One World Festival

Joshi got a new parasol to match her dress and protect herself from the sun

drumming in the Africa section

buying this large basket made of river reeds for $25 will feed a child for 6 weeks in Uganda

I took the girls to Salem, OR Saturday to the One World Festival. It was very impressive- really big. We saw Dragon dances, cloggers, Russian dancers. OK, I just asked Joshi what we did there. She said we got to taste some different noodles (from the Filipino stand) and we saw clowns ( ? I think she is talking about the men in the native american dress) The girls were exhausted by the end. Just enough energy to ride the carasel before going home. The ride home would have been perfect nap length ( 1hr 35mins) had I not missed my exit (making it closer to 2 hrs. and 35 mins.) Thats thats the problem with the fact that I'm usually taking the nap too. I don't function well on long days out at the mid day point.

Good Hair Day

Ok photographic proof that for about 25 minutes, once a week, Billi has pretty knot free controlled curls. And for the rest of the time its an increasing crazy mess. Once a week while she's in the shower with me, I put a ton of deep conditioner in it, leave it in for at least 15 minutes and then run my fingers thru the knots while she screams bloody murder. I always thinks she's going to hold this process against me and love me less at the end of it. It seems pretty traumatic. But so far our relationship had survived :0) But the good hair doesn't last long, especially since she likes to rub leaves and dirt in it as soon as she gets outside to play.

The Zoo

Today was suppose to be a trip to the zoo with friends but we never did run into them. Never the less, we spent almost 5 hours at the zoo and only saw a fraction of the exhibits. We did see the robotic dinosaur exhibit thats new. The T rex at the end was pretty big and scary but I think we enjoyed the spitting dinosaurs the best. The girls sat in a life size bald eagles nest. Put their hand prints on the walls where the new primates exhibit is being built. All things we never did at the zoo before. So it was fun.

Oink, We did it again!

Joshi came up with the name for this dinner. PIGS IN THE HAY.

This is how you eat pigs in the hay.

I just really love the cheap simplistic way you can shove spaghetti into hot dogs and call it dinner. Ok not nutritional but fun and the kids can do it. Joshi cut the dogs with a butter knife and helped with the spaghetti. Billi managed to eat three hot dogs while she supervised.

Camping

We had a surprise camping trip. You can do that when you basically live in a camp ground. Barbara's family called on their way to the camp ground and said they were staying the weekend. We definitely wanted to make the most of the sunny weekend. So we cooked out Friday night with them and actually managed to spend the entire night Saturday night. Despite the fact that Joshi puked in the tent. I think from too many Doritos and excitement. It was quite fun!

The Evil Smile

There are no stools in the bathrooms anymore, as to slow her ascent. But she can still scale the cabinets pretty quickly. In the photo she's on the bathroom counter with a bottle of windex and the liquid hand soap making a potion. With her crazy morning 'fro and the background of all our crosses she kind of looks like an old voodoo witch doctor :0) Alright, maybe politically incorrect but a great photo of her mischievous evil smile

Pre-School Graduation

Rain Rain go away. Its been raining a lot lately and I'm not just saying that because its Oregon. Its really been raining more than usual. Everyones been getting pretty cranky about the weather. By now its usual spring like, with summer on the way. But none the less the kids had a blast at graduation. I can't believe my little baby Joshi is going to Kindergarden this year. She's so ready to take on the BIG school. As she will quickly point out, she'll have more boys to choose from :o)