Wednesday, September 10, 2008

Completely normal.

Busy, busy busy.

Not a lot to say right now - not because things are dull or uneventful but because we've just been so busy with the traditional beginning of school schedule changes and such.

Tanya continues to work on her district website (did you read the earlier post?), educate her 1st grade class on their schedule and keep the rest of the family organized, on time and entertained. She's managing it all quite well - even with a cold and sore throat. Hang in there baby doll!

Mikayla has been doing a lot of swimming: swimming in 6th grade homework, State Fair preparation, Confirmation classes and also her swim team training. She's managing it all quite well - even with an injured foot. Her foot injury occured Monday morning when she managed to step on a fingernail sized piece of glass (from a broken bowl) in the kitchen.

Dr. Dad applied his wilderness first aid skills (obtained from watching Man vs. Wild and Macgyver episodes) to extract the glass and stop the overly dramatic flow of blood long enough to hustle her off to school on time. Once at school she had the nurse take a look at it and confirm that we could avoid stitches. She hobbled along on Monday and Tuesday but we opted to visit the local Urgent Care when it appeared to be all bruised and periodically bleeding. The real Dr. took a look and gave us the same opinion... no stitches... just needs some healing time.

I gave myself a pat on the back after that appointment.

Alexia has also been busy since school has started. She's enjoying her 2nd grade class, Girl Scouts, birthday party planning and playing soccer. Her birthday slumber party is coming up this weekend - activities include a dog show and probably other canine capers but I noticed that there aren't any pirate events planned.

Alexia is now also the "Dog Boss" in the morning - she's in charge of making sure the dog has received adequate bathroom breaks before we leave for the bus. I'm pleased to report she takes her morning jobs very seriously and dutifully completes her chore chart daily. Most of the time she does a fantastic job of being her own boss on weekday mornings.

In case you don't know, Alexia likes to be the boss (hmmm.... sounds like someone else I know). Chances are pretty high that the neighbors also know that Alexia likes to be the boss. Probably they figured this out the other day when Alexia and I were having a difference of opinion and she announced (repeatedly & loudly... with all the windows open) that "YOU AREN'T THE BOSS OF ME!".

That's about it for now. I'm keeping busy with work and coaching Alexia's soccer team.

We are all looking forward to all the exciting events just around the corner:
  • Alexia's Soccer game on Saturday (in Burlington)
  • Alexia's Birthday Party Saturday night
  • Hiking on Sunday (hopefully with sun)
  • Puyallup Fair on the 19th (next Friday)
  • Alexia's Birthday (also on the 19th)
  • Talk Like a Pirate day (yep- also on the 19th - don't let me forget!)

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