VALENTINE BINGO

During the party I saw Ms Greenfield lay out some cards so I asked if I could help her with anything and she said I could help her out with leading the kids in playing Valentine Bingo. "OK" I said and things were going fine until the boys found out that there were no prizes to give out and started to eat the stale candy hearts that were supposed to be the markers. Grant's mom (the one who got upset that I did not remember her daughter) thought that Grant was being such a good boy by not eating any of the stale candy. However truth be told, along with Dixon, Grant DID eat the old stale candy. I just let sleeping dogs lie. Next thing I knew Mimi had a Bingo game going on for herself even though there still no prizes to give out. The girls did not care one bit.

HAPPY VALENTINES DAY

This afternoon there was a party goin' on in Rm.306! Tried to upload all of the commotion but it's not working out for me. It was a lot of candy eating and chattering and laughing going on everywhere. There was a "thank you Dixon, thank you Chloe, thank you Hayden" so on and so forth. Besides me there was a couple of other moms there too. One of them (Grant's mom) I think was upset with me because I did not remember that Grant has a baby sister "well (with a slight huff), you saw her at the Open House!" The Open House was way back in the beginning of the school year and I'm supposed to remember that far back? I'm doing darn good to remember my name, address and phone number let alone what kid has a sibling or not. Oh well que sera sera as I always say.

FIRST OFFICIAL COMPETITION

The last time Mimi had a gymnastic competition it was a in-house competition and did not really count as it was only a "practice" one. Tomorrow however will be different. It will be a "real" one with the judges and everything. We are excited and nervous at the same time. Mimi and I practiced her routine last night and it was more than anything like a comedy act. "Mom, you're the judge and you're supposed to go like this (hand raised) and I go like this (Mimi's hands raised to look somewhat like a Y). " Then the girl proceeds with her routine only to forget what comes next and she is asking me "what's next???" "I dunno" I say. It went on and on that way. I'm sure she will be fine. I may be a wreck though. We'll see.

The competition will be up in Woodinville which is about a little over an hour's drive from our house tomorrow afternoon. Elsie and Emma will be competing tomorrow too. Rhonda says that usually after the meet everyone goes out to dinner together. However since the girls meet times will be staggered throughout the day we may not do the dinner. Dad says that we could go to the Japanese restaurant out in Kirkland. I forgot the name of it but I think that it is Rikki's which is the same name as their salad dressing.

Any hoo, stayed tuned for the results.