FINGERPRINTS

More paperwork for chili pepper #2. Woo Hoo! Dad took the day off from work so that we could get this done today. Our day began with Mimi's piano lesson. Dad took her this time as he rarely gets to do so. Then we met up for a brunch at our local diner and as usual Mimi wanted to sit outside by the river. We seemed to have such good timing the whole day. When we got down to the office, there was just a few people ahead of us. We no sooner went through security than a whole sleuth of people came in. We were done in no time at all. I figured that since we were already close to downtown Seattle, we might as well make a day of it and so we did just that.

WHAT'S OLD IS NEW AGAIN

For this past week when Mimi was not swimming, doing gymnastics or going to the lake, she and Blake will just hang out at our house and play quietly with these toys that I bought a couple of years ago at Costco. You could hear them say "Pretend that you....." then they will make up some silly story and they can keep themselves entertained for hours. It's amazing! The other day ite was Lincoln Logs and today they are making their "inventions" with the Tinker Toys.

SLIGHT LIFE CHANGING EVENT

Yesterday evening was Mimi's first gymnastic class for the summer. A couple of weeks ago you may remember that I mentioned about her tryouts for the team. Part of me wants her to be on the team because of the challenges it will provide for her on the other hand it is a little scary because we will be charting unfamiliar territory for us.

We did receive a phone call from Debbie (the woman who runs the gymnastic school) and she left a message on our voicemail that she would like to talk with us in regards to her outcome. However last night at the gymnastic class her instructor did spill the beans a little. Mimi did make the team. As of now she does not know about it since I did not tell her as of yet. Although I know that she will be super excited to know that she will be on the team with her friends Emma and Elsie.

I have not written on my facebook about this yet so if you are on facebook too, I am asking that you please not mention anything about this as of yet. Some of my neighborhood friends are on it and even they do not know yet as we have still to discuss the details with Debbie and we live in a very small town where everyone knows everyone. But I was just dying to get this news out of my system so I thought that this would be a safe place to write about it as very few people know about our blog (no one from our town or even state know about Mimi's blog). As of now Debbie is out of town. The team will be having a national competition down in San Jose this weekend and that is where she is getting things set up for the girls. Rhonda says that they will be flying Friday afternoon then Saturday Emma will be in trainning. Then Sunday and Monday Emma will be competing. I found out that this will be a HUGE competition. According to Kelly (another team mom and former neighbor) there are 50+ girls in Jaelyn's event. She said that they are used to competing against 10-12 girls in an event not 50.

FIRST SWIMMING LESSON OF THE YEAR

This afternoon was Mimi's first lesson of the year. Although she is much more "experienced" than the other girls, Caitlyn, Halliwell and Erin, it was more about being in the same class with her friends. Caitlyn is however in a different class along with Erin's little brother Liam. I must say that Mimi did pretty darn good for not being in the water since last summer. We could hear the teacher say "Don't you ever stop moving???" Therefore he dubbed Mimi "The Everyready Rabbit" which I think is the understatement of the year.

REECES MONKEES

This afternoon after our cleanning spree and before swimming lessons, we went down to our local library for a kiddie concert. Both Mimi and Blake always have loads of fun whenever they are together. Mom was also able to buy a couple of books dirt cheap too. $2.00 for two books - Order of the Phoenix by J.K. Rowling and Honeymoon by James Patterson. Easy reading is all I am able to do these days.

MIMI'S NEW BED

It arrived yesterday afternoon and it took Mimi and I all of the afternoon and this morning to purge out all of the "Princess" stuff. We purchased this particular bunkbed for several reasons. One is that this is Mimi's first real bed (not counting the crib) and second we will be ready for Mei Mei when she comes. The top bed is a twin, the bottom is a full and the drawers can serve as two purposes. One purpose is that it can be used for storage such as sheets and comforters or the second purpose it can be used for is a trundle bed in which we would have to purchase another matteress. I choose to use it as storage. Although Mimi is super excited about the bed, she is not happy with the idea that she is not allowed to sleep on the top bunk for a long, long, LONG, time.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY SAMANTHA!

This is a special present for Mimi's "Disneyland Samantha" . She worked on it all morning long.