Hello there! I am learning, too! Last week I learned to recognize cows and say moo. This week I learned to recognize horses, ducks and chickens and say neigh, duck duck and doo doo (self-created, short for cock-a-doodle-doo). Jiejie is adjusting well to her new teacher and expectations set for first graders.
Monday afternoon we found out that Cups had gym the next day and that her shoes from last year were too small. We went shopping after Daddy got home from work. Cups tried on about thirty pairs of shoes, and just as Mama was about to give up on the store five minutes before closing, the last pair fit Cinderella's feet. (They had to be low rise and comfortable.) Cups was happy with the new backpack that came with the shoes.
Cups wore her new shoes to school the next day.
After I helped count magazine orders at the school, I bumped into these girls on their way out to recess - Molly (left) and Natalie (right).
In the bathroom I bumped into them again and found them having fun, being silly - Molly (front) and Clara (behind).
Gofres refused to leave, so he stayed and played ball on the playground. Cups walked back to class with Jordan.
Molly joined Cups on the bike rack a few minute before the doors opened. The doors remain closed until ten minutes before school starts to prevent strangers from wandering into the school.
Cups and Gofres posed during the family photo session with Donna Ryan at City Mouse Studio. Their pictures from last year are still on Donna's website: http://citymousestudio.com/.
Cups' writing posture has improved 120% over a week in first grade. Thank you, Mrs. Blanco! She used to have her head really close to the paper, and I couldn't convince her to sit straight. Mrs. Blanco works with the kids to make sure that they sit with the spine straight and the helping hand holding down the paper. She also works with the children on the correct way of "pinching" the pencil.
Before we began working on this assignment, Cups "confessed" that they got grades for their handwriting. She got a 2 and not a 3, and most everyone got 1s. I asked whether she received feedback. She was to not write in pen. (Writing in Sharpies is her style.) For this assignment did you guess what her special talent is? Running!
Other kids have caught onto walking the obstacle course.
Gofres helped me with milk duty at Jiejie's school.
Friday after school Cups and I helped Alma and Gian rolling lumpias for this coming week's school carnival fundraiser, WestFest. Cups did really well pulling the wrappers apart and even rolling lumpias.
The kids waited around while their moms finished making lumpias.
After we got out of the kitchen, we made it to Theo Chocolate for the last ten minutes of Ben & Jerry's Seattle-inspired flavor sampling. Sweetness in Seattle is vanilla ice cream with chocolate sandwich cookies, brownie batter, Theo Chocolate coffee chips made with Caffe Vita coffee and topped with caramel.
Saturday was Ama's birthday, so the family went up north to celebrate the special day. It is apple-picking season, but most of the farms are quite out of the way. Since this apple orchard with 25,000 apple trees was close to Agong and Ama, Cups got to go apple picking for the first time!
The Apple Bin Express made of apple bins took us out to the orchard. Uncle Michael wanted to know whose idea it was to go to the apple orchard - when he could be kicking back at home. (He then shared that he has been impressed with the variety of activities that he has seen on this blog. In this case he got roped into one of them, ha.)
We passed by a corn field on the way to the apple orchard!
Cups and her bag of Tsugaru apples!
Uncle Michael ate two apples while picking, and I had three. Cups did not have any with concern for her first wiggly bottom front tooth.
They had cows and horses and corresponding "Please don't feed cows!" and "Please don't feed horses!" signs.
When we got home,
Cups picked the pears that Agong saved for her. Earlier in the season
Cups had helped Agong pick off some small pears to provide space and
nutrients for the remaining pears to grow bigger.
Happy birthday, Ama!
Thank you for all your love and support! Please place magazine orders to support Jiejie's school - thank you!
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