Three years ago this weekend we were moving into our house in Hawaii! Of course, in Navy years, that's a lifetime. There are only two families who have lived in this neighborhood longer than us. Imagine your whole neighborhood of over 70 homes turning over in 3 years!
We are happy to be going on year 4 and settling in nicely to our corporate knowledge status. The girls have already completed a month of school and everything has started up again...everything! School, soccer, gymnastics, Japanese, Honor Society (which is a fancy way to say free labor for the school and lots of extra driving for mom), homework, uniform laundering, and most importantly...HULA!
With a whole year under her belt, Miss Thang has moved up to advanced hula. Cool in and of itself, but what it really means is mom has to plop down another 75 bucks for a pair of Uli Uli's (sounds like uli uli :)
Think maracas covered in feathers. Yes they make noise and yes, they lose feathers as you shake them so yes, they are making me crazy! I am resisting the urge to dust my blinds with them and must admit, they would have made my list of favorite things as a 7 yr old!
Em is getting into the back to school routine, she is pretty motivated to do her homework so she can go play with her pals. We have a fantastically large group of young girls nearby so there is always one house that is full of them all.
Last night she had a sleepover - full of giggles, fashion shows, popcorn, movies and maybe even a little sleep!
I don't think I ever introduced you to our newest addition. World, meet Bubbles. Bubbles used to live next door to us 3 years ago and Olivia used to care for him when they went on vacations. When they moved, Bubbles found a new home up the street. Well, you see where this is going...yes, the new family moved and what's a gal to do?
He is a grand fish who has lived way past his life expectancy (uh oh) but we are loving him! Bubs is a very social guy and gets very excited when you come into the kitchen. Fingers crossed that all our love keeps him going so that we can pass him off next year too ;)
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