NEW SUSHI PLACE?

Not far from our place a new strip mall is in the process of being built. Today mama heard from another client at the nail salon that a sushi restaurant is to be put in there. We will most definitely have to check it out. There is also a mongolian grill opening soon near our home. Will have to check that one out too since Mimi absolutely loves noodles.

STUCK ON YOU

Mimi the sticker meister strikes again!!!!! This time it happened while mama was getting her nails done by Amy.

LOOK WHO'S READY TO EAT

This is Ollie's favorite place to sit when he is hungry, which is all the time. Now that the weather is warmer and nicer outside, he likes to go around the neighborhood (especially Bob's house) and hunt for food then come home for more.

SUMMER SOLSTICE

The solstice season will begin in a few months. Back in December the days were shorter. It would start to get dark around 3:30pm. By 4:30pm it was completely dark. Mama noticed yesterday that now it is not starting to get dark until around 5:30pm then by 6:30pm it is completely dark. It was so very clear last night that one could see so many stars in the sky.
So in a few months we will be in full swing of the summer soltice season. Plus now the weather is getting warmer too. It is now 54 degrees outside, but because there is no wind at this moment, it feels like 70 degrees. Not a cloud in the sky either. It is a gorgeous blue color.

HOMEWORK TIME

Papa came home a little early from work tonight, so before dinner he and Mimi sat down at the dinning table to do her homework. In her class they are practicing writing the lower case letters of the alphabet.

DONKEY

Mimi is still having a smidgen of trouble pronouncing a few of her words. Last year a palm tree became "porn tree" when things should have been "3", they became "free".

Tonight while having dinner with grandma and grandpa at our house, mama explained to them about Blake's birthday party last Sunday. In a loud voice Mimi blurts out "and we played pin the tail on the HONKEY!!!" Everyone just busted out laughing so hard.

URGENT CARE

Despite the light rain we have been having yesterday and today, the first signs of Spring is starting to show. Robins singing and flowers blooming. Mama had found some good deals on patio furniture for our backyard. Therefore we spent a very good part of Saturday shopping.

By the time we arrived home (6:45 pm Sat evening) it was time for our friends to come over for a visit. Mimi had a great time playing with Ling Ling. Then it was time for bath and bed (9:00pm). It was then that mama had noticed Mimi kept scratching her pubic area, so she asked Mimi why she kept scratching. Mimi's reply "Because it itches!!!"

Mama being the nurse that she is, checked her over. No redness or foul odor was noted, on the other hand mama thought that it could possibly be a UTI because Mimi said that it burned when she goes pee pee. Mama's motto has always been "Better to be safe than sorry". So while Mimi was bathing, (papa was home with her of course) mama decided to go to Safeway pharmacy to buy the AZO strips to check Mimi for a UTI. Unfortunately they did not carry them. So on to Bartell drug store and it was closed. Since we live out in the "country" there are no other pharmacies!!!

By this time it is going on 10:00pm. Mama then thought to take Mimi to Urgent Care in Covington. Reason for that is because in case it is a UTI there is a 24 hour Walgreen's just a few minutes away. So off we go. We get there to Urgent Care and guess what? IT'S CLOSED!!! What kind of a urgent care is that I ask? The only choices we have at this point is to take her to the Valley Medical Center or Enumclaw Hospital. Valley is 12 miles one way and Enumclaw is about 12 miles the other way. We live in the middle. The security guard at urgent care suggested Enumclaw because it is less busy than Valley.

We arrived at the hospital at about 11:00pm. Enumclaw Hospital is quite small and was not busy when we arrived, but just as luck would have it an emergency arose. A young pregnant woman was somehow hit in the stomach and she was experiencing pain. We lost our place in line which is quite understandable.

By the time Mimi saw the MD it was 12:00 am Sunday morning. The good news is that there is NO UTI!!! The MD said that girls this age (5yo) will sometimes experience itching in the pubic area and the culprit is BUBBLE BATH LIQUID. Therefore no more bubble baths for Mimi. It is something that she dearly loves but oh well Que Sera Sera I say.

We finally arrived home at 1:30 am and all is well in the Putney household again.