Tonight was the exciting debut performance of Disney of Ice Frozen here in Nashville and our family loved being a part of it!
We were able to snag backstage passes for the special opening celebration in which our family was able to meet Elsa and Anna. You can imagine how surprised my kids were.
My son is in 2nd grade and my daughter is 2 years old. I’m sure every minute of it was a dream come true; like bringing Frozen to life!
Though I had been to Disney on Ice exactly 30 years ago when the feature was The Sword in the Stone, my wife had never experienced it.
The show is very well done. I highly recommend taking your family, as the tour will be continuing through May 2019. So check to see when Disney on Ice Frozen is coming to your town.
And if you’re Nashville, there are still 8 more shows through Sunday, September 16th, 2018!
A couple of weeks ago, I attended the parent-teacher classroom orientation, while you stayed home with Mommy and your sister.
As I was one of the first parents to enter the classroom, I was informed that I needed to find your desk by figuring out which construction paper cartoon was the one you created.
I got it right on the first try. I was very proud of myself.
I know my son’s art style. I was able to pick you out. I think that’s pretty cool.
For a solid three weeks now, you have been filling any quiet space with an eternal loop of “Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star”. Because it happens to have the same exact melody as “The ABC Song”, you often interchange the lyrics.
Not to mention, you pronounce “twinkle” as twunkle.
You weren’t shy one bit when I decided to press record on my camera, so I could show Mommy your performance, once she got back from the grocery store.
Perhaps this is the beginning of your singing career…
My wife and I put the labor in Labor Day Weekend, that’s for sure…
Though undeniably, it was my parents who were the driving force for us to be able to get our projects completed:
While mom watched the kids the entire time, my dad led the projects. I served as the right hand man to him, and my wife handled some of the smaller projects.
We replaced the headboard of our bed using Weaber’s Weathered Wall Boards in Nantucket Gray. Here’s a link in case you’re interested in buying a similar product for the cheapest price on Amazon.
At Home Depot, we bought 3 boxes at $25 each, plus the $5’s worth in nails.
After using every single board, we created a 6 foot long, 5 foot 7 inch tall headboard.
But before we could start nailing the boards to the wall, we had to paint the walls first, as my wife find the perfect new color to compliment the boards, which is called Icicle (SW6238) from Lowe’s.
Meanwhile, on the other side of the wall I was painting, my wife was tackling the guest bathroom, with the new color Refresh (SW6751).
She also found a really cool mirror for us to replace the one that came with our house when we bought it new in January 2015.
By the time the paint dried, my wife felt the tone was darker than she imagined it would be, so we bought a $15 painting to offset the color a bit.
My wife also repainted the wall decor of our dining room, to make it look a little less dusty. She just simply used a can of spray paint for the job.
And speaking of the kitchen, since my dad and I got the new headboard finished quicker than we had hoped, we got started on the next project, which was to install shiplap as a backsplash for the kitchen.
It might have been possible to have completed the project in time before my parents had to go back to Alabama, but my dad realized that when the marble counters were installed, they were uneven. That meant he had to customize the bottom boards to match, so that all the other boards above it would be even.
We’ll finish up that job next time. As for now, my wife is very happy with the fruits of our labor; so that means I am happy.
As Labor Day Weekend began, a mysterious box had arrived at our door. Remembering that Bobbi-Toads had reached out to me the week before, offering to let my kids try out their brand of shoes, I decided to let him open their surprise right away.
The look on my daughter’s face makes it clear how excited to she was to get her surprise.
She got a pair of size 7 Pollipop Purple Panda shoes with matching Purple Panda Bobbi-Dobbiez, while my son got the 4 Boomz in size 3.
Once they both put on their new shoes, they instinctively began running across the house. I shot this little video to capture the action:
My daughter especially liked how the toes lit up in rainbow colors- and how she was able to attach her “baby bear” on to her shoes.
It is plain to see that my kids naturally loved receiving their new Bobbi-Toads and Bobbi-Dobbiez.
If you would like to buy some for your own kids, or maybe as a gift, here’s a link to check out their website:
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