Holiday 2011

It's Christmas now and I can't sleep, not because I'll get lots of great things in the morning but because I want my children to be happy more than anything on Christmas Day. Yesterday my aunt Alice and her husband Tom came to visit from Pensacola.

They brought Izzy a beautiful baby doll cradle that Tom handmade and a volley ball and net for D. I'm not sure who was most excited but Izzy rocked various things: teddy bear, balls, sweater, jacket off and on all day. We ate ham and potato salad, cream style corn, green beans, and rolls for lunch. Sweet tea was perfect. I'll update late in the day when my brain is actually working with photos and more on Christmas day.

We actually made the gingerbread houses a few days earlier, but we did get them done despite the Florida humidity.

Christmas morning, presents from Santa.

Great-Grandmother Annie B. with three great girls.

The day after Christmas we ate another Christmas meal with Aunt Sherry and Uncle David. It was so delicious! Smoked turkey breast, broccoli cornbread, hashbrown casserole, green beans, mac and cheese.

Hotdog

The kids chose hot dog lunchables for their lunch on our recent trip to the Samsung Children's Museum in Seoul. We went last Tuesday with the play group. It was a lot of fun for everyone. My camera though was not happy with the lighting in the building.

There was a small exhibit detailing the history of Korea.


Next we went to the build a house exhibit. One of the most creative I've seen in a children's museum. There was a structure with lots of square openings for kids to place blocks of various sizes, "windows", and tiles. There were two cranes for hauling the blocks to the second floor and tubes to dump them back down again.




Another exhibit focusing on careers was based on the Theory of Multiple Intelligences. There was a dress up area representing a career in acting.


A space flight area and many others.


The rest of the second floor was taken up by a sound and music exhibit. The kitchen band room was a lot of fun!


The third floor had exhibits on air, water, and the human life cycle.


Also on the third floor was a "television studio" with lots of drums to bang on.




The fourth floor was about interactions between people and had a toddler play room.




I made the dress Izzy wore last summer but it is just fitting now.

Hot and Humid and H20

It has been terribly hot and humid here for more than a month. The kids and I go to the water park on post as much as possible. We tend to go after lunch and first swim in the deep pool for about an hour. I made the swimsuits.





During the break we have ice cream a lot of days and then the kids play in the smaller pools while I read. D has gotten so brave and is going done all the slides now and even jumped off the diving board.





Izzy is loving the water and once got in without her life jacket, sank for a second, and pulled herself back out. I was really proud of her and happy that I had taught her well.



See that little black dot in the distance?



That is our friend the helicopter. The water park is right next to the flight line so we see a lot of choppers and small planes.

Homeland Holiday

Happy Birthday America. I had a great view of the fireworks from my balcony last night but couldn't help thinking, "I hope none of the locals thinks we are being attacked by North Korea." Of course North Korea sending of missiles yesterday was in all the news but no one seemed terribly concerned. The kids and Mr. K. enjoyed some of the things on post like bowling and bouncy castles. I stayed home out of the heat and crowds. Deniz's dress is from Ottobre of course! And yes I know the button placement is not even. I had a lot of trouble with the button holes and had to rip two of them out. Do you know how hard it is to seam rip button holes? Then keep your mouth shut and appreciate that I got it done at all!

Heather Fortunately

So springing from the Heather Unfortunately I thought you might like to see a brighter side.



"Heather fortunately still has her head..."

"Thanks, Heather! Fortunately the inflatable snowglobes have not showed up here yet."

"His next victim was Heather - fortunately her horns were small."

"German scientists are now making explosives out of heather. Fortunately the secret of making Highlanders out of the same material still remains in our hands"

"Poor Heather. Fortunately for her, there were many accommodatingly charming Italian men ..."

Heather Unfortunately

I got this idea from one of my favorite sewing blogs All Sorts who in turn got it from another blogger. Type the phrase "unfortunately (your name)" into Google and then see what funny results you get. Please feel free to leave a comment with the favorites involving your name. I also decided to do the search with images too and this was my favorite. It was entitled "Strange Little Girl".



So my favorite phrase results where ...

"Unfortunately, Heather’s first job didn’t work out."

"Unfortunately, Heather lost the ability to transform into Sasquatch."

"Unfortunately Heather will never go away."

"Unfortunately Heather has to work as a hooker to pay for her retro fashion obsession."

"Unfortunately, Heather is extremely beautiful and gets hooked up with guys that are equally beautiful but cheaters."

"In a world filled with many many dim light bulbs (unfortunately), Heather is simply one of the brightest ones shining."