Emilie and Elise dressed for a play they made up:
The kids are all officially back in school! They seem to like their schedules and teachers. It looks like it will be a great year for each of them. These photos are of their first day of school.
Corban keeps me company during the day - or am I keeping HIM company? Either way, we've enjoyed our time together. He loves to play in the sandbox and to blow bubbles. He also likes for me to read books to him. He's gone on a few rides in the stroller too. I'm going to be helping a neighbor by watching her three young children twice a week. I'm sure that will add to our fun.
Corban enjoys eating popsicles too:
This past week we said good-bye to Nanami. We gave some gifts to her that we thought she would enjoy. I made her an accordion picture book of her stay with us. We also gave her a Book of Mormon written in Japanese. She was excited to have this, as we would read this together every night in our family. We also gave her candy, gum, crackers, and other souvenirs. Trevon was gone running in a cross country meet.
There was a Sayonara Party on Wednesday night. All of the students stood and shared a speech in English about their stay in Utah. They also sang "It's a Small World" for us in English and Japanese. There were two really big toy lions that were won in Las Vegas on their visit there (Monday). The lions were not invited to go home with the group though. They didn't have airplane tickets! All of the kids at the Sayonara who were younger than eight were invited to play "rock-paper-scissors" for a chance at winning a big feline. Cameron won by using "paper." He said he thought most people would choose "rock" because it was hard. He was right. The kids have had fun playing with the lion and it will be a BIG reminder of our friend Nanami.
Thursday morning I dropped her off and Corban gave her a big hug goodbye. So did I.
Today I had Trevon practice his driving, in anticipation of his upcoming birthday and the big DRIVER's LICENSE privilege that comes with it. While we were gone Elise wrote me a sweet note. She currently likes to write in capitol letters. This is what her note looked like:
DER MOM I LUV YOU SO MUCH
WIN YOU LEV IM SAD
YOU R THE BEST MOM EVR
BKUS YOU R NOT MEN I LUV YOU
I'm glad she thinks I'm not "mean." I loved getting her sweet note of affection. In return, I gave her a BIG hug and counted her as one of my greatest blessings in the world. Being a mom is great!
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