New School

Today was Wes last day at Ms.Linda school. She was so nice to give him his birthday present 2 months early!! Ninja turtle stuff. I wrote her a raving review on her FB page, hopefully, help get other parents to give her business.

Ari is just content staying home with me. So I don't push her to go to school. At end of July, they will start going full-time to new school, so I let them rest a bit.  On other news, Sis has no accidents on day 2 and no diaper during naptime. REally good success since we started in early June or 3 weeks ago. So proud of my little girl. New daycare adamant that she is not in diapers. I can see why they have this rule, along with not having parents come and visit. Truth is kids do act different when there parents are around.  New daycare adventures.

Splash Pad Day

Save $20 by having Wes at home with me and Ari.  We went to Provo splash pad after going to my echo cardiogram this morning. Will know results of that next week.

We went to splash pad before open so it was less people, the boy could see me and I could see him. All good. Though they stayed less then 40 minutes. Sis did not enjoy all the people and was ready to leave. Later, we came home and had lunch. We play outside with a ice color activity and now is quiet tv time.

Ms.Linda said they are moving to a newer home, so we might go else where for child care because her school will be by Utah lake.

Wes graduate upstart

10 months later. He knows many of his letters. Some power words. Numbers to 20. We will continue with computer school until Sept. 30th (Ari's b-day)

Tumbling Challenge

Today I made the mistake of bringing ice pops to Tumbling class, instead of wanting to excercise they both were crabby and did not want to participate.  I could reason with the boy and teachers guide the boy and he was able to focus. However, the girl for some lovely reason was challenging me all the way. Later, I asked her why she was being a pill she said she was sad because "I ran away, or she wanted otter pops" I will give them incentive, such as a gummy worm for good performance.

Journal write

Summer Days 2

We enjoy going to tumbling on Mondays and Wedsdays, W goes to school once a week and A just hangs out with me.  It is good to have him leave the home and play with friends. We will go to W's computer school on Wed and my echo cardiogram on thursday, nico playdate and bbq sunday for Zi hao.

Missouri 2

Missouri

Heart Doctor Appointment

Today after taking kids to tumbling and grocery shopping we came home and had lunch. I made a appointment to go see a physican around town John taylor gave me a ekg

Electrocardiogram

From this I learned that I have a Left anterior fascicular block, sometimes abbreviated LAFB, is a cardiac condition,^[1][2] distinguished from left bundle branch block.

It is caused by only the anterior half of the left bundle branch being defective. It is manifested on the ECG by left axis deviation.

Missouri Trip

So fun to have kids spent time with their paternal family.  We got to stay in Bryce's Uncle Ron and Aunt Susan's house. Both retired from the school system but seems to be finacially stable. They keep an immaculate house. I told Bryce I have a lot to live up to....haha.

We went to Roaring State Park for the kids to feed the fish. Even learned about the history of the park and how a doctor bought it for 100,000 dollars and sold it to government for one dollar. Many locals go there to fish and fly fish.

The next day I cooked a chinese lunch for them. Super simple. Cashew chicken, peanut noodles, garlic corn and rice. They made hamburger and salads.

For Sunday we had the reunion and it was only about 2 hours meeting each other. But we had to drive 4 hours each way from Uncle's house. W loved his cousins and loves to play and eat by big kids.

The flight from fayetville arkansaw to denver was a nightmare.

Our plane was delayed for 2 hours due to awaiting for craft. Then once in the air a 1hour and 30 minute ride became 2 hours and a half due to closure of denver airport and had to fly to Pueblo, colorado. We waited on the tarmac for almost 3 hours. Pilots felt bad and gave us pizza and ice cream. Even walked a dog in the plane. Jokingly, I asked "Do you take 2 year olds?" Finally, we departed from Pueblo and landed in Denver airport around 9pm. We then stood in line for 2 hours and half to get a connection flight back to SLC, since we missed our connection. It was now Midnight and all is tired and crabby.B cancel our connection flight because it would take 2 days for all four of us on a plane to slc. So by 2am we decided to rent a car $511 to drive from Denver to SLC for 8 hours or 450 miles.  We left the car rental at 3:30am and drove until 6:30am to have breakfast in Laramie, Wyoming.  Then by Noon, had Chinese in Park city. After returning the car at air port we finally got home at 2:30pm. Amen. Home sweet home.

Rock Scientist

I wanted to buy sometime before we went to Tumbling class, this activity did the trick. W said he wanted to be a rock scientist when he gets bigger because he wants to help rocks when they get old.

Tumbling Day

Today was our first session of June Tumbling lessons. However, I made a mistake between the times so missed the 2 year old class. It worked out in the end because both of them was in the same session (3-4 year olds) I just had to stay with the girl.  It was fun!

 

Day 6 in potty training, she pee in her pants while waiting for class to start. Next time diaper for sure. Did not pack one in bag. Thankfully it dried up in time.

Potty Diary

A lot of back breaking work but Ari made good progress today. In our Day 5 of potty training,

she has gotten over the fear of the toilet. Second, she asks to go to the potty. After several times of crying wolf, she peed in the bathroom chair. This was great because she knows to pee in the bathroom.  This makes me reflect that they must stay in the toilet for 5 minutes and have activities by toilet.  This way your not taking her every minute.

(In the beginning, did not like to wear underpants. By Day 6 she like having to wear underpants)

-No longer have fear for toilet. Outside of home is different issue.
-Has not pee in the toilet, but will say potty when she has gone or is going...
-Recognize when she pees or poops
-When poops usually hides in corner, real quiet, still a work in progress
-Like using the word potty with going to the bathroom

Busy Monday Mom

After dropping you off at train station, we went to the provo splash pad and stay for about an hour and a half.  Lost the boy twice in the sea of people. He kept telling me he was scare to lose me. Not the ideal time to go to splash pad 11-1pm, too many people and hard to track two kids. Anyhoo, we made out okay.

We came home and had left overs for lunch. Girl went for a nap at 1pm and boy was on ipad while she was out. A good two hours I had.

Later, we went out to the deck to have dinner. It was nice change but sure was windy! Now we are watching Lego city before bath time. A busy day!

Busy Sunday

Today we went to visit grand parents in SLc. B even installed a screen door for Gong and Ama I helped by paying 120 B did 3 hours of labor. It looks good.

Meanwhile to keep the kids busy I took them to splash pad CH for an hour. Uncle and Ama later joined us and helped me out. Kids enjoyed playing in the water especially my W. He even remembers me taking him there. Sis played for a little but was intimidated by the mass amount of kids.

We went home around 3:30 then took a little 10 minute break and arrived at Da Jun (B scientist friend from China) one bedroom apartment.  They don't have a lot of space in their house but full of love and hospitality. W and their 4 year old H together gets really loud!