Broken wrist

Today, J unfortunately broke or more on fractured his wrist at the park. He was playing with a friend after school at the park when he lost control and fell to the ground. He fell on his back and in the process hurt his wrist. I have never seen him cry in pain like that and so I knew he got hurt pretty bad. I immediately called the doctor and went in so they can see him. X-ray confirmed that he did break his wrist and so they placed him on a plastic cast for now but we'll see the orthopedics on Monday too for more proper treatment if necessary. He is fine now, no more tears and it is one of those nerve wrecking days again. Oh dear, he will be missing out swimming class for a while and that really suck for him since he does enjoy that. Also, tomorrow they will have their class photo taken - hmmm. I guess we'll just do a close up photo if we can.

walk for a good cause

This Sunday, I did the Walk for the Cure with some of my friends and colleagues. We left early so we can get a group breakfast before heading out. We took the shuttle (i.e; school bus) to the site and that was fun. The place was packed with people, they said it was the 3rd biggest in the nation this year. There were more than 47,000 participants I think and it took us about an hour to get to the starting point of the race and another hour to finish the walk. It was more like a parade more than anything, you can barely walk due to the big crowd. We all agreed that if we were to do it again next year,we will definitely do the 5K run this time. Overall, we had fun and it was all for a good cause.

with my good friend Helen, Judy and her daughter.
















at the end of the race... the whole gang including me behind the camera.

Reading is fun!

Getting better

Windows

The windows in our house needs replacement and so we have been busy looking for a good company to help us do so. We've gone to several home improvement stores thinking that we don't have to deal with having someone over our house to do their sales pitch...but then in the end they too send their "best sales consultant" to give you the pitch before you get a quote. So far we had one guy come over this week and he was fine, he didn't give us the high pressured sales pitch that much but he did try to get us to "seal the deal". I do like to shop around and weigh my options, thank you very much.

Anyway, we have a few more appointments next week and I am "so" not looking forward to it. We're not doing all of our windows as of now, mainly because it just cost so much and so for sure we'll have to go through this again in the near future...ayayay!

First day of school!

J was very excited to go to school. He is in the afternoon class which starts at noon, so needless to say the wait was too long for him all morning. We were 10 minutes early at the bus stop just because he is so anxious to ride and can't wait. I even skipped my lunch since I was excited as well. While he took the busy, I walked to the school so I can meet his teacher as well. P suggested that I should just let him take the bus and not drop by the school...to me that is just not even going to happen. Come on, he's my only child and of course I would drop him off to school specially on his first day! I wanted to meet his teacher and see how things go at least for the first few days. Anyway, all of the parents dropped the kids in school today and so there were only two of them in the bus and the other kids parent was there waiting with me.

After school, he was still excited and was all over the place during our walk home. He told me they went out and played a bit and was briefed about playground rules (which of course he claims he has forgotten already but is quite sure he'll remember once he goes to the playground). He also proudly showed me a workbook he did by himself when we got home. Well, I guess school is off to a great start!

Patiently waiting for the school bus...

Vlknue

Today,we drove to Mt. St. Helen's since J keeps saying he's never seen a volcano when in fact he has been to a couple of them just within the year. One being in the Philippines and one in Hawaii. I guess they didn't leave that much of an impression to him but I believe this trip did...

This is his interpretation of what he saw in the film at the Johnston Ridge Observatory.
VLKNUE - volcano
MEUNT ST HLEN - Mt. St. Helen
UENE - When
ET - It
EARPED/ERUP_ED - erupted

short description: cars driving around the vicinity, and the blue scribble at the bottom is the Spirit lake, boulders falling off the mountain side, as well as thick dust at the top.


some photos taken during our short hike.
taken by J!



silly goose!

anxious

I can't wait to hear the stories of A,K,J+M from their trip to Alaska, as well see their photos.