Pics of My Three Girls Today

What a day. A great day. Monday always comes too soon and it starts off with a flurry of activity to get the girls ready for school, have lunches packed and getting them off on the schoolbus.

Waiting for the school bus.

Then after school it was music class. Finally I've learned to just relax about music and not stress out if the girls didn't practice enough, etc... and just enjoy being with my girls at the class.

But the reason why today was a great day was because we had family Taco night for the first time and it was super fun. Everyone loved dinner. I haven't had hard tacos in years. But the girls ate it at their friends' house and have been bugging me for months to make it. So I finally did and it was so delicious and fun.

Then to top off the excitement Sophia peed on the potty for the first time ever! In front of all of us. We were so excited. I pulled out the potty from storage after dinner and took off Sophia's diaper and pants. She kept on sitting on the potty and getting off to see what she had done. It was dry and empty. Then all of a sudden she got all excited and pointed in the potty and so we all peered in and there was pee!! Success!!! She was so proud of herself. Then Rachel got her some kleenex and she wiped her own bum for a couple of minutes. All with the most proud expression on her face.

Hard at play.

On our way...

to pick up the girls at school. Happiest time of the day!

Some pics from the past weekend

All bundled up.

No snow in town but lots up at the ski hill.

What does love look like?

The girls have hot lunches at their school on Fridays. This week was special since the kids got either sushi or beef teriyaki from a local restaurant brought in. Rachel picked sushi since she loves California rolls. She carefully packaged her wasabi and ginger back up in her backpack for Papa. She loves him so much and is always thinking about him. She was so proud of this and wants me to feed him this for dinner since Papa loves everything spicy. He is going to be one happy Papa at dinner tonight.

I have to post more pics of Halloween because my adoring fans (aka Halomoni and Haraboji) are wondering why there aren't more pics of their grandkids. But it feels like I've been hit by the cold/flu truck. All of a sudden in the last 24 hours. So I'm resorting to what is on my photos that are already downloaded.

This is Sophia with one of her little friends. Bumblebee with a little bed head :)

So totally off topic from Halloween pics. It's 3:30 in the morning, I'm feeling like crap and I have no one to whine to so I'm whining on the internet. We decided to get ourselves vaccinated for the H1N1. Last Monday Alex, and Sophia got their first shots. Alex had no adverse reactions aside from a sore arm at the injection site for the first day. Sophia on the other hand got a fever and was super cranky for 24 hours and then was back to her old self. Today, Papa and I got the shot. Papa was fine, no reactions except a little bit of a sore arm. Myself on the other hand feel terrible. Yesterday morning, before the shot I had a sore throat and my nose was starting to run but I got the shot anyway. So I don't know if I was already coming down with something and this shot made it worse or what. But I can barely lift my arm that got the shot and my head is throbbing on the same side. Whine, whine, whine. The reason I'm writing this is what has been your effects if you did decide to get the shot.

And if you are wondering...Rachel did not get the shot because no one will give it to her because she is not on the 1st priority. Sheesh. Over 5 years old and no history of asthma. So we are waiting for the 2nd priority list which we are told should be in 2 weeks time.