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I need to start bringing the camera with me because my phone doesnt take very good pictures! We all had fun at swimming yesterday. Frankie was in the water tots class and I had to go in the water with her. Her favorite part was playing “humpty dumpty sat on a wall…” When humpty dumpty has a great fall, we were supposed to have her jump off of the wall and dunk her under water. she loved it! Bee was in Shrimpies. Her class met at the same time as frankie’s. Last summer when she took water tots she wouldnt even go in the water and cried, even when scott was holding her. Yesterday, she just ran into the water with the other kids. The water was about 4 feet deep and she hung on the edge and used the kick board yesterday, with her teacher helping her. I was so proud of her! I wished I could have gotten a picture of her using the kick board but I was in the water with frankie at the same time. We ended a couple of minutes before Bee’s class so I got this one of her at the end of her class. When we got home from swimming we made pizzas with eggplant from our garden!

>go irish, beat the wolverines…..

>We went to the park today on the way to “Krogert”. Bee calls the store krogert because its next to target. anyhow, it makes me laugh. We brought our soccer ball, and played and played! I didnt bring the camera, but I caught a good shot on my cell phone. the resolution isnt so good, but you can see our soccer star! Frankie is providing the color commentary!

>Simon says is Frankie’s new favorite game. Bee taught it to her. She must have played it at school because it never crossed my mind to play it. We play red light green light all of the time, but never simon says. Anyhow its so cute how she plays it. She says “Simon says jump like a frog!” and then she jumps like a frog (and so do the rest of us). then she says, “Ok. Very good everybody! Now simon says, …” Each time she tells everyone very good. Its pretty cute.

Bee is also really loving K-club. She loves to play school when she is at home. I guess she cant get enough of it. she likes to be called “Miss Barbara” (as opposed to ms Bee). She makes frankie sit there while she reads a book to her and then asks frankie questions about the book. And Frankie waves her hand in the air to get called on. You know when I was a kid I was the kind of kid that raised my hand straight up and never waved it back and forth. Maybe that is just the serious side of me, I dunno. So when I see frankie doing waving her hand like that made me laugh. I thought, good on her, i hope she gets called on alot at school, rather than not being noticed!

>Bee and frankie wanted to dress up as “princesses” this afternoon, and so they put on their dresses and pretended that straws were magic wands. Bee asked me when the prince was going to come, and I said that daddy would be home from work in about an hour. She said, but mommy he is YOUR prince, what about mine?? Im not sure how I feel about her needing a prince at her tender age but it really made me happy she knew scott was mine!

>Koompa still has it! We went for a walk last night, and she saw a cat, and she took off. I almost dislocated my shoulder and both hips. It was hard to get upset with her. It just thrills me to see how much she loves life and to see her move her centurian bones so quickly and with such strength! I wanna be just like koompa when Im 100!

>So Friday was a little crazy for all us – we actually had a tornado! It didnt touch down near our house, but it did near my friend’s apartment building, and she had two pine trees completely uprooted, and they crashed into her apartment building and took off part of the roof.

Anyhow, I was returning home from DC on friday and we landed just before the storm started. Just as I got home, the tornado alarms went off. So, I ran inside grabbed my car keys and sped off to my kids school (which is 3 blocks away). I got there and everyone was in the basement. so I went down there, and they told us that city hall called and said the tornado was over the post office (about a half mile away from the school). I dont think the tornado actually touched done, but we had a branch down in our back yard!

So, are you wondering about the branch and what we did about it? Well, superman came and helped us!!!

>Bee started pre-kindergarten yesterday (they call it k-club here)! We’re so proud of her – being all grown up and such. Today we went to the playground before school and we were only on the swings for about 15 minutes when she says “OK frankie we’re done, time to go to school!”. She jumped off of the swing and ran to the school door. I hope she keeps the enthusiam up for school say, for the next 15 years…. Frankie just loves her big sister and wants to be just like her. She ran into the k-club classroom today screaming “Lets Rock and Roll!” because wants to be a k-clubber too! It was hilarious! So, Bee, being ever so wonderful a big sister, takes frankie’s hand and says “Frankie you are just a toddler now, but soon you will be in preschool!” awwwwww, I wasnt sure whether to laugh or cry. It was so sweet! Then we walked together down to Frankie’s classroom, and while i was getting a spoon a bib for frankie, Bee was opening Frankie’s lunch box, getting out her yogurt and spreading a napkin on the table for her so that she would have a placement. That’s my k-clubber!!

>Frankie wanted to put on a talent show! So, she pulled her chair in front on the TV cabinet, sat down and sang songs. We got a few on camera. Her last song was her rendition of wheels on the bus a la Darth Vader. Too bad our camera ran out of memory before the song was over! Bee also sang during Part 2 of the talent show. She is quite expressive in her song!!

>I will try to post more than, oh twice a month… for those of you waiting with baited breath, or how ever that saying goes… Frankie’s pizza at the dollop of sauce in the middle, bee’s all cheese, and mine was the one with basil. YUMMY!! tonight we are having pasta with sauce made from the garden. I have about a million and one tomatoes, so I made a big vat of sauce last night. pictures to follow!