Sick Julia

Julia has been sick for about a week but she doesn't seem to want to rest. Hopefully she will because the sicker she is the more unreasonable. She's still a little sweetie though.

Thanksgiving Talk

I went to Sarahs' school today and talked to the kids about how the Native American People planted Squash, corn, and beans together so they could grow strong and called them the three sisters. They passed around squash,corn, an beans for a while. Then I showed them Where this happened on the Mainland and also showed them where we were on the map. They looked at pictures of Native American Women planting these things. Then we read Berenstein Bears and the Prize Pumpkin. It kept the kids busy for a while and it was fun for me. We have something lined up for every day this weekend; Thanksgiving, Tree Lighting, Parade, and the girls are seeing a play with Tutu and Poppa on Sunday. Lots and lots of fun for all

Sarah just had her first K field trip and I got to chaperon. It was pretty good Sarah and her pal Kristian were a couple of hand fulls but the two other kids I had were perfect angels it's nice when there is an even balance like that.

Iolani Palace

Sarah was learning about King David, the last of the Hawaiian Royalty. She was very interested and excited that his birthday is tomorrow. So I decided we should go to Iolani Palace; so that's what we did on Saturday, at first the girls said no and then I told them that they could stay home with Daddy and I would go by myself. Julia caved and decided to come, then I told Sarah goodbye and have fun at home so she caved and came too.
We stopped for gas and a bathroom break for me because I had realized that my shirt was inside out while I was pumping gas, whoops! So we were finally on our way, the girls were pulling on each others seat belts in the opposite direction intended so I told them that it was dangerous and against the law, so then they asked if they could hold hands instead so that's what they did until we got to the palace. The parking was pretty easy;parrallel, meter, and in front of the palace gates. Children 3 and under couldn't go into the palace so we did the basement tour and Julia got in for free. My mom pointed out that she is 3 and a half but I didn't think about that. There were so many things for us to see in the basement, there was a whole bunch of black and white prints of the royalty through a couple of rooms with a description of each, there were so many that there was no way we could have read them all with a very antsy Julia. It was very eventful regardless, there was still more to see; the palace dish and silverware, the kitchen, bathrooms(fancy portapotties), Law Room, crowns, staff, sword, feather cape, instruments, badges, and more. We had a good time and hopefully we will go again some time.

Tutoring at Sarahs' School

Sarahs' teacher asked for help with the kids reading a couple times a week. Since she already has some one else coming on other days. The goal is for all of the kids to be able to get through their reading exercises an hour in the morning. So we really need two tutors per day, but we are getting there. Today was the first day I helped out and it went pretty well. One perk about it is Sarah gets to be the first one in line. However that didn't happen because she was busy putting things away for a long time so I moved on to the next kid, but when it was Sarahs' turn she was so excited. She had her arm around me the whole time, saying I love you mommy, and asked me if I was still her mommy (I guess it is possible to be a mommy and a tutor at the same time), she was so cute. I'm looking forward to the next time.

Julia said that the eel is just like the bad guy from Ariel



the cutest little Jelly Fish ever

Peek-a-boo Octopus we see you!


I know that I posted all the Aquarium photos on Facebook but whatever, I like them so here they are again.

I dropped Sarah off with her buddy Jubilee and then Dann and I took Julia to the Aquarium for a special trip. Julia really enjoyed her time, she let me know about the trumpet fish and the flounder. She also let me know that Monk Seals don't eat penguins. She's just brilliant in my book. After the Aquarium we caught a bight to eat at the mall and then went to pick up Sarah. My moms' long time friend from about 15 years ago came over tonight with her 11 year old daughter(Catherine) that we had never met before. Sarah fell asleep right before they came, she was so exhausted from the non stop play dates that she fell asleep at 6. So Julia was determined to play Uno with the other girl but we didn't have cards so Julia talked the girls ear off for about a half hour. She told the girl about the Haunted House that she went to, flying to Maryland, her old papa dieing and the list gos on and on. We all ended up playing Rock Band;Julia on the drums, Dann on the guitar, and me on the mic. We all took turns, but I finally had to force Julia to bed at 9:30 but she was pretty good about it. After Dann and I were Rock Banded out we retired the instruments to my mom, her bud Deb, and Catherine. I got some pictures of this momentous occasion and I'm pretty sure they are still rocking out.

Duh!

Sarah had her flu vaccine on Thursday, so that's a big part of why she wasn't feeling so super yesterday. I can't believe I didn't connect the two. Last night she came to my room all feverish. Baby Aspirin, a moist cloth, and a fan put her back to sleep in seconds. She's back to her old friendly and playful self this morning.

Sleep Over

Sarah started her play date with her buddy Alex at 8:30 am, it was supposed to go to 2 but she wanted me to pick her up at 1 ( I totally didn't expect that). Julia and I brought Sarah and Alex with us, they played hard and fought hard. Sarah was having a rough day, she got splinters in her foot at the play date and wouldn't let anyone pull them out, I got the buggers out while she was eating lunch. Then Sarah got upset because Julia and Alex didn't want to do the monkey bars anymore. After the monkey bar incident they fought back and forth about who didn't get to go to whos birthday/house and there was a lot of crying from Sarah. Dann has the magic touch though, he talked to Sarah and she almost instantaneously was better. So eventually Sarah got over stuff and decided to have fun playing with the other girls and guess who fell asleep before 8?
Hopefully Sarah will be well rested because she has another play date at 10. I'm so happy that she has little friends to spend time with, she's been wanting that since she moved here.

Furlough Friday #3

3 down 14 more to go. Julia of course gos to school since preschool is not public; Julia has a Fall Leaves Parade today, her class made little leaf head bands and will be wearing fall colors. I'm sure it will be adorable.
Sarah is having a play date with Alex for Furlough Friday. They might go to Bishop Museum but whatever they do I'm sure they will have lots of fun, I'll just see if Dad needs me to do anything work related. If not I'll just straighten up the house.