I love handmade gifts... this is what Mika gave me on Friday for Mother's Day, as she got out of school - cookie flowers! They were skewered and held in place with gumdrops. Wasn't that clever? She told me later, that she didn't like the gumdrops (I had to ask if she had licked my gumdrops - but she hadn't! Whew!). On Sunday, she said one of the flower cookies was for Daddy! But, Daddy said I didn't have to share... and I did offer him one!Hope everybody had a Happy Mother's Day!I got to play soccer in the morning (though we lost miserably - hard not to, when it's 7 versus 11 (and they had 4 subs!)), so that was nice... even though I had to run off the field in the middle of the game because Marika got whacked in the nose by another child's knee and got a bloody nose...
Last week was HOT! The girls went to their best friends' house to play in their new pool. They had a great time, as always. On the way home, we passed a fire that had started brewing in the nearby regional park. I guess it must have looked worse than it was, although 80 acres or so were said to have burned. Whenever we see smoke plumes, it's always chilling.
Some big news! *Somebody* lost one of their two front teeth! This was the first time Mika had lost a tooth and NOT had the new one coming in, so the gap is very noticeable and somehow, makes her look much older. There was a little episode with the tooth fairy, though... she couldn't find the tooth so she had to write a note asking Mika to put it somewhere else. I'm sure Mika thinks the tooth fairy is pretty dense... but she did seem delighted with the correspondence (she wrote an apology note to the tooth fairy, saying next time, she would leave her tooth on the dresser). Doh!
And can you believe... Mika got her first pair of casual shoes with laces! Ah, what a world we live in now, where kids didn't have to learn how to tie shoelaces because velcro was such a fabulous invention! She's caught on pretty quickly on how to tie them... although it does take her some time to carefully do it... she seems to enjoy wearing these without socks. Or, is that the new fad???
And finally... (drumroll)... the synapses have made their connections and Mika, after a long hiatus of not riding her bike, hopped back onto it this week and within 3 days, had mastered riding the two-wheeler. Day 1, she was still falling down. Day 2, she was able to start herself but slammed into the house a few times (not a good noise from the inside!). By Day 3, she was speeding along, turning smoothly, and picking her bike up and climbing on. Yay! You go, girl!!! I can't wait to go on long bike rides with her!
Some big news! *Somebody* lost one of their two front teeth! This was the first time Mika had lost a tooth and NOT had the new one coming in, so the gap is very noticeable and somehow, makes her look much older. There was a little episode with the tooth fairy, though... she couldn't find the tooth so she had to write a note asking Mika to put it somewhere else. I'm sure Mika thinks the tooth fairy is pretty dense... but she did seem delighted with the correspondence (she wrote an apology note to the tooth fairy, saying next time, she would leave her tooth on the dresser). Doh!
And can you believe... Mika got her first pair of casual shoes with laces! Ah, what a world we live in now, where kids didn't have to learn how to tie shoelaces because velcro was such a fabulous invention! She's caught on pretty quickly on how to tie them... although it does take her some time to carefully do it... she seems to enjoy wearing these without socks. Or, is that the new fad???
And finally... (drumroll)... the synapses have made their connections and Mika, after a long hiatus of not riding her bike, hopped back onto it this week and within 3 days, had mastered riding the two-wheeler. Day 1, she was still falling down. Day 2, she was able to start herself but slammed into the house a few times (not a good noise from the inside!). By Day 3, she was speeding along, turning smoothly, and picking her bike up and climbing on. Yay! You go, girl!!! I can't wait to go on long bike rides with her!
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