LET THE CELEBRATION BEGIN

Party over here!!!.......

We decided not to wait till Sunday and started celebrating Father's Day tonight at The Ram. We no sooner arrived home when big mouth Mimi said "Papa! We got a surprise for you!!!" Mama, fortunately was able to keep Mimi from opening her big mouth any further.

AIR CAR

With the gas prices going up and up these days, mama found out about The Air Car Compressed-air car - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia . Imagine that!

LOOK-ING GOOD

Like I said in the previous blogs. I really think that Samantha has had a good effect on Mimi. This would have never happened a couple of months ago. Mimi would have been looking like Einstein Head if left up to her. ;-)

According to Meira (Colton's mom) this was their conversation:

Meira:Mimi, your hair looks so beautiful today. Did your mom do it for you?

Mimi: (head turned to the left side with nose up in air,right hand positioned with her pinky finger sticking straight up) No, I had it done. My hairdresser did it for me thank you (then proceeded to walk off).

EGAD!!!

GRADUATION TROPHY

All of the students graduating today received this trophy.

GRADUATION DAY

Today was graduation day for both Mimi and Blake. All week long they have both been so jazzed about it. Although they both go to the same school and have the same teacher. Mimi and Blake go to school on different days. Mimi goes on M-W-F and Blake goes on T-Th. This time the administrator decided to have all of the morning classes graduate the same day and time and all of the afternoon graduate the same day and time.

We were also quite happy that grandma and grandpa could attend also. They seemed to be very pleased with what they saw today. Although they have quite a few grandchildren (all of whom are adults now) this is the very first time they could attend any of their grandchildren's school functions. All of the grandkids (except Mimi) grew up far away from them.

When all was said and done, grandma and grandpa went home (grandpa has a MD appointment this afternoon), papa went back to work and mama and Keri took the kids to Chuck E. Cheese to celebrate. Believe it or not Mimi had a blast playing there and actually wore herself out! It was her very first time going there and she loved it. I have a feeling that we will be going back there again and again and again. She is now taking a nap on mama's bed.

SHOPAHOLIC

Mimi's fashion clothing is still jeans and t-shirt, Lightening McQueen or Sponge Bob to be exact. Due to her friends Maggi, Erin and Samantha all that is slowly changing. Maggi got her hooked on shopping at Nordstroms, Erin and Samantha are having an influence on getting her to wear more dresses other than the one and only dress she has that is until this afternoon.

Tomorrow is Mimi and Blake's graduation. She is all hyped up about it. Over and over she asks if Blake will look handsome and she will look pretty. I tell her that Keri always has Blake looking good and Mimi will go to the hairdresser tomorrow and Christine will have her looking pretty.

This afternoon mama asked Mimi if she wanted to wear a nice pant outfit or dress tomorrow. The girl answered DRESS! OMG!!! Mama decided that we would try the Bellevue Nordstrom since we have yet to go there. Mama did not find it that imprssive. It was ok though. We were able to get a couple of nice dresses for tomorrow's celebration and this coming summer. When mama finished paying for the items, she looked down to find the Nordstrom bag and Mimi missing. The girl was already heading for the shoe dept. with the bag in hand saying C'mon mom!

When all was said and done, we headed over to the Whole Foods Market. Mama just loves that market. Unfortunately there is none close to our home. Whoever said that little girls are dainty eaters have not met our Mimi. Mimi ate breakfast and lunch at home, after gymnastic class she had a snack in the car. Upon arriving at Nordstrom she was hungry again. Unfortunately the Bellevue Plaza does not have a food court, only restaurants. Mama bought her some sushi while shopping at Whole Foods. When we arrived home she ate again. I never saw a kid who could eat so much and stay so tiny. She must be going through a growth spurt now. Normally she eats quite a bit but every 4-6 months she seems to eat a whole lot more than usual. EGADS!!!

WILD WEATHER

I thought that we were supposed to be having warm weather in June. NOT!!! When our good friends Allyn, Teri and Samantha went home to Southern California I swear they took the sunshine with them. Those little stinkers! While they were here the weather was gorgeous and I tell you the day after they left our weather started going downhill pretty darn fast.

Yesterday we experienced it all. Here in western Washington we had strong winds that knocked out the power lines (about 70,000 homes without power), it also uprooted trees, we also had rain, hail and even snow up in Snoqualamie (?) Pass. EGADS!!!