What is more exciting than new toys to a 6yr old? Losing the first tooth...especially when it happens at school and you become an instant SUPERSTAR! You would've thought this girl had just been given everything she ever wanted by how excited she was when she got home from school that day!
She also got to participate in her first kindergarten "marathon" as part of the Read, Write, Run Triatholon...26minutes of running around the field at school...which seemed like a LIFETIME to J1...she was glad when the whistle blew at the end to signal all the kids to head to the Juice It Up booth to get their juice popsicles!
The school did a great job with it. Families were invited to participate with their children (through the day the whole school ran...grade-by-grade). Music played through the whole thing, there were water stations set-up, they started off with stretches & ended with "healthy" treats!
J1 lasted almost ONE lap before deciding to walk all the rest. She had not grown to love running quite yet (but just wait....soccer season is fast approaching....posts to come)...
Birthdays are a HUGE deal to me and I wish I had unending funds to throw BIG parties! Jameson turned 30 in March...which he thought was the end of the world. Starting at 27 he decided his life was all downhill, 28 he said he could feel the end near, 29 he said life may as well be over and 30 he decided he was dead. Needless to say, Jameson doesn't love the idea of getting older! So in the morning he came downstairs to this...
To celebrate his so-called death we had an intimate lunch with good friends at Woodranch BBQ (top 5 restaurants in my book)...the original idea was to have a funeral luncheon, everyone in black, mock-coffin & gravesite decor set-up, eulogy given (more like a roast), funeral food (mormon casseroles & jello salads)...anyway, all didn't go according to plan (things seemed to have done that a lot this year) so I am saving this for his 40th...You're all invited!
After yummy Woodranch we packed up and headed to Disneyland to get the "birthday cash card" for it being the day of his birthday then strolled through Downtown Disney, ending up at the Lego Store (a favorite destination for the kids). Thank you Grandpa Paul for the AWESOME car-ride stories!
The 2nd annual Whale Watching Field Trip. 2008 I took a group of 35 (mostly children under 3). Dana Wharf Sportfishing took my group of 75 in 2009! Thank you for the terrific group rate and a FANTASTIC day of sea sight-seeing! We caught glimpses of 2 whales, sea otters and dolphin after dolphin after dolphin...after dolphin! It was a gorgeous sunny day..PERFECT weather (which was such a change from the previous year when it was overcast the whole time, semi-freezing for us CA folk, and no sights of anything but the water from the whale blowhole too far out in the water for any of the kids to see!) Can't wait to go again this year!
As parents of 4 children, it seems we should have seen our share of emergency hospital and doctor visits. This is not the case. We tend to let things come and go and let sicknesses run their course...nothing has been serious yet and no major injuries. This "record" changed in March when C3 spent a couple of days with more "sleep" in his eyes than normal. At the end of day 2 I was wiping gunk & goop from his eyes about every 30 minutes. He went to bed not feeling so hot, but with Motrin to kill the fever that had suddenly come on...it wasn't an hour later before he woke up SCREAMING and i went to his room to find him unable to open his eyes because the goopy stuff had gotten so thick and his eyes so swollen that he couldn't open them. This was 9:00pm or so. Cue the call to daddy who was at work. After 2 hours of deliberation Jameson came home from work early, I called a neighbor to come sleep on my couch and we took C3 to the ER (something I try to avoid but since the Dr's office was closed we decided it was better than having him crying at home waiting to go the next morning). Almost 4am comes around before we are back home with antibiotics and an exhausted little boy! All was well after a few days. Conjunctivitis and 2 weeks of missed school as a form of pink eye seemed to have spread to all 4 kids & mom.
Jameson and I celebrated our 7th anniversary at a restaurant I L-O-V-E, but discovered that that L-O-V-E is also connected to the fact that I have never P-A-I-D for my own meal there (thank you Uncle Rick and Grandpa Rick for having done this very thing so many times in the past) and Thank You Barefoot Contessa for teaching me how to make a KILLER Filet Mignon so I don't have to cry when paying the bill to get one almost as good at Ruth's Chris (though I am still in love with their Creme Brulee....thank you Uncle Rick for "making" me try something new...it's my Fav Dessert)... I keep trying to push Jameson into getting "couple friends" so we have people to go out with...So with us are Phil & Coleen...he is Jameson's beat partner at work...and they are good company! We don't go out with them as often as I would like, but I'm working on that!
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