Thank goodness for rain boots.
Tuesday, January 12, 2010
SPLISH, SPLASH
Thank goodness for rain boots.
I'M KING OF THE HILL!!!
When the lessons were done, Blake went home with his mom and Bailey. Mimi and I went down to a place called "The Pancake House" for lunch and wait for dad. By the time dad met up with us, we were through with lunch and ordered dessert. I love cheesecake (just not the baked kind nor with the cinnamon in the crust) and thought that I would try theirs out and wouldn't you know it. Baked and cinnamon. I ate anyways while Mimi polished off a big bowl of vanilla ice cream. Our favorite. Dad eats slow. Always has and always will I guess and Mimi was getting ansy just waiting so outside we went to play in the snow.
HITTING THE SLOPES
It did not occur to me until I thought about it when I was sitting in the lodge waiting for Mimi to finish her ski lessons that she has accually been taking lessons for the past four years. Even when we were living in Southern California. Two years ago when we first moved up here, Mimi and Blake took lessons together. However, Mimi continued with her lessons last year and Blake did not. It is amazing how missing one year of lessons makes a huge difference. While Mimi was speeding along poor ole Blake was having some difficulties. I think that he ended up in a beginner class again. He was feeling quite discouraged. We were trying to encourage him not to give up. I do hope that he continues with the class and not quit.
SKI LESSONS
Although Mimi and dad had hit the slopes and couple of times earlier in the season, this past Sunday was the first lesson. Here they are just hanging around waiting for the class to start. Mimi almost looks like a Japanese Ninja if you ask me. She was always complaining that her face would get cold so dad bought her a face mask.
FOOD FIGHT
Taken just before Mimi's 7th birthday party this past Saturday. Dad went to CJ's to pick up the birthday cupcakes and he made the mistake of carrying the box on its side so therefore a couple of the cupcakes were smooshed together. Fortunately we had a couple extra cupcakes in the box. With the cupcake that was damaged, I thought that it would be fun to have a food fight. At first Mimi did not know what to think, but she caught on quickly and the game was on!
Monday, January 11, 2010
RAIN, RAIN GO AWAY
rain and later this afternoon we are to experience 40 mph winds or so
they say.
Thursday, January 7, 2010
ZERO HOUR
About one month ago, Mimi came running home all excited "Mom,mom! I made the name of the week today!" Nothing special but for the kids it was and is. Every week Ms. Greenfield has the kids pick a name to practice writing in their journal. Also about one month ago instead of the skinny, teeny, tiny books that she has been coming home with, she is now moving up to the chapter books. I think that having her read "Junie B." and "The Boxcar Children" at home is helping. Also she loves to do Raz Kids and Storyline Online. Her ultimate favorite story is Stellaluna from storyline. I found out that Stellaluna is also very popular among a whole bunch of the first graders at her school. So much so, they are going to take a field trip next month to see the play at the Village Theater up in Bellevue. I do hope that I am picked to go as a chaperon. Our last field trip was in kindergarten and we all went to the Children's Museum in downtown Seattle. That was loads of fun.
Don't know about other schools, but Mimi's school has what they call zero hour. Once a week (Thursday) several kids are selected to go to school one hour before class. There is only one zero hour class per quarter starting with the beginning day as today. There are 3 total zero hour classes that spread all the way till June. First zero hour is art. The next one is math (3/18-5/20), then finally book club (4/14-5/12). I had signed Mimi up for all three and she was accepted into all 3. I just figured that since she is already awake and out of bed by 6:45-7:00, we might as well make some use of her morning. Even though she says that she is not crazy about school, she still likes it because of her friends. In today's class I saw a couple of Mimi's friends such as Halliwell and Lindsey. That alone in itself will make her happy. I have not mentioned any of this to my friends as it has been my experience in the past where Mimi was accepted into a certain activity and their child was not and it was "How come Mimi gets to do it and not my child?" I then and there decided to just tick a lock. People will find out soon enough. Small town living.......sigh.
Don't know about other schools, but Mimi's school has what they call zero hour. Once a week (Thursday) several kids are selected to go to school one hour before class. There is only one zero hour class per quarter starting with the beginning day as today. There are 3 total zero hour classes that spread all the way till June. First zero hour is art. The next one is math (3/18-5/20), then finally book club (4/14-5/12). I had signed Mimi up for all three and she was accepted into all 3. I just figured that since she is already awake and out of bed by 6:45-7:00, we might as well make some use of her morning. Even though she says that she is not crazy about school, she still likes it because of her friends. In today's class I saw a couple of Mimi's friends such as Halliwell and Lindsey. That alone in itself will make her happy. I have not mentioned any of this to my friends as it has been my experience in the past where Mimi was accepted into a certain activity and their child was not and it was "How come Mimi gets to do it and not my child?" I then and there decided to just tick a lock. People will find out soon enough. Small town living.......sigh.
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