MIMI'S METEOR

Mimi's class is studying the solar system at school. According to Mimi, Liam had made a meteor just like the one she is holding. Both Liam and Mimi had a good time tossing it around after school this afternoon. Mimi decided that she wanted mama to help her make one at home just like the one Liam has.

MIMI aka THE GAMBLER

Mimi loves playing cards. We have been playing for quite some time now. She loves playing old maid and go fish.

Mimi: OK mama, let's do ja-ken-po (rock, paper, scissors) to see who goes first.

Mama: Mimi, do you have a 5?

Mimi: Nope, go fish!!! Mama, do you have a 7?

Mama: Yes, here you go.

Mimi: BOO-YA !!! I won, I won, oh yeah, yeah, yeah!!! I won the Piston Cup (plastic bottle)!!!

Mama definitely needs to get a new camera sometime this year. The one she has now is pretty good for the outdoors but not inside.

GOOFING OFF

If there ever was a class in goofing off, our Mimi would most definitely get an A+++.

BABY IT'S COLD OUTSIDE

Brrrrr!!! Is it ever cold outside!!! The weatherman says that it is suppose to get up to 41 degrees today. We'll see.

Mimi and mama have a busy day ahead of them today. We will go have breakfast at Black Diamond Bakery. Then it is off to the doctor office, then gymnastic school. This is the first visit with the new doc. After moving up north, mama found a very good doctor here. Then what does he do? He moves down to California where we are from!

Therefore mama had to find another doctor. She then tried to make an appointment with the new doctor and was told that the only way she could see Dr.so and so was that she needed to be sick. Now the time has finally come. Mama is not sick but does need a prescription for her thyroid medication. I tell you, moving out of state is a pain in the a_ _!!! Now they (political people) are trying to get the state of Washington to go Universal Health like they do up in Canada. This should be quite interesting to see how it plays out.

39 AND HOLDING

These are a few of the presents mama received for her birthday this month. The red roses and Seattle Seahawk sweatshirt are from Mimi and papa, the black purse is from grandma, the small white purse from Keri and the white rose from Janet. Not pictured is a Judy Garland dvd collection and book from Jim.

ANOTHER BEAUTIFUL DAY IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD

Today is another gorgeous day outside. Enough so that mama decided that it was time to get out of the house. She is starting to get a little bit of cabin fever. Still it is quite cold outside. It got down to 23 degrees last night. It got so cold that the water on the school grass turned to ice. Only in the picture it looks like Mimi is standing in sand. It is so clear that one could see Mt. Rainier real good but unfortunately it did not come out well in the picture.

Back home in California mama was seeing a dentist and periodontist every six months regularly in order to keep her teeth from falling out. Since moving up north we have had to find a new dentist. About six months ago mama went to see a dentist group that came highly recommended. They took x-rays and the the whole shabang and recommended a periodontist. Mama made an appointment with the peiodontist then proceeded to forget to mark it on the calendear. As a result she had to re-schedule the appointment. The appointment was set for 7:30 in the morning. So Mimi and mama left the house at 7:00 and arrived on time. Filled out all of the paperwork and was sitting in the dentist chair only to be told that she would not be able to be seen that day because the previous patient had taken so much of their time. Mama had also hand delivered the x-rays to their office so that we would not have to take them again.

It takes a lot to get mama really ticked off and that took the cake.

Mama is now changing her dentist group. The periodontist group that I was refered to states that I never came to see them and never brought the x-rays to their office. In order for mama to see the new dentist, she has to go back to the other dentist office and get a copy of the x-rays and pay $25.00 or have the new dentist take another set of x-rays and pay $142.00 because the insurance will not pay for it since it is less than one year of having a dental exam. This whole experience is a real pain in the behind.

NEMO'S NEW CONDO

Mimi's Nemo (Blue Beta fish at the top of the tank) has a new "crib". Mama bought a couple of weeks ago mainly because she got tired of cleanning his apartment every other day. He seems to be quite happy with his new digs. Now and then our Stanley (kitty cat) will watch Nemo swim around. Nemo himself feels much safer now too knowing that Stanley will not be able to attack him.

Last night Mimi had her first sleepover at Blake's house. She did pretty good. Keri said she did have one small crying moment during the night so she (Keri) gave her some TLC and things were fine afterward. Mimi just loves Keri a whole lot. She will get upset if I don't let her talk to Keri on the phone whenever she calls. I feel so very fortunate to find some good friends up here.

The reason for the sleepover was that Greg's office had their holiday party last night at Sam's Olympic Sculpture Park. It's located not far from the Space Needle. We weren't exactly sure what time we would be home so therefore Keri took care of Mimi while we were out for the evening.

It worked out just great. Blake and Mimi get along real good and little sis Bailey just loves to tag along after Mimi and copy everything that Mimi does. In a way it is a good practice for Mimi especially when her mei mei comes to live with us.