Phantom of the Opera

Just a quick note if you ever get the chance to go see the Broadway play Phantom of the Opera go and do it. It was great a little something for everyone some comedy, romance and action. A dark play kinda of like Batman that was done by Tim Burton. It was an exceptional play to go and see.

Good times

Ok so last week we all went out Enchanted Rock. It is a state park of a giant rock that has hiking trails around and up to the top of the Rock. We decided to hike the to the top of the rock first. It was crazy steep. From the base to the top it was just over one-half mile and went up 425 ft. For all you math folks that was steep.

On those really steep areas I had the kids Bear crawl so they would not fall backwards, they thought that was cool. So we all made it to the top and we had lunch up there. This area is about 100 miles north of San Antonio and had a much better sceanry then San Antonio. From the top we could see many hills and vegitation. it was nice.

Now comes the fun part, going down. No big deal until Marcus decides that he needs to go to the bathroom. On this rock there is no bush for him to pee in nor would he do it anyways. So I (Derek) have both kids by the hands so they won't slip and tumble down the rock while trying to go as fast as I can to where there is some bushes for Marcus to pee in. We find a bush and Emily helps him and he pees. He did not like standing and peeing at all. This was his first time to pee standing up, more of a forced to do it rather then wanted to do it, anyways lots of first going on in our family. After the hike down everyone was so pooped from the hike up we left. It was a fun trip.

First lost Tooth

Annabella lost her first tooth at the young age of 4 years old. It was a fight and a half to get her to do anything with it. When we first noticed the tooth it was at church and we told her that she needed to wiggle it so it could come out. She did not like that at all and from that point on she would not do anything it with her tooth. Annabella would not let anyone see it or touch it. A couple of days later she let us see it and that is when we noticed that the incoming tooth had already broken through her skin (as you can see in the picture.) We were concerned and made a dentist appt. The dentist found out that the tooth had no root left and was ready to come out and another tooth was getting ready to come out also. The dentist was going to go ahead and pull the teeth right then and there and that is when Annabella melted (as would almost any kid) and they said they couldn't do it with her melting down like that. That night we called Ms. Jeania over and I (Derek) had to hold her down, and she pulled the tooth out. She was screaming (again like almost any kid would) but she recovered and that is when a whole new little girl came out, because the next day at school she VOLUNTEERED to stand in front of her class and recited the ABCs, if anyone knows Annabella she is, or was, the shyest girl ever, then the other day we went to the park and she went across the monkey bars all by her self, we were close by but not so close that we could have caught her if she fell, so she took that on all by her self. Talk about a proud parent moment. Lastly, we have not been able to get her to stop talking, in her class at church her teacher had to keep asking her stop talking. How funny is that, it has been a crazy week with this little tooth.