365 Days with the Carlsons: 4/1/13

Monday, April 29, 2013

04-29-2013

matt got his medal and torphy at school today =)

brenny fell at school and part of his pants got wet. he kept it rolled up ALL day (since around 10:30am?) until i was finally able to convince him to roll it down because it was now dry ;-)

two good at-bats for matt tonight~

two singles; a good job overall while playing 2nd base

but a tough time on the bases (out running home on a fielder's choice after a dropped 3rd strike, and then caught heading to 2nd on a pop fly that was dropped)

let's focus on the good times at bat, though! =D

04-28-2013

(taken from matt's geometry teacher's fb page)

Saturday, April 27, 2013

04-27-2013

so i was off to school this early saturday morning to help my club, mu alpha theta, to get ready for the 2nd annual mathletes competition. something they created for our district's grades 4-8.

little did i know that matthew was going to be there with his school!

[such a bad mommy. i asked him months ago, and he said he hadn't heard anything. so after i knew for sure ross was going to participate, i asked him again. nope, he hadn't heard anything. so i kind of dropped it. well, i guess since it's his weekend with his dad, he didn't bring it up with me...and so i look up from the registration table, and who do i see???]

sitting with his table mate, jaydev

the whole group of 132 students...

team round #1

matthew ended up winning 2nd place for individuals, his team won 1st place and ross ms won 1st place overall for middle schools! woo-hoo!
[ok, there were only 3 middle schools present here today - carmenita and whitney both did not attend this year. but still!] love it!!!
matthew ended up leaving early because of his baseball game, and so he missed the awards ceremony. i had his math teacher take his trophy and medal, so he could present it to matthew at school on monday.

after the game, we come home and see dashiell and brenna playing with the big ball in the sprinklers!
ellen and sophia, the two little girls across the street, were standing by watching. O.o

then they washed daddy's car.

so these two little girls are interesting. neat that they are d&b's age (1st and grade k)...however, we have yet to see the dad. the kids just run out and play with d&b and no dad is ever in sight. the closest i got was the other day, where they said he was inside, but in the bathroom! and then i saw their grandma, who only speaks korean and waved at me from the doorway.
they are apparently from hawaii (license plate gave it away) and when i asked the older one where their mom was, she said that she's working a lot in HAWAII!. hmm, couldn't get from her why she's not with them. sooo....it's just weird.
the first time they came over (monday?) they just ran into our house, and headed upstairs to play. mom had to shoo them out because the boys were going to get ready to eat. it's strange.
no boundaries, it seems. but also no parents coming out to check to see that we're not weirdos!

here are some pics from matt's game

04-26-2013

brenny now says that his babies are in his brain.

then they sometimes go down to his belly.

mom and i tried another hole in the wall - this one had more modern taiwanese food (but it was taiwanese food, for sure!)
there was even deep-fried cuttlefish balls! (in the top right) YUMMY!
and on the left, although off the picture, was some shrimp fried rice that was TO.DIE.FOR in my opinion. ok. well, maybe not to die for. but very reminiscent of the fried rice we used to get from this little hole-in-the-wall place in taipei, which was my most favorite place to eat. yeah, that memory is from almost 30 years ago. but my taste buds don't lie! it was that good.
i think i could literally go there and just order fried rice and the cuttlefish balls to go and i'd be happy.

oh yeah, that's a fried fish fillet with spaghetti (instead of rice) on the side. did i say modern taiwanese food??

04-25-2013

ok..technically these were taken on the 26th, but that's only because i forgot to take the pics last night.
we finally finished making the airplane brennan wanted to make.
thanks to hours of hard work organizing all of our lego pieces, we can now find what we want!