If only only my children knew how much we love them. Oh, they know, but one day they will have a week like ours has been and then they will realize how much we love them...more of that story later :) Benjamin saved up his money to buy a hamster. It took a little convincing, but I have to say the little guy is pretty cute. He had planned to buy two (in hopes that they would have babies) but we were spared from that when the extreme heat in our city killed all all of the hamsters in the store except for one. So, the lucky fellow has a new home with AC!
So, meet Burt, the cutest and luckiest dwarf hamster in the entire city :)
Not to fear, Doggy Bones is still in the picture. Although we have the hamster in a different room because the internet suggested to do so. We don't want the little guy to have a heart attack.
So, back to the "if only they knew" story. We have been planning a little weekend vacation for several weeks now. We had planned it at the time we did because we did not want to interfere with end of school performances, etc. We bought our tickets last week and had hotel reservations. Everyone was (and is excited) to get away for a few days. Well, I go to pick up Lauren from school on Monday and her teacher informs me that the dance recital, the one that my dance lover has been talking about all year and the one we had already bought the outfit for, is going to be Friday afternoon. Our tickets to leave are for Friday morning. I have never seen such excitement and such devastation on a 5 years old's face in such a short amount of time. It broke my heart. Needless to say, her daddy loves her more than she will ever know. Jonathan spent teh next day and a half on teh phone trying to do the impossible in our country...change a ticket. But he managed to do the impossible and delay our trip for a day.
She did such a good job and was so happy to be able to perform her dance for all the parents.
One happy girl :)
I am working on getting the video uploaded for you to see. Here is the link
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M_dCvL9MuCo&feature=youtube_gdata If you want to skip straight to her dance and not watch the intro...go to about 3 minutes into the video. I may be a little prejudice, but I think she has to be one of the cutest dancers of the day! :)
