MIMI AND MADDIE

As every Friday after school, Maddie comes over to the house and helps Mimi with her piano lessons. This past Friday was no different. Mimi just adores Maddie and loves it when she comes over to the house. According to Mimi the lessons are "amazing". Although Ray (Maddie's dad) says that she will do the lessons for free, I always slip her a couple of dollars for spending money. Of course that makes Maddie happy as a clam.

FACEBOOK

Mom in now finally catching up with the rest of the world and just joined facebook. When she did, she was actually quite surprised at how many of her friends are on it. All I can say is WOW!

TWO SILLY GIRLS

Blake no sooner left the house and Mimi took a bath when mom was outside doing some yard work and she heard Mimi calling from her upstairs bedroom over to Halle in her backyard. So naturally Halle had to come over and have a delicious chicken ravioli dinner with us.

MORE BIKER BABES

After school Mimi and Blake aka "Dude" had a small disagreement. Mimi wanted to go over to Blake's house to play and he wanted to come over to our house. They were able to work it out among themselves. First they went to his house for a while, then came over to our house before he had to take off for swimming lessons.

DOWN BY THE LAZY RIVER

This morning is one of the few days when we don't have a pressing schedule to keep. I thought that it would be a great idea to have a girl's day out for breakfast. When I aked Mimi who she would like to invite, she answered "Stewart". Hmmm I thought "who the heck is Stewart???" "Is he a new boy at school that I don't know about yet?" So of course I had to ask the girl "who is Stewart?" Mimi replied "It's Erin. You know Erin Stewart?"So Mimi called and Janet said that it was fine for Erin to come along and so she did. Instead of Black Diamond Bakery, we went to another local diner so that we could eat outside and enjoy the atmosphere.

The girls had loads of fun just getting their giggles out. It was quite surprising to see that Erin has just as much an appetite as Mimi does. They both polished off some hot chocolate,one huge pancake with whip cream and strawberries, scramble egg and bacon.

Then we had just enough time to play at the park for about a half hour till it was time to go to school which is where they are at this very moment.

NEW KID IN TOWN

There is a new kid on our block and his name is Therrian Tolerance. He is the newest member to Halliwell's family. Therrian was born on 5/21/09 at 10:16 am, weighing in at 9 lbs and 4 oz. He is 21 inches long. Halli and Mimi just adore him. This is the very first time Mimi has ever seen or held such a tiny baby. She was ever so gentle with him.

BIKER BABE

When the festivities were done and finished at the park and everyone had packed up to go home, Mimi and I took Butch over to the school yard for a while since it was still light outside. As usual Ollie thought he would come with us too. Ollie is so protective of Butch. People at the school yard thought it was hilarious that Ollie should follow us all around the school grounds.

The four wheel bike is what Mimi received for her birthday way back in January but unfortunately the weather was never nice enough for her to enjoy it until now and boy does she really love it.