CHOWTIME

Mimi must be going through a growth spurt. She is eating like crazy. Not only did she have breakfast, lunch and a snack after school while her friends were here, she also ate dinner at Keri's house while mom went to Costco to do some shopping. Getting ready for our out of town guests and such. When mom went to pick up Mimi, she got kind of hungry since she (mom) didn't have dinner as of yet. Therefore she made a stop at McDonald's for their chicken snack wrap. While mom was giving her order, Mimi pipes up from the back seat "and a happy meal!!!". On the way home, mom could hear Mimi in the back who is sitting with Butch saying "Awsome! I get to eat again! Woo Hoo!" Me thinks Mimi has hollow legs.

EARTHQUAKE

That's what it feels like when Mimi gets together with her friends. While the younger kids (Bailey, Liam and Braden) were over at Keri's, the older kids (Blake, Erin and Zoe) were here. They like to play a lot of "pretend" games. Sometimes they are animals or sometimes it Power Rangers, for a while it was Star Wars. None the less there is a lot of what some people call noise but to mom it is music to the ears. Especially when mom is downstairs and the kids are upstairs, one could hear and feel the house shake, rattle and roll.

PATTERNS

Now a days we do a lot of indoor activities. On Mimi's 3rd birthday she received a box of patterns. At that time it was just a smidgen above her head as to what to do with them but now at 5 years old she knows exactly what to do. Plus at school they have been learning all about patterns and everything has to be a pattern including the way she dresses. Mimi tells me "Mom, today I'm going to dress like a boy (pants and shirt), tommorrow I'm going to dress like a girl (dress or skort) like that ok? It's called a pattern, boy, girl, boy, girl." This particular set came with several wood tiles with the pattern already painted on them and you are to take the smaller pieces and make the same pattern as the tile. After copying some of the patterns, Mimi decided to make her own. Kept her busy for a couple of hours till the Charlie Brown Christmas specials came on tv.