Life with Mimi

Wednesday, September 15, 2010

HOWLING

For quite some time Mimi loves to pretend she is an animal of some sort. Usually she is a dog.
A couple of months ago, around 9:30 at night, I heard Brandy's dogs barking from across the street. I also heard some howling going on. I started thinking to myself "Hmmm.....I wonder whose dog is that, that is howling and making the other dogs bark? Don't THOSE NEIGHBORS hear the howling and barking? And don't most people get ready for bed around this time of night especially when they have kids?"

It was not long afterward when I realized where the howling was coming from.................it was coming from MIMI'S BEDROOM!!!!! I was downstairs and heard the howling coming from her bedroom window. Needless to say, I ran upstairs only to find her sitting by her open window and howling at moon. The girl was supposed to be in bed. Egads!!! No wonder I have a whole headfull of grayhairs.

This afternoon I have the backdoor open because it is quite warm outside. I can hear the birds chirpping and the children laughing and playing on the school ground behind our house. When what do my wondering ears I hear? Some kid just howling away like a hound dog. I swear it must be Mimi.

Tuesday, September 14, 2010

SASSY SEVEN

That sassy girl is back. Thank goodness it is not with a vengance but still bad enough. This afternoon I took both Mimi and Olivia to the park where they met up with Zoe and Erin. Being that the weather was so gorgeious, other kids came to play there also. I was having a wonderful time visiting with Janet. I looked up in time to see Mimi blatantly kicked a bigger boy. Don't know who he is. Needless to say she was reprimanded accordingly. Then this evening came a string of other events such as acting like a real smart mouth, talking very bossy to Shad, spitting into the fruitbowl at dinner. I am pretty sure that it was Mimi who made Shad cry the other day. Then tonight dad said that she was talking really, really bossy to him when dad went over to the house to pick her up this evening just before dinner.

As her punishment, I had her march over to Shad house and appologize to him and explain WHY she will not be going to his birthday party this coming Thursday after school. I had her appologize to Cory as well. The girl bawled all the way home. It really sucks to be a parent sometimes but I feel that I would rather nip it in the bud now than wait till she is in her teens.

AT THE PARK

I love our September weather. It is soooo gorgeous at times. As soon
as school let out we all headed for the park.

BUTCH AND ROXY

This was taken on the way to school to pick up Mimi.

ANOTHER SLEEPOVER

Olivia is in Mimi's class this year. They have been friends since kindergarten. This past Friday which is one of the few days where we don't have to be anywhere after school, Mimi asked if Olivia could sleepover. So we had the whole family over for a pizza dinner. I thought that I would try a new place. Dad thought that the pizza was good but not me. I thought it was a bit doughy but it was just OK. Don't think I will use them again though. Note to self. Never try anything new when having guests over for dinner. At least the wine was excellent and so was the company.

If I have learned anything from sleepovers is that no one sleeps. Let the kids stay up as late as they can. Mimi passed out around 11:30 and Olivia soon followed.

Come Saturday morning, dad took the girls out to breakfast at Testy Chef while I got some R&R at home. As soon as they got home, the girls only about a half hour to play before Mimi and I took Olivia home via wagon before walking over to the dentist office.

Boy did I ever get my workout that morning! Hard to imagine that two skinny girls could weigh so much! But they do!

Last Saturday was sooooooo nice outside that as soon as we got home, Cory invited us to go to the neighborhood park with her and the kids. We did, but because of the sleep deprivation from the night before, Mimi was a bit cranky and so were the other kids. A nap for the both of us shortly ensued as soon as we got home. Felt so much better by night time but then it really was time to go back to bed because it was actually night when we woke up! Egads!

THE CULPRIT

The other day while Mimi was practicing her piano, we noticed that a couple of keys were stuck together and now we know why. Somehow this quarter got wedge in between the two keys.