OregonMom sick

Susy has been sick since Friday. She took Monday off, but went in yesterday only to come home early to sleep for a couple of hours before dinner. I think she's okay today, finally.

OregonMom sick

Susy has been sick since Friday. She took Monday off, but went in yesterday only to come home early to sleep for a couple of hours before dinner. I think she's okay today, finally.

Literacy Night

Mali's friend called at a quarter to literacy night, to ask if Mali was going up to Nancy Ryles for it. I had forgotten, and so we cancelled our plans for steak and Chinese food and went with toaster-oven reheated pizza and a sandwich for Mali, and all three of us walked up to the school. Susy was due home at 8:00 from her work-trip to API in Issaquah.
We got there just in time to catch the Mayor reading the last page of Cat in the Hat, and then we got to hang out in Mali's classroom, reading her fractured fairy tale starring Christina Aguilera as Red of Little Red Riding Hood in the New York City fashion industry, or something. Then we climbed aboard the Awesome Adventure Airlines for an alliteration lesson. We also covered onomatopoeia, personification, and my favorite: hyperbole. Andrew and I wrote about our trip to Mexico ("The click, clack, and tap, tap, tap of Ping Pong balls kept us awake on our trip. We played Ping Pong day and night without stopping, on our magnificent, magical march to Mexico")

Then we went to the store for eggs and milk and bought tons of other stuff, and got home and unloaded just before Susy pulled in.

No school today, because it's Oregon. Mali just left for school anyway, but with a soccer ball, a tennis ball, and a tennis racket. And my cell phone. Meanwhile, Andrew is still sleeping.

Weekend without soccer

Andrew had no game this weekend and his practice tonight is canceled. Mali decided she'd rather practice soccer outside with her brother than go to another indoor practice, so that's what they did. She's an outdoor girl. We walked/biked (she biked) to Starbucks Sunday morning. She Really Needs a new bike, but she loves her old one.

Saturday night we went over to Paul and Nancy's for cheese fondue and to see the puppies. Susy is very thrilled with the two large (forSchnauzer) salt&pepper pups, Moose and Sandy (both male). They both like to sleep a lot. Paul and I played Scrabble while everyone else watched some Twin Towers movie that sounded awfully depressing.

Mother and child(ren) reunion

Susy is home from Florida, to everyone's great joy. There was quite a reunion scene at the airport.

Snow day(s)!!!

It snowed 4 inches Tuesday morning, surprising nearly everyone, though MOST schools were able to sensibly make the decision to close. Not Beaverton School District. They thought they'd stay open until kids got on buses that got stuck in ditches, and teachers slid their cars into other teacher's cars. I walked Mali up to the school to find out what was going on, and of course discovered chaos. Most of the teachers weren't there, NONE of the buses made it there, and the kids who were there were being herded into the music room to watch videos. Mali and I left and walked over to Alana's for some coffee, and I called Andrew to tell him not to get on the bus if actually made it to his stop. He found it there, stuck on the hill.
We had a great day of sledding and fun. All the usual suspects ended up at Alana's house for food and Scrabble while the kids spent more time going up and down the hill. I worked yesterday while the kids enjoyed more sledding. Today it looks like they'll be going in two hours late.
I have lots of great pictures stuck on my (old) camera. Here's a photo Nancy took of Zoë and Mali.

Grandma's surgery a success!

Susy called from Florida:
Irene's surgery is over and went well! Everyone is much relieved. She should be back home in a couple of days. Hooray!

Mali Makes Mocha Missing a Tooth

Here's a photo from this morning. Mali makes mocha, and I needed a shot of her missing tooth.

Mali's Very Small Bike

Mali needs a new bike. She loves this one though. She left it at Zoe's, so we walked down to get it. She walked it up the big hill, seen below.

Mali lost a tooth!

Mali lost a tooth! She called me up to the school for a replacement pair of pants after sliding in the mud on the playground (It's snowing and hailing lightly today) and she proudly showed me her missing tooth. I knew nothing of anything loose.

Puppies in da house!

We puppysat Sunday while Paul&Co went skiing. Andrew had Kyle over playing games all day and Mali played with Natalie (and of course the puppies) most of the day. We had the Puppy owners over for spaghetti after their ski trip, and Pablo and Rocio joined us for Scrabble. Then Kyle's entire family came over to see the puppies before Nancy took them back home. Click on the photos below to enlarge.

New Year's Eve

Here's some photos from the New Year's Eve party.