MIMI and FLOWER

Mama always sits in the office next to Mimi's room and plays with the computer while papa reads Mimi bedtime stories. Most of the time mama is laughing to herself because she can hear how Mimi makes her papa use different voices to act out the different parts. It is soooo funny hearing papa talk in a female voice.

Tonight when the stories were over mama heard the two them say their goodnights. Papa says "goodnight Mimi". Mimi says ahem "goodnight Flower". I think she is watching way too much Disney.

NEW ADDITION

There is a new addition to the Putney household. His name is Nemo as in Finding Nemo. For quite some time mama had this big fish bowl with fake glass fish that she used for decoration purpose. Somewhere in our move the glass fish is missing so Mimi decided to buy real fish.

This morning before gymnastic school, we did just that. Mama purchased a Beta fish mainly because they are very low maintenance. Everything Mimi has, her friend Blake has to have only bigger (Mimi has a race car rug, so does Blake, Mimi has a skateboard, so does Blake, Mimi for a long, long time worn shoes with lights, you guessed it, Blake now has them) So now he has decided to get a small octopus but then changed his mind. He wants to get a fish like Mimi only bigger. So of course, mama had to call Keri and give her a "heads up" on the situation.

The reason for the red bow around the fish bowl is that we have TWO CATS. Our Ollie could care less about Nemo, but not our Stanley. So therefore mama had to put some type of covering on the fish bowl.

DOCTOR ,POST OFFICE and HONEY DO'S

This afternoon mama cleaned the garage so that Blake and Mimi could play in it. We are now in the winter season so it is way too cold for them to play outside. Mama closes the garage door and opens the door leading to the garage open so that the garage will be warm enough for them to play in. Mama was cooking dinner while the kids played. Next thing she knew, Blake came running in to make his mail to have delivered by Mimi. Mama could hear Blake saying to Mimi "Honey, come here" Honey do it this way". It was honey this and honey that. Mama was laughing so hard that she had to call Keri and tell her all that was going on.

When they finished with playing post office, mama gave them some balloons which they loved. Mimi was pretending that she hurt her leg. She said that she needed to see the doctor. Next thing mama knew, Blake was playing the doctor. Mimi was lying down with the injured leg sticking straight up in the air and Blake was feeling it for injuries. Egads! They're growing up way too fast for me!

GYMNASTICS

After the hula lesson fiasco, mama decided to have Mimi try out for gymnastic. Mama found out about the gymnastic class from another China mom Rhonda. Throughout this week mama had been taking Mimi to observe the classes and get used to the idea that she WILL BE ATTENDING GYMNASTICS. In the beginning, Mimi said that she was "NOT JOINING"! Mama had decided to sign her up for once a week. Today was the first lesson and guess what? Mimi had a BLAST!!! She absolutely loved it!! She had so much fun that she could not wait to sign up for TWICE a week as opposed to once a week. She will now be going to pre-school on M-W-F and gymnastic school on T-Th during the day. The gymnastic class consists of 2-3 girls, Mimi included. So it is almost as if Mimi is getting a private lesson. Since Mimi is only going to pre-k at this time, we are able to do the gymnastic class from 12:30-1:30. Should she continue to do gymanstic in the future, it will have to be in the evening. That is when the majority of students come.

Today's class consisted of running, tumbling, a little bit of floor exercises and bars. Thursday class will consist of tumbling and trampoline.