Connor loves to sweep. He gets the broom out all the time! (Also in this picture you can see Bradley's clothes. He loves to wear basketball jerseys...and everything without sleeves is a jersey. Even an argyle sweater vest. Most days he has on his jersey under his clothes and unless he is wearing his basketball pants...which he is in this picture...he also has basketball shorts on underneath his pants too)
He is very thorough too.
Alan trying out a wheel chair robot
A giant Robot sculpture that is close to his robot conference.
Tuesday Bradley had preschool. We walked down to pick up Lauren. We had a picnic lunch outside. We skyped with Alan a little before picking Jared up and a little more after we got him. Then we played outside until we got hungry and had to come in for.dinner and homework.
Robot during the day.
Wednesday we went to story time at the library. Then hurried home so we could walk down and get Lauren. In the after noon it was the usual cleaning up and playing. We got to skype with Alan one last time. It was his Thursday morning and he was on his way out to see a little and head to the airport. The night before Alan was able to meet up with the Ooyamas and have dinner. He said it was fun to get to see Katsu, Yoshi, and Sakura. (They lived in quad 2 for a year when Katsu was here as a professor doing research....They went back to Japan 2 years ago. It doesn't seem like it has been that long.) After skyping we played outside more....and did homework later. (All last fall we did homework then went out to play. We are going to have to get back into that pattern.)
Dinner with the Ooyamas
Thursday our neighbors were leaving for school right when we were getting in the car and offered to take Jared. He said he was ok going with them...so he did. Lauren had a special practice for the kindergarten program that day and went at the afternoon kindergarten time. We weren't used to having her home in the mornings. We just played and worked on cleaning up some. We walked her down to school. Connor fell asleep on the way home. Bradley and I did dishes when we got home. It reminded me a little of last year when Brad and I would spend our afternoons together...often times doing the dishes. He really is a good little dishes helper. He pulls the stool right up to the sink and takes care of the rinse side...sometimes even putting them in the drainer/dryer. (I think I usually call it a dish dryer, but he calls it a dish dryer.) After we got everything taken care of in here we went out and played...and waited for Alan to get home. We took bubbles outside and Connor loved them. He would laugh his cute little laugh every time we blew some. Finally Alan got here. It is so nice to have him home. He got home around 2:30. We picked Jared and Lauren up from school and had a fun afternoon together. He brought back a few things from Japan. Some fun Disney guys from the Ooyamas and some model cars with motors that he got. Alan had a good time, but he is glad to be home.
We are glad dad is home!
Friday Lauren had her kindergarten program. Bradley, Connor and I went to see it in the morning when they performed it for the whole school. It is pretty much the same year after year. Before it started they told the other grades that they had all had their turns when they were in kindergarten and now it was the Kindergarteners turn...so don't sing along! (except for the one song they are invited to) Lauren decided she wanted a speaking part. Another boy pulls a rat out of a box and said something like this is weird it has a long tail. then Lauren said "That's awesome! That's a rat. I can spell rat R-A-T" She got really into her part. She told me she did it with the best expression she could. After school we went to the last story telling workshop. Jared decided to change his story Wednesday or Thursday night now he is going to tell More Pies (he was going to tell Duck on a Bike). He likes his new one better and will do a better job with it. We also realized that the story telling festival is on pi day...so it will be a perfect story for it. In the evening we all went to the Kindergarten program again. I had to keep nudging Alan through it...he is still pretty tired. He caught all the good parts though. We had closer floor seats in the evening than I had had earlier. Lauren was enthralled with the show. She sat on the top row so she could see the stage...and she kept watching (when she should have been singing). My favorite part (besides when she says the rat is awesome) was when she just sat watching what was going on on the stage and then when that part was over she started clapping with all the people watching. Alan and I stayed up to watch the BYU game. It was too bad they couldn't hang on and win.
After the morning program
Excitedly waiting for the evening one to start.
Saturday Alan had to get up and go to the Spring Student Research Conference at BYU. He was in a morning presentation group and got to be the first in group of 8 to go. He said the allocate time for 8 presenters, but his only had 7 and then 2 didn't show up. I really didn't know what time he would be home, but I was surprised when he got home about 10:40. (I had just told Jared it would be 2 more hours) We got some things done around here. Alan did laundry and cleaned the bathroom. We went to Winco in the afternoon. In the evening we went to the men's volleyball game. We had a fun time at the game and saw Jeff and Elizabeth there too. Connor went up and down the stairs for a lot of the game. His little legs were getting so tired by the end, but he just didn't want to stop.
Throw us a shirt!!!
Today I got to do singing time. We learned the 2nd verse to If the Savior Stood Beside Me. It is all about what we say. I took my 'words' spray bottle (body spray) and sprayed it in the room. We talked about how we can't see it, but it has a lasting effect (we can smell it even a long time later) and once it is out we can't put it back in the bottle. Then we talked about nice words or saying true and kind thing and not nice things. I had two jars one with a smiley face with marshmallows and one with a frown and rocks. We talked about how nice things make us feel and that's what we all want...the marshmallows. We also sang and clapped staccato and legato. We did a lot of new things today. We sang The Chapel Doors with a little box I made with doors cut into it and a picture of Jesus inside (mostly made it for nursery) and we sang head shoulders knees and toes in English and Cebuano. We did a lot of new things today, but they loved it all. After church we walked up to the Temple. Bradley has been wanting to do that for awhile. Once we got there we realized that we could run into Greg there, but didn't think it likely since there were so many missionaries. We didn't see Greg but we did see Keegan. I don't think we would have noticed him, but he said hi first. Jared wore some hand me down shoes and something started bothering his foot part way there. He ended up taking it off and since it is weird to walk with one shoe on and one off he took the other off too. He walked all the way home from the Temple with no shoes on. For dinner Alan made okonomiyaki. He had it for lunch one day in Japan. We didn't have all the right things to make it, but it was still yummy and he said it was pretty close to what he had while he was there...minus the fishy flavors, squid, and shrimp. We are looking forward to a fun week.
Bradley playing the 'piano' while waiting for the rest of us to catch up to him.
Dinner with the chopsticks dad brought back from Japan.
okonomiyaki....giant cabbage pancakes with a little more and toppings...way better than it sounds!
Im happy；）from sakura.
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