THE TOOTH FAIRY COMETH.....

One of the very few times a dad will make himself look silly for the love of his daughter. However he absolutely refused to wear a tutu and ballerina shoes. I guess we have to take what we can get.

SNOWFIGHT WITH BUTCH

After school Zoe came over to the house and she and Mimi love to just run - a - muck and I don't mind at all. The thing I do mind however is when I find myself saying things over and over to Mimi and just plain talking to myself afterward. Both Mimi and Zoe are really into Disney's "High School" musical. That's all they ever talk about. When Zoe left for home, Mimi still had energy to burn so she and Butch went out back and had a snowball fight amongst themselves. Of course Butch loves eating the snow as much as Mimi does. We must have gotten a couple of inches of snow between yesterday and today. It worked out great for Butch too. He is still in the playing stage of his life and he really hates it when no one plays with him at least once or twice a day.

TIME OUT

Come this Friday is my actual day to volunteer in Mimi's class. Due to the fact that our good friend Maggi is coming up to Portland, we are going on a mini vacation to go down to see her. We will be leaving on Thursday night and come back home on Sunday evening. We are also planning to see dad's old schoolboy chum Tom and his family also. Because of our last minute outing, I had to find another mom to trade with. As it turns out, today was Keri's turn but little Bailey was giving her a hard time and she asked to trade days with me. Woo Hoo I said. So I went back to school to volunteer at the end of Mimi's class.

Of course Mimi was quite pleased to see me and so were her friends Halliwell and Zoe. Both of the girls always gives me hugs when I see them. They are just the sweetest little things. It's kinda fun doing things for the teacher in the back room while listening to the kids do their work. Next thing I knew it was recess. It was snowing in droves but still the kids were allowed to play outside as long as they were bundled up. There were a few who chose to stay indoors though. Mimi of course chose outside. I then went to see how she plays with her classmates and to my surprise I found her sitting on the bench with a long, sad face. We went inside to have a talk. What Mimi had said to me was that she caught another girl by the name of Hannah, choking Zoe and Mimi went to pull her off Zoe. All the recess teacher saw was Mimi pulling Hannah off of Zoe and put Mimi in time out. I then told Mimi to talk with her teacher who in turn had her talk with the recess teacher. Mimi then very proudly came back into the classroom to tell me that she told the truth. As soon as the kids came back in from recess, I could hear the teacher talking to the kids about this particular incident and how important that it is to keep one's hand to themselves. I guess you could consider this one of life's little lessons. Of course I had to share this story with Shelley. I believe that every mom is the heart of their home and this is the kind of thing that I would like to know in case someone was trying to choke Mimi even if it was "just playing" as Zoe told me after school.

ALL I WANT FOR CHRISTMAS IS MY TWO FRONT TEETH.......

Zoe lost her front teeth a while back. Mimi lost hers this afternoon before school, two teeth, all in one shot. Her bottom left tooth has been loose for quite some time but she was too afraid to loosen it even more. As a result her permanent tooth is already starting to come through and had nowhere to go. Therefore we made a trip to see Dr. R. before school and since the other tooth was loose also, he pulled both of them out. In order to do so he gave Mimi a shot of novacaine and she did not even flinch a bit. What a trooper she is but on the other hand, go figure. It did not hurt when the dentist gave her a shot but she cried like @#$ when I tried to wiggle it out. I guess that he just has that special touch. Mimi now sounds a lot like Mom's Mabley for those of us old enough to remember. She was a toothless comedian back in the 60's and I would just howl whenever I saw her on tv.

DINNER AND THEATER

It's hard to believe that just the day before yesterday (Friday), it was clear as a bell and today it snowed hard where we live here in Washington. However in downtown Seattle there was no snow thank goodness.

When we heard that the Lion King was in town, we just had to take Mimi. The last time we saw the show was about 6 years ago in Los Angeles, California. It was BC (before child). The show was fabulous. Tonight was no different. Dad was only able to get tickets for this evening. Since Mimi very rarely takes any naps now, I tried to get her to take one before we left this afternoon. I knew she was tired since she still wakes up at the ungodly hour of 6 :30 - 7:00. No luck. She was much too excited knowing that she was going to see the show. This is just a portion of her phone call to Halliwell: "Guess what Halli. My mom and dad are going to take me to see the Lion King tonight and it's not a movie either! It's a stage show!!! That's AWSOME!!!" Although Mimi may not realize that I am much smarter than she thinks. Once in the car she fell asleep out of sheer boredom. It was a 45 minute drive and that is about how long she slept. I would not let her watch the dvd nor listen to any music and turned the heat up slightly. I know that was kind of sneaky. Tee, Hee, Hee. It was either let her stay awake and be crabby or make her nap and have a happy child at dinner. I chose the latter.

We had dinner at RuthChris steakhouse and man oh man was it delicious!!! Mimi not only ate her dinner but half of ours as well. That girl can really pack it away. How she loves beef.

We then had just enough time to walk the one block to the theater and of course I forgot to bring Mimi's coat with us doggone it! I did however have a small blanket in the car which served her well until we arrived at the theater. Like I said the show was fabulous. When it was all over, the audience had the chance to take a souveniour picture with a couple of the lioness dancers but for whatever Mimi's reason is, she did not want to take a picture. Instead she bought a Lion King t-shirt.

All in all, we had a grand time tonight. This is a start of another family tradition.

DINNER WITH GRANDMA AND GRANDPA

For a while now we have been having dinner with grandma and grandpa on Sundays. I am trying to get together with them more often since we live so close but due to our hectic lives, we can only manage to get together on the weekends and even that depends on how they feel. So far they are doing pretty good. Tonight was the very first time I made homemade lasagna. Usually I buy the frozen dinner at the market. I must say that it came out pretty darn good and fairly easy to make too.

Today was Mimi's last ski lesson for the season. Snoqualmie got a few more inches of snow today, so although this may be the last ski lesson, we may take her up again before the snow season is completely gone.

Tomorrow evening Mimi will go see her first Broadway production (I don't count the Dora and Diego show she saw last year with Blake). We will take her to see Disney's "The Lion King" at the Paramount. Both dad and I saw it back in Los Angeles and it was marvalous!!!

BLACK DIAMOND MUSEUM

Playing on the train tracks reminded me of the days when my friends and I would play on the tracks near our home in Long Beach, California. Mimi and Blake had a load of fun playing inside the caboose as well. It is such a gorgeous day today. Although it is 42 degrees outside there is no wind so it feels like 70 degrees. It was quite cold last night and there was frost on the ground this morning. Mimi and Blake were quite surprised when they found icicles hanging from the caboose. It's too bad that this lovely weather will be short lived, we are expected to get some rain/snow tomorrow.

Another tidbit of useless knowledge and something that I did not know (not even dad) until I heard it on the news the other night, we have bald eagles hanging out on the I-520 floating bridge that leads into downtown Seattle. We usually take the I-90 floating bridge because it is closer to us. However it was reported that there are just a few bald eagles on the I-520. There are not many of them though because we are still in the middle of the winter season but they perch themselves on the bridge and swoop down into the water to catch some fish to eat. Apparently there are more of them in June the reporter says but they are the babies since June is their mating season. How about that?