I Don't think I'll ever understand my child

Okay, so lets do a little review. Who here remembers when I wrote that Hayden HATED cheerleading; how it was always a struggle to get her to practice or games; how we had to try to BRIBE her with the hopes of a lizard at the end of the season? I see a lot of hands so I know you all remember. Well, let me tell you a conversation that was had tonight in the Wiggs' household:
Scene: (In the car on the way home from cheer practice)
Hayden: "....and I'm going to work on my tumbling because next year we can tumble and do lifts and tons of stuff that we couldn't do before. And I'm going to work on my jumps and splits...Next year we're going to win Cheer Off."
Me: "Um, Hayden are you planning on cheering next year?"
Hayden (looking at me like I'm crazy): "YES, of course."

Yes, you heard it the words were "Yes, of course". Of course. As if the past 6 weeks of grumbling and griping have never occurred. As if that was another child or a dream that I was living. As if I never had to give "the look" to her from the stands, or threaten, or cajole, or bribe. Of course. And she's only 8. It makes me look forward to the teenage years.....NOT!!!

Cheer off is over

The girls did AMAZING! They did the very best that I've ever seen them do their routine. They were loud, they were together and all their moves were perfect. Therefore it was a huge shock to all of us when the squad didn't place. We were all stunned. The worst part of it was that after they've just learned that they didn't win or place, they have to take a sqaud picture! "Hey you didn't win! Smile!" I think that is just cruel. Hayden is a little depressed and I don't blame her. She just wants to know what they did wrong so they can improve on it. I think that's pretty mature. I expected her to behave much, much worse. The other thing she has decided is that she wants to take Cheer tumbling this spring and summer and then cheer next fall and, as she put it, "blow the 4th grade competition away next year". She might be just a wee bit competitive. Anyway, just wanted to update everyone on how it went. Have a great rest of the weekend, I'm headed to work.

Today's the BIG day!

We are getting ready to head down to Cheer Off!! Our girls look really good and we're very excited! Keep your fingers crossed that they do really well. Hayden says she is so excited that she couldn't even sleep last night! I'll let you know how they did and I'm sure I'll have a pic or two when all is said and done. GO WOLVES!!!!

And its over!

My day is finished and my feet, legs and behind hurt from all the running around! Parade was fun. Especially the part where we GOT LOST!!! You may wonder how this happens when you're in the middle of a parade. Well, it happens when one of the football teams is riding in a boat being pulled behind a truck, and said boat gets stuck going over a dip, and said football team has to hop out of said boat to enable it to go over the dip. Once the football was back on board the rest of the parade had disappeared! We were all so busy watching the boat action that no one watched to see where the parade went! So we start driving (we're the second car behind the boat) and the boat turns and we figure well surely he's just getting off the parade route and look the truck behind him is turning too; they must not know where they're going we'll keep going straight and stay on the route; hmmmm a dead end; maybe we should turn here; oh look we're behind the same truck again; please stop people can't you tell we're in a parade! (thats because at this point we WERE the parade and there were only a few lost souls behind us who thought we might actually know where we were going) We finally do end up at the end along with a bunch of random people who didn't understand why they were now in a parade! We thought it was quite funny and the girls were so busy in the back doing cheers (and still throwing candy....to no one) they didn't even notice!

Then we rushed to get the tailgate party set up and to be honest, I was so tired by that point that I wasn't even all that stressed!!! Not too mention that I had the best helpers EVER!! We had tons of volunteers and got everything up and running very smoothly. We ended up feeding over 250 people and it seemed like everybody had a great time. We did go to the game and Buford did win 42-0.

So over all it was a good day. Andy informed me that he works harder for me on his days off than he does when he works a full day at work. What do you say to that? I said, "I love you and thank you." I thought that summed it up.

Quick Blog

Both girls did awesome in their pep rallys today!! And I did pretty good in my first time role as assistant cheer coach, if I do say so myself!! ;-) Believe it or not I have a picture or two that I will post later. Much later, because there is still food to pick up, a parade to throw candy in, a tailgate party to throw and a game to attend. Then, and only then, will I be able to download my millions of pics from today. What a gorgeous day for a parade!! GO WOLVES!!!! And now, go Ginnie!

Tomorrow, tomorrow, its Homecoming tomorrow, its only a dayyyyy awayyyyy!

WHOO HOO!! Tomorrow is Buford Homecoming! That means pep rallys in the morning, parade in the afternoon, BES Tailgate party (we have 250 people coming! Twice as many as last year!!) and then the game. Its a green day all day!! Even better? Belle and her friend Morgan who are mascots for the 3rd grade squad will actually get to do a couple cheers at their own school!! Its so cute! There are only 4 of them, but they are actually loud and doing the cheer right! Oh my gosh, I just noticed that I've started using the word "actually" an awful lot. Eek, gotta knock that off. Anyway, so the mascot squad will be able to do a couple of cheers and then we'll dash over to see the third grade squad do their routine. I know this isn't the first time Hayden has performed at a pep rally but she is super excited because it is her first time doing one in the Academy and apparently these are BIG deals. What do you expect when you cram 911 screaming students, teachers, parents and siblings into a school gym? It is going to be LOUD!! I probably should make sure that Andy takes some Motrin before we leave or he is going to have a major headache! The things he does for his girls. He surely does love them bunches!

I'm still here!

I've been slack this week on keeping up with the old blog here. I guess I need to remedy that. We've kicked off fundraisers in both schools and that is keeping me hopping along with everything else. Did we used to have to do fundraisers when we were little? I don't remember it. I do remember when I was in band in high school (yes, ha ha, I was in band) and we had a rock-a-thon where we sat in rocking chairs for hours in order to raise money. Not a lot of effort there! But, that is the only sort of thing I can remember. Now of course, my Mom will probably read this and correct me and remind me of some obscure chocolate selling experience that I'm not aware of. Ooh ooh wait! I just remembered when I was at Saint Peter and Paul's we had to sell wrapping paper! There I guess we did have fundraisers! Although that was private school, not public. Does that count? Since I don't remember any other fundraiser and barely remember that one, I'm going to have to hazard a guess and say that back then we really didn't do them. At least that's my story and I'm sticking to it!