September/October Highlights

KINDERGARTEN!!!!!

My baby girl is in Kindergarten. Here she is with her teacher, Mrs. Kuljis (cool-yes) and her 19 classmates. She is absolutely thriving, loves her school and teacher and has made many friends and no enemies:) I have become the Kindergarten cheerleader, acting as room parent, working in the classroom once a week, sitting in on Home & School Club meetings and I even co-chaired Fammatre's 1st Annual "Monster Bash Boogie," a Halloween Dance. It has been so exciting to join the Kindergarten culture and I have made many friends too.

BACK IN FLORIDA

The last of my siblings, Katie got married in September and we were back in Florida for another party! We all stayed in cottages on the beach and had a wonderful 4 day weekend. The wedding was so fun and Attie was not happy until this picture was taken. She kept asking me if she coulde have her picture taken with the bride. She referred to Katie as the bride all day. So cute!

FUN WITH AYUMI

We took Ayumi with us to a night tour of the San Francisco Zoo.

It started at 5pm with dinner included.

The line for dinner was so long so we decided to skip it and head into the exhibits instead.

One of the highlights was that one of the giraffes had just had a baby.

She was not on display yet, but because it was a special

tour we were able to see her.

The girls thought she was very cute and they did a great job of observing her quietly so she wouldn't run back into the giraffe house.

The tour allowed us to visit the animal kitchen as well as the hospital.

We saw animal xrays, the shell of a tortoise, and a demo on how they medicate the big animals with darts.

Pretty cool.

We enjoyed having Ayumi for the evening and got to see bears, gorillas, penguins, tigers, flamingos and an Asian rhino.

We wore the girls out and they slept all the way home.

FIRE PREVENTION WEEK

We went with the Bergans to a nearby firestation in San Jose where we got to see the firehouse, including where the firemen live.

Taro loved the firetruck.

The girls were really interested in the paramedic.

They also loved that they got stickers!

MOMMY'S BIRTHDAY

I had a lovely birthday this year which lasted a few days.

On Thursday Terry took the day off and after we picked Attie up at school, they took me out to lunch at my favorite pizza place.

Then on Friday night they baked this beautiful cake and we ate it for breakfast on Saturday morning.