SILENT AUCTION AND RAINFOREST CAFE

These pictures were taken last Saturday night and Sunday afternoon. Saturday night was the silent auction that was put on by the Rotary Club and Sunday afternoon we took Mimi to the Rainforest Cafe in the newly remodeled South Center Mall.

SALMON CROSSING

We survived the rainstorm. Today is supposed to rain a little but not like Thursday and Friday. We are now well over the normal rainfall. It was reported that Sea - Tac airport has a total of 3 inches of rain. Some places have 5 inches of rain. Last night mom was watching the King 5 news and it was reported that many of our rivers were rising due to the rain and Fall City runs right along the Snoqualmie River and they showed a video of the flooding there and you could see the salmon swimming across the street.

SCHOOL REPORT CARD

It's that time of year again folks. This is what came in Mimi's backpack last Friday. We parents are to study it over before our conference with the teacher next week. I think Mimi is doing pretty good so far. Always room for improvement. She already has told the teacher that she "has a headache" when it comes to doing the classwork. She would rather be outside playing in the playground.

ABC's

Our Mimi loves to whoop it up with the best of them but believe it or not she does have her quiet moments and this morning was one of them. While mom was checking the e-mails this morning Mimi was awfully quiet so mom gave a shout out to her only to be answered with "I'm busy!". Now we know why.

This afternoon she went to Blake's house for lunch and Keri took the kids to school while mom did a little Christmas shopping up in Northbend Outlet Mall and Target in Issaquah. Mom then got stuch in traffiic on Hwy 18 and had Keri pick Mimi up from school. We're so fortunate to have such good friends around when we need them. It really made Mimi's day too cause she just loves Keri soooooo much. In fact she is over there now whooping it up with Blake and Zoe. Tonight mom will take her Red Robins for dinner and then to Sara's.

DOWN POUR OF RAIN

This afternoon mom was planning to make the trip up to the Northbend Outlet Mall but is rather happy that she changed her mind. There was a horrendous downpour of rain this afternoon. Bailey fell asleep so mom picked up Blake along with Mimi and came home. As Mimi and Blake were walking home they sang the age old song of "It's rainning, it's pouring, the old man is snoring...." as they were splashing in the puddles without their rainboots on. Sometime this weekend dad is going to stain the kitchen table. Until then mom will keep it covered with the butcher paper. Works great for the kids. Then this evening when mom was listening to the news, it was announced that there is a new casino in Snoqualamie that is openning tonight and Jessica Simpson will be performing. Now mom is really glad that she did not make the trip to North Bend because there is a humongous traffic jam there on the I-90. One has to go through Snoqualamie in order to get to North Bend.

Tomorrow mom will take Mimi to Target and get her snow pants. As mom was driving along the highway yesterday, she noticed small patches of snow on the mountains already. Although the lifts are no yet open, people are already snowboarding up at Mount Hood Oregon and they are already selling tickets to the ski lodges.

NOVEMBER 4th ELECTION DAY

Mimi's soccer team was supposed to get together last week Thursday, but due to the fact that Coach Jim who is from Philadelphia was not here, the get together was postponed till this past Tuesday (election day). We all knew the reason why Jim was "delayed" in Philadelphia and just had to kid him about it. Somehow he was able to get tickets to the World Series Game and the party following the Phillies win. Now that he is back we all got together at our local Dairy Queen for our soccer banquet. Of course mom and Kelly (Coach Derek's wife) was urging everyone to get on with the show. We wanted to get home to watch the elections. Mom is quite pleased that the people she voted for on the federal and local level won. It was most definitely a historical day.

PARENT/TEACHER CONFERENCE TIME

November is the month for parent/teacher conference at Mimi's school. This afternoon Halliwell's parents went to have a talk with the teacher while Janet and mom stayed behind to watch all of the kids. As usual Mimi was in her glory. She absolutely loves having her friends over to the house and play.

According to Brandy (Halliwell's mom), back home in Orange County, the cut off day for kindergarten is Dec 2. For us folks up here in Washington, it is earlier. Not sure of the date but I think that it is Nov. 2. Halliwell's birthday is later this month and her parents were planning to have her been in kindergarten had they still be living in Southern California. Up here she would have to wait another full year. That is something that her parents did not want to do. For Mimi , she had to wait anyway as her birthday is in January. As a result, Brandy had to petittion for Halliwell to get into Mimi's school. That is a whole another process and story that I won't get into. Halliwell was accepted into the school and she is now in Mimi's class and she has become good friends with Mimi and all of Mimi's other friends. Then Brandy tells us that the school had told them that Halliwell would be there on a trial basis until the parent/teacher conference and it would be decided if Halliwell could stay in the class. That put a whole lot of stress on Halle's parents. Just the other day Brandy was told by the principal that the decision to keep Halle in school would be left up to Halle's mom and dad whether or not she stays or get taken out. Brandy is so very much relieved to hear that. Her main concern was that Halle loves the teacher and loves the friends she has made here and to take her out of the school would be devastating for Halle. Brandy says that the main reason why the school wanted her to wait was they felt that Halle might not be sociably ready for kindergarten. Brandy also says that they were told that Halle has a little trouble with focusing and on getting her work done in class but that it is not something huge and cannot be corrected. And as I recall last year Mimi had the same problem and mom was able to work it out with Mimi. Mimi's conference is coming up in a couple of weeks. As of now, Halle and Mimi are still classmates and BFF's.