Abby's birthday day

Well, a little anticlimactic for sure.  She went to school.  Fortunately, the lunch ladies embarrassed her to death by making her stand on a chair and they sang Happy Birthday.  Thursday night she and Mike made Rice Krispie treats to share with her classmates.  The teacher took some pictures for me to see.  We headed straight for Carter's football game after school.  I'd packed lots of food to eat while driving.  The game was the longest game in history of football.  The small school we played had a nice field, but that was it.  No chairs, no stands no nothing!  Hudson and Dillon played with other kids in a nice dirt and rock pile.  Their shoes had about 5inches of caked mud on them.  We finally left at 8:30pm and headed for a promised restaurant meal.  She wanted Olive Garden.  After driving around for an hour, we stopped to eat our dinner at Olive Garden.  Mind you, Dillon and I are dead asleep by 9:00pm each night!  Hudson--frat boy is what we've nicknamed him was trucking strong.  He is a party dude.  Oh, don't forget that the boys were barefoot due to aforementioned mud.  We ordered our food.  It was freezing in there.  I used one of Abby's gift(a pink terry cloth swim coverup) to wrap around my shoulders.  Abby used a few cloth green napkins as blankets.  Dillon kept saying "where our food" and inhaled his salad.  Then his eyelids began drooping and it was a battle of the will for him to stay awake.  Hudson--crazy.  He slurped his entire drink, burped out loud, grinned and said "Scuse me, buuuurrrrrp"!!  As usual, our family excudes class everywhere we go.  There was a cute young couple behind us who had left their 2yr old at home for a date.  I could hear it.....the giggles, the "did you see that?"....what they were really thinking was "Man, I hope our family will become just as refined as that one!" ;)

We asked Abby what was her very best experience or memory in her 10yrs.  She was sure it was our trip to Cancun 2yrs ago.  Hhhhm, thanks George W for that stimulus check that allowed us to go.  My daughter had the time of her life!!

As for her growing up, wow, 10yrs old is big.  We have been talking a lot about the growing up stuff that mommas and girls must talk about.  We are using American Girl's "The Growing and Keeping of You."  Bless her sweet heart, when talking about some really BIG girl issues, she covered her face with her hands and asked "Does this mean I'm not a little girl anymore?"    Well, sweetie, you may not be little anymore but you will always be our little girl.  Our sweet, compliant, non-dramatic, practical, pinny-pinching, intelligent, quiet, artistic, beautiful Kongju(Korean princess).