So today I was talking Allie through the McDonald's drive-thru for a happy meal since Jason is playing poker tonight and I don't feel like cooking. Anyway, the last time we went they messed up our order some how. So as we're waiting in line in the drive thru Allie says "What is wrong with them? Why do they always mess it up!?" I ask her who she talking about and she says "the people that work here! Is it just that they watch TV all day so it rots their brains and they can't even remember anything!?" haha! Yes and that is exactly why we don't watch TV all day.
In other events, we went to a potluck with the other parents the other night. It was nice to meet some more of the parents. We started talking to the parents of one of the boys in Allie's class. I asked the little boy what his name because I still don't know who all the kids are in Allie's class. He gave me a deer-in-headlights look and blurted out "Allie has a boyfriend!" I was like "uhhh. . .? oh really?" haha, the dad was like "she asked you what your name was!"
Anyway, Allie is very smart about it. . .smarter than most girls I know. She says she's too young for a boyfriend - which I keep telling her anyway. But they can be friends. It is kind of cute though. . . tonight she told us that when she does the monkey bars and starts falling off he always comes over and catches her so she doesn't get hurt. Awee. . .
Wednesday, August 25, 2010
Saturday, August 21, 2010
Here comes football season. . .again.
Allie made this sign today. It's supposed to be a football (the green & black striped thing) and the circle with cross around it. . . kinda. It's supposed to be our "No football watching" sign for the TV! heh heh
New friends
We went to a potluck dinner the other night at Allie's school for the kindergarten parents. It was nice to get to talk with some of the other parents and there was tons of food (not to mention, an awesome dessert table!) One of Allie's new friends gave her this letter when we were there:
Haha, pretty cute.
Tuesday, August 17, 2010
Allie's school
I love Allie's school - I couldn't be more happy that she got into the school that I wanted her to get into. . . and we don't have to pay tuition! It's a great school, they encourage family involvement and have tons of extracurricular programs.
On Friday we went and had breakfast with her in the cafeteria - $2.75 gets you a slice of french toast, eggs, tator tots, spam, rice (You get to choose three) - they rotate between different foods everyday but most of it is kinda "meh" - I'm not a fan of corned beef hash or portuguese sausage. . .or Spam at 7:00 am for that matter. Allie happily got Spam for breakfast and ate it all up! Breakfast also includes the "all you can eat" fruit bar which usually has papaya, oranges, bananas, fruit salad with honeydew and cantalope, etc AND coffee (for the parents!). After school starts on Friday mornings they have a school assembly in the courtyard. . . we decided to hang around and check it out.
It's really kind of nice. . . all the kids come stand around the sides of the courtyard and then the Hawaiiana teacher comes out and does a chant which the students must learn in her class because the older students were able to respond. The prinicipal came out and made some various announcements. The music teacher then came out and sang a song with the kids. . .it was pretty cute. The little kids were having a hard time sitting through it but the big kids seemed to enjoy it.
On Friday we went and had breakfast with her in the cafeteria - $2.75 gets you a slice of french toast, eggs, tator tots, spam, rice (You get to choose three) - they rotate between different foods everyday but most of it is kinda "meh" - I'm not a fan of corned beef hash or portuguese sausage. . .or Spam at 7:00 am for that matter. Allie happily got Spam for breakfast and ate it all up! Breakfast also includes the "all you can eat" fruit bar which usually has papaya, oranges, bananas, fruit salad with honeydew and cantalope, etc AND coffee (for the parents!). After school starts on Friday mornings they have a school assembly in the courtyard. . . we decided to hang around and check it out.
It's really kind of nice. . . all the kids come stand around the sides of the courtyard and then the Hawaiiana teacher comes out and does a chant which the students must learn in her class because the older students were able to respond. The prinicipal came out and made some various announcements. The music teacher then came out and sang a song with the kids. . .it was pretty cute. The little kids were having a hard time sitting through it but the big kids seemed to enjoy it.
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| Allie with her class (purple skirt & shirt) |
I had been at the school a dozen times already but didn't really notice until last week how beautiful the view was. How many kids can say their elementary school has an ocean view?
Monday, August 16, 2010
The Latest Artwork
Allie's churning out a lot of artwork everyday. . . its her favorite thing. . .I can't hardly keep up with the massive amounts of paper coming into the house. I'm pretty sure this kid has killed about 5 trees now. I've tried to encourage her to do her artwork in a sketchbook but then she just tears out the pages. *sigh* Anyway, recently it's been mostly princesses and Angelina Ballerina, which gets a little tiring. I can only do so much with 10 pictures of Angelina Ballerina every single day. I'll be really happy when she gets over this princess phase. . . Anyway, amid all the princess she's created some really interested things.
We were watching some show about cats, I think and she wanted to draw all the different kinds of "wild cats" - so you can see there is a lion, a cheetah and tiger, as well as a panther (which she called the leopard). I like the frame she also drew around the picture.
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| Cat family - July 2010 |
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| Treasure Map - August 2010 I left some wrapping paper lying around and it had the grid pattern on the back (like a map?) so she drew a treasure map. |
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| Puppy swimming in ocean (wearing goggles) |
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| Girl buying a dress in the store |
I liked the one above a lot because I thought the point of view was interesting. . .
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| Nighttime - the sun turning into the moon |
I can cook if I want to!
Last night's dinner was one of my better ones.. . I thought I would never be able to cook but not to toot my own horn, I'm getting pretty darn good at it. I think I've been strongly influenced by Top Chef and also by the wide range of food offerings here in Hawaii. Oddly enough, fish is my specialty (which is odd, because I hated to eat fish when I was a kid, well with the exception of Edies Beer battered fish! mmm. . .). Allie LOVES it. . . she'll even eat raw ahi. . . which I guess because its so common here, doesn't seem that weird or scary. Not too mention its sooo delicious. Anyway, last night we decided to go with an Indian theme.
On the menu:
Coconut Chicken Curry (very good, a little salt at the end helped enhance the flavor - Jason told me he would eat this every night if I would make it.)
Channa Masala. (This was pretty good, I didn't have all the spices and couldn't find garam masala, nor do I want to undertake making it myself. . . I just used the cumin, tumeric, a little chilli powder for some spice, minced ginger and garlic <not paste> and some lemon at the end)
White rice.
Chai Brownies. (These were really, really good - mine weren't vegan or whatever, I used milk to make the chai and I nixed the coconut but the texture comes out exactly like a regular brownie with a hint of chai spice flavoring. . . the chai flavor seemed stronger right after they were finished- I tried one today and it didn't taste as strong. Good & easy recipe though).
On the menu:
Coconut Chicken Curry (very good, a little salt at the end helped enhance the flavor - Jason told me he would eat this every night if I would make it.)
Channa Masala. (This was pretty good, I didn't have all the spices and couldn't find garam masala, nor do I want to undertake making it myself. . . I just used the cumin, tumeric, a little chilli powder for some spice, minced ginger and garlic <not paste> and some lemon at the end)
White rice.
Chai Brownies. (These were really, really good - mine weren't vegan or whatever, I used milk to make the chai and I nixed the coconut but the texture comes out exactly like a regular brownie with a hint of chai spice flavoring. . . the chai flavor seemed stronger right after they were finished- I tried one today and it didn't taste as strong. Good & easy recipe though).
My super sense of smell and super absent mind.
As you all know, Allie has just complete one official week of kindergarten and is beginning her second. It's a really nice school. . . kids have it made now. I guess I don't remember much of kindergarten other than little Stevie who threw up all over his desk on the first day. Yep, that would be my first boyfriend. . .
Anyway, they ask us to pack snacks for the kids everyday. . . I don't remember getting snacks in kindergarten but they request we pack 2 snacks - one for the morning and then another one for if they stay after school. So I've started doing this for Allie. . . she loves hard-boiled eggs and so one day early last week I packed her a hard boiled egg. Get this - she actually likes eating the yolk in the middle and so when she came home from school she complained to me because I had cut the yolk out of the egg and she had wanted to eat. So she didn't eat the egg. I usually clean out her backpack when she gets home and noticed the egg container was missing. . . I asked Allie where it was and she just shrugged. Ok, I thought, she probably just left it laying somewhere at school. Whatever, I figured this was bound to happen sooner or later - what's one container lost?
On Thursdays they're supposed to have gym class so on Thursday morning I packed her gym shoes in her backpack so she could change into them at school. They ended up not having gym class for the first week I guess. On Friday morning I was packing her snacks into her bag and I noticed it smelled a little, I assumed it was the gym shoes we had left in the bag so I took them out. It still smelled a little so I threw a nice smelly dryer sheet into the bottom of her bag which kinda helped a little.
She usually leaves her bag by the front door in the kitchen. All weekend we were working on different painting projects in the kitchen. . . Auntie Emily gave her a really nice wooden stool she had made in her sculpture class which we finished painting and I found an old cork board laying around. We painted the frame pink and covered it with cute fabric and put it up in Allie's room so she can hang her artwork and other things on it. All the while we are working in the kitchen I started noticing a "dead animal" smell. I initially I thought it was some decaying fish we had the night before in the trashcan so I emptied the trash. . .that helped a little but the smell persisted but wasn't that strong so I thought it would go away.
On Sunday the smell became stronger. I kept asking Jason - do you smell that?? He couldn't smell it as strongly as me. I peak under the kitchen cabinets looking for a dead rat or mouse. Did one of my guinea pigs die and I not notice? Blondie, who is now the oldest, hides under a blanket all day long so I thought it was a possibility she had died under there and I hadn't seen her for a couple day. Checked on all the guinea pigs. . .still all alive. We could only figure that a mouse or rat had died under the porch right under our door because we could always smell it by the front door.
This morning I woke up and started getting Allie ready for school - the smell was HORRIBLE. It had the definite dead animal smell. I figured we were just going to have to wait it out because there was no way anyone was going to crawl under the porch and fetch this dead animal so we went about our business getting ready for school. Allie grabbed her backpack and we walked down to the car all the while I thought I could smell this "dead animal" smell every where. We get to the car and she climbs in her seat and I go to buckle her in and I noticed the "dead animal" smell in my car. . ."what is going on!?" I'm thinking. Suddenly I realize this smell is coming from Allie's backpack!! "Oh my gosh, did a mouse crawl in your backpack and die!??" I start carefully looking through her backpack, taking everything out, terrified I'm going to find a dead mouse in the bottom. Finally, I spot a little side pocket and cautiously open it and find my lost container. . . I go to pull it out and the lid is not fully on . . . about a million maggots come out with it!!! I'm horrified and throw the container and backpack on the ground. . . bingo. I've finally found the culprit! Allie is sitting in her seat holding her nose saying "I'm sorry Mom! I forgot!" as I'm freaking out and am not sure what to do! Yes, what once was an egg has become a nasty putrefied breeding ground for maggots in my daughter's backpack. Probably one of the grossest things I have ever seen - a terrible way to start the morning. I threw the container in the garbage and run up to the house to grab her another backpack throwing the other one on the ground next to the washing machine. So yeah, from now on I will be checking every pocket for lost containers. Lesson learned.
Anyway, they ask us to pack snacks for the kids everyday. . . I don't remember getting snacks in kindergarten but they request we pack 2 snacks - one for the morning and then another one for if they stay after school. So I've started doing this for Allie. . . she loves hard-boiled eggs and so one day early last week I packed her a hard boiled egg. Get this - she actually likes eating the yolk in the middle and so when she came home from school she complained to me because I had cut the yolk out of the egg and she had wanted to eat. So she didn't eat the egg. I usually clean out her backpack when she gets home and noticed the egg container was missing. . . I asked Allie where it was and she just shrugged. Ok, I thought, she probably just left it laying somewhere at school. Whatever, I figured this was bound to happen sooner or later - what's one container lost?
On Thursdays they're supposed to have gym class so on Thursday morning I packed her gym shoes in her backpack so she could change into them at school. They ended up not having gym class for the first week I guess. On Friday morning I was packing her snacks into her bag and I noticed it smelled a little, I assumed it was the gym shoes we had left in the bag so I took them out. It still smelled a little so I threw a nice smelly dryer sheet into the bottom of her bag which kinda helped a little.
She usually leaves her bag by the front door in the kitchen. All weekend we were working on different painting projects in the kitchen. . . Auntie Emily gave her a really nice wooden stool she had made in her sculpture class which we finished painting and I found an old cork board laying around. We painted the frame pink and covered it with cute fabric and put it up in Allie's room so she can hang her artwork and other things on it. All the while we are working in the kitchen I started noticing a "dead animal" smell. I initially I thought it was some decaying fish we had the night before in the trashcan so I emptied the trash. . .that helped a little but the smell persisted but wasn't that strong so I thought it would go away.
On Sunday the smell became stronger. I kept asking Jason - do you smell that?? He couldn't smell it as strongly as me. I peak under the kitchen cabinets looking for a dead rat or mouse. Did one of my guinea pigs die and I not notice? Blondie, who is now the oldest, hides under a blanket all day long so I thought it was a possibility she had died under there and I hadn't seen her for a couple day. Checked on all the guinea pigs. . .still all alive. We could only figure that a mouse or rat had died under the porch right under our door because we could always smell it by the front door.
This morning I woke up and started getting Allie ready for school - the smell was HORRIBLE. It had the definite dead animal smell. I figured we were just going to have to wait it out because there was no way anyone was going to crawl under the porch and fetch this dead animal so we went about our business getting ready for school. Allie grabbed her backpack and we walked down to the car all the while I thought I could smell this "dead animal" smell every where. We get to the car and she climbs in her seat and I go to buckle her in and I noticed the "dead animal" smell in my car. . ."what is going on!?" I'm thinking. Suddenly I realize this smell is coming from Allie's backpack!! "Oh my gosh, did a mouse crawl in your backpack and die!??" I start carefully looking through her backpack, taking everything out, terrified I'm going to find a dead mouse in the bottom. Finally, I spot a little side pocket and cautiously open it and find my lost container. . . I go to pull it out and the lid is not fully on . . . about a million maggots come out with it!!! I'm horrified and throw the container and backpack on the ground. . . bingo. I've finally found the culprit! Allie is sitting in her seat holding her nose saying "I'm sorry Mom! I forgot!" as I'm freaking out and am not sure what to do! Yes, what once was an egg has become a nasty putrefied breeding ground for maggots in my daughter's backpack. Probably one of the grossest things I have ever seen - a terrible way to start the morning. I threw the container in the garbage and run up to the house to grab her another backpack throwing the other one on the ground next to the washing machine. So yeah, from now on I will be checking every pocket for lost containers. Lesson learned.
Welcome to our daily adventures/non-adventures!
Hi family and friends,
In this space I will be sharing the aspects of our day to day life. I notice that whenever I get on the phone to talk to anyone I just start drawing blanks. Questions like 'What have you been up to?" or "What's new?" always stump me. The truth is every day goes by like a blur . . .sometimes its the same thing day after day. . . school, work, home, dinner, bath, sleep, rinse, repeat. But everyday contains little anecdotal things that happen to me or Allie or Jason or conversations between us I wish I could capture. This serves as a psuedo-diary for me and hopefully Allie who might be able to read this some day and be terribly embarrassed. I can only hope. So without further adieu, enjoy!
In this space I will be sharing the aspects of our day to day life. I notice that whenever I get on the phone to talk to anyone I just start drawing blanks. Questions like 'What have you been up to?" or "What's new?" always stump me. The truth is every day goes by like a blur . . .sometimes its the same thing day after day. . . school, work, home, dinner, bath, sleep, rinse, repeat. But everyday contains little anecdotal things that happen to me or Allie or Jason or conversations between us I wish I could capture. This serves as a psuedo-diary for me and hopefully Allie who might be able to read this some day and be terribly embarrassed. I can only hope. So without further adieu, enjoy!
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