What I Want To Be

Grams and Grandad enjoyed a short visit from Our Little Princess and Her Highness this weekend. Their parents celebrated Travis' birthday by spending a weekend sans children. Bonus for us! We loved having the girls. We make the exchange in Three Rivers. It's only a little more than a one hour drive for all of us. We got them on Saturday morning and returned them on Sunday afternoon.

Our Little Princess will be 3 years old in February. She's beginning to go through that shy stage where it takes her a while to warm up to anyone that she hasn't seen in a while or meets for the first time. But after a few minutes she definitely comes out of her shell. Her Highness is seven months old and is now crawling and pulling herself up into a standing position. I think she will be walking in very short order and when she does, big sister better look out. There will be no stopping her.

A couple of hours after they returned home on Sunday evening, we received an email with this video. It was so cute that I had to share it. Our Little Princess is wearing parts of the Tinkerbell costume that I made her for Halloween.

If you listen all the way to the end, you'll hear her tell her dad "I'm on TV."

These Made Me Happy

On Friday, I resumed substitute teaching at our local school district. It was a great day and very easy duty. I spent the day substituting for one of the high school art teachers. I had classes from Art 1 to Art 3 and even a couple of independent study Art 4 students. I really enjoyed seeing their artwork and chatting with them.

Several of the girls in one of the classes had on very cute shoes. They were made by Tom's Shoes. I've heard of Tom's Shoes before; I saw the founder on some television show. For every pair of shoes they sell, they give a pair of shoes to a child in need. One for one. You can't beat that. And, these shoes are seriously cute and look very comfortable.

This last pair of shoes is not made by Tom's. In fact I couldn't tell what brand they were, but I really liked them too.