100 days!

Sorry blog-followers - this year is off to a slow start! Lots of craziness going on - anyway Happy Lunar New Year! I know this is going to be a good year because its the year of the rabbit!! Allie and friends celebrated their 100th day of school yesterday too - here she is counting 100 fruit loops! Aloha!

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Mele Kalikimaka from Allie!

Allie's First Nutcracker!

Allie's teacher gave us tickets to a Nutcracker performance her daughters were in. We were so excited! I didn't think we would get a chance to see it this year. Allie was enthralled for the entire first act but by the second act she was beginning to get bored. :) It was fun though and we enjoyed it!

I have Allie working for me too!

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Christmas Parade!

Tonight we walked with Allie's Girl Scout troop in the Christmas Parade! I'm worn out! We ended up taking the bus to the start place for the parade. Then we walked the entire parade route and THEN walked home!

The girls loved it!  It's a pretty large parade - it seemed like complete chaos but everything went pretty smoothly.  We were walking with some other area Girl scout troops so we just followed them around because we had no idea what we were doing!  One of the group leaders made a sign for our troop to carry and they were so proud and took turns holding the sign.  The other girls handed out candy to kids on the side of the street. haha, they had put us at the back of group and we walked in front of the Girl scout cookie truck. I felt bad for the guy driving the truck - he had to keep stopping - The girls kept stopping to hand out candy and falling behind so we had to keep herding them and making them run to catch up with the rest of the group.

Ready to go!

It was so chaotic trying to make sure all the girls were together and no one got left behind that  was afraid we had walked past Jason without even seeing him!  Luckily he saw us coming and jumped in and joined us for the rest of the walk.  Once we finished, we walked up the street a bit to catch the rest of the parade.  Allie's school had a small float some of the older kids had worked on - she got scared because they had someone dressed up in a Grinch costume on the float! (She hates the Grinch!!) haha  There were a lot of kids/families from the school that participated in the parade :)

Afterward, we grabbed some dinner before walking home.  Just the day before Allie, me, and "Auntie Mo" had driven past a house on the next street over to ours that was all deck out with some unusual Christmas decorations (I still can't tell if its just someone's house or store!?).  We joked that it looked like Santa Claus' house and then when we looked back at the house again there was a Santa Claus-y looking old man walking around the house with his shirt off and his huge belly hanging out. So Mo and I started saying "Oh wow, Santa must be on vacation here before he has all that work to do for Christmas! He's probably staying there so he can be here for the parade!" - anyway, we had Allie really believing that Santa is vacationing here and staying on the next street over so he can keep an eye on her. So tonight when we walked home after the parade Jason said "Hey, let's go walk past Santa's house and spy on him!"  Allie stopped in her tracks and grabbed my hand and tried to drag me the other way! She was like "No Mom! No! I don't want him to think I'm doing something bad!!"  So I told her "It's okay, it's okay, he won't see us!" So when we walked past, she hid behind a wall for a second, peaked out and then ran past and ducked down so she couldn't be seen over his fence! It was pretty hilarious - she was so worried Santa was going to catch her prowling around outside of his house!  This is such a fun age!

Waiting for the parade to start - cookie truck in the background!

Comfort food!

Itʻs cold here today.

hahahahahahaha

No really, its cold to us warm people - itʻs been raining off and on and itʻs super windy.  (Please, please donʻt rain on our parade tonight!!)

I was just reading an article about comfort food and being that itʻs cold,  I started craving chong-guk.   I figured I could pretty much guess the recipe on my own but I just scoured the internet looking for one.  Okay, I have to talk to mom because the soup I found called "chong guk" is not the chong-guk mom made for us!  Chong-guk is a fermented soybean soup! Anyway,  then I found this other recipe for "hand torn noodle soup" which sounds about right.  Itʻs called "sujebi."

http://www.maangchi.com/recipe/sujebi

I love this website!

I wonder, did Mom really put anchovies in hers? Yeah, she probably just didnʻt tell us!  Anyway, I think I might try to make this sometime this weekend - it looks easy enough.  mmmmm. . . I canʻt wait!

Allie's new snorkle gear!

She can pretty much swim/tread water without much help now.  Once she puts on her little mask she takes off!