Anxious Kiddos!

Last year the class lists were published by 11:00 am despite them publishing that the lists would be up by 3:00 pm. We just happened to be out and about at the library trading in our books. This year we were all pretty antsy so we could only hold out until 2:00 pm before we went over to check.
It wasn't out so we had to wait. We passed the time by learning how to play checkers.

Uniform Inspection

My big job of the day is to inventory the uniforms we have floating around here. The kids, despite not wanting to go to school next week, are so excited about their uniforms that Jacob and Maddie asked permission to wear theirs all day today.
They had me write Maddie's name on all her shirts last year. That's what Jake is wearing today. I'm not sure what to do. I save $80 if I can figure a way to convert "Maddie Mae" into "Jacob" and Ben is suggesting I start looking at the shops for fabric white out.

That's Using Your Head!!

Maddie has finally, for the most part, got her numbers 6-10 down. It's been a long, hard road and I'm so relieved. It has allowed me to move on in our summer homeschooling and this week we are doing addition and subtract up to 10. Mostly we use poker chips to visually see the problem but when it's a real simple one like 10-1 I have her use her fingers. She has a hard time keeping the numbers straight when she uses some fingers that are up (this counted in the total) to count other fingers on the other hand. Something about it just throws her. Today she started counting with her head. It worked! She didn't miss a single one. Now that's using you head.

We Have Finally Arrived

Ashlyn had a reasonable sleep through the night last night. I am one grateful mama. I have been exhausted since we got back to Singapore because she's been on the wrong time zone and all the other kids have been on the right one. That means I'm on neither time zone, just up all the time. Last night I had to stay up late doing paperwork junk so I went to bed late but she was wide awake most the evening, then down for the night after a good hearty eating at 8:30pm. Up at 3:00am to eat then right back in bed - NO PLAYING! Eat again at 5:45. I do think she's up for the day now, but I can deal with that.

All week the kids have been put to bed at 7:30. By 7:55 I've found myself in bed with the tv sleep timer on searching for a show to watch starting the 8:00 viewing hour. I didn't once make it to the beginning of the show only five minutes later.Yep. That's tired.

Thanks Ashlyn for switching. I need the sleep. No paperwork tonight.

Cock-a-doodle-do!!!

It's been a long night. In fact a long week of nights. Everyone seems to be on Singapore time but Ashlyn and thus by default me. If she's up I'm up.

I've been up down and disturbed since 3 am. The kids are now stirring and I just heard Jacob loudly proclaim, "COCK-A-DOODLE-DO!!!" Good morning. Here we go again.

PAX - Out of Context

In Singapore, vehicles that are for any sort of business use have to have a sticker on the back detailing how many people are allowed in the vehicle. Some are little ones as big as a Neon without the trunk space and have a "5 PAX" sticker. Others are flat bed lorries (trucks) the size of a diesel truck marked "48 PAX" where the work men have to sit all packed tight.

Last week we went to the Bountiful Utah Temple to worship and this license caught my eye. I pointed it out to Brian and we both had a good laugh. I had already turned my phone off and stowed it in the glove box but just had to go get it to snap a picture.

Can you possibly imagine 737 people stuck in this tiny Honda Accord? Now that is a clown car if I ever saw one!

"I'll Spit On Her!"

Ashlyn is a very wet baby. She always has slobber dripping off her chin and copious amounts of spit bubbles on her lips. She sneezed a big wet face full of nasty onto me yesterday. I proclaimed, "Eww!! That's gross Ashlyn!" Jacob ran over to me and loudly declared, "I'll spit on her for you!" Have I mentioned that he's spending fifty percent of his time outs as a result of spitting? It's a problem to be sure.

Also Ashlyn has some news. She's discovering her hands. She is playing with her binkie on a string and gobbling her fingers all day long. This picture made me laugh. She pulled the string hard and it sprung up. She was so confused and couldn't find it anywhere. Poor girl. It was sitting right there on her forehead.