It's Great being Eight!!

Today was a milestone morning. H woke up and was no longer "7", a little kid, now she is "8", accountable, mature, excited about life, a big kid! Not a tween yet (thank goodness!) but not a baby either. We already had her party but still wanted to have a special day. After getting up and breakfasted and showered etc. we headed down to the stockyards.
It's always very fun to go there with lots to see and do. We needed a pair of cowboy boots and she knew just where she wanted to go to shop. I was hoping to talk her into a pair of brown ones, since these will be working boots, but she wanted pink. Lucy wanted purple ones and stomped around the store in the cutest pair. H bought a rubber band gun for brother with some of her birthday money. She is very generous. Right away when she found out she got some money she started planning on what she could buy for her family. She gets great joy from giving.

After boots and gun were chosen and paid for we headed to the candy store. The kids love nothing better than candy and with barrels full of every kind of sugary treat imaginable it is kid heaven in there. I told them they had a dollar each so to choose wisely. Which took a long time :)

Finally everyone had their choices and we headed outside to a bench to show and unwrap and start the sugar highs.

We left just in time to see the longhorns start their drive down the street. The kids waved and cheered and were so happy to see them.

Last on our morning's agenda was a quick trip to the mall. We came in at the food court and grabbed some pizza slices then went to JCP. JCP is having a huge sale! yea! and H got two pairs of jeans and two nice shirts for when it is cold. J left us to do some shopping of her own and found some good deals as well. Yea for back to school sales!

Our last stop was Build a Bear. H loves it there for some reason and wanted to get a stuffed friend for herself and for G. H chose a koala and G a rabbit. We stuffed and fluffed and came home with two new friends. We played on the playground for a few minutes and headed home.

Now I need to make some cupcakes for her to take with her to her first Activity days. She is very excited to go, they are having a swim party and also discussing "Mr Popper's Penguins" which all the girls were to have read over the last few weeks. We just finished it this morning and it was such a cute story.