Dancing King

Make sure to turn up the volume to hear the music.

When preschoolers try to head-bang:


Grocery bag dance???

Learning her ABCs

SUMMER TIME!

First day of summer break has arrived!!!! Huzzah!!!!!!

Certificate of Citizenship

I had several difficulties after getting our Certificate of Citizenship notice last week. The first was that we were supposed to be at the Immigration Office on the afternoon of my last day of work. The "clean-up" day for teachers. It seemed like a very suspicious afternoon to take "sick time" and I couldn't afford to take the time non-paid. The second difficulty arose the night before the appointment when I could not find Lissi's Alien Registration Card, which was to be surrended at the appointment.

After learning that many other friends were getting their COCs at the same time... I begged my principal to let me off for a few hours on the last day of work. She let me go on the priviso that I make up the time. Since my room had been cleaned and my paperwork finished already, she was essentially asking me to make up the time surfing the internet and making things for Cal's birthday party.

We arrived at the Immigration Office and were told to go straight up to the desk because they had just called for "everyone who doesn't have a green card". We brought Lissi's Korean passport, adoption paperwork, US passport application proof, and everything else we could find. The person at the table looked at them quizically wondering why we were presenting all this paperwork. She didn't want any of it. We said that we didn't have a green card because we sent it in to the passport office 3 months ago when applying for her passport. The employee doubted that we would get the green card back from the passport office. She had us sign the Certificate of Citizenship and we were finished! Immediately after, everyone else was asked to line up. So even though we didn't have the important Alien Registration Card, we lucked out and got served first!

The entire process from leaving work to returning to work was less than one hour and forty-five minutes. Had I said nothing to my principal, she probably would have never even known that I was gone!

At the Immigration Office. Our family of US citizens!


Photo shoot outside:

Toddler Rules of Possession

1. If I like it, it's mine.
2. If it's in my hand, it's mine.
3. If I can take it from you, it's mine.
4. If I had it a little while ago, it's mine.
5. If it's mine, it must NEVER appear to be yours in anyway.
6. If I'm doing or building something, all the pieces are mine.
7. If it looks just like mine, it is mine.
8. If I saw it first, it's mine.
9. If you are playing with something and you put it down, it automatically becomes mine.
10. If it's broken, it's yours.

I thought of this list this morning as I heard Lissi in the other room saying, "My hippo. My blankie. My hippo. My blankie....." There was no one in the room to hear her. She seemed to just be reassuring herself! :)

Celebrating my birthday

We celebrated a little early at the Cheesecake Factory (it brings back great memories of Rhode Island) for lunch. Then I had fun spending some birthday money at Sephora and Macy's! :) I don't look any older, do I?

Don't rain on my parade!

We've looked forward to this parage for the last year. Finally the day arrives with a forecast of possible rain. What started as a few drips when we got into the car became quite the rain storm. The friends we were supposed to meet bailed on us, but forgot to call. Wink forgot to bring a coat or hat (doesn't he look great in Cal's hat!). Cal insisted on wearing his soft soled shoes. Both kids refused to be in the stroller with a nice rain cover, and instead wanted to be held. Ah well.... at least we weren't the poor soles IN the parade!!!

A few movies

This is a movie from April that I finally got loaded up. Lissi has learned to do fake snoring and pretends that she is sleeping from time to time :)


Another one from last weekend (when she was so sick) showing her contagious laughter and adorable little voice

Job hazards

One of my biggest job hazards is getting spit in the face unintentionally (or occasionally intentionally). Kind of ironic that I always told people I never wanted to be a dentist like my mom because I didn't want to work in people's mouths!

I mentioned this to a nurse at my annual blood-borne pathogens training last year. I was concerned because she said that every time an employee gets spit in their eye(s) they should flush out their eyes for 5 minutes. To me, that meant my entire day would be spent flushing out my eyes. Now thanks to me, everyone with a similar job description to myself has snazzy dazzy goggles to wear. If you think the picture to the left looks great, you should see them on!

I was not wearing my glasses on Wednesday when working with two of my students who are more likely to spit. I was right in their faces trying to get their to talk. Fast forward 10 minutes later when I am about to begin circle time and one of the girls starts projectile vomiting towards me. 5 minutes later another student in the class starts projectile vomiting. The teachers determined that 4/5 of that special ed bus had come down with a very sudden stomach bug. As far as I was concerned I was next in line.

I had a break an hour later and so I rushed home to take a shower and change my clothes. I really got some flack for that ;) I felt sickish all evening, but it was probably psycho-somatic. Today vomiter #2 came back to school only to have diarrhea in his pants not one, not two, but THREE times! Yahoo. I can only pray I don't get this bug. Or the family (since they came to that classroom to visit me today!).....

Best daddy ever

goes to THIS daddy!!!! :)

She's so beautiful that....

it's hard to believe she had a temperature of 103-104! I thought she was just hot because it was such a warm day....

It's beginning to feel a lot like summer...

Possibly, Cal was concerned about his tan line and decide to sun himself in the buff.

Carnival

My school's annual cartival was a great hit with the kids. I was in charge of the "Pastry Walk" (aka the traditional "Cake Walk" with Hostess cupcake type prizes). But I got some relief for 45 minutes to do games with the kids. Wink showed up late and was also able to take the kids around for about 45 minutes. Cal had so much fun with the mega-slide, the "duck pond", and sitting in the cars out front (vintage car and Police car). It was so fun to see that he was old enough to really enjoy the activities this year :)