Mom's Night at the Emmy Awards

John didn't get close up shots but the limo might not have fit if he had ...

My friend Pam usually has us over for the season premiere (and season finale) of Desperate Housewives. This year she'll be out of town so she decided to have a party for the Emmys. Since she'd asked us to dress in "red carpet" attire, Christine decided we should arrive in style, and rented a limo. Seven of us rode to Pam's and surprised her. We rode around for a little while before getting out to be interviewed by Pam's son about which designer we were wearing. I got to say "I'm wearing my pajamas" (since I was actually wearing a velvet night gown, not having any true ball gowns or even bridesmaid dresses to salvage). We had fun playing Emmy bingo, picking the winners, and eating food that all started with e or m ... especially considering I wouldn't have watched the Emmys otherwise. Now we just have to find a place to watch Desperate Housewives.

First Day of School

As you can see from the pictures, we went back to school (started almost 2 weeks ago and I've been delinquent in updating the blog, oh well). It was a full day and despite his reservations about not knowing anyone, George had a good time. He found that he DID know someone, Nikyah from Miss Maria's class at his pre-school was in his class, so that made him feel better. He told me the other night that all the kids know his name, but he doesn't know everyone's. He'll get to be friends with everyone, sooner or later. Estelle had a few friends from last year who didn't come back ("Fred couldn't be in our class because 1st grade is packed!"). There were 24 kids signed up, although I don't think all of them have ended up arriving. She thinks she passed her first spelling test this Friday. The words were 'the', 'red', 'like', 'see', and 'to'. George could read them too.