Monday, September 22, 2008

UPDATE!

The girls started soccer. It's Lamb's very first year and she likes it. She's not very aggressive and she'll just stand in the field waving at us on the sidelines. At least she looks very cute. It's Bunny's second year and she bumped up from peewee to the under 7 league. Her teams has mostly freshly turned 7 year olds and they're very good. Bunny is learning a lot. She is such a clown out there. She's not yet competitive and she'll just try to make her teammates laugh. I think I'm more competitive then her. At the last game, they were playing a younger team (seems to have more 5 and freshly turned 6 yearsold) and Bunny's team was scoring frequently. When the score became 6 to zero, they played 3 on 7. And her team was still able to keep scoring. Hubs shouted, " let them score." and I shot him a look saying, "why?!" He says I'm brutal. I know, I don't know where this competitive edge comes from.
This is Puppy after being so good for 2 1/2 hours on the field. He had a bit of meltdown at the last 1/2 hour of Bunny's game. He kept wanting to go out on the field and kick the ball, too. Poor kid.

Puppy constantly wants to go outside. He'll cry whenever anyone leaves the house without him. He's always pointing outside and he'll follow me around the house carrying his shoes. Now that the weather has cooled down tremendously, I've been trying to take him out for walks. I've starte Little Gym classes for him and he likes it. He's favorite part is when all different size balls comes out and he can shout the hoops. He can already take a baseball sized ball and throw it across the room in the air. He loves to play catch. He'll throw the ball at me and I'll catch it and roll it back to him and he'll catch it and throw it back to me. We'd go back and forth and he loves it. He seems to love sports. He'll carry the plastic bat we have at home and a ball and try to hit it. He loves Bunny's tennis racket but he hits Lamb with it a lot.If he's not whining about going outside, he'll be hanging on our freezer door. He's always wanting a freezer pop (joojoo ba). I've been so consumed with Frog that I've been just giving him freezer pops to keep him quiet. And that tends to be every 2 hours in a day. Now that Frog doesn't need to be fed as often, I'm trying to break Puppy's addiction to these freezer pops. It's been hard because he's so stubborn and he lets out constant shrilly screams. We've stopped getting them because I'm not able to resist his desperate cries.
Frog is now 2 months and she's smiling and cooing. She seems to be mild mannered except when she's hungry. Also, the last couple of days she got her very first cold and she was so congested she did not like sleeping in the bassinet. She slept mostly in her swing and slept with me at night. She goes to bed around 10 and wakes up at 2 , 4 and 6- 7 in the mornings. So I am so tired during the day. I started work 2 weeks ago so I've been falling asleep on the job. I've been drinking coffee and it's probably upsetting Frog but I don't know what else to do to keep myself from sleeping on the job.

Wednesday, September 03, 2008

First Day!

My first born started full day kindergarten today. I thought I'd be more anxious but I was a little nervous but I kept my cool. Bunny was so excited. We went and visited her classroom and her teacher, yesterday. It was her first time riding a big yellow school bus and she wasn't scared of it. I didn't think there were that many kids attending public school. All the ones I knew that were the same age as Bunny were attending either private or Catholic school. So I was pleasantly surprised when we met another Kindergartner at the bus stop. He was this sweet talkative boy named Curtis. I'm so glad that Bunny is so social. They became fast friends. All the parents and children were very friendly and we were all chatting it up at the bus stop. It was really nice. I always thought our neighborhood was unfriendly because everyone keeps to themselves.

Bunny came home all happy and a bit tired. She talked non-stop about her day. She really enjoyed Kindergarten. I am so happy. I couldn't ask for more. Lamb was a bit distraught though. She really missed her playmate, Bunny. She ran up the stairs overjoyed screaming, " Bunny, Bunny's here!! YAY!" I was upstairs and was a bit puzzled because it was only 11:30 am. I told Lamb that Bunny wasn't home and won't be home until 3:50. And then she goes with a sad face," But I heard Bunny's voice." Poor kid... she's so sad, she's hearing voices.

Today, is also my birthday. I've been preoccupied with kids, and getting Bunny ready for school, I completely forgot about my birthday. The girls hugged me in the morning and wished me a happy birthday and then off I was to get Bunny ready for her first day of school.

All evening, Bunny kept mentioning she had a birthday surprise for me. "mommy, are you ready for your surprise... I have to give it to you when you are sleeping..." "it's a great surprise, mommy, you'll be so surprised... mommy, I am excited to give you your birthday surprise" Okay, okay, I said. But went about my business, not thinking much of it. I got the girls ready for bed, read them a story and prayed with them. I tucked them in and left. I was on my bed and nursing Frog when Bunny jumps into the room and screams ,"SURRRRPRRRRRRRIIIIIIISE! HAPPY BIRTHDAY, MOMMY! HAPPY BIIIIIIIIIIIIRTHDAAAAAAAAAAAAAAY!!" She actually did startle me because I thought they were sleeping. Then I go, " oh, is this my birthday surprise?" She nods her head and goes, "Did you like your birthday surprise, mommy?" "yes, I did!" I thought how clever of her to think of this and to be patient enough to pull it off. She gave me a good laugh. hahahhaah