kinderqueen

I'm so excited for Lili, her name finally came up last Friday for Queen of the Week. Basically this little person is the teachers helper for the week and gets focused to learn more about. The entire class learns to spell their name, draws a portrait of them, she gets to bring show and tell each day and she gets to make a poster about herself (by the way she says she wants to be veterinarian now), her favorite things and about her family. At the end of her reign the entire class does a cheer spelling her name and it just seems like it makes them each feel so very special.
Monday, she took her tiger Rajah and said the class was amazed how it growled and moved. She was proud to say that the person that liked it the most was her teacher, Mrs. S. and to top it all off it was her turn to bring snacks so she took green sugared shamrock cookies from the bakery.
Tuesday, she took her tiger & cub figurines. They asked her lots of questions about what other animals she had. So many the teacher let Lili decide whose questions she would answer.
Wednesday, she's was mad there was no school for PM Kindergarteners, but since she came with a bad cold its a good thing she was home.
Thursday, she was still pretty sick but insisted she HAD to go, she couldn't miss a day of being queen AND the kids were able to bring a teddy bear to school today and there was no way she was wanting to miss that. She showed her Air Force bear she won at the DaddyDDance. She said everyone said he was really cool and all the boys wanted him.
Friday I was there to volunteer and it looks like Lili got her wish to stay on til Monday at least. I got to see her do the calendar and show her cat, but it was a fast and busy day.
Monday I asked her teacher if I could come in the few minutes before class end to catch the cheer, it was cool. I wondered if any other parents have known about this and gotten to see it.

Ariana's Play

Ariana is in her school play. She even got to be one the cowgirls as she had hoped for. She has been going to rehearsals every week since January and the time has finally come. This week has been busy with dress rehearsals and lots of practice. She has explained that the show is a collaboration of lots of different plays put together as some type of more of a musical show..but that her songs she is in are from Oklahoma. Its all very hush hush as a surprise for parents, family and schoolmates. The first run is for the school on Thursday morning. Its exciting because they use a high school's Performing Arts Center and that first show will be a field trip for the whole elementary school. It hasn't been fun going across town every day for rehearsals on mommy's part, but the Center is really nice (its actually the same place they had their dance recitals).
Thursday is opening night, and Lili, Mitch and I will see it together. We are excited to see the big surprise.

We saw the play all three times! It was really impressive, they did an amazing job! Ariana even had a little solo in her group's song and she did great! The best part was how much fun they seemed to be having. It looked like a blast. It sucked that no cameras or video were allowed, because of course they'll be selling photos and videos. These are a few pictures of everybody in their show t-shirts.

spring ahead

This weekend is Mitch's last chance to get in as much studying as physically possible before he tests on Tuesday the 10th. He's been working really hard towards it and has even taken time off to get in more time to study.
I got the girls out the house by 11:30 this morning and we stayed out til like 5:30, trying to give him a quiet house. We had fun! Ari had a short play rehearsal, so Lili and I hung out nearby at Kmart, then we picked her up and went towards Olympia. We went downtown to check out the toy shop we had seen. It was very cool and we were in there for what felt like hours. Even I was down on the floor playing and getting into EVERYTHING! Lili picked out tiger & cub figurines and Ari picked out a lioness & cub. I couldn't believe how cool the little store was-it was actually hard to leave-and I NEVER feel that way about toy stores. We were especially lucky that the bad weather had the store nice and not so busy. Next, we stopped and got them Happy Meals cuz they're big into the little pet shop toys that are in them right now ;) then we hung out at the mall for a while. We got smoothies, we spent a little time at the playing, climbing thing and I scanned a few stores that I'd like to explore when they maybe aren't with me, they get bored so understandably easy.
Since I realize we were gone so long, I'm surprisingly proud that I didn't really spend hardly anything today. I'm glad to have worn the girls out so that they had no problem getting to sleep with rush to bed for the clock's spring ahead.

heart

although this place seems to be abandoned, I think I still want to write occassionally because I know I forget too easily to not give myself some place to look back on. Its probably good for me to go here.
Friday, the girls had their school parties and had lots of sweets to show for it. I had hid chocolates hearts in Mitch's front seat under his lunch and a big chocolate heart in his back seat. When I came out from Lili's class there was a navi system in my 4runner-very cool. So then we got home I gave Mitch the last gift I had gotten for him, a gift certificate for a massage at Massage Envy.
Saturday was Valentines day, Mitch had roses delivered for us. I had these beautiful pink (on the outside) red (on the inside) roses. The girls got three yellow roses each with a stuffed animal (that they each went gaga over), they were all very cool. Otherwise we were pretty lazy, low-key throughout the day then we had reservations for dinner at a japanese restaurant we hadn't tried yet, Fujiyama, which turned out to be incredibly delish. Sunday we were just lazy and stayed in from the cold.
Today, we went exploring a little to try out the nav system and found a ferry to cross to Anderson island, which we also discoverd has absolutely nothing on it but houses and a school. So we let the kids play on the playground for a little and then crossed back over to get back home.
Mitch took this whole week off, and the girls have one more day. Tomorrow we are going to Seattle to go to the Lion King, the broadway play. We're all excited and looking forward to it!

mommy power!

I found both the girls' dresses last night and did so at amazing prices! I went to all seven major retail stores in Lacey and picked them from two different stores to get them to somewhat match or at least coordinate together. I ended up with white and black polka dots. So today Ari's dress got taken to the seamstress cuz it was wide across her ribs and she needed shoes. Now I just wish I could find them some little sweaters or something cuz they're both strappy dresses.. I'm not having any luck. The couple I did find were ugly or ridiculously too much dinero.
I got them ruffley socks, and I found a cool aqua colored headband set that came with a couple other silver glittered ones, so I thought Mitch could wear that aqua color shirt. I wished I could come with something more fancy, but that ended up being all I could find in that color for him.. I hope they look nice when it all comes together. Its not even that I want them to be as fancy as last year, we're so grateful that they even all get to go to the Daddy Daughter Dance together. If Mitch had come home when he was expecting to, they wouldn't have even gotten to ;')

a lot of..

What to write about, what to write about.. funny how when things are well and content I feel less motivated to write. When things are hurting or disturbing, the words seem to flow easily.
The best thing about not feeling like writing is only that it seems like there's so much going that you don't want to miss a moment.
Mitch and I have had a lot of down time during his leave. Its confusing whether to want to just laze around and recover from the ordeal of being apart for seven months or to do our best to use our time together to do things, go places or even get little projects done. Of course we've done of a lot of the down time, and a little of the rest. We've watched SO MANY movies, and eatten out way too much. We realize that should start to dwindle after he feels more like he's gotten enough of things he was missing. I told him I feel bad that I haven't cooked as much as was while he was gone, but that its his fault that I'm too tired and distracted to want to cook. Maybe when he starts working again we'll get back into a more realistic routine, as opposed to home-a-tos ..ha!
Then to top things off I got a tummy bug that ruined the last couple of me being able to do much standing (cuz it hurt so bad) and meant a lot of me sleeping... I think I'm feeling better though.

jan 12

Today things are off kilter for some reason but I'm not sure why. I feel like writing but I don't know what about. I feel lonesome..weird to say.
The bad thing about relying on someone and depending on someone is that when they don't feel like being there, they may not be. When you lift your weight away and realize you can't lean on them, it reminds you that you shouldn't rely on someone else so much. You shouldn't put too much on or rely on anyone but yourself.
Human minds are dangerous things when they trod off in their own directions, it can be exhausting dealing with a person that just won't stay on track. Its also exhausting being the person that can't stop thinking and drifting so I know both sides feel hopeless at times. Stress and trauma make things toxic and twisted. Its a mystery whether healing is really such a thing and if life ever really does move on. Does the bad get over or does bad get over everything else?...just venting