PROFANITY

It has already started........sigh. The girl said "damn" today. Between dad and I, we don't use that kind of language with each other but I do know that she has picked it up most likely from her friends at school. Then there is grandpa........whose favorite swear words are shit, damn and hell.

LAST NIGHT'S BIRTHDAY/SLEEPOVER

Soon as we came home from the competition and dinner, Mimi showered
and washed all of the goop out of her hair and we headed over to
Sara's for some more fun. There was Sara the birthday girl, Julia,
Shirley(Ling Ling), Mira and Mimi. Of course it's not a sleepover if
there's no pillow fight involved.

VICTORY DINNER

At Azteca Mexican Restaurant. One of the nice things about being one of the younger athletes is that they get to start the competition first. So therefore Mimi was in the first session for today's competition. There were 2 sessions total. The first one started at 1:15 this afternoon and did not finish till almost 5:00 this evening. If we did not have the sleepover at Sara's, we most likely would have stayed to cheer the rest of the team. Summit did really well the first half. So many of our girls placed 1st and 2nd. Pictured here is the necktie Mimi made for dad out of the napkin. Must say the girl is quite creative.

Maple Valley Summit Gymnastics athletes compete in tumbling and trampoline meet

Maple Valley Summit Gymnastics athletes compete in tumbling and trampoline meet
Found this on Rhonda's FB post this morning. This was the gym's first meet of the season at our home gym. Although the paper says the next meet is March 26th, it was actually today but our next home meet is March 26th which is next Saturday. That is also the day of our local father/daughter ball in the evening. It seems that the older Mimi gets, the more our weekends are filled with family, friends and fun, fun, fun. I love it.

THE MARCH IN

Mimi has always been the smallest of her friends even though she is older than most of them in her age bracket. She is about 6-7 months older than Elsie but they run neck in neck with the height. However Mimi has a very shapely stature which is starting to put the scare into dad. As such, Mimi and Elsie are among the smallest teammates and the smallest teammates gets to carry the banner. I think I can safely say that this is where the friendly competition comes in between Mimi and Elsie. They both want to carry the banner. Today was Mimi's turn to be shorter than Elsie.None the less, we are so proud of our little monkeys.

THELMA AND LOUISE aka MIMI AND ELSIE

Taken at the award ceremony part of today's event. Mimi won 2nd place for tampoline which is a shock in itself because she forgot her routine and mainly just jumped around. She recieved 3rd place for the double mini. Elsie won several awards herself, I'm just not sure what place.

Elsie and Emma also won a very nice "mom" raffle basket today. It was full of linens 'n' things. Last time it was Mimi who won the raffle basket.

PUNISHMENT

Every kid has their price. For the most part, Mimi is a super duper good kid. Now and then she has the ablity to test me and really work my nerves. This week was one of them. Nothing serious but she has become the "Princess of Stall and Sassy". Daphne says that Sara is the "Queen of Stall" so I call Mimi the "Princess of Stall and Sassy" since Mimi adores Sara and copies everything she does.

This has been a short week of school due to Staff Development for the Tahoma School District. So 2 tests were crammed into one day. Mimi stalled ALL WEEK long. I started sounding like a broken record and the wine at night was not helping to calm the nerves anymore.

Finally yesterday was the last straw when the little devil of the sassy attitude started to rear its ugly horns and as punishment, ALL ELECTRONICS are taken away. The time out chair is no longer useful. So that means no DVDs, computer, DSI, so on and so forth. She came close to losing out on a sleepover tonight.

So tonight on the way home from the competition, the little stinker tried to slip in a DVD on the car DVD player. That is until I turned it off and had to remind the girl of her punishment for all of the crap she dished out this past week. How fast they seem to conveniently forget. And as we are discussing her punishment, the child changes the subject......"Mom, do you know that it is night time in New York???" I think this child would make a great lawyer someday.

On a brighter note, she passed her tests with flying colors and recieved not one but two medals today. She won 2nd place in trampoline and 3rd in the double mini.

On top of all of this, the earthquake and tsunami hit Japan and my cousin Miura is still missing. PHEW!!! What a week and it is still not over.