Tale As Old As Time...

Stop me if you have heard this one before. Mom brings her child to her old high school to see a play thinking it will be a cool experience for the kid. Kid is totally untouched by the sentimental factor and the Mom leaves feeling like an antique. Well, at least the play (Beauty and the Beast musical) was good...

Here's Bella's favorite part of the day, an encounter with Belle. She was very amused that both of their names meant "beautiful" in different languages.

Bella was on a roll last week with activities. Saturday morning she was up early to participate in her 2nd official run. This was called, The Turkey Trot. She ran with her cousin.

Warming up

Can you spy Bella?

You may notice that all the pictures that I got were in anticipation of the race, not of them actually running.There is a simple explanation. The race itself was more like a 100yd dash than the 1/4 mile I had expected. In fact, when Bella was done, she thought it was a warm up! Oh well, next time I will make sure and see how long the "fun run" actually is...

Final activity of the week for Bella? Well we'd been thinking, she IS almost 10, so maybe she needs to go find a job. And we present...

Actually Bella made her working debut for a reason. No, it wasn't to buy Mommy and Daddy that new 3D flat screen tv they have been spying. She was working with the 4-6 grade classes at school to raise money for a trip to a survival camp they will be taking in the Spring. Although now that I saw she was pretty good at the gig, there might be hope for my flat screen after all...

Next week is Thanksgiving already. We are headed for our annual trip to Wisconsin Dells to visit family and do a whole lot of nothing for a few days...