THERE IS NO PRINCESS LIVING HERE

Tonight Mimi and I went out to buy her shoes for the Father/Daughter
Ball this coming Saturday. All the way to the store Mimi whinned "I
HATE SHOPPING!" Then when we arrived to our destination the girl cried
out "I LOVE THIS PLACE!!!" While there we bought a new umbrella for
her ad the Hello Kitty one gave out. I bought that one way before I
knew that she would turn out to be such a rambunctious tomboy. Take
mote that the handle is in the shape of tires.

SCOOTER

I love daylight savings time. This evening we took Butch over to the
school and Mimi wanted to ride her scooter. Last year she did not have
much interest in it. Then came the rainy weather so there is not much
playing outside plus with all of her extracurricular activities, we're
hardly ever home. Today she wasnted to practice and so we did. I told
her that tommorrow she could ride it to school as we will be starting
up with zero hour again and we will be at school before anyone else.
She lit up like a Christmas tree.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TIM

This month is Alex's dad's (Tim) birthday. As a surprise Katrina came
up with the idea of making a book for him. She asked each and everyone
of their friends to take a picture of themselves and e-mail it to her.
Without thinking ahead yours truly came up with this bright idea of
the kids with the sign and usually when one comes up with the idea,
one usually ends doing the whole project. Therefore I spent my whole
afternoon yesterday making the sign. True to form, Mimi took charge of
getting her friends to pose. It all worked out in the end and the only
thing left to do is send it off to Katrina tonight.

MIMI AND HER BOYZ

A while back Katrina (Alex's mom) shared a story with me. She said that when Halliwell came over to the house, Alex (who is all boy) suggested some boy games to play. Halliwell (who is all girly girl) just turned her nose up and said "no". No matter what Alex suggested, the answer was always "no". To which Alex told his mom "That's why like playing with Mimi. She likes playing the same stuff as boys do."

This afternoon I witnessed it for myself. I picked up all three kids from school today. Mimi's class is ALWAYS the LAST class to come out. While we were waiting for Mimi, Alex tried playing with Halliwell but the girl would not give him the time of day. Finally Mimi came out and his face just lit up like a Christmas tree, that is until I told him that she had to go to gymnastic class and that it was not a playdate but that I would take him home on our way to the gym. He looked quite crest fallen. Poor little fella. After dropping Mimi off, I stopped by Alex's house to talk with Katrina for a bit and we made plans for a playdate for this coming Friday as they do not have school due to staff developement day. All is A-ok is his little world now.

SCHOOL IS ALMOST OVER

While going over my hectic calendar the other day, I realized that school is almost over. Holy Cow! Mimi only has a couple of months till I get to have her home full time. What to do? What to do??? I guess now is the time to sign her up for her annual swimming lessons and then she wants to play soccer. Of course there will be library time too. Oh well I guess I "Better git to gitt'in" as my dad would say.

SEE NO EVIL.......

On this particular day we were out having lunch and for some forgotten reason Mimi was quite mad at me. That is how these pictures came about. It was not planned, just a fluke. I had them developed in black and white and they came out grrrrreat! So what started out as a bad thing, turned great.

WACKY HAIR DAY

Last week at Mimi's school it was Bookfair week and on Thursday night the kids celebrated the end of Bookfair week by having a silent auction and raffle baskets. Mimi and I had system going for ourselves. This year as opposed to last year I brought $40.00. Six dollars went to our spagetti dinner (3 dollars each) and the rest of the money went for the raffle tickets. As I wrote the names on the tickets, Mimi went to put the tickets in the collection box by each raffle basket. The raffle baskets were provided by each class and each class had a theme. Mimi's class theme was Legos. I must say that they had some pretty good stuff on the silent auction tables. There were stuff donated by the Seahawks, Mariners and other local businesses such as massage parlors and spas, jewelry, purses and vacation spots just to name a few. Dad was not able to make it for the dinner as it started at 5:30 but he did make it for the end of the raffle basket. Our neighborhood lucked out Jess received a day at the spa amongst other spa items, Erin won a glam girl basket filled with all sorts of girly items and Blake won an all boy basket. Things that would make a boy jump for joy. I did pretty good myself. I won all of the fix'ins to make a Margarita including the blender. How about that?! However Mimi was not happy as there were not any toys in our basket but who cares?

Just before going over to the school that evening, Mimi mentioned to me that the next day would be Wacky Hair Day and that she wanted to temporarily dye her. She says "Mom, Bryton and Kolton are going to dye their hair red, white and blue!" Sure enough they did. However it was colored hair gel.Since Mimi gave me such late notice, I was not able to dye her hair. Tried using a little food coloring in it but it didn't work. Oh you should have seen all of the kids in their wacky hair. A lot of did what Mimi did. Some had used the colored hair gel while others wore curlers and wigs. It was a fun day for all.