Sunday, April 24, 2011
NEW BLOG TITLE
Just realized that as soon as we get home from China, I am going to have to change the name of our blog and the sidebar picture to include Mei Mei.
YESTERDAY'S COMPETITION
Yesterday was the last competition of the regular season. It seems that with each and every passing year Mimi gets better. Yesterday she took 2nd in the trampoline and 1st in the double mini. Elsie did just the opposite. She took 1st in the trampoline and 2nd in the double mini. While Mimi has a bit of trouble with the tramp, Elsie has a bit of trouble with the double mini. However she was able to stick her landing this time. We are so proud of all our girls.
Next month on the 5th of May will be the State Championships here in Renton at the Carco Theater/Community Center. Then in the beginning of June will be the Regionals in Provo, Utah. Mimi will only be able to do the State Championships this year as we will be in China when the Regionals roll around. The National Championship will be in Texas. You have to be a level 5 or above to qualify. Mimi is only at a level 3-4 now. Maybe next year she will jump up. The top video is Elsie and the bottom is Mimi.
Friday, April 22, 2011
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.
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.
Thursday, April 21, 2011
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.
Tuesday, April 19, 2011
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.
Monday, April 18, 2011
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