Western Carolina competition

This past weekend the band traveled out to Western Carolina University for big time competition. Daddy and I drove up separately from the band Friday night and we stayed at hotel by the university.

The room was pretty long and I got to crawl around back and forth until I fell asleep.

Saturday was an early day, the band's prelims performance was before 10a! I thought they did pretty well, they're really starting to play their show with a lot of excitement.

The rest of the day was a bit of blur with naps and crawling around the area behind the stands and trying to stay out of the sun. I did a pretty good job getting my clothes dirty!

The band ended up not making finals, which was too bad, maybe next time!

My own excitement came as Daddy and I were getting ready to leave to come back home. I was playing in the grass by the car when I fell into Daddy's legs. He thought I hit my forehead on his leg and picked me up to ease my pain.

But really, I hit my mouth and was bleeding. Mommy saw the blood and got worried that I busted a tooth. But I had all my teeth, so that wasn't it. Daddy got one of the band moms (thank you Ms. Roberts!) who's a pediatric nurse to take a look and it turns out that little thing that connects my upper lip to my gum got ripped a bit.

She told Mommy and Daddy that this is somewhat common and that I'll be okay in a few days - boy was that a relief!

Maybe a little too much excitement to end the day.

North Lincoln Band Competition

Mommy and Daddy took me to Saturday's band competition at North Lincoln and it was a whole lot of fun....when I was awake.

The band did okay in their prelims performance, but it was really sunny and warm, so I didn't see much of it. Many thanks to the Williamson's for keeping an eye on me while Mommy and Daddy helped out the band.

Before Finals, I got dinner and was able to crawl around on the football field for a little bit. I'm soooo close to walking on my own, but I'm just not ready for it just yet. I need for Mommy and Daddy to think I'm still attached to them because once I start walking, I'm all over the place!

For Finals, I got to hang out with the Wright's and after the sun went down and things cooled down, I slept most of the evening. But wow, did the East Lincoln band pull out a show for Finals!

They were electric and practically swept all the awards - they got the biggest trophy of the night, it was waaaayyyy taller than me!

Back in the afternoon, Mommy had me over by the equipment truck and the pictures below show you what I was able to get into!