UNDER THE WEATHER

For the past couple of days Mimi had been feeling not too hot. Achy
muscles and a fever. No more sore throat though and no appetite. I am
more worried about the fever than the appetite. Pushing lots of fluids.

2007T

I did this just out of pure curiosity. Our good friends the Fratkins started taking monthly pictures of their daughter Samantha. Sadly I did not do the same, however I do have dozens and dozens of pictures of Mimi throughout the years. So I thought that I would take each months pictures and put them together just to see how much she has grown over the years. So bear with me on this one.

ROCKY THE RACOON

Has returned. This evening Mimi wanted to ride her bike out in the
street and she did just that. At about now is when the sun goes down
so we started to pack things to put back into the garage when all of a
sudden in a big loud voice the girl yelled "RACOON! Mom, there's a
racoon in the garage". Sure enough there he was looking for food. So I
told Mimi in a calm voice just to leave it alone and of course the
racoon went back to where it ce from. Of course the girl was quite
excited "mom, I always wanted to see one and I did!"

SELF PORTRAIT

This is what happens when you let a would be second grader get hold of your camera and she is bored riding in the car.

MAIN JAPANESE BUFFET

After this morning's incident, I thought that it would be nice to take her out to lunch. Mimi really likes the Main Japanese Buffet because she can eat anything she wants and as much as she wants. I like it because I can get 2 meals for $16.00.

ANOTHER EPISODE OF HAIR DISASTER

As we were getting ready to go to the center for swim lessons, all I told the girl to do was comb her hair. A few minutes later she came and tapped me saying "mom, I "accidently" got my hair stuck in the comb" Somehow the child managed to get it all twisted around. I could not for the life of me get it to come out. So I said that we will have to go see Mai to which the girl yelled "Noooooo!!!" and took off running and locked herself in the bathroom. I was able to get her out of the bathroom but she did not want to go to Mai's place. We still could not manage the hair. Then the girl says "Wait! I have an idea!" Uh oh, I thought to myself. Less than a second later, Mimi had cut the hair loose with a pair of scissors. No sooner than she cut her hair and saw what she had done, did the big crocadile tears come rolling down her cheeks "I didn't mean for that to happen!" the girl cried and cried. Fortunately the cut was not half as bad as the last time but none the less she has what my dad used to call "A Rooster Tail" There is no hole, but there is a very small patch of hair standing straight up. I was able to talk her into going to the beauty shop for Mai to work her wonders. As usual, Mai and Ti lavished Mimi with so much love and kindness and salvage the damage. Unless one looks real close, you can't even see where the girl had cut her hair. Needless to say, we missed the swimming lesson today.

OUR LITTLE TADPOLE

Dad had some time off this morning so he was able to come and see how well our little tadpole is doing in her swim class. As usual, swimming always makes us hungry and being that it is a tad bit on the cool side today, we went down to our local Pho place for noodles, kalbi shorts and egg rolls. Yum, Yum.