Pinwheels Spinning

WATE posted the video from Pinwheel Day!! Now you can see the kids in all their glory. The newscaster at the end is Kristen Farley, the mom of one of Miles's classmates. And here's the link to the article. Someone commented that the"girl with the pinwheel is adorable." But we knew that, right.

A Media Frenzy

There are some famous faces living in our house this month. Miles was recently featured in the newspaper while he and his classmates worked on their new Smart Table. Each of the Kindergarten classes have one, and every class in the school now has iPads for the kids to work with. Miles loves when he gets iPad for his center activity! He just wishes they'd let him play Angry Birds on it. He is with friends Eli, Skylar and Ella Grace.

September 21st is International Day of Peace, as recognized by the UN in 1981. A few years ago, some art teachers in Florida came up with the idea of Pinwheels for Peace as a "visual public statement about peace." Sacred Heart participated this year with each student making pinwheels and celebrating with a special photo and assembly yesterday. Miles's class buddies from the 3rd grade helped them make their pinwheels, which are the green ones in the "E" below. Even the 3, 4, and 5yr PreK classes were involved, so Audrey got to be in the picture too. 

The WATE news team and the News Sentinel were on hand to document the event. It is supposed to be in the neighborhood section of the paper next week. In the 5 o'clock news story, Audrey had a few moments of fame when her face filled the screen! I can't find the video online yet, but here's a picture of the screen.She's next to her friends Duncan, Nadalie and Jillian.

And the kids won't let me finish this post without sharing my own brush with fame. I usually go to Zumba classes at the Y up the street, but a friend opened a new dance studio and invited me to a class there.  Little did I know I would end up on the local afternoon news-magazine. If you want to see my dance debut, click here to see it on WBIR.com.

Go Big Orange

Thanks to some great friends, we found ourselves with tickets to the game in the new Tennessee Terrace section of Neyland and a close parking pass, so we decided to make it a family night and take the kids to their first UT game. They were super excited! We got there almost an hour before kick-off so we could get our seats, enjoy some game dogs and enjoy the pregame festivities. They were so patient and ready to watch the band as filled the field. We stood and sang the national anthem and then... 

Lightning. Rain delay. Boo. We did have the Terrace area to hang out in, but even that got pretty hot and stuffy with all the people waiting with us. We headed down the elevators to leave, but found out that we would be trapped in our parking lot until the delay was over, so we stayed in the cool lower lobby. Since we'd made it this long, we thought we should stay for a few possessions of the ball.

We ended up staying for the first half and through the halftime performance by the Pride of the Southland Marching Band. They loved it. Miles got really into cheering for our many touchdowns, and Audrey was a great fan too.

So we hate that they didn't get to see the pregame excitement and there weren't fireworks for the scores, but we'll just have to take them to another game soon!  Go Big Orange!