MIMI'S FRIENDS RACHEL AND HALLE

HAPPY ELEANOR AND BECCA

Eleanor and Becca decided that they wanted to have a pajama party. So PJ's was the theme of things. It was an all girl party. Since Mimi was still at the gymnastic practice when the party started, she missed the face painting and hairstyling but she still had oodles of fun anyways. Halle had so much fun that she did not want to go home. She was quite sad when I told her it was time to go. Halle then replied "But, I want to stay here forever!" Like that is going to happen anytime soon.

RIDING THE MONORAIL

That's raindrops on the windows. We are now back into the rainy season. Mimi keeps asking "When is summer coming?????" Not soon enough to suit me.

MOM'S NEW TOY aka BLACKBERRY

After lunch we went downstairs to the AT&T store to check out a new cell phone for myself since my other one went caput. I no sooner had the phone in my hot little hands when Mimi took over. The phone is pretty much self explanitory thank goodness. As you can see Mimi has already figured out how to take pictures without any help from anyone.

When that was all done, the next thing on the list was to get a petticoat for Mimi's dress for the "fodder/dodder" (still has a bit of trouble with the th's at times) ball tomorrow night. You will not believe how hard it is to find one. I went to several different stores to look for one. No luck. Of course all Mimi cared about was riding the Monorail. By the time I reach Macy's, I was hot, tired and sweaty all at the same time. The poor girl at the cosmetic counter was trying in every which way to get me to have a make-over done. I was able to muster up enough energy to smile sweetly and say "No thank you" and keep on truck'in with Mimi in tow. Time was of essence. We still had gymnastics and a birthday party scheduled for the late afternoon/evening. Plus there was still the monorail. Unfortunately Macy's did not have what I needed so back to Nordstrom's it was. They did not have a petticoat either but they did have a dress liner which works for me. Then we saw the handbags which is one of my weaknesses. So of course we had to buy a lavender (her favorite color) that Mimi picked out for herself. Then on to the monorail.

By the time we were done, it was 3:30 p.m. plenty of time (1 1/2 hrs) to get to the gym. As my luck would have it there was a huge accident on the I-90 just before the 405 entrance where we needed to go. Cars were backed up for miles. None the less we still made it to the gym and was only 10 minutes late. We needed to be there at 5:00 and arrived at 5:10. Phew!

LUNCH WITH DAD

Since there wasn't any school today, we picked up dad from the office and headed over to the Pacific Shopping Mall. Man! I could spend the whole day there if I had the chance. They have and AMC theater, Coach store, Nordstrom's plus a whole lot more! We went upstairs to the food court and found out that they have The Wild Ginger Thai Food and Todai but Mimi had her heart set on Clam Chowder soup so over to Pacific Clam Chowder we went. Will have to try out the Thai place at another time. There is also a Italian place that looks pretty good too.

FIRST DAY OF SPRING

It finally arrived! Today is officially the first day of Spring. It is also time for me to put my roller skates on now as we have another full rich day ahead of us. First on the list is to get ready for breakfast, wrap more birthday gifts. Then we are going up to Seattle to have lunch with dad. I try to squeeze as much time as I can since he always comes home late and in a couple of weeks he will be starting to go up to Everett everyday and we really won't get much chance to see him during the week. While in downtown we are going to check out a new cell phone for mom since hers went caput a couple of days ago. We then will stop at Nordstroms to see if they have any petticoats for Mimi to wear tomorrow night. Then it is on to gymanstics for a make-up lesson and another pajama birthday party this evening. Phew! I'm pooped already.

LIKE MOTHER LIKE DAUGHTER

On the way home from Reber Ranch I was saying to myself "I think I need to go and see Amy about my nails", Mimi then pipes up "Me too!" Although she is still 100% tomboy, she really is getting into primping. She is starting to use nice smelling lotion more often, getting her nails done, wearing dresses. She can't wait for the "fadder/dodder" ball tomorrow night.

YI - HAW COWBOY!!!

Besides the pet supplies, they have all kinds of western theme gear. While no one was looking, I had Mimi sit up on the saddle and put the western gear on her hoping that nobody would catch us goofing off.

ANIMAL SUPPLIES AT THE RANCH

This just cracked me up. Being a "city girl" all of my life it is taking a little getting used to living out here in the country.

CHICKS GONE WILD!

Of course that too is the understatement of the year. Our little chick has been "gone wild" from day one and still has a whole bunch of energy to burn still yet.

On the way home we stopped at Reber Ranch to pick up some dog and cat food and we found that they are selling chicks. As usual Mimi started her conversation with "I wish I had....."

HAPPY BIRTHDAY ERIN

Erin's actual birthday was a little over a week ago but Janet decided to have the party yesterday since there is no school (the am kindergartners were at the children's museum so the Pm's had no school), We celebrated at The Bouncy Place in Kent. All of the kids had a great deal of fun. So did Mimi once we finally got there.

Our morning started of as usual. Early. Then it was time for gymnastics. While at the gymnastics I realized that I had forgot to pre-order the boutonniere and corsage for tomorrow night huge and I mean huge shin dig. So off to Safeway we went, Then I found out about the tickets and since we have not received any I had to drive to another elementary school to inquire about it. Turns out we do not need any tickets. Mimi's name however is on the list. We still had plenty of time to make it to the party but then I got LOST! Doggone it! I don't usually make it down to Kent very often and they are doing quite a bit of road construction too. None the less we made it.