WILD THING

Today was soooo gorgeous outside. So much so, we let the kids play outside after school. As Mimi was hanging upside down in our front yard tree, she yells "Hey Janet, I was born to be WILD!" The things that comes out of that child's mouth sometimes just crack me up.

CELEBRATION OF LIFE

That is the theme this week for the Tahoma School District.

Last night was the second grade concert at school. Mimi came close to missing it. The other day she tells me that she lost her read at home book and her library book. So I thought to myself hmmmm...........I wonder if it is stuck between her bed and the wall. Nope, but a whole lotta of other crap came out from behind there and plus when I pulled out her trundle bed, there was even more stuff came out. There was dirty clothes, paper, books, markers the whole shabang. Dad says I told you it was messy behind there. Well then......WHY DID YOU NOT HAVE THE GIRL CLEAN IT UP????? Hmmmmm??????? His answer was the usual of "I don't know" ARGH!!!!! I'm pretty sure that my family enjoys driving me nuts sometimes. And her I thought the room was clean. Yeah right. Therefore another WW III broke out in the Putney household Wednesday night.

Then when I told the girl that I would have to tell the teacher about her missing books, that caused the girl to spin her head 180 degrees and spit pea soup. What a night that was. When she calmed down, the two us struck a deal. The deal was that when she comes home from school, she would clean her room and then we would all go to the concert. Did that happen??? Well sort of. She got home from school and instead of cleanning up that horrid mess, she turns her music on, ignores the mess and plays with her legos instead. I was almost at the end of my rope. Till finally a phone call was put into dad to tell him that we may not going to the concert after all. That got the girl's goat. Then the negotiating came into play.

Me: Mimi, you got 15 mintues to get this mess cleanned up (now mind you, she got home at 4, it was now 5 and she had to be at school by 6:30 and still needed to eat dinner and get ready.)

Mimi: 45 minutes

Me: ok 30 minutes

She got it done, ate dinner, got ready, dad came home, then we left for school. Dad came a little later.

We get to school just in time to see the kids come running out of the classroom. It had started to rain lightly so they were all supposed to line up under the eave of the building before heading to the cafeteria/gym. Instead what do they decide to do ??? Run onto the muddy field. Mimi included. For some reason the teacher was still in the classroom. The girl took off before I could stop her. However I did catch her the next go round. Boy did she give me that sour puss look. Phew! Talk about a chili pepper!!! I just know that if I had gone in to get a seat, she would have been out there on the muddy field watching the Lacross team practice. Then with my luck she would have gotten her clothes muddy before the concert. Fortunately that did not happen and the concert was great.

One of the perks of being a shorty is Mimi gets to be in the front row.

Video and picture are forthcoming.

RED THREAD CHINA

I happened to stumble on this website the other day. Later I found out that many adoptive China families use Ann of Red Thread China. This is part of the care package I ordered for Mei Mei. Also part of the package is a fresh cake. As opposed to a rotten cake???? Just joking. Dad says that they probably mean a box cake. Also we sent a letter of appreciation to the foster family. I really wished that I had known about this when we went to get Mimi.

ULTRASOUND

This is definitely what it feels like now. The contractions have started already.

Yesterday we ordered a carepackage to be sent to Tong Min Qi's (Mei-Lin) foster family. I do hope that they receive it soon.

FATHER/DAUGHTER BALL

The theme was Candyland. Can ya tell?

MAP OF CHINA

I have to admit that I copied this map from another blogger but I really like this map. Mainly because of the bright colors and it is easy to see where we have been and where we will be going. Dad says that he is pretty sure that we will be going to Guanzhou then to Nanchang to pick up Mei-Lin then back to Guanzhou for the rest of the paperwork and other stuff that needs to be done. It's only one more month away. The baby's packing is pretty much done. All I have to do is just mine and Mimi's. Dad is on his own.

MOUNT VERNON COMPETITION

Yesterday's competition was not as good as I hoped it would be. Mimi did great. She won first place for the trampoline and third place for the double mini. But on the whole, the entire event was so unorganized. For those of you who don't know, at these competitions there are more than one event going on at the same time. So you really have to watch out for your particular athlete. At the same time, at every competition there is an announcer. This announcer is supposed to use the mike and they are supposed to announce the medalist after each session. A session is when all of the groups are done competing. However this announcer announced the medalist after each event. Plus the announcer did not even use the mike. So we the parents did not even know when our athlete was on the podium getting their medal. Also being that it is noisy in the gym does not help either. I just happened to look up in time to see Mimi jump off the podium. Then there was a boy on the Summit team who completely forgot his routine. Another boy who looked to be of high school age was jumping on the trampoline and the next thing we knew, he was flying off the trampoline. Then there was Emma who was feeling bad because she did not do as well as she had hope to do. None the less she still received her medals. Then little Elsie went to do her routine on the double mini and just cannot get the pirouet down pat and went flying off the double mini trampoline onto the side and into the arms of Coach Mary who was spotting her.Thank goodness for our coaches who spot the little ones. That got Elsie to start crying. Finally it was over and time to head for home. Thank gawd. The drive to and from Mount Vernon is a 2 hour drive each way. We carpooled with Rhonda and the girls. I took the first shift which was the drive up and dad took the second shift the drive back home. We did make a pit stop to have dinner with both Coach Kelly and Coach Mary. That was the fun part of the day. Didn't get home till 11:00 last night. Soooooooo tired now.