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Payday Lunch ~ Sushi Land

This was Garrett's first introduction to sushi. He played with the edamame and looked at the other offerings and stuck to plain rice. Or in this case sticky sushi rice.

Krystle, Garrett and I had a booth in the corner of the restaurant and the other seven people in our party sat at the next booth over.

Henry likes his sushi... Anabelle is not so sure she is going to like it when she gets to try it. Doesn't it look like she's sincerely questioning her mother's choice of food.

While Momma's away we party!

Cherise had an appointment to get her hair cut and styled. The hairstylist was a friend from elementary school that is working at a new shop in SE Portland. While she was gone we played and ate and played some more. Anabelle was the DJ playing tunes on the Dora guitar.

Henry had lots of moves. He danced for the entire length of every song.

Once again, Anabelle questions the enthusiastic renditions of his dances.

Pretty lady

Leila did a great job! Reesie's hair looks beautiful!!!

OAKS testing 2012

We had to be on the road bright and early this morning as both of our guys had their year end testing for school. Hayden entered Clackamas Community College's building for his final testing as a Connection Academy student. Cam has a few years to go. Garrett was just along for the ride to drop them off.

After they finished I had to take them out for a celebratory lunch. Hayden exceeded the requirements on Reading with almost a perfect score, more than met, and was one point away from exceeding, the benchmark in Science and handily met the requirements in Math. Cameron aced his Math and Science and did well on his Reading too. Great job guys! You deserved your Olive Garden outing.

Tea and craft time

Belle-belle was wanting to help finish off her mom's tea. It must be good to the last drop.

I'm glad Cherise was here since I never let the kids do crafts. I am reluctant to let them make big messes, yes. But I like for them to create. I guess I need to come to a happy medium.

They had a great time.

Henry got to be a Pizza Baker

Mini Murphs were on the menu again tonight. Henry has had mini pizzas from their Papa Murphys but they haven't been the build your own kind. We had 5 kids patting dough, spreading sauce and flinging cheese. Nice!

Congratulations Genevieve

I got an email from Genevieve's teacher telling us that she was going to be getting an award at today's assembly. Unfortunately we had the boys testing. But we made sure we made a big deal of it at supper time. Her teacher reported that "...she had a breakthrough and is now much more independent and confident."

Way to go Vivi!!! We are so proud of you! You are a SUPER STAR!