happy fall

It may be fall, but it sure doesn't feel like it here in Los Fresnos. We are still having highs in the upper 80's and today the news said that next week it should be going up to 91! These are the days I miss Alabama!

This past week in school has been "Be Drug Free". The only thing I can really say is "this is just another reason why parents home school their children". Alex and I have been very happy with the local elementary school so far, that is until this week. When we got a note home last week that this would be drug awareness week I kinda wondered what they would do with the 4K but then I just let it go. Every day the kids were to dress up for some some cute reason to help them remember to say NO TO DRUGS. At this point I'm still fine. On Monday Haley brought home her vocabulary sheet and one of her new words was DRUGS. It had a picture of a can of beer, a bottle of liquor that said "whiskey", a package of cigarettes that said "smokes" and a syringe. When I asked Haley what the picture was she just "oh, I don't know". I had to tell her, in the most innocent way what drugs were. I WAS NOT READY FOR THIS!. After Monday nothing else was said until we picked her up on Wednesday. Alex and I were standing at the door when the kids were released, when she came out with her eyes all puffy and we both could tell she had been crying. Not giving the poor girl a break we both thought that she had gotten in some mega trouble. Wrong! After 45 minutes of hysterical crying we found out what happened. Here's the run down.

She went to an assembly in the lunchroom (along with all the other grades) and listened to a police officer talk about drugs. The officer also had his drug dog. He told the kids that his dog could smell drugs and if you were found with drugs in you backpack you would be put in cuffs(or as Haley says, those silver bracelets). Well at that point, when she heard this all she heard was "the dog will find drugs". For the next 8 hours whenever she thought about it she would burst out into tears (not just a few tears, sobbing) that the dog would find drugs in her backpack. She did not understand that there were no drugs in there and that she did not have drugs, that we did not have drugs and that she did not need to be afraid! It was a VERY long night!

With all that being said here are some pictures of this week!

Be a king or queen. Stand up and say NO to drugs.

As far as what Haley thinks-crowns at school, fun!

Wear yellow for drug awareness. Haley's thoughts-I get to dress like an Indian!

80's day. Leave drugs in the past. Haley loved dressing like mom when I was her age.

Put a sock on drugs. Haley got to pick out what she wanted me to put on her socks.

Be a hero. Just say NO. Thanks Mrs Keri for her dress! Haley still loves it!

Boo at the Zoo

Thanks Mrs Rachel for the material! It was perfect!

Haley took both of these pictures! She is getting so good at it!