Madison along to her classroom.  Tomorrow morning, we'll have to try to get there much earlier.

Anyway, the reason why Mommy was there to pick Madison up was this:  music class.  It was the return to Mrs. Pam's class!  Yes, she's got homework there already too.  But she did have a good time.  It sounds like we have a whole lot to learn though, so we'd better get cracking.  We've got more Mom Bucks to earn, that's for sure!

Today was Nana's birthday - that's Daddy's mom.  Madison called up today (with a little help from us), and sang her the whole song.  It was very sweet.  She's getting better and better with her speech - and her singing.  Of course, she's had a lot of practice with that particular song.  But I think the speech therapy has been really helping her out tremendously.  

Tonight's dinner, by the way, was fantastic.  Or, to quote Sharpay, "fabulous!"  Sure it was just a crock-pot entry:  chicken dumplings.  Mommy's time is severely limited on Tuesdays, soon to be even less as ballet class approaches.  So it makes sense to try out the old crock-pot.  But boy, that's the sort of food that's perfect on days like this.  

This morning at about 5:30 or so, a huge thunderstorm came through.  I don't know about the rainfall amount, but I do know that this was one of those storms that shook the house.  That type of thunder is pretty infrequent, but when it comes around you really start wondering what's going on out there.  Fortunately, it was just noise to us.  But I am not kidding:  the house shook.  We were all up pretty early this morning, except for Madison.  She was proudly telling us how much she slept last night, nearly rubbing it in our faces.  

That's when she put on her orange, and marched down the stairs, looking fabulous of course.