On the bright side, we thoroughly loved watching the Beijing Olympics for the past 2 weeks. This morning I had a little withdrawl pang realizing if I turned on the TV, I wouldn't see the world together on one venue all doing their best in friendly (yet fierce) competition with one another. So I didn't turn on the tube and felt a momentary sadness. Wait, I'm supposed to be focusing on the bright side... OK, so I now know how to find and treat head lice, we know why our drains run slow sometimes and where we need to dig up the main sewer line to fix the section with roots growing in it, we have a new fridge, the mice are still evading me but I've been doing some much needed rotating of our food storage, I have new tires, brakes and alignment, I have an awesome boss who is fighting to keep me, I disposed of our dog's latest victim and none of our neighbors have come by looking for a missing cat yet, I'm past the worst of my cold that knocked me out last week, Zeth is being a little brave man about the pains in his head and will hopefully get some more teeth soon as a result, I have a birthday coming up in a week and Zeth's first year of life wraps up the following week.
Zana started practicing with her first AYSO team. As soon as she got her uniform she declared she loves playing soccer - having never actually played. What a sucker for new clothes. :) She is now in her 5th week of first grade - whilst the rest of the public school world seems to have just started their fall term today. We had back to school night last week and her teacher said she's a great student. Getting high marks on just about everything so far. No big suprise there, we've always known she's got a great head on her shoulders. She learned a new French phrase, "Je t'aime", and uses it frequently. I've probably over-scheduled her life already. She's got something going on every afternoon after school including Tahitian dance, gymnastics, hip-hop and soccer practices. It's kinda crazy but she loves all of her activities and is thriving in each of them so far. She wants to start taking piano lessons too but I think we'll wait just a while until after soccer season or something else ends. She also loves playing with our camera and taking silly random pictures.
Zeth recently discovered he loves climbing up stairs but hasn't figured out how to go down more than one step without a major wipeout involved. He loves calling for our doggies, even though they usually ignore him unless I'm there too. I guess they realize I'm the only one who's gonna feed them so why bother. They are such lazy dogs, unless there's a cat around to 'play' with. Zeth loves knocking things down, giving great big slobbery kisses, pulling the toilet paper out in long streamers and doing parades while shredding it, kicking balls around like a natural soccer player, playing suprise piano duets in Relief Society, dancing, playing with Zana and making us all laugh.
So that's my month so far in a nutshell.
