Cheer, Trucks and Bears

Remember last year when Rachel played basketball (I used that term lightly) for her school?  Well, they also have a spirit squad (cheerleading) to cheer for the basketball games and other events at the school.  She saw them perform once last year and seemed to like it but never said anything else about it.  A month or so ago, Michael and I were talking about it all and thought of asking her if she would like to cheer for it this year - she obviously isn't playing basketball again.  She's not doing gymnastics again this year either.  She really liked swimming but that's during the summer. (Although she is taking tennis lessons for an hour a week for 6 weeks right now - with her friends on Tuesday afternoons... so that is something else!) 

 So, I asked her if she might be interested and she was very much so!  She started practicing right away on her own and got some of her friends to show her cheers.  Any free time she had, she would be doing cheers.  And we hadn't even signed her up yet.  Well, yesterday morning was the day to sign-up - the first 60 kids would get on.  Michael took her and they got her signed up for the team.  They will practice once a week in the evenings and then cheer for the basketball games on Saturdays (times to vary I believe)...the season will run from November - mid-February.  Hopefully this will be something she enjoys doing.  

After they left her school, they went to Touch-a-Truck.  It's something our county does once or twice a year.  They have a fire truck, ambulance, police cars and motorcycles, SWAT vehicle, tractors, etc. all outside for the kids to touch, see and take pictures with.  Here are a few that Michael got.

Even a couple of Rachel's friends were there that day as well and they all got on the fire truck together.  Rachel and Jackson are in the back here.

Also yesterday afternoon, I took Rachel to see The Berenstain Bears Live at a small theater on the Marietta Square.  We were up in the balcony but it was a small place so we could see pretty good.  If only all the other kids were more quiet, we could of heard better as well.  She really enjoyed it though.  

This is Rachel with Sister Bear afterwards.  Sister Bear was Rachel's favorite.  

I'm sure we'll have more cheerleading pictures to come soon.  

Oh and Halloween is right around the corner as well!