tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-40787912413577370892024-03-14T13:00:23.484-05:00The HolbrooksThe family that takes every opportunity and every day as an adventure!Joanne and Derichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08660276159933021552noreply@blogger.comBlogger164125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4078791241357737089.post-61404756489556101372012-10-07T16:10:00.000-05:002012-10-07T16:10:16.225-05:0018 hours......??????
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In my efforts to keep the blog updated I am writing.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But for the first time in ages I have little
to report. This might be a good thing, since <st1:date day="25" month="1" year="2012">the 25<sup>th</sup> of January 2012</st1:date> my whole life has
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I even have routines in place!!!… Morning routines, school
drop off routines, pick up routine, home routine, dinner and bed routines.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You will notice I don’t say much about the
time in-between school drop off and pick up cause I have no idea what to do
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Now just to be clear, it’s not like I don’t have anything to
do.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I have things I need to get done but
… I have not had time ….. real me time, my own time, my own personal time in
almost 6 years.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>To be honest as I drop
the kids off at school I sit in the car with my ‘have to do’ list running
through my head and then…. Boom!!!! Gone!! I feel like a school girl who just
got the day off school and did not tell her parents.</div>
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Now we are not (yet) talking about 5 days a week – I have
Devin for two glorious days a week before the school system takes him from me
next September.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So 18 hours a week I can
do ANYTHING I WANT.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I have not yet got a
job, or a national insurance number.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So
what do you do when you can do anything you like.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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The answer … Nothing… I have done nothing but waste
time!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In my efforts to use my time I
land up wasting time.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Time just slips
through my fingers (which kills me to waste time or not take opportunities) </div>
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The hardest thing I have been experiencing is how to spend
time by myself again.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I have had 2
little people on me like an accessory for so long I don’t know what to wear if
I can’t wear them.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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Part of me needs this time. I have had quite a crazy 10
years!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Lived in 4 countries, moved to 3
states, 2 kids, 3 deployments… and that’s just the headlines.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I look at all I have done and part of me just
wants to stop!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Stop and enjoy silence! I
am tired of figuring things out again (cause each country and state has new everything’s
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My life cycle feels as though it has gone from the most glorious
summer I have ever seen to a winter which is stark.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So in seeing that, I have decided to enjoy
the stark, enjoy the silence, and just take this time to recharge and replenish.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>When spring comes again I will be ready !!!</div>
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Joanne and Derichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08660276159933021552noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4078791241357737089.post-23412552861471325722012-07-28T18:02:00.000-05:002012-07-28T18:05:35.242-05:00Greetings from the UKI’m sitting down quietly (apposed to falling into a heap at night) with some urge to write for the first time in ages.
It has been over a year maybe even more since I last wrote on this blog. But I’ll spare you all the crazy details of our crazy lives over the past and start with today, here, right now as I sit on our loner furniture in the UK.
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I still wake up and wonder how we got here? I still get momentarily confused to where I am and where I live. I was so settled in Washington I could have just stayed there forever and never ever have moved…. Well the old saying ‘If you want to make God laugh then tell him your plans’ came into effect with a great (and potentially fun) job offer in the UK.
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Ok, Ok so I have been here before and all that stuff… but I have never been here WITH Kids. So my old idea of walking leisurely down the streets of London all day long, only stopping when my feet needed a break and my body needed another coffee… <strike>GONE,</strike> put on pause.<br />
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This is my 4th country move in 10 years – you could say I got it… but sadly I don’t. Every country is different and every age changes things too. I can do one thing a day to settle us. This is because it takes me that long to figure it out and to get it done. The main reason for this is I have been so Americanized. America makes total sense to me. It’s an easy place to live.
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So we get here and things are for some reason much harder compared to the US (and more expensive). I am on my 10th pass code for this and my 10th ‘special word’ for that. It’s truly like learning how to live all over again.
Our furniture comes in 5 days. I think that will settle us a bit more.
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So what’s good about being here …
Our beautiful house on a farm where the kids can go out and be outside all day long. Yesterday they went out at 10am and came in at 5pm, kicking and screaming. They even eat their meals out there. They are so dirty and so tired. It’s just what I feel they should be doing at their age.
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Secondly is the school they are in. It’s everything a parent wants for their kids. They even have swimming and forest school for them. They both love it – I love it. In a few years when we move it is the school I will be crying about leaving.
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Another amazing thing here is I have old friends again. You can always make a new friend but never an old one. It’s so nice to think of my tribe close/er and all just a phone call away.
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The pubs! Oh the pubs! Mainly the Cotswold pubs (we are living in the Cotswold’s if I failed to mention that before) Just the smell, I want to bottle it up and take it everywhere with me.<br />
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It’s also nice to be only 11 hours from home. Sounds long but I have been doing 33 hours from the US so 11 is a breeze.
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That’s all I got for now, I hope to blog more often
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If your reading this leave me a comment – I’d love to hear from ya’all (woops there’s my American coming out)Joanne and Derichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08660276159933021552noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4078791241357737089.post-78754740382873205252011-03-22T16:43:00.001-05:002011-03-22T16:43:57.194-05:00I'm going to blog soon!!!!!Don't give up on me! Lots to say!!!!!!Joanne and Derichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08660276159933021552noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4078791241357737089.post-7466113564610964672010-10-27T23:42:00.001-05:002010-10-27T23:42:52.657-05:00Hawaii - say no more!!!!<p style="visibility:visible;"><object type="application/x-shockwave-flash" data="http://widget-71.slide.com/widgets/slideticker.swf" height="320" width="426" style="width:426px;height:320px"><param name="movie" value="http://widget-71.slide.com/widgets/slideticker.swf" /><param name="quality" value="high" /><param name="scale" value="noscale" /><param name="salign" value="l" /><param name="wmode" value="transparent"/> <param name="flashvars" value="cy=ms&il=1&channel=144115188096828017&site=widget-71.slide.com"/></object><p style="white-space:nowrap"><a href="http://www.slide.com/pivot?cy=ms&at=un&id=144115188096828017&map=1" target="_blank"><img src="http://widget-71.slide.com/p1/144115188096828017/ms_t000_v000_s0un_f00/images/xslide1.gif" border="0" ismap="ismap" /></a> <a href="http://www.slide.com/pivot?cy=ms&at=un&id=144115188096828017&map=2" target="_blank"><img src="http://widget-71.slide.com/p2/144115188096828017/ms_t000_v000_s0un_f00/images/xslide2.gif" border="0" ismap="ismap" /></a> <a href="http://www.slide.com/pivot?cy=ms&at=un&id=144115188096828017&map=F" target="_blank"><img src="http://widget-71.slide.com/p4/144115188096828017/ms_t000_v000_s0un_f00/images/xslide42.gif" border="0" ismap="ismap" /></a></p></p>Joanne and Derichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08660276159933021552noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4078791241357737089.post-53941567629711391512010-09-23T23:21:00.004-05:002010-09-23T23:36:35.452-05:00A wonderful GiftI had to show these.... a friend of mine is a wonderful photographer and gave me this photo shoot as a gift. She did it to give me a day to myself and about myself at the end of the deployment. <br /><br />It was such a fun day with a very special lady. She lives 3 houses down from me and is also South African with a husband in the military. Its a small world, my South African network of friends is slowly growing here.<br /><br />I also love her work and love having these. I am going to love them even more when I am 90! So it was the gift that will keep on giving. <br />We plan to do family shots soon, and I’m really looking forward to doing those. 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margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 267px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg2IArCrdb5LiCfYF1FrQ_DodvdzdkTXb3hReFuV9xX_woxfpt6_zzTEBpMqVMPmgVSvBctofN_7Nh0Y2W9OSKbomwaM8NCkUqv8VRf9WmjatfeXE3VYhhCb2FcUL4fDg17IaQLf_LvQLQQ/s400/Jo+pic+Adele+2.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5520331041782923842" /></a><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgzTRyn5vYG2yaxq-cQ0iocQKnfT9sjdaGx6S_PVql5ApfgA2EHGarmoWt9BNodgc-jBtR8u2Yw-TZa5ffqsQgVtoitjX7w39W3IFymD5XFAowZvgiP1a3nfglWEBI3c9gteaN9rhyphenhyphendhsAl/s1600/Jo+pic+Adele.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 267px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgzTRyn5vYG2yaxq-cQ0iocQKnfT9sjdaGx6S_PVql5ApfgA2EHGarmoWt9BNodgc-jBtR8u2Yw-TZa5ffqsQgVtoitjX7w39W3IFymD5XFAowZvgiP1a3nfglWEBI3c9gteaN9rhyphenhyphendhsAl/s400/Jo+pic+Adele.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5520331037083101506" /></a>Joanne and Derichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08660276159933021552noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4078791241357737089.post-43707222253995748342010-09-23T23:14:00.003-05:002010-09-23T23:20:08.349-05:00A letter to my Son<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi7MyvkeqxCp6UiGVdpyMypitxcCogd_s62zIxoSLtjccNTvQZHfE4Maxq9DySsxwJ0UHu95SJ1ct1m3NUFuyEqjzOsrbmG45OwkKKoUnmeeNl2FIelY3ltUi_r02ooSlGThMqFzRn_gzlz/s1600/IMG_4527.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 267px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi7MyvkeqxCp6UiGVdpyMypitxcCogd_s62zIxoSLtjccNTvQZHfE4Maxq9DySsxwJ0UHu95SJ1ct1m3NUFuyEqjzOsrbmG45OwkKKoUnmeeNl2FIelY3ltUi_r02ooSlGThMqFzRn_gzlz/s400/IMG_4527.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5520329758727457250" /></a><br />Devin… Oh my dear darling Devin….<br /><br />I have been taking stock of things over the past 21 months and I have noticed that I have taken about half the pictures of you than I have of your sister. There are less than half of you and me together and most of the stories on the blog are of your sister. <br /><br />I would like to take this moment and tell you my side of the story. It does not have anything to do with the way I feel about you and certainly has no indication to who is my favorite. <br /><br />Here is the deal, when Kai was born I had nothing else to do but to look at her. Your Dad had nothing to do but look at her. Nini had nothing to do but look at her. You’re your Dad was getting ready to deploy six weeks after your sister was born and he was trying to take as much with him as possible. <br />Then we moved to South Africa where your Nampa went camera crazy, and every moment he could take a picture he did – of her, of me and her you name it. <br /><br />When we moved back to the US and you were born, Kai was 22 months. Let me explain what a 22 month old does…. Everything, none stop, always on the go (actually as I write this you are almost 22 months and now you never stop). I had a lot more to do and a lot less time to do it in. So when you were sleeping I could not just sit and take as many pictures of you as I did of Kai. Your sister was always around and usually became part of the photo opportunity.<br /><br />Then your Daddy deployed when you were 9 months old and I had no one to take pictures of us. Not only that but when we were on outings I was holding you and your sisters hand all the time and no extra hand to pop out and take a picture.<br /><br />So if you read this when you are older and see that things are not exactly equal – think that you are my left lung and Kai is my right. I need you both to breathe everyday. <br /><br />So from now on, I will make sure that things are more equal in pictures and news. <br />I would like to have a family tradition as you get older…. I would like to have slide show with all our pictures from the past on Christmas Eve. We do it in SA and I love the tradition <br /><br />To end off… I think you are the most delicious thing I have ever met, you are the most special gentle soul and I thank God daily for the gift of you. I would not change a single thing or one day with you. You make my heart light and full all at once and I love you more than you will ever know …Joanne and Derichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08660276159933021552noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4078791241357737089.post-59238455620284383122010-05-18T23:55:00.003-05:002010-05-19T00:00:59.533-05:00She did it.....<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjbI494H6dftPVxFp0R8uhyphenhyphenVOrSGpXrtkbNU29-7iBOiFBriEfb4b_XEjOhNoRDN68gxpfg-7WQ_87CVYMZmDjX4Qwc7ZpPO85MLoQiiEum2fIO8tj_LAj_j-ecRVRSkBMc9rID2jixl2SX/s1600/tutu+chart.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjbI494H6dftPVxFp0R8uhyphenhyphenVOrSGpXrtkbNU29-7iBOiFBriEfb4b_XEjOhNoRDN68gxpfg-7WQ_87CVYMZmDjX4Qwc7ZpPO85MLoQiiEum2fIO8tj_LAj_j-ecRVRSkBMc9rID2jixl2SX/s400/tutu+chart.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5472840855169614994" /></a><br /><br /><br />Yip folks, we have a little girl who ate all her vegetables and is now a proud owner of a tutu.<br />This was the very first moment she saw it and put it on... look at that face.<br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgLLGnT7TEiWva_e0xhI879urG_z3HFPxxNOMNqkW5DSX4rD6lCrTPCvinAev7tvJ4zgLvHPzcakRkEguAyV4epSyneMqbzPhSfZBfOtINVoS5i50Ype2MehNNbKFvWHD25xQNmMtUaX0NC/s1600/IMG_6713.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 267px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgLLGnT7TEiWva_e0xhI879urG_z3HFPxxNOMNqkW5DSX4rD6lCrTPCvinAev7tvJ4zgLvHPzcakRkEguAyV4epSyneMqbzPhSfZBfOtINVoS5i50Ype2MehNNbKFvWHD25xQNmMtUaX0NC/s400/IMG_6713.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5472840861787590514" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br />She has not taken it off for days now. So on Monday she was allowed to wear it to ballet. As we walked in her ballet friend Chloe had one on too… she squealed and shouted ‘you ate your vegetables too!!!!’<br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhdHQjNvtrjv3sl0LtQDx0EzVRMwrTOA20vb95rhhshkR49QOzyvzXwOEu65Zha0MbCaVVYVyO690ip7-p_DjPTzX-MCrFFog_dVGWNusF4JwwDUZFlXOTpRVnGbc03pEUFOOEMIdEKpGix/s1600/DSC00620.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 351px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhdHQjNvtrjv3sl0LtQDx0EzVRMwrTOA20vb95rhhshkR49QOzyvzXwOEu65Zha0MbCaVVYVyO690ip7-p_DjPTzX-MCrFFog_dVGWNusF4JwwDUZFlXOTpRVnGbc03pEUFOOEMIdEKpGix/s400/DSC00620.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5472840883299953634" /></a><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjtAxGFMvcObEckrrq4HZsWnpnhgo1K7JboVymACcEvPpVFXwMdGalvA-2oLtXsGToQ1JvL45wDgt4HxIPzJ5SQ94gRws6pdYT0BQFR_Otf_8EDZDJ-jEETeNLthekObnPyGTT38l5DiD45/s1600/DSC00615.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 305px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjtAxGFMvcObEckrrq4HZsWnpnhgo1K7JboVymACcEvPpVFXwMdGalvA-2oLtXsGToQ1JvL45wDgt4HxIPzJ5SQ94gRws6pdYT0BQFR_Otf_8EDZDJ-jEETeNLthekObnPyGTT38l5DiD45/s400/DSC00615.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5472840870540383170" /></a><br /><br /><br />She starts real ballet class this summer!!!!<br /><br />Oh and my next challange is now to keep eating her vegetables. She now says no thank you I ate all my vegetables.... did not quite see that coming!Joanne and Derichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08660276159933021552noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4078791241357737089.post-81483088852504722522010-05-18T23:31:00.003-05:002010-05-18T23:37:57.984-05:00Swan LakeI took Kai to Swan Lake, we had such a great time. <br />She cried at the end and threw herself on the floor kicking and screaming. When everyone had stepped over her I asked her why she was so upset. She said she did not want it to end. <br /><br />I took her back stage and she got to see the dancers. One gave her a rose and she almost burst! She now wants to be a swan!<br /><br />I love girly time!<br /><br />(This was the best photo I could get - in all the rest she was spelling her name so they all have her mouth in a K - A - I - L - E or Y)<br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjTFxMil9pO1tikOHrAljEge7uebY2VJdA7UINlXuJsVBWwvg60pxGuULnFmXxhYWbbwebVMNLG4nH5tuEV1Xomggw8D4lc6ryShim_0RV_Mp9xOVgy8SEdHQNGoJW9vKeKzVBw8LQL-Xy6/s1600/IMG_6691.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 267px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjTFxMil9pO1tikOHrAljEge7uebY2VJdA7UINlXuJsVBWwvg60pxGuULnFmXxhYWbbwebVMNLG4nH5tuEV1Xomggw8D4lc6ryShim_0RV_Mp9xOVgy8SEdHQNGoJW9vKeKzVBw8LQL-Xy6/s400/IMG_6691.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5472835252153007602" /></a><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhPDDIOr2tCv6ZxR81KX2THNeoN5H5_b1EgO-VSx83JGIT1XyhXV5bMPIZKHfocug9sqT7Y1d8jgjkr0WRNRsWEkvR_QCQHQ8UKeldlq-MyNzKkzsWXDgVC0UhXZ8UUTlp6PjFxb94M3kRE/s1600/IMG_6705.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 226px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhPDDIOr2tCv6ZxR81KX2THNeoN5H5_b1EgO-VSx83JGIT1XyhXV5bMPIZKHfocug9sqT7Y1d8jgjkr0WRNRsWEkvR_QCQHQ8UKeldlq-MyNzKkzsWXDgVC0UhXZ8UUTlp6PjFxb94M3kRE/s400/IMG_6705.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5472835249392258322" /></a>Joanne and Derichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08660276159933021552noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4078791241357737089.post-18321197860904353672010-05-18T23:23:00.002-05:002010-05-18T23:31:15.087-05:00TractorsDevin is OBSESSED with tractors. They are building a whole neighborhood next door to us at the moment, and I honestly thought I would hate it – but it has been full time entertainment for Devin. <br /><br />He wakes up and stands at the window. <br />He likes to go outside when the tractors are at the fence line to see up close. Then he comes in and again sits at the window. <br /><br />Nini got him the whole caterpillar tractor set. He now has 4 tractors, the hard hat and the tools. He loves them. When we drive in the car and he sees tractors, he gets so excited!!!! Boys – they are really not girls!<br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEip1yq3LqxOb719IZxGLJ5_fGuVY3YPJKgpmrViE5ldrbvhTSx82qRYuCSsO-zCG3P_uJRB3XeFF_7Rs9yRv2WMOnlqHtf8ECF1oI_WihbiFAVBF25kI7MvLfHdSoB6D1yxp55W9bl2YHal/s1600/IMG_6637.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 267px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEip1yq3LqxOb719IZxGLJ5_fGuVY3YPJKgpmrViE5ldrbvhTSx82qRYuCSsO-zCG3P_uJRB3XeFF_7Rs9yRv2WMOnlqHtf8ECF1oI_WihbiFAVBF25kI7MvLfHdSoB6D1yxp55W9bl2YHal/s400/IMG_6637.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5472833673741060514" /></a><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhUfq83yTcknf8cVV1SaP4XS57xrNRDdHLXM_vR5gl4dVaSXRbL6aCyMzBWX2NanTn_LPFaQTyNUntCFDtuRJ6o5YqtHDCrSXHKuH96H2CNbNJxePgc2fjTxmFP5YjEnPeOZrOc0Mf_cmqe/s1600/IMG_6636.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 267px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhUfq83yTcknf8cVV1SaP4XS57xrNRDdHLXM_vR5gl4dVaSXRbL6aCyMzBWX2NanTn_LPFaQTyNUntCFDtuRJ6o5YqtHDCrSXHKuH96H2CNbNJxePgc2fjTxmFP5YjEnPeOZrOc0Mf_cmqe/s400/IMG_6636.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5472833661792168498" /></a><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgOseNEBExGSeAtno7etDjJRsdOLfRdytjVab1pbcZHNeI9UDZr_iZQipLSbznLBU6kCFWh3MmqdF3ZvuIC1kqVZfNDM7tcqUZoQDs1PMCqhJKt7Q2rYv9vXnFR7aR5dvlENOiNuD9Q8A0g/s1600/IMG_6635.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 267px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgOseNEBExGSeAtno7etDjJRsdOLfRdytjVab1pbcZHNeI9UDZr_iZQipLSbznLBU6kCFWh3MmqdF3ZvuIC1kqVZfNDM7tcqUZoQDs1PMCqhJKt7Q2rYv9vXnFR7aR5dvlENOiNuD9Q8A0g/s400/IMG_6635.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5472833656230223154" /></a><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhF8fC6Mz-6cAqszfYWRkWdu6v3sO_xUfdOShwNJo7aQmsWtYGRHZjYWMQ4S2gMvCcoO_KqeBul1l32UCVAKg4ttErLVdGfqxca_NGm_oR-urp-CrjCQGVormzK5maSpShXM_6cmITiheJ4/s1600/IMG_6633.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 267px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhF8fC6Mz-6cAqszfYWRkWdu6v3sO_xUfdOShwNJo7aQmsWtYGRHZjYWMQ4S2gMvCcoO_KqeBul1l32UCVAKg4ttErLVdGfqxca_NGm_oR-urp-CrjCQGVormzK5maSpShXM_6cmITiheJ4/s400/IMG_6633.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5472833645753492162" /></a>Joanne and Derichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08660276159933021552noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4078791241357737089.post-24159386003700686212010-05-18T22:41:00.004-05:002010-05-18T22:49:17.913-05:00Preschool…… lovely preschool<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiinthgkjBLa7lBqIxqPdmXZf3CuLsSuV9VV2B7Y3JOyW9XVFZUsf1a291wtc7ls35t3ItDIauDaM5OWPBH6mlKtS0UviV0nLRyk0NTDDutz2PtiJZ23SHxr-YdjM34wJJoN_igDx_0Xcyb/s1600/Planets.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 262px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiinthgkjBLa7lBqIxqPdmXZf3CuLsSuV9VV2B7Y3JOyW9XVFZUsf1a291wtc7ls35t3ItDIauDaM5OWPBH6mlKtS0UviV0nLRyk0NTDDutz2PtiJZ23SHxr-YdjM34wJJoN_igDx_0Xcyb/s400/Planets.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5472822531221641346" /></a><br />I’ll start by saying – I LOVE KAILEYS PRESCHOOL!!!!!<br /><br />At Kai’s preschool they have themed weeks (sometimes for two weeks) and this week they are doing planets. When I heard the theme for ages 3-5 I just thought ‘oh well, cute they will at least play with the idea maybe just open their minds to the concept’ so imagine my surprise today when during Kailey’s bath she starts speaking about the planets. It went something like this:<br /><br />Kai: Mummy Pluto too small to be a planet!<br />Me: What?<br />Kai: It’s just a teeny weeny rock and not a planet – it’s too small<br />Me: What?<br />Kai: There are 8 planets not 9!<br />Me: What?<br />Kai: ….. and Mars is our neighbor, its red and it talks (not sure about that, I assume the teacher makes the planets speak to teach them)<br />Me: What about the sun?<br />Kai: Nooo mummy, the sun is not a planet, it’s just for morning time!<br />Me: and the moon?<br />Kai: The moon for sleep time!<br />Kai: then the rocks that fly are there too (I assume asteroids) <br /><br />I was so proud you have no idea. <br /> <br />I asked the teacher the other day who decides on the themes and she said she did. She is about 22 years old and has completely blown me away! She said she does and then she tries to see how far she can go with the theme…… <br /><br />They have done the body – that was Kai’s favorite. They learned all about muscles and bones, the heart and the brain. They then worked on what food does for each of these parts. They also did food and where it comes from, they planted veggies and had to look after them to see them grow … and the list goes on. I am so happy she is there!!!! <br /><br />And here is my mother’s day card…. She did not write this (she is only 3) but her teacher Miss Ashley held her hand and helped her. Break my heart!!!!!<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg0ecvxGL4Ic04lMW0nmXJjGVPySuCPoG_LCbRdjtL75Reu8_EG82GQ-qLZ2ak1QwXURR4LLvJJEEkHBeqRMJgF_27nRvcxSOX3H9jJIXRusaU-QRHfZTdKX2Y0cv8niAAooLpjjkjQ3iYC/s1600/mothers+day.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 300px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg0ecvxGL4Ic04lMW0nmXJjGVPySuCPoG_LCbRdjtL75Reu8_EG82GQ-qLZ2ak1QwXURR4LLvJJEEkHBeqRMJgF_27nRvcxSOX3H9jJIXRusaU-QRHfZTdKX2Y0cv8niAAooLpjjkjQ3iYC/s400/mothers+day.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5472822725113396802" /></a>Joanne and Derichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08660276159933021552noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4078791241357737089.post-22826314796080510392010-05-04T21:59:00.003-05:002010-05-04T22:10:06.294-05:00The Tutu Saga.....Kailey wants a tutu so badly – no I am talking a classical tutu not a romantic tutu. <br />Classical ones stand out - and romantic curve done (although Grandma sent a romantic tutu that she has to wear everywhere - gym, shops, friends the only place she has not worn it is school)<br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhl7bxUx1XJvbgZbgTzm6kxvESHkwBQ297qDRjYPGXBUeZh9YedN6_Sy2xJffpo5JA9dm3B_Xj1RmKpJOKVdsrDCqEUJD3T8xWPvBE0RKOn_2w_aJKERmjnSzVnB9Yazj8w6qxCl1qVWcfp/s1600/romantic_tutu_skirt_.jpg"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 226px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhl7bxUx1XJvbgZbgTzm6kxvESHkwBQ297qDRjYPGXBUeZh9YedN6_Sy2xJffpo5JA9dm3B_Xj1RmKpJOKVdsrDCqEUJD3T8xWPvBE0RKOn_2w_aJKERmjnSzVnB9Yazj8w6qxCl1qVWcfp/s400/romantic_tutu_skirt_.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5467615854033383042" /></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEigDPAv8IuvtUKhNWhI76lolWLjh23cqcu_WOl_mQQbYfCBP-EDizOyh4USXBCggcG2QD0Crn7zf-YgFKBBUJLmSt2xSFYYm7d_sa2e3c6ujDfBh1iHfQIQ8Xboldlkm8dZoWz3afFv9vue/s1600/classical+tutu.jpg"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 200px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEigDPAv8IuvtUKhNWhI76lolWLjh23cqcu_WOl_mQQbYfCBP-EDizOyh4USXBCggcG2QD0Crn7zf-YgFKBBUJLmSt2xSFYYm7d_sa2e3c6ujDfBh1iHfQIQ8Xboldlkm8dZoWz3afFv9vue/s400/classical+tutu.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5467615845195546642" /></a><br /><br />So added to that she does not eat ANY vegetables. NOT ONE. So I told her that little girls only get tutu’s when they eat all their vegetables. I read a Angelina Ballerina book to her and it’s about how she started ballet. I changed it to how she got her tutu by eating all her vegetables. <br /><br />I then made this chart and she started eating her vegetables – no fighting, no nagging, nothing. If she does not want to eat them that night she does not get a ‘ticket’ and that upsets her (not me). She is so excited she tells me before dinner what vegetables we need to cook.<br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhCZlCAn7oWOf9WKE-Jt-JHRNtRpL4FELrxnSJjI_hVrroIzDAOmqWndRDcj_T2yAdGblYqR9K3-ECluSECADdePP2OEs3_j3u7CUIk0-gJFxOIenx9zu-di2ByBNXEncy-EEpWTPjwetFw/s1600/Kai+veg+chart.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhCZlCAn7oWOf9WKE-Jt-JHRNtRpL4FELrxnSJjI_hVrroIzDAOmqWndRDcj_T2yAdGblYqR9K3-ECluSECADdePP2OEs3_j3u7CUIk0-gJFxOIenx9zu-di2ByBNXEncy-EEpWTPjwetFw/s400/Kai+veg+chart.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5467616163638825154" /></a><br /><br />The great thing is she has decided that carrots are her favorite. Funnily enough, she only eats them raw and if I don’t have any on her plate she tells me that she needs her carrots!<br />We saw a little girl at the shops a few days ago – she was wearing a tutu and Kai started clapping for her and saying, ‘good job you did it, you ate all your vegetables’. <br />I told her ballet teacher what we are doing and she is also playing along, every week Kailey gives her an update on her tutu. I am hoping she finishes this week so she can get it on the weekend and then wear it to ballet on Monday. <br />I will let you know when she has her tutu!!!!!<br />I’m not sure who is having more fun with this - me or her?Joanne and Derichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08660276159933021552noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4078791241357737089.post-5488069651668454122010-04-02T21:28:00.003-05:002010-04-02T21:44:58.065-05:00Best Job In The World!!!I have the best job in the world. We are in such a great place at the moment. Our routine runs like clockwork and everything is just going well. Of course it would be the cherry on top to have Deric here with us (and he will be soon) but I refuse to mope around and stop my life while he is away.<br />Kai is L-O-V-I-N-G school. When she wakes up and I tell her its school today she runs around saying ‘lets go, I’ll go wake Debin we need to get his milk’ then she gets herself dressed and sits at the table and waits for breakfast. <br />She is obsessed with anything ballet lately and now insists I refer to her as Ballet Princess Kailey. So much so that if I say ‘Kai dinner’ she comes in the room and directs me how to call her. Then she runs out the room again and I say ‘Ballet Princess Kailey dinner time’ and she runs in does a twirl, bows and gets up on her chair. It’s so funny!<br />She says today that she is going to teach Daddy some ballet, then she stops and thinks about it and says ‘oh no Mommy, prince’s can’t dance – but daddy is such a good boy he will just have to watch me’ <br />And so my day goes by with these thoughts coming through her … I love it!<br /><br />Devin is a dream baby again. We did go through a bit of a rough patch but from December he just became an angel and stayed that way. <br />He naps everyday AT 9:30 to 11:20 and then from 2pm to 3:20. He is so scheduled! He babbles and tries to talk all day long. He LOVES his sister and bugs her all day long. <br />They are building a road outside our house and there are diggers and tractors outside the house every day. He will stand at the windows for hours watching them. I got him a caterpillar tractor with blocks in it and he pushes that around most of the day.<br />As for me I am still teaching on Saturdays. It’s going really well and I have re-lit the dance fire in myself again. I am starting a new piece now so that will be exciting. <br />Here are some pictures ….<br /><br /><br /><br /><br />Devin is crazy about teddy bears, he just kisses them and hugs them all the time.<br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhaBadFcRna9Pe4eRqsddooKVG8LtZuZF1sGZQ7Z4kUCWfVrd5aMAAMh1C7GtjFLtb-DEeHBRtyqEUtOI4vIZvJ-_5ffOembxWQX_bOewJZLIw-HmFoTKAsE5oRBRSByAXgY70jyt49JKpD/s1600/IMG_6603.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 267px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhaBadFcRna9Pe4eRqsddooKVG8LtZuZF1sGZQ7Z4kUCWfVrd5aMAAMh1C7GtjFLtb-DEeHBRtyqEUtOI4vIZvJ-_5ffOembxWQX_bOewJZLIw-HmFoTKAsE5oRBRSByAXgY70jyt49JKpD/s400/IMG_6603.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5455733768301385458" /></a><br /><br />This is Devin's attempt to dress up... <br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhT4Uvas0cjIA59Gpv9dNDVrmO1UTtNIshUHkrpSRHGzSvf9kMNajVVd_D-bFo5PVuvGgYtJeX-Nc0PLyN6h3pEQ0Tj9zkMVbxOST-xY6Qh4_3AExy-bRJ0_9ubQv9bNq5craRHhXPh8ulu/s1600/IMG_6587.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 267px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhT4Uvas0cjIA59Gpv9dNDVrmO1UTtNIshUHkrpSRHGzSvf9kMNajVVd_D-bFo5PVuvGgYtJeX-Nc0PLyN6h3pEQ0Tj9zkMVbxOST-xY6Qh4_3AExy-bRJ0_9ubQv9bNq5craRHhXPh8ulu/s400/IMG_6587.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5455733763820738402" /></a><br /><br />The next 3 pictures is Kai giving some lovin to her brother... he likes it for a bit then tries to get me to help out.<br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjjbc8wo8jgdVgp1Y_HvIitEq9eKJnkRDPiusPlgVlDfuvxUamc-Dk30HVLluFowbNubqDbsuIIsmYGWYgnZWN1OWSCd26QQOk3um7EXSTDp7iMufj6vF3CKbWdVgu9eN15pzjQZ-sF8bRW/s1600/IMG_6590.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 267px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjjbc8wo8jgdVgp1Y_HvIitEq9eKJnkRDPiusPlgVlDfuvxUamc-Dk30HVLluFowbNubqDbsuIIsmYGWYgnZWN1OWSCd26QQOk3um7EXSTDp7iMufj6vF3CKbWdVgu9eN15pzjQZ-sF8bRW/s400/IMG_6590.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5455733753857087538" /></a><br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhNMwc1tM5eBw6hj2_lx-nyROd0f2n52F31hQ4Etkt5UaS3qBWQ-7FUGmNJJze4FF3itcZxcm5VIMOv_53MAts5jGqL-iiDATbGpoLAEBTVRTT0mlOlo3kIuWqtJApKldsHajGV25ToDZzT/s1600/IMG_6588.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 267px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhNMwc1tM5eBw6hj2_lx-nyROd0f2n52F31hQ4Etkt5UaS3qBWQ-7FUGmNJJze4FF3itcZxcm5VIMOv_53MAts5jGqL-iiDATbGpoLAEBTVRTT0mlOlo3kIuWqtJApKldsHajGV25ToDZzT/s400/IMG_6588.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5455733746479130130" /></a><br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiSh2-WLOe_Plkq9piKYXf-opxN2rAZvOA-MeIpMQLm7jPVGaB4gqQtKAvE0o2cusegKcPCpOjcCO0QL3aPUatZtFpjnHCwt6vNJ8DeqLp9qLG7hTkrNFaStxgOSX5UETyK4mgiXZKn31xL/s1600/IMG_6589.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 267px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiSh2-WLOe_Plkq9piKYXf-opxN2rAZvOA-MeIpMQLm7jPVGaB4gqQtKAvE0o2cusegKcPCpOjcCO0QL3aPUatZtFpjnHCwt6vNJ8DeqLp9qLG7hTkrNFaStxgOSX5UETyK4mgiXZKn31xL/s400/IMG_6589.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5455733735184126066" /></a><br /><br />I like these of Kailey. I wish I could however get her with neat hair...<br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhbpwPUlwe4n3XkA8RIkt5lPQj9ztw0Ur3XxGyRDmIU9qAFUktmMagVcd2RHsWXC2dISA-xb_OGpZ_SqobdsPo8fOx0SCItM4xe4ANIQwnVr84mW89Wik8Uf2PBrHcTzMs3asioHJtQxaG7/s1600/IMG_6583.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 267px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhbpwPUlwe4n3XkA8RIkt5lPQj9ztw0Ur3XxGyRDmIU9qAFUktmMagVcd2RHsWXC2dISA-xb_OGpZ_SqobdsPo8fOx0SCItM4xe4ANIQwnVr84mW89Wik8Uf2PBrHcTzMs3asioHJtQxaG7/s400/IMG_6583.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5455733208969583106" /></a><br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgTZUJ4Snmr9-yZ_A2s8kWFp11_ywx6rQZx1rqCJQXdzqxZosKCREek7jJz5eLTQx65sExitTAz3XVT2gL9MX5ALv_DxMIjDyqUQUIfz3_-pq9AQHWfNxJakuiYiJeqEzUGiMbNSjs9w0st/s1600/IMG_6582.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 267px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgTZUJ4Snmr9-yZ_A2s8kWFp11_ywx6rQZx1rqCJQXdzqxZosKCREek7jJz5eLTQx65sExitTAz3XVT2gL9MX5ALv_DxMIjDyqUQUIfz3_-pq9AQHWfNxJakuiYiJeqEzUGiMbNSjs9w0st/s400/IMG_6582.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5455733197130211618" /></a><br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhw_khxm4Aww6jdTBGpi1K12NaCBhZPAmEe9vlZ-a2pd3KTWyD5GW6zrMJkGW14YU_S0yb2WP49zG2210TRMDuLz4StMyyvjoCJmz0XjO53rOlg9qM40e9jQIAx3HQqyRyg_dE94NluuKQ5/s1600/IMG_6577.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 267px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhw_khxm4Aww6jdTBGpi1K12NaCBhZPAmEe9vlZ-a2pd3KTWyD5GW6zrMJkGW14YU_S0yb2WP49zG2210TRMDuLz4StMyyvjoCJmz0XjO53rOlg9qM40e9jQIAx3HQqyRyg_dE94NluuKQ5/s400/IMG_6577.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5455733188178181058" /></a><br /><br />We baked cookies and here I had two kids sitting at once! Does not happen often.<br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiC6xB4Lz_JNsyNlHK87ALXX_Mx_92ZJAK_0pdKFXWz-UIaWsb_GDCGlRW75kwDq7tt4i5WlOGZ4RUpN_UiexLBlzRvGrN-ytUNYCdxnjZF-Zj82ULi9C1xKmpQkOet_IiRcU_m_G7Z0oM7/s1600/IMG_6576.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 267px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiC6xB4Lz_JNsyNlHK87ALXX_Mx_92ZJAK_0pdKFXWz-UIaWsb_GDCGlRW75kwDq7tt4i5WlOGZ4RUpN_UiexLBlzRvGrN-ytUNYCdxnjZF-Zj82ULi9C1xKmpQkOet_IiRcU_m_G7Z0oM7/s400/IMG_6576.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5455733176788451874" /></a><br /><br />Little man shopping<br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhk8kQVEZ1JETT7fFV6d1V8WPRqQfvUOrYHEkeH_eI9rRIGjJ4LQZDvgghwoA3dwZGyo8y9Pl0rypl-dN4JoPbFONedM2iv1uUlsvmhxShSXwTO0uFO_17L-LORplrwEmsWVMV1T-0c-QOR/s1600/IMG_6572.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 377px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhk8kQVEZ1JETT7fFV6d1V8WPRqQfvUOrYHEkeH_eI9rRIGjJ4LQZDvgghwoA3dwZGyo8y9Pl0rypl-dN4JoPbFONedM2iv1uUlsvmhxShSXwTO0uFO_17L-LORplrwEmsWVMV1T-0c-QOR/s400/IMG_6572.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5455733168745442610" /></a>Joanne and Derichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08660276159933021552noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4078791241357737089.post-1235450518106519932010-03-23T22:52:00.001-05:002010-03-23T22:53:47.592-05:00Over 30"sI took this from an email that was sent to me... thought it was worth a read and a laugh...... <br /><br /><br /><br />If you are 30, or older, you might think this is hilarious! <br />When I was a kid, adults used to bore me to tears with their tedious diatribes about how hard things were. When they were growing up; what with walking twenty-five miles to school every morning.... Uphill... Barefoot... BOTH ways… yadda, yadda, yadda <br /><br />And I remember promising myself that when I grew up, there was no way in hell I was going to lay a bunch of crap like that on my kids about how hard I had it and how easy they've got<br />it! But now that I'm over the ripe old age of thirty, I can't help but look around and notice the youth of today. You've got it so easy! I mean, compared to my childhood, you live in a damn Utopia! <br />And I hate to say it, but you kids today, you don't know how good you've got it! <br /><br />I mean, when I was a kid we didn't have the Internet. If we wanted to know something, we had to go to the damn library and look it up ourselves, in the card catalog!! <br /><br />There was no email!! We had to actually write somebody a letter - with a pen! Then you had to walk all the way across the street and put it in the mailbox, and it would take like a week to get there! Stamps were 10 cents! <br /><br />Child Protective Services didn't care if our parents beat us. As a matter of fact, the parents of all my friends also had permission to kick our ass! Nowhere was safe! <br /><br />There were no MP3's or Napsters or iTunes! If you wanted to steal music, you had to hitchhike to the record store and shoplift it yourself! <br /><br />Or you had to wait around all day to tape it off the radio, and the DJ would usually talk over the beginning and @#*% it all up! There were no CD players! We had tape decks in our car.. We'd play our favorite tape and "eject" it when finished, and then the tape would come undone rendering it useless. Cause, hey, that's how we rolled, Baby! Dig? <br /><br />We didn't have fancy crap like Call Waiting! If you were on the phone and somebody else called, they got a busy<br />signal, that's it! <br /><br />There weren't any freakin' cell phones either. If you left the house, you just didn't make a damn call or receive one. You actually had to be out of touch with your "friends". OH MY GOD !!! Think of the horror... not being in touch with someone 24/7!!! And then there's TEXTING. Yeah, right. Please! You kids have no idea how annoying you are. <br /><br />And we didn't have fancy Caller ID either! When the phone rang, you had no idea who it was! It could be your school, your parents, your boss, your bookie, your drug dealer, the collection agent... you just didn't know!!! You had to pick it up and take your chances, mister! <br /><br />We<br />didn't have any fancy PlayStation or Xbox video games with high-resolution 3-D graphics! We had the Atari 2600! With games like 'Space Invaders' and 'Asteroids'. Your screen guy was a little square! You actually had to use your imagination!!! And there were no multiple levels or screens, it was just one screen... Forever! And you could never win. The game just kept getting harder and harder and faster and faster until you died! Just like LIFE! <br /><br />You had to use a little book called a TV Guide to find out what was on! You were screwed when it came to channel surfing! You had to get off your ass and walk over to the TV to change the channel!!! NO REMOTES!!! Oh, no, what's the world coming to?!?!<br /><br />There was no Cartoon Network either! You could only get cartoons on Saturday Morning. Do you hear what I'm saying? We had to wait ALL WEEK for cartoons, you spoiled little rat-finks!<br /><br />And we didn't have microwaves. If we wanted to heat something up, we had to use the stove! Imagine that! And our parents told us to stay outside and play... all day long. Oh, no, no electronics to soothe and comfort. And if you came back inside... you were doing chores! And car seats - oh, please! Mom threw you in the back seat and you hung on. If you were luckily, you got the "safety arm" across the chest at the last moment if she had to stop suddenly, and if your head hit the dashboard, well that was your fault for calling "shot gun" in the first place! See! That's exactly what I'm talking about! You kids today have got it too easy. You're spoiled rotten! You guys wouldn't have lasted five minutes back in 1980's or any time before!<br /><br />Regards,<br />The Over 30 Crowd <br />(Send this to someone you'd like to make smile)Joanne and Derichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08660276159933021552noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4078791241357737089.post-192207099258202822010-03-10T14:52:00.001-05:002010-03-10T14:52:27.108-05:00North West Trek<p style="visibility:visible;"><object type="application/x-shockwave-flash" data="http://widget-1c.slide.com/widgets/slideticker.swf" height="320" width="426" style="width:426px;height:320px"><param name="movie" value="http://widget-1c.slide.com/widgets/slideticker.swf" /><param name="quality" value="high" /><param name="scale" value="noscale" /><param name="salign" value="l" /><param name="wmode" value="transparent"/> <param name="flashvars" value="cy=ms&il=1&channel=144115188096733212&site=widget-1c.slide.com"/></object><p style="white-space:nowrap"><a href="http://www.slide.com/pivot?cy=ms&at=un&id=144115188096733212&map=1" target="_blank"><img src="http://widget-1c.slide.com/p1/144115188096733212/ms_t016_v000_s0un_f00/images/xslide1.gif" border="0" ismap="ismap" /></a> <a href="http://www.slide.com/pivot?cy=ms&at=un&id=144115188096733212&map=2" target="_blank"><img src="http://widget-1c.slide.com/p2/144115188096733212/ms_t016_v000_s0un_f00/images/xslide2.gif" border="0" ismap="ismap" /></a> <a href="http://www.slide.com/pivot?cy=ms&at=un&id=144115188096733212&map=F" target="_blank"><img src="http://widget-1c.slide.com/p4/144115188096733212/ms_t016_v000_s0un_f00/images/xslide42.gif" border="0" ismap="ismap" /></a></p></p>Joanne and Derichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08660276159933021552noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4078791241357737089.post-50631037977284478752010-03-10T14:47:00.001-05:002010-03-10T14:47:39.367-05:00At Home<div><embed src="http://widget-2f.slide.com/widgets/slideticker.swf" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" quality="high" scale="noscale" salign="l" wmode="transparent" flashvars="cy=lt&il=1&channel=144115188096733231&site=widget-2f.slide.com" style="width:426px;height:320px" name="flashticker" align="middle"></embed><div style="width:426px;text-align:left;"><a href="http://www.slide.com/pivot?cy=lt&at=un&id=144115188096733231&map=1" target="_blank"><img src="http://widget-2f.slide.com/p1/144115188096733231/lt_t028_v000_s0un_f00/images/xslide1.gif" border="0" ismap="ismap" /></a> <a href="http://www.slide.com/pivot?cy=lt&at=un&id=144115188096733231&map=2" target="_blank"><img src="http://widget-2f.slide.com/p2/144115188096733231/lt_t028_v000_s0un_f00/images/xslide2.gif" border="0" ismap="ismap" /></a> <a href="http://www.slide.com/pivot?cy=lt&at=un&id=144115188096733231&map=F" target="_blank"><img src="http://widget-2f.slide.com/p4/144115188096733231/lt_t028_v000_s0un_f00/images/xslide42.gif" border="0" ismap="ismap" /></a></div></div>Joanne and Derichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08660276159933021552noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4078791241357737089.post-14175098737611603322010-03-10T14:12:00.000-05:002010-03-10T14:13:02.925-05:00Kailey's Birthday Party<p style="visibility:visible;"><object type="application/x-shockwave-flash" data="http://widget-28.slide.com/widgets/slideticker.swf" height="320" width="426" style="width:426px;height:320px"><param name="movie" value="http://widget-28.slide.com/widgets/slideticker.swf" /><param name="quality" value="high" /><param name="scale" value="noscale" /><param name="salign" value="l" /><param name="wmode" value="transparent"/> <param name="flashvars" value="cy=ms&il=1&channel=144115188096733224&site=widget-28.slide.com"/></object><p style="white-space:nowrap"><a href="http://www.slide.com/pivot?cy=ms&at=un&id=144115188096733224&map=1" target="_blank"><img src="http://widget-28.slide.com/p1/144115188096733224/ms_t024_v000_s0un_f00/images/xslide1.gif" border="0" ismap="ismap" /></a> <a href="http://www.slide.com/pivot?cy=ms&at=un&id=144115188096733224&map=2" target="_blank"><img src="http://widget-28.slide.com/p2/144115188096733224/ms_t024_v000_s0un_f00/images/xslide2.gif" border="0" ismap="ismap" /></a> <a href="http://www.slide.com/pivot?cy=ms&at=un&id=144115188096733224&map=F" target="_blank"><img src="http://widget-28.slide.com/p4/144115188096733224/ms_t024_v000_s0un_f00/images/xslide42.gif" border="0" ismap="ismap" /></a></p></p>Joanne and Derichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08660276159933021552noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4078791241357737089.post-44283688396004654912010-03-10T13:27:00.004-05:002010-03-10T13:31:01.111-05:00DADDY'S HOME......We went to get Deric at the airport ... here is Kai waiting and looking for Daddy<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhKzT6joM8CD2CYDIykVhmlieLf9mSUWCxo3Jg55j91vTtr8sfUKmkMmWYGar0NeiDOE7_JVdLPQnjAntQOilYvqpFY30PjdNkW4Adfk-itEh_ZVY7Mx1qgFC1Mr66xM7PfLIWhyphenhyphenRFYDzXl/s1600-h/DSC00506.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 300px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhKzT6joM8CD2CYDIykVhmlieLf9mSUWCxo3Jg55j91vTtr8sfUKmkMmWYGar0NeiDOE7_JVdLPQnjAntQOilYvqpFY30PjdNkW4Adfk-itEh_ZVY7Mx1qgFC1Mr66xM7PfLIWhyphenhyphenRFYDzXl/s400/DSC00506.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5447073807428504850" /></a><br /><br />Here is when she saw him, she just ran into his arms.....<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgojy-kw5ZFkEHlcIvkzGd2yFYPyeG2aS9jMwg4ENbtLfB4nc4yAVWY2efV2Des7V1SHsdzQlokr9h_oexTPh0o5HZBKVWeAO5ISZLBWZTstAbuIYc8FSxr6c9Thfj-oClyEj7TsV5Q6UlV/s1600-h/DSC00507.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 300px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgojy-kw5ZFkEHlcIvkzGd2yFYPyeG2aS9jMwg4ENbtLfB4nc4yAVWY2efV2Des7V1SHsdzQlokr9h_oexTPh0o5HZBKVWeAO5ISZLBWZTstAbuIYc8FSxr6c9Thfj-oClyEj7TsV5Q6UlV/s400/DSC00507.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5447073920900269442" /></a>Joanne and Derichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08660276159933021552noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4078791241357737089.post-61506022109975528572010-01-25T23:23:00.009-05:002010-01-25T23:35:45.787-05:00Kailey is 3Kai is 3!!!!!<br />Today she went to school and I came back later with cake for the class. Deric got to watch in on the schools internet video cameras, so that was nice for him. Here are some pic’s. <br />We are having a party for her at the end of February when Deric is back on leave. Then going to Great Wolf Lodge….. what fun awaits. <br /><br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg9hfO2k6SmgCt_2t8xzi47mmyGnQx_AO0PIxZArPFpl532z1tagu5O9ppcQivg1lFeYiCAWyVThv0nkG_M-RyUXVa7Xd-ZPnJ8jxKCh8nNi9EYRHITz3rBIHgj-kN0JHCCFRMosDt3dtmr/s1600-h/DSC00484.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg9hfO2k6SmgCt_2t8xzi47mmyGnQx_AO0PIxZArPFpl532z1tagu5O9ppcQivg1lFeYiCAWyVThv0nkG_M-RyUXVa7Xd-ZPnJ8jxKCh8nNi9EYRHITz3rBIHgj-kN0JHCCFRMosDt3dtmr/s400/DSC00484.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5430899803958802146" /></a><br /><br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgrValjnF8Wk9gh91XsyCoCReJbN9bAeK-iVks0e8Ba7c121blj93A-O-7MgpiotKP1gchCX4jmuF1QwHIt1YUoaO1k4mCW2Y1oorvnKYntDlkJjaR3HStyA6rpXXjKf_sCPS914x-lhvBy/s1600-h/DSC00485.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; 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I had seen too many Super Nanny’s and did not want the problems that I see on that show….<br /><br />And now as I sit here and write, Kai is in my bed fast asleep. <br /><br />I could fight it, and I could cause a stir about it, but when I get in at night she holds my hand and hugs me all night. I just feel that maybe it’s something she needs now and I have decided to deal with it later. When I think of what that little one in my bed has been through – or rather what we have put her through in the last three years, I just have to bend on this.<br /><br />In 3 years she has lived in 2 countries, 3 states, 4 houses and seen her dad deploy twice for a year each time. <br /><br />In the past year she has welcomed a baby brother, said goodbye to her friends again, moved state and got another house and area to get to know. She has given up her dummies, said goodbye to her daddy, let go of her beloved crib, potty trained, got a new play school, and started preschool. Each thing we throw at her she handles so well. So if she needs to know mommy is just at arm’s reach – so be it!Joanne and Derichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08660276159933021552noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4078791241357737089.post-20840686082578268272010-01-11T00:04:00.010-05:002010-01-11T00:15:03.940-05:00<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg0eJIsAGhPZ3rhoAo-keo58QFgn1qkYGqX6gE7oZ_G0RkSzTQiiGxmwxBuLijJ_opr_90i7z5eJFlWfpixpz4SaiZlh4yWkjmjXKBXtwz1VhS54aaZ-f1zuP3gHXp8rGP5S43S-lHr8ywT/s1600-h/Mom+and+Kai+4.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg0eJIsAGhPZ3rhoAo-keo58QFgn1qkYGqX6gE7oZ_G0RkSzTQiiGxmwxBuLijJ_opr_90i7z5eJFlWfpixpz4SaiZlh4yWkjmjXKBXtwz1VhS54aaZ-f1zuP3gHXp8rGP5S43S-lHr8ywT/s400/Mom+and+Kai+4.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5425345035202266626" /></a><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhdb3x8kWgVSmszZpCEVKYyGj3rPtSuT5C5VS35vA0zuypylV-RlI28jMGj_t1scAqbx0TwbEwzk7swcMXKFGDcmsyNlnXjtovi6LpAQjY2KF2DQbgUcPEjX6xEv68HtK-6mthOJZJ2FHym/s1600-h/Mom+and+dev+5.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhdb3x8kWgVSmszZpCEVKYyGj3rPtSuT5C5VS35vA0zuypylV-RlI28jMGj_t1scAqbx0TwbEwzk7swcMXKFGDcmsyNlnXjtovi6LpAQjY2KF2DQbgUcPEjX6xEv68HtK-6mthOJZJ2FHym/s400/Mom+and+dev+5.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5425344774822971794" /></a><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhlBlROBbRxWgzWF84ueTP7fWyLTJP1ggoXNGNowO6Wjzwp4iIN1VDGcR85dsYNfneWhAFrOQC0AZFY-CoxZhglektAEe8bc69hqsrinSwXxxXNBV0mDWaDaGvGVE9Q8IQK-CSvGwTEfYaV/s1600-h/Devin+4.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhlBlROBbRxWgzWF84ueTP7fWyLTJP1ggoXNGNowO6Wjzwp4iIN1VDGcR85dsYNfneWhAFrOQC0AZFY-CoxZhglektAEe8bc69hqsrinSwXxxXNBV0mDWaDaGvGVE9Q8IQK-CSvGwTEfYaV/s400/Devin+4.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5425344651132342658" /></a><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiQmnYCDQwUFnl0hZO8LgM_li6NLIELNdx5-VaBqaGhHpDBn3BtdwHAGtlMaZJXze_BjA7zu8Nu4-RuOPZ54i-gN1bvK9Uxg-1AqqXbchveRYjAKwEG9BLM3Y8QfPRi9V7-6lZeXYcCIBDx/s1600-h/kailey+4.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiQmnYCDQwUFnl0hZO8LgM_li6NLIELNdx5-VaBqaGhHpDBn3BtdwHAGtlMaZJXze_BjA7zu8Nu4-RuOPZ54i-gN1bvK9Uxg-1AqqXbchveRYjAKwEG9BLM3Y8QfPRi9V7-6lZeXYcCIBDx/s400/kailey+4.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5425344534879161474" /></a><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh0dqeCVYhtyYAqsDxSFNaolsc8Aa6m4oQqfV0g03GdbckUjae-2uXVFtrNimGjBoGKBpMi5vSrVurWcZhCuA2pYlPoasl2f-5aFHGEAAereCMc-WlER8mV2_UXoFBKKxWMJBpFMMsStzNp/s1600-h/kai+and+dev+3.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh0dqeCVYhtyYAqsDxSFNaolsc8Aa6m4oQqfV0g03GdbckUjae-2uXVFtrNimGjBoGKBpMi5vSrVurWcZhCuA2pYlPoasl2f-5aFHGEAAereCMc-WlER8mV2_UXoFBKKxWMJBpFMMsStzNp/s400/kai+and+dev+3.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5425344433823069042" /></a><br />Hi Everyone, <br />I am taking the time to update the blog, this time with some actual news and not just pictures. <br /><br />Just got the kids to bed, we have been so crazy this past week and I like to have one day a week just at home where they can really chill and play what they want all day. So now the house is picked up and they are sleeping…..<br /><br />Kailey started preschool this week. I just felt that she needed something else. She is like a sponge and sometimes she does not want me to teach her. Also she is having trouble taking direction and listening to anyone but me. I found a school one mile from our house that is very good. Her teacher is very nice and Kai took an instant liking to her. She goes 3 days a week for 3 hours a day. I thought it would be great to spend some time with Devin, but he goes to sleep 30 minutes after we get home from dropping her off and then I have to wake him before we leave to get her. I know this will change but I finally feel what empty nest syndrome is !!<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiWe4TPPX4b74U4FS7nUyukXs_dpag-w34taEcj6cbCDH6RlvfHNxa5tZQa2ZsTDFWhiO5YnvvoLfyVRATOpiTOx3Zbwmo5pRNk9UsIij_NI9AIF43RK90FjFIkMK-_iOF9gIazwzW0Y9y_/s1600-h/Mom+and+kai+3.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiWe4TPPX4b74U4FS7nUyukXs_dpag-w34taEcj6cbCDH6RlvfHNxa5tZQa2ZsTDFWhiO5YnvvoLfyVRATOpiTOx3Zbwmo5pRNk9UsIij_NI9AIF43RK90FjFIkMK-_iOF9gIazwzW0Y9y_/s400/Mom+and+kai+3.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5425344884698948370" /></a><br /><br /><br />Devin is so gorgeous. He is really coming into his own. He is very focused and once he has decided what he wants you can’t change his mind. Lately he just wants to help with everything. He will help with the dishes, putting on the washer and dryer, and if I give him a brush he will scrub the whole floor. At dinner time he bangs on the oven and shouts at me…. He wants to help and watch me cook. I have to give him a spoon, or let him do something – he just loves that. He is also in charge of operating the microwave oven, a job he takes very seriously and if he sees you doing it, he will shout at you (seriously)<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiCvNfXBwcx7HfFGe3aSS8Z0z5o-_oEeDWeiCimsOtC2hacCSmZTHp1YP-Sep04805vvPCGHaEGkw8YxvTTDAlkQWR9U4xlB6d2awsTjh63C9BRcPOUFdeMFzAYg8b63_Q-IUCJC3ULQ7xE/s1600-h/Mom+and+dev+6.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiCvNfXBwcx7HfFGe3aSS8Z0z5o-_oEeDWeiCimsOtC2hacCSmZTHp1YP-Sep04805vvPCGHaEGkw8YxvTTDAlkQWR9U4xlB6d2awsTjh63C9BRcPOUFdeMFzAYg8b63_Q-IUCJC3ULQ7xE/s400/Mom+and+dev+6.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5425345293387104898" /></a><br /><br /><br />Besides for Kai’s school she is too funny. I went to a neighbor’s house that had a baby a few weeks ago, we went inside to see the baby and as we went in Kai says ‘oh my goodness, look at this mess!’ I almost died. Then yesterday we went to the curry shop for dinner and as we got out the car there was a woman in the car next to us – with her door open a bit (of course) Kai shouts out ‘Mummy this car is dirty, dirty, dirty – they need to wash it’ . She is also all into the fact that she lived in my tummy. Yesterday she says ‘Mommy I liked it in your tummy – it snowed in there and I played and played in the snow – it was fun!’<br />So never a dull moment!<br /><br />Deric is well – he comes home for R&R around his birthday. We are just staying at home and going to Great Wolf Lodge. I think he is going to need the rest and lots of mornings to lie in bed …… ohhh but he now has a 3 year old …so that’s out, sorry love!!!!<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgzg-FQutrY3r2KfOIisG7EDNd0iH35Z_YlOBChrNZZ8icwRnOA7KTxuT43Tw97ebemCX7u_ft10BktnGM4PGYFnu9S7xwC9s6yU2n62Ww9Da4HwqL28vfdJzzmktSqlvlcqo_VPXeSIOy8/s1600-h/Kai+and+dev+4.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgzg-FQutrY3r2KfOIisG7EDNd0iH35Z_YlOBChrNZZ8icwRnOA7KTxuT43Tw97ebemCX7u_ft10BktnGM4PGYFnu9S7xwC9s6yU2n62Ww9Da4HwqL28vfdJzzmktSqlvlcqo_VPXeSIOy8/s400/Kai+and+dev+4.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5425345128389088226" /></a><br /><br /><br />I have started up teaching again after 4 weeks break, and today I can hardly breath let alone walk, bend down or pick Devin up. My class now has 25 students and just keeps growing. I love teaching it, I feel like my old self when I do. <br /><br />I am also choreographing a piece for the Northwest Ballet . That is now adding an extra day and night to my teaching, but it will only be for January and some of February. It’s so nice to meet these like minded people and everyone has been so nice and kind. I am very happy to be there.<br /><br /> Going back a bit, my mom was here from Thanksgiving to New Year – It went so fast I can’t begin to tell you. We had a wonderful time, were busy but also took time to just stop and chill with the kids around Christmas.<br />Kailey was totally into Christmas this year and I can’t imagine how much fun next year is going to be. <br /><br />It was also very cold – one week was -13 centigrade/6 Fahrenheit. Apparently that is not normal for these parts. On one morning I woke to find our pipes had frozen. I called the water company and they told me to put a hairdryer to the pipe that goes into the house. So I stood outside found a pipe and stood there in the freezing -13 with a hairdryer. <br /><br />Next thing my neighbor came home and said to me I am drying the gas pipe!!!! He felt the need to take over and next thing, his wife, and son were sorting out my whole house. They even went to home depot to get things to prevent it from happening again. I was beyond grateful since I still had little ones inside who needed me. <br /><br />I spoke to a friend that day whose pipes had frozen and then burst….. Her whole house was inches in water. I realized then how much they actually helped me.<br /><br />Anyway I think that’s enough for now !!! Thee pic’s above I had taken for Deric’s Christmas present. He got a calendar with the family pictures to count down his time till he is home…….. <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhA0uPM8PM2BrtaD3oAy-ehIy_Vx3L0__WdMWplLdkJ1I7RaRLHqZfdtXxQi_IeORqT7HX0Nasq7FhdS8ZBfDRNI_2J7U21AA6y6yKO3JJC9QePmH1Sxt0163o7kpfn3ZE-py-Dp8s2nOd-/s1600-h/Kailey+3.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhA0uPM8PM2BrtaD3oAy-ehIy_Vx3L0__WdMWplLdkJ1I7RaRLHqZfdtXxQi_IeORqT7HX0Nasq7FhdS8ZBfDRNI_2J7U21AA6y6yKO3JJC9QePmH1Sxt0163o7kpfn3ZE-py-Dp8s2nOd-/s400/Kailey+3.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5425345569055637394" /></a>Joanne and Derichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08660276159933021552noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4078791241357737089.post-22729749344314393542009-12-17T00:40:00.009-05:002009-12-17T00:54:54.175-05:00Just for Daddy<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi4wwMQdfUBd4W4rAcuyyYzcnsEBgMojw0O6en6peJp6qZoGZ6y59M3Fb0jS8SPP70y2KEDfodILCUiBWppKvOS4iZOBRSPrE1RZfTsIFeHy7sspmLyp70DtNzL0zFMP3sY50PamHcHfmUK/s1600-h/IMG_6164.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 267px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi4wwMQdfUBd4W4rAcuyyYzcnsEBgMojw0O6en6peJp6qZoGZ6y59M3Fb0jS8SPP70y2KEDfodILCUiBWppKvOS4iZOBRSPrE1RZfTsIFeHy7sspmLyp70DtNzL0zFMP3sY50PamHcHfmUK/s400/IMG_6164.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5416079291128407058" /></a><br /><br /><br />At the ballet....<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiwo_SjE3SCNKRdHhQP0Aq85G3Rkt3NNBHNBrHbfRz62Wc_I060vn981dybwUqje_EHvjJMHGkNSV9UUyBM20NDLn8qFECL6xGxQT92Dpy2N-NdcjHvO7MgTEqZB0GyAmjeeRo9joPiyOL5/s1600-h/DSC00444.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 300px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiwo_SjE3SCNKRdHhQP0Aq85G3Rkt3NNBHNBrHbfRz62Wc_I060vn981dybwUqje_EHvjJMHGkNSV9UUyBM20NDLn8qFECL6xGxQT92Dpy2N-NdcjHvO7MgTEqZB0GyAmjeeRo9joPiyOL5/s400/DSC00444.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5416078870483922018" /></a><br /><br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh8T7M2oGRKUYClW4iNq2kvos4JJLecRUjAssxeH5ImtOj-6mQyE1eSiHfpyoqzqcPhzc6Xu0-fIN9HmwG4KEL42VaOBxV7s52gUdIN5m84koS85pZTqrwzcTTWYJGDz6LTBw2FQR0sJJhj/s1600-h/DSC00441.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 300px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh8T7M2oGRKUYClW4iNq2kvos4JJLecRUjAssxeH5ImtOj-6mQyE1eSiHfpyoqzqcPhzc6Xu0-fIN9HmwG4KEL42VaOBxV7s52gUdIN5m84koS85pZTqrwzcTTWYJGDz6LTBw2FQR0sJJhj/s400/DSC00441.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5416078744507283490" /></a><br /><br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjP0gm7FoGb6agfFNOa0zQftItrIUJeffmCha2cknvNDcDQVxDlUjipXqSk6ESo0tsZsFGaoy03vvQP5MSRgtUtmyThEd6qIBJ5iZeDePt8l1gYTyo8z9IwCgBfHxd04Qz1j8jMYEA6llgK/s1600-h/DSC00430.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 300px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjP0gm7FoGb6agfFNOa0zQftItrIUJeffmCha2cknvNDcDQVxDlUjipXqSk6ESo0tsZsFGaoy03vvQP5MSRgtUtmyThEd6qIBJ5iZeDePt8l1gYTyo8z9IwCgBfHxd04Qz1j8jMYEA6llgK/s400/DSC00430.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5416078531280839842" /></a><br /><br />At Ballet/Kinder Music<br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh0pzpEYJM2mGJdkaWGGTb46kY1ehD3FQ4kTUzCvoVJG-lb3BxcHpBBlrmNZ-jpF2Tji8zSlfnQOlPV0E7i3oGDbKnVrCwrygxetiAJRE_NXNgET_wCDQxXoWZ6I6sUUesWapICaYTZtu4c/s1600-h/DSC00427.JPG"><img style="display:block; 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margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 300px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgv9yXrB3pGlFaca2q0v-PK4-UhWVWzsv7GuhBSoFXsgwXUD26lTfhkQu6oyowXz9M2ibdIoFJmo6dp4MPj_LAlvDQ4Fjkw7DNiUelDHqj4x-gH-wUP3sY4KQKrU_Wh6Mk4tx0UY2bIK3J4/s400/DSC00399.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5416077016917095714" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br />A special gift for the kids after the Christmas fair<br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjn-MWbohe4nHedS87uB7KI9dtaW0PhL1gPx5hfz0FGrG26oCzxkL4e_JPM7v878gHF5PU6UfhEFOQiz8GmvBMoMJw2N7A_AfOC11PMD8yedjQiQDhnMzMZzYvMwoXrI6ImF1xknB9ZgoG2/s1600-h/DSC00364.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjn-MWbohe4nHedS87uB7KI9dtaW0PhL1gPx5hfz0FGrG26oCzxkL4e_JPM7v878gHF5PU6UfhEFOQiz8GmvBMoMJw2N7A_AfOC11PMD8yedjQiQDhnMzMZzYvMwoXrI6ImF1xknB9ZgoG2/s400/DSC00364.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5416076399213900258" /></a>Joanne and Derichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08660276159933021552noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4078791241357737089.post-30055663364603640492009-12-05T23:14:00.011-05:002009-12-05T23:49:43.473-05:00Santa Clause is coming to townWe had a unit Christmas party today. It was great, but the best part of the party is Santa/Father Christmas came!!!! It was the most exciting thing in a little girls life that you could ever imagine?<br />Here is how the event happend...<br /><br /><br />A little girl waited so patiently (or as she says, 'patience - relax and wait')<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgHIhlzFhEe3XjGF3wCztBe6QmBkEMT4Q8cVZjxnKFOn8uzIQSBbdyW5oRk6ACIY2cnuzoonaMiUbMzGyZhelq9CRXozOcvdTFLqwU_2fOPetrJP2Lhj_t6iQgd94GtL4aS8VojSXtgD5yS/s1600-h/DSC00376.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 300px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgHIhlzFhEe3XjGF3wCztBe6QmBkEMT4Q8cVZjxnKFOn8uzIQSBbdyW5oRk6ACIY2cnuzoonaMiUbMzGyZhelq9CRXozOcvdTFLqwU_2fOPetrJP2Lhj_t6iQgd94GtL4aS8VojSXtgD5yS/s400/DSC00376.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5411971931712153234" /></a><br /><br />and waited...<br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg4x3uSzlAhTQRfbQF6X7eIZ54SnoDOWhCNmhXDQ_MOBZ_KqOkcz85KOKLBG6EmtPtNhI_kYuCFYnIoiRmypF5PiUG9hL6lThxNuxUn2N1Ro1VsKrzNF5UK_YdvJNKUY8iXrg083YcWU2Q3/s1600-h/DSC00377.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg4x3uSzlAhTQRfbQF6X7eIZ54SnoDOWhCNmhXDQ_MOBZ_KqOkcz85KOKLBG6EmtPtNhI_kYuCFYnIoiRmypF5PiUG9hL6lThxNuxUn2N1Ro1VsKrzNF5UK_YdvJNKUY8iXrg083YcWU2Q3/s400/DSC00377.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5411973538503621074" /></a><br /><br />and waited...<br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgte_xO11iaLqdFwio75Yi1945zHgoZRlYHN7OIB_r2X1njkQCo6QAuofa8GyZkVLjEYflYiLmTvhTgmgYSaJfdTY-cDmVT78EvBV2UsLZxbXvJefGQD8Om9e_2P4Vxn8HR5CqY_uhs2cH9/s1600-h/DSC00379.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgte_xO11iaLqdFwio75Yi1945zHgoZRlYHN7OIB_r2X1njkQCo6QAuofa8GyZkVLjEYflYiLmTvhTgmgYSaJfdTY-cDmVT78EvBV2UsLZxbXvJefGQD8Om9e_2P4Vxn8HR5CqY_uhs2cH9/s400/DSC00379.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5411973962101397858" /></a><br /><br />and then...<br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhsmBLvIiu3XEasHF-CFzo_wZHjs8EYu9I6WtwT1gJYXVrclNH0TWYcz76CcgII5lsBoRidQ62O0rKk8-dLD4FxXzJtqLdI5yGmHugR6ccX4lgLk_1kdBaLTySRwvP37FP79QAYsv06eg2V/s1600-h/DSC00381.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 300px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhsmBLvIiu3XEasHF-CFzo_wZHjs8EYu9I6WtwT1gJYXVrclNH0TWYcz76CcgII5lsBoRidQ62O0rKk8-dLD4FxXzJtqLdI5yGmHugR6ccX4lgLk_1kdBaLTySRwvP37FP79QAYsv06eg2V/s400/DSC00381.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5411974291360542002" /></a><br />HE CAME!!!!!!!<br />The excitement was blinding! My mom and got so excited watching Kai's reactions we both burst into tears! (her more than me of course)<br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhQssVfj-yM_1MnOpRhIhv_hx-iXsPez4XjIC7SjbLWvPEM7yAcm7IMAqxaz5rTpWGUBlU13dJVcyopTUJpeEbi012L9vELpCC2V7kbEqvBDEr6-dU2SLpYCMWKGsXTezO9SQof92NNRduA/s1600-h/DSC00382.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 300px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhQssVfj-yM_1MnOpRhIhv_hx-iXsPez4XjIC7SjbLWvPEM7yAcm7IMAqxaz5rTpWGUBlU13dJVcyopTUJpeEbi012L9vELpCC2V7kbEqvBDEr6-dU2SLpYCMWKGsXTezO9SQof92NNRduA/s400/DSC00382.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5411974960997087506" /></a><br /><br />When it came sitting on Santa's lap only Devin was keen! Kai was too busy hiding in a corner.<br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg55kS1MZtcNJfN0K9E3ynkZKct5eiXqwzjstPn_zo-v4gJZHViH77t7KF-KhoomnlbemWjY-t1ct08a5lE5ccqnDpytdjo9tpZey01q_hxkAuTF7MAkEnhlntXcYOYA8BvtaVgdA_KeoJ7/s1600-h/DSC00388.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg55kS1MZtcNJfN0K9E3ynkZKct5eiXqwzjstPn_zo-v4gJZHViH77t7KF-KhoomnlbemWjY-t1ct08a5lE5ccqnDpytdjo9tpZey01q_hxkAuTF7MAkEnhlntXcYOYA8BvtaVgdA_KeoJ7/s400/DSC00388.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5411975695685817026" /></a><br /><br />I tried to talk her into it, but it was a no go! <br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjwvbCKwC_Nkdrg3WIZVfQMbcjUaNButxZm_tyKfeux1o3yuZGe009l1MRy42xT1dPglterHXaO1Um8xNul8KT_0o__titVGUE7Io3lONqv0ziWBEJBA5ta2odEo844neLJ6kjQM3TWn3ZU/s1600-h/DSC00389.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjwvbCKwC_Nkdrg3WIZVfQMbcjUaNButxZm_tyKfeux1o3yuZGe009l1MRy42xT1dPglterHXaO1Um8xNul8KT_0o__titVGUE7Io3lONqv0ziWBEJBA5ta2odEo844neLJ6kjQM3TWn3ZU/s400/DSC00389.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5411976231561944994" /></a><br /><br />But Santa brough gifts for all the kids and they both got one,<br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj2r0LGsctEYpdPbUmLfh4dEYBUrI8Is5aHRzeuTZiZxr2LB7ttHDZlzWlVU7s-fFuPkWzPwTVaZ-nN7pnjNvl5KesOF9EffkS8QMW5rCk8zICjGES-bQXCwPrKTVsQBbu1HX8_Fx-63Sps/s1600-h/DSC00392.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 300px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj2r0LGsctEYpdPbUmLfh4dEYBUrI8Is5aHRzeuTZiZxr2LB7ttHDZlzWlVU7s-fFuPkWzPwTVaZ-nN7pnjNvl5KesOF9EffkS8QMW5rCk8zICjGES-bQXCwPrKTVsQBbu1HX8_Fx-63Sps/s400/DSC00392.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5411976810595007106" /></a><br /><br />Devin needed some help to open his. He got a very nice turtle toy that sings and moves, and she got a trac suit and a full play dough set, for a really big girl (boy this Santa knows what they like!)<br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhtM59ZhOKxve85yO_PuDdGpJ6-BdX3oi9L8LII9XApVFh8yrEXeSxqYukweifw13bIC2F0dybcZdVFljvhn3kOH1oYZXxiNg23daFxFH8FVwvNllMx0DblCf9GmO1CcqDkmZD-ToZ1HRWU/s1600-h/DSC00394.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhtM59ZhOKxve85yO_PuDdGpJ6-BdX3oi9L8LII9XApVFh8yrEXeSxqYukweifw13bIC2F0dybcZdVFljvhn3kOH1oYZXxiNg23daFxFH8FVwvNllMx0DblCf9GmO1CcqDkmZD-ToZ1HRWU/s400/DSC00394.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5411977254215022274" /></a><br /><br />And then he left...<br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiqKaDSJmkWaXpmlYeu8FTomMsMKvd6FVnDho1rDfzYDXW0WoRDTre9m-Jx4ZybYfwBKCq9tQy7EQi2XlhAXqL1C8-hRMCizubtaEKJsjZc7FpkBnEq-yhveIBu_KBm0wvQLrZZDB9RlrCO/s1600-h/DSC00398.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 300px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiqKaDSJmkWaXpmlYeu8FTomMsMKvd6FVnDho1rDfzYDXW0WoRDTre9m-Jx4ZybYfwBKCq9tQy7EQi2XlhAXqL1C8-hRMCizubtaEKJsjZc7FpkBnEq-yhveIBu_KBm0wvQLrZZDB9RlrCO/s400/DSC00398.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5411977530682928066" /></a><br /><br />Kailey had some concerns after he left:<br /><br />1) Was this the only time Santa would bring her presents? See he brought the wrong one - she was at first a bit disapointed about the gift she got, thinking she did not get what she wanted !!!! She so wants a castle for Christmas.<br /><br />2) She did not tell Santa about wanting a castle for Christmas - I assured her I spoke to him before he left and told him she wanted a castle for Christmas and that Devin wanted a train set. I then let her know that he wrote it down in his book so he would not forget!<br />At the end she was satisfied that she was on the good list.<br /><br />Now she is 2 hours over bed time and little missy here is still hyped up that she saw Santa! <br />What a day for a little girl!Joanne and Derichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08660276159933021552noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4078791241357737089.post-82497679377569825422009-12-01T23:46:00.001-05:002009-12-01T23:47:42.310-05:00Devin 1st BirthdaySorry about the music - I could not get it off - so just turn it off in the left upper corner of the slide show!<br /><br /><p style="visibility:visible;"><object type="application/x-shockwave-flash" data="http://widget-7f.slide.com/widgets/slideticker.swf" height="320" width="426" style="width:426px;height:320px"><param name="movie" value="http://widget-7f.slide.com/widgets/slideticker.swf" /><param name="quality" value="high" /><param name="scale" value="noscale" /><param name="salign" value="l" /><param name="wmode" value="transparent"/> <param name="flashvars" value="cy=ms&il=1&channel=144115188096566911&site=widget-7f.slide.com"/></object><p style="white-space:nowrap"><a href="http://www.slide.com/pivot?cy=ms&at=un&id=144115188096566911&map=1" target="_blank"><img src="http://widget-7f.slide.com/p1/144115188096566911/ms_t017_v000_s0un_f00/images/xslide1.gif" border="0" ismap="ismap" /></a> <a href="http://www.slide.com/pivot?cy=ms&at=un&id=144115188096566911&map=2" target="_blank"><img src="http://widget-7f.slide.com/p2/144115188096566911/ms_t017_v000_s0un_f00/images/xslide2.gif" border="0" ismap="ismap" /></a> <a href="http://www.slide.com/pivot?cy=ms&at=un&id=144115188096566911&map=E" target="_blank"><img src="http://widget-7f.slide.com/m/144115188096566911/ms_t017_v000_s0un_f00/images/xslide9_1.gif" border="0" ismap="ismap" /></a></p></p>Joanne and Derichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08660276159933021552noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4078791241357737089.post-38814652044492470892009-11-02T23:30:00.006-05:002009-11-02T23:38:23.262-05:00Kinder Music/ Ballet ClassKai started ‘ballet’ today - well that’s what I told her it was. It’s actually like Kinder music. But because it’s at the ballet school all the little girls come dressed in their ballet out fits. Sooo cute!!!<br /><br />It’s to introduce kids to music and you use instruments and props. Devin joined in, since he was there and loved it. They got sticks to bang on the floor, egg shakers, ribbons, and sing along. Kai almost fell over when the teacher played some music from Sound of Music.<br /> <br />The teacher is amazing. She is South African and is very good friends with an Artistic Director I danced for in South Africa. Small world!!!<br />Here are some pics……<br /><br /><br />Her ballet outfit we bought today<br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh1rnbgBgcKt3A98L7wE8De7Yf0LIHepHceZ0hppTX_tDRmeNtG1BcnZyaSBlWGk7iOTPNOngm8zt2bKaa-cAiPjG2y79WIsGICZJDKAdqVxvfA3QAOriIpPPmUaOpK9WZAlE3a_svIRpdQ/s1600-h/IMG_6110.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 267px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh1rnbgBgcKt3A98L7wE8De7Yf0LIHepHceZ0hppTX_tDRmeNtG1BcnZyaSBlWGk7iOTPNOngm8zt2bKaa-cAiPjG2y79WIsGICZJDKAdqVxvfA3QAOriIpPPmUaOpK9WZAlE3a_svIRpdQ/s400/IMG_6110.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5399730187036276786" /></a><br /><br />All ready to go to the car<br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjBNAqJKJqwwm2_Tuq1WGpjN9j0lgnDTpFDyeF5Oqngmb9QnKwAzPhkeRXxjeN8iKtJFMz2PTHsW6MEzm31gIEFxRDoqkrbcGIjjviU3CQD2fy1MudWFtIkyoN34XRa8pPrZB6cJving0eH/s1600-h/IMG_6111.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 267px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjBNAqJKJqwwm2_Tuq1WGpjN9j0lgnDTpFDyeF5Oqngmb9QnKwAzPhkeRXxjeN8iKtJFMz2PTHsW6MEzm31gIEFxRDoqkrbcGIjjviU3CQD2fy1MudWFtIkyoN34XRa8pPrZB6cJving0eH/s400/IMG_6111.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5399730327283056882" /></a><br /><br /><br />Her ballet bag<br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEguR2nw2xY8UrFzG9zdiZGhyphenhyphend_8ohRFpaKz3df-YfXo3RlVYSJg7I3Xf0ZysjsvqWNeIG_CSCeIjpjIIz-ykhYI_Kr20QAPA1GjfYV7egk1EjjYC7A-K253PLPD5TY0pKjZIkqYlwBr7mTZ/s1600-h/IMG_6112.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 267px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEguR2nw2xY8UrFzG9zdiZGhyphenhyphend_8ohRFpaKz3df-YfXo3RlVYSJg7I3Xf0ZysjsvqWNeIG_CSCeIjpjIIz-ykhYI_Kr20QAPA1GjfYV7egk1EjjYC7A-K253PLPD5TY0pKjZIkqYlwBr7mTZ/s400/IMG_6112.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5399730498525036610" /></a><br /><br /><br />Bonus pics - I think they look so much like brother and sister here!<br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjdu3kxR1spUSa-ZBBl5mTgoNwHGGFKcNYwAlEtGWKFk8tske7W8zoqUP6SLJ9guesXNIK6ZQoHGD490PqM4sOnUSVRK9ovMndrKB4VvfcBMzWV64mdQPGExOHJK1lqHs-ouLqqabQLJvXc/s1600-h/IMG_6086.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 267px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjdu3kxR1spUSa-ZBBl5mTgoNwHGGFKcNYwAlEtGWKFk8tske7W8zoqUP6SLJ9guesXNIK6ZQoHGD490PqM4sOnUSVRK9ovMndrKB4VvfcBMzWV64mdQPGExOHJK1lqHs-ouLqqabQLJvXc/s400/IMG_6086.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5399730789097640098" /></a><br /><br />..... and my big boy - not sure how he got so big so soon????<br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi4s2of6LXfSh3Iq1jQxjs0-KMNon13LmiPW24X_eE8Rgm4so9x4jog-yTXfdJ76wRsJFriWPmxq_cBCfi96yJg2W7vT5oXe_tajnWyDU83oMyJ4_ZTb3kDOdXuRBfMFLBZOjeDJc-MSF3w/s1600-h/IMG_6092.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 267px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi4s2of6LXfSh3Iq1jQxjs0-KMNon13LmiPW24X_eE8Rgm4so9x4jog-yTXfdJ76wRsJFriWPmxq_cBCfi96yJg2W7vT5oXe_tajnWyDU83oMyJ4_ZTb3kDOdXuRBfMFLBZOjeDJc-MSF3w/s400/IMG_6092.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5399730670767965490" /></a>Joanne and Derichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08660276159933021552noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4078791241357737089.post-40044765117283151802009-10-18T22:51:00.001-05:002009-10-18T22:53:53.044-05:00Miss Lazy is back!!!!I have not written in a while, the only reason is I have been very lazy lately. I get the kids to sleep and I clean up, then I do nothing! I embrace the silence most of the time but the rest of the time I got to bed and read for hours! I have been engrossed in the Twilight series of books, and I can’t put them down. (highly recommended)<br /><br />Deric has been gone now for 6 weeks and it’s gone really quickly. Tish came for 10 days in September and that was amazing. We totally reconnected and it felt as if I had seen her the week before. When she left I was so rejuvenated and felt like my old self again. I am so grateful she took the time to visit us!<br /><br />When Deric left Kailey was very confused, and all over the place. I had to make sure her boundaries were firmly in place so she would feel secure. That took a while …. But now we have very few issues. She knows the schedule and the drill and we run like clockwork. But we try have fun everyday.<br /><br />We are also making new friends and spending time with our friends who moved here from Kansas. I am trying to find good friends for Kai as she is so social. She now makes wishes and her wish everyday is ‘I wish all my friends come to see me’ Breaks my heart! <br /><br />She is awesome and has me laughing every day. The night Deric left I let her stay up with me and the Sound of Music was on TV so we watched it all cuddled on the couch. She fell in love with the music and now sings Do a deer, So long farewell and the puppet song all day long. I got the CD and that’s all she wants to listen to. <br /><br />Here are a few moments I just have to share:<br /><br />• She is convinced that the princes in the fairytales are the princesses’ daddy’s (since they save the princesses they have to be right?)<br />• When at the shop the other day she lost her hat. When we went back to look for it a shop assistant said to her ‘aren’t you a cutie’ her answer was: ‘I know I am, but I lost my hat so I am very busy, busy, busy, I am so sorry I have to get it’<br />• Every morning she has to put on her sleeping beauty dress, then all day she says ‘this is how a princess sits’ or ‘this is how a princess walks up the stairs’<br />• If I sing a song badly, she says ‘no mommy like this’ and directs me on how to sing it the right way<br />• When we collect Devin from the daycare on a Saturday she runs in the room and says to the lady, ‘I Kailey I need my brodder Debin he is a cutie cutie pie – oh there is he, hey buddy it’s me your sister Kailey, I missed you’ and usually pushes him over with a big hug<br />• When she wants chocolate or sweets she will sit on the floor close her eyes and tell me that she is ready for a surprise!<br /><br />The list goes on but she is a laugh a minute!<br /><br />Devin is also so wonderful – he is still not crawling the conventional way, he leopard crawls or army crawls everywhere. He can stand on his own without support and the doctors said there is a possibility he won’t crawl the normal way and that he will just walk…. I’m not holding my breath! <br /><br />The difference in personality is so amazing to see, Kai is all over the place, she has imaginary friends. A baby Jaguar a bird and 2 mice. They go everywhere with us!!!! She loves her dolls and is always ‘Kailey mommy’ Her attention is always scattered and always has been.<br />Then Devin is a watcher, he figures things out before moving forward. He is very picky with who he invites into his circle. He is also very focused, once he has set his mind to something that is it, you can’t distract him from what he has seen or wants to do.<br /><br />As for me, I have also started teaching on a Saturday at an amazing school. I teach contemporary dance and its going so well. What I love even more is the people who work there and the owners are fantastic. The school is joined to a dance company and they do great work. All ballet classes have accompanist. That is unheard of! Accompanists are usually only found in universities and professional ballet companies. The professionalism of this place just makes me even more proud to be a teacher there. <br /><br />So as you see we are fine, still figuring out our new environment and trying to become familiar with everything. Our next week will be fun since we have Halloween parties, Halloween events and play dates planned. <br /> <br />We do miss Deric everyday but are very proud of what he is doing!Joanne and Derichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08660276159933021552noreply@blogger.com6