ANGELS

After being a little turd this morning, her and Blake went to the park for lunch before he had to go to school. Mimi then came home and had a long, long nap. She's back to being our little angel again. Kids, go figure!

Here she is with her papa watching "The Little Mermaid". She practically knows the whole dialoge by heart.

UP A TREE

This morning before Blake had to go to school, he came over to play with Mimi. I swear to goodness that Blake is the brother that Mimi will never have unless a miracle occurs (mama is not able to have babies). They play, then fight, then play again. Plus they both are sooooo very competitive with each other.

At one point Mimi was being a real turd (as my friend Keri would call it), so as a result, Mimi was put in her "timeout" chair. Boy is she a reeaalll Chengdu Chili Pepper! Hot and spicey!! Egads!! Mimi told mama "You need to go climb up a tree and stay there!!! I'm mad at you!!!" I don't know where she got that one from but at least you know where you stand with her. Maybe I'm going through the "terrible two's" at four years old. When she was 2 and 3 years old, it was a breeze, now at 4 years old, she can be a real angel at times then she turns her head 360 degrees and turns into a real turd. She's probably making up for lost time. Who knows?

HOP, SKIP AND JUMP

Mimi's new thing now is skipping. She's a skip'n everywhere! She still loves runn'in too. That, I don't think will ever stop.

PHONE BOOK

Not long after moving here to Washington, mama received a small phone book from our fair city. It is full of coupons and such. It also has a place for phone numbers. Mama wrote a list of all of our friends names and numbers. She wrote only their first names not their last. Don't know what came over her when she went to write down papa's new phone numbers. She wrote down his FIRST and LAST name.

When papa saw what happened, he let her have it! "What's the matter?! Don't ya know who I am by now?! You wrote everyone else down by their first name, but with me, oh noooooo, you have to write the WHOLE NAME, FIRST AND LAST! Look here, you wrote Greg Putney! You wrote everyone else is like Maggi, Sandra, Allyn, Teri etc...... but me? Noooo, it's Greg Putney!"

Oh well, Que Sera Sera. I must have had a "senior moment". Needless to say, I'm writing a new phone book and having a good laugh as I do it.

Mama will never, ever, be able to live this one down for a long, long time to come.

NOCTURNAL

Upon picking up Mimi from school today she says, "Mama, I'm a bat!" I was informed that the class had been studying nocturnal animals prior to Halloween.

BRIGANCE TEST

Yesterday Mimi received the results of the Brigance test. Out of 100 points, Mimi received 83. Was not able to get a picture of the questions so here are just a few:
1.PERSONAL DATA RESPONSE; Orally gives 1)first name 2)full name 3)age 4)address Mimi received 3 points.
2. COLOR RECOGNITION; Points to 10 different colors that were listed. Mimi got 10 out of 10 points
3.PICTURE VOCABULARY; Points to various pictures listed such as ladder, snake, leaf etc. Mimi got 6 out of 8.
4. ROTE COUNTING; Mimi got 10 out of 10 points for that one.

The questions go on and on. The teacher's comment at the bottom was "Naomi is a sweet girl and is doing great! She's a "go getter" ". I think that is the understatement of the year.

AUTUM IN MAPLE VALLEY

Again today was nice, a bit cloudy though. So everyone was out raking leaves. Mimi and Blake thought it was great fun to jump in the leaves that papa had just raked.

Mama tried to plant her bulbs in the backyard flowerbed. Blake was a good helper but not our Mimi. Dirt went flying everywhere so therefore that ended the planting right then and there.