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This journal is about raising identical twins.One Hundred and Seventh Month
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Tuesday, Jun 6, 2006 (8y+10m)
The twins are 8 year and 10 month old today. Joanne told mommy that today is special because it is 06/06/06. The twins are too young to know about the movie "Omen" in which the number 6.6.6 are the numbers of the beast.Jasmine finished typing her project and sent it to her teacher via email. Joanne wanted to practice typing, so she picked up a book and typed a few paragraphs into the computer. Joanne told mommy she had a tooth growing in the wrong place. Mommy thought she meant the one behind her incisors. Joanne showed her that it was a new one budding in between the gum and the upper lip. Mommy was concerned and she wanted Joanne to see a dentist soon. Joanne's new teeth came out before the baby teeth fell off, as a result the new teeth were growing in all the wrong places. She would cost us a lot of money in orthodontics. Joanne knew that she had in-grown front incisors because she refused to pull out the baby teeth to make room for the new one last time. She said she was willing to pull out the old teeth if necessary this time around. Jasmine's teeth were quite normal with a great smile.
Wednesday, Jun 7, 2006 (8y+10m+1d)
The twins went to school as usual. The twins went to the optometrist to check their vision. Their eye sights were okay. However Joanne had a lazy left eye. The doctor recommended her to wear an eye patch over the right eye 4 hours a day to force the left eye to see more. Jasmine still had a little astigmatism from her eye surgery years ago, but her vision was good in general. Their eyes were dilated for the eye exam. When they came home they wanted to take a nap to give their eyes a rest. They slept from 6pm to 9pm. Mommy let them stay up till 11:30pm before returning to bed again.They had no homework because it was close to the end of the school year. They practiced piano on their own. They were in transition to look for a new piano teacher.
Thursday, Jun 8, 2006 (8y+10m+2d)
The twins went to school as usual. Daddy took Jasmine to school in the morning. Mommy took Joanne to the dentist for a consultation. Her teeth were all crooked and the dentist recommended her to see an orthodontist. Mommy continued to help Joanne wiggle her old (annoying according to Joanne) tooth behind the new one. She returned to school after the dentist appointment.The twins had a discovery day in school. They visited all other classrooms to learn about what other people have discovered. For example, they saw Sonja's dad presented photography, Ben Shaolin presented martial art, and a baker presented how to decorate a cake.
The twins started writing diary on their own to help daddy remember what to write in this journal. They wrote in very tiny letters and they put a pad lock on the diary. When daddy asked what they did in the day, they would check the diary for daddy.
Friday, Jun 9, 2006 (8y+10m+3d)
The twins went to school as usual. Their classes spent the afternoon in the park next to school. Public school stopped teaching a week before the end of the school year. Today was probably the last day for any academic work at school.Joanne had lost interested of her NanoPuppy electronic pet a long time ago. Her pet ran away because it was neglected. Joanne said the pet took up too much of her time and she didn't want to take care of it. Jasmine continued to play until the battery wore out. Since Joanne didn't play with hers, Jasmine restarted Joanne's electronic puppy instead of finding some new battery. Jasmine took good care of her pet puppy, she actually wanted to upgrade to a Tamagotchi because it could connect wirelessly with other electronic pets.
Saturday, Jun 10, 2006 (8y+10m+4d)
We went to lunch with great grandma and cousin Natalie's family. After lunch, we went to Chinatown in Oakland. We bought a tiny set of travel size mahjong. Then we went to grandma Ling's place for dinner. The twins were excited about the new tiny mahjong and wanted to play a game or two with uncle Ivan and cousin Natalie. Natalie and Joanne each won a game and they stopped when Jasmine wanted to watch TV instead. The kids had fun playing toss and catch with their toy monkey.We were back home before 9pm. The twins spent some time writing their diary after they took a shower. Jasmine also drew some pictures of characters from Naruto before mommy sent them to bed.
A few minutes after they went to bed. Jasmine came downstairs to tell mommy she was scared of Joanne. Joanne threatened to hit her because she didn't want to listen to what Jasmine wanted to say. Mommy told Jasmine just not to say anything until the morning because she should not force Joanne to listen to her. Daddy went upstairs to tell Joanne it was not nice to be so mean to her own sister. Since mommy didn't took her side, Jasmine was sobbing in her bed. I asked Joanne what she felt by making Jasmine cry. She apologized to Jasmine before they slept.
Sunday, Jun 11, 2006 (8y+10m+5d)
Daddy went to the airport at 9am in the morning. Uncle Ronnie came to visit again. We went out to lunch with grandma Chui. After lunch we went to a piano recital in San Jose. Since mommy was looking for a new piano teacher for the twins, we attended the recital to see how her students were doing. This teacher was from Russia and her piano training was very strict. Ben's family was there too for the same reason. The student's piano skill was as good as professional performer. We were quite impressed. The only thing we worried about was the great demand in practice would have negative side effects on the twins' interest in learning piano. The classmate Anzo quitted after a few weeks because he found her too strict. The twins said they didn't quite understand what she said during the recital because of her strong Russian accent.It was almost 4pm when we got home. We changed to tennis attire. The twins helped daddy put on sun screen after they put on their own. We walked to the park, but the two tennis court was occupied. We've also invited a few other families to the tennis game. Ben's, Christopher's, Jasmine W's, Ashley's, Janna's family all came to the gathering. Without the courts, the tennis gathering could not take place. We decided to move to Cuesta Park in Mountain View. When we first arrived, all the courts were occupied too. But since there were over a dozen courts in Cuesta Park, we believed we got better chance to get one soon. A few minutes later, we saw someone packing their gears. We occupied the first court to start playing. A few minutes later, another court opened up. Within a short time, we took up 4 courts in total. The kids and adults both had fun playing tennis. The kids later moved on to the playground after they got tired. We left after more than 2 hours in the game.
Janna's and Ben's family left early. The rest of us went to Castro Street in Mtn. View for dinner. The twins asked for pizza and pasta. We randomly picked Don Giovanni. It turned out a very good restaurant. It was 10pm when we got home. Jasmine helped daddy changed the water in the fish tub. As usual, she enjoyed scrubbing the fish poop from the water filter. We went to bed after everyone took shower.
Monday, Jun 12, 2006 (8y+10m+6d)
The twins went to school as usual. Joanne went to see an orthodontist for a consultation. The out of place tooth she has now is her canine which usually comes out at age 12. It is unusual for hers to come out before age 9. That also explains why there is not place for it to grow. He suggested Joanne to let her teeth take the natural course. We don't have to pull any of her teeth. She would need to wear a retainer to fix her front incisors first. Then at older age, she would need to wear braces to correct the other teeth.Mommy cooked a fish for dinner. Daddy still worked late but not as late as usual. Daddy came home just in time for dinner.
Tuesday, Jun 13, 2006 (8y+10m+7d)
The twins went to school as usual. Daddy worked late as usual. After coming home for a couple of hours, daddy went out to help uncle Ronnie to hone his driving skills. He was preparing for his driving test. The kids were asleep when daddy came home.
Wednesday, Jun 14, 2006 (8y+10m+8d)
The twins went to school as usual. Annette came to our place for dinner. Her mom went to Taiwan and her daddy needed to close a deal tonight. Mommy babysat her until 10:30pm. Daddy worked late as usual. After coming home for half an hour, daddy went out again to help uncle Ronnie to hone his driving skills. He was preparing for his driving test. The kids were asleep when daddy came home.
Thursday, Jun 15, 2006 (8y+10m+9d)
The twins went to school as usual. Daddy worked late as usual. After coming home for half an hour, daddy went out again to help uncle Ronnie to hone his driving skills. He was preparing for his driving test. The kids were asleep when daddy came home.
Friday, Jun 16, 2006 (8y+10m+10d)
The twins went to school as usual. It was the last day of school. School ended a few hours early. Daddy also got off from work early. While daddy was watering the plumeria planet, he discovered some flower buds on the tip of the plants for the first time after planting them in Feb 2004. The recent hot weather might have tricked the plants to believe they were back home in Hawaii. I hope the flowers would bloom soon and continue from how on. It was something worth celebrating after waiting for more than two years. We planned to leave for a camping trip at 5:30pm. However, we weren't ready until 7pm. We bought dinner and ate on our way in the car.We arrived at the camp site in the hills of Morgan Hill sometimes after 8pm. Natasha's family were there first. Britney's family were next. Ashley's family saw Britney's car on the freeway. They followed closely, so they arrived just seconds later. We were the last to arrive. Ashley's dad brought the tent but forgot to bring the poles. Natasha's dad left her with Britney's family and he went home to play his weekly ice hockey game with his friends. Since he didn't plan to come back for the night, he left his tent for Ashley's family. Since the tent was small, Ashley stayed with the twins in our tent. We hurried up with the tents and we were all set up just before the sky turned dark. The kids had time to play in the tent until bedtime.
Saturday, Jun 17, 2006 (8y+10m+11d)
The kids were awake and talking at the crack of dawn at 5:30am. Daddy wanted to sleep in, but they just would not stop talking. There is a Cantonese saying which says three women make the noise of a market. It was out of control when three girls slept together. The family in the adjacent campsite was up just half an hour later. They contributed their share of talking probably in revenge of the kids' noises. Daddy tried to sleep despite the noises. Mommy got up later to join the other moms to prepare breakfast. Daddy got up when breakfast was ready.After breakfast, the kids went biking around the campground. We brought the twins' bikes, the other families brought scooters. Daddy went after them on the rollerblades. However, the pavement was too bumpy. And at a steep spot along the path, daddy fell down on the right wrist. Fortunately the wrist was well protected by the strong wrist guard, the impact transfered up the arm and hurt the elbow. Daddy had a strained elbow for the rest of the weekend.
We went off hiking at 9:30am. We went on a waterfalls loop trail. There were many tiny water falls and cascading streams along the way. After the waterfall trail, Natasha's dad came back to join us. We decided to hike a little bit more, but we probably took a wrong turn and we didn't get back to the campsite until almost noon. The kids were complaining near the end. We were lucky that we were done within one hour after they started complaining. We kept telling them 10 more minutes, but in fact we didn't know how far. We figured that we walked more than 6 miles on steep terrain.
We had sandwich and instant noodles for lunch. Jasmine W's family joined us in the afternoon. We spent the afternoon sitting in a circle to chat. The kids joined the water fight with the kids in the neighbor campsite. It was a very hot day and the kids didn't mind getting wet. After they had a change of dry clothes in the late afternoon, they watched DVD on a portable DVD player. We helped Jasmine W's family set up their tent before it got dark. The adults started the grill and started cooking. The chicken wings and tri-tip steaks were the best of the night. We had much more than we could finish. We packed 3 big ziploc bags of leftover.
Due to fire danger, no woodfire was allowed in the campground. We poured extra charcoal in the grill to make a big fire for grilling marshmallows. We circled around the fire to tell jokes and ghost stories. Joanne was the only one who covered her ears when the ghost stories was told. Britney's dad suggested that we went around the circle and took turn to contribute a sentence to a ghost story. The story eventually turned into a toilet joke. When it was Brandon's turn, he just went on and on and on. Jasmine W's dad joked that Brandon would be good politician material and he would be particularly effective for fillabuster.
Sunday, Jun 18, 2006 (8y+10m+12d)
Daddy got a better sleep than yesterday and didn't get up until the breakfast was ready. Mommy said the twins wished her a happy father's day. But they forgot to do the same for daddy. When daddy asked about that, their excuse was that daddy was asleep in the morning. After breakfast, each family was busy taking down the tents and packing up. The kids were off to biking and scootering for awhile before they also came to help cleaning up the place. After we were all packed up, we went on a short hike to the stream where the kids spent an hour wading up and down the stream in freezing water. Every kid except Ashley slipped and sat into the water and got their pants soaking wet. We left the campground at 1pm. The twins took a nap on the way. We arrived home about an hour later. We let the twins continue to nap until they woke up much later. We unloaded the car and mommy started the laundry. We took a well deserved shower after two days in the camp.We went to Maggiano's Little Italy for a father's day dinner. The waiter screwed up daddy's order and caused a long delay. As a result, daddy's meal was free. It was an expected Father's day treat.
Monday, Jun 19, 2006 (8y+10m+13d)
The twins woke up early in the morning and played in their beds. They were off school on their summer break. Poor daddy had to return to work. Daddy went to the doctor to check on the elbow. The X-Ray didn't show major problem except for a possible hair line fracture at the elbow. The pain and limited movement might be due to strained tendons. The family physician referred daddy to see a specialist and to get a splint on the arm.The twins had their first swim lesson of the season in late afternoon. We went out to dinner with uncle Ronnie, aunt Elaine and grandma Chui. Uncle Ronnie failed his driving test because he didn't hold the brake tight before entering the road despite the car didn't move. He would be returning to Hong Kong the next day.
Since the twins had no school, mommy let them stay up. They watched several episodes of Naruto before going to bed.
Tuesday, Jun 20, 2006 (8y+10m+14d)
Jasmine got up early to wake up daddy because daddy needed to take uncle Ronnie to the airport in the morning. She returned to bed afterward. They followed mommy to run errands during the day. They had their second swim lesson.Daddy worked late again today. It was almost nine when daddy came home. The air had just cooled down for the evening. The family went for a walk in the neighborhood. The half hour walk in the dusk was a good exercise. It was totally dark when we came home. The twins had fun playing their flashlight/laser pointer in the dark.
Wednesday, Jun 21, 2006 (8y+10m+15d)
It was the first day of summer or the summer solstice today. Mommy and the twins went to Gilroy with Jasmine W. and her mom Annette. Annette wanted to buy some tennis shoes and the twins wanted to go along. It was pretty hot today and Gilroy was hotter at 105°F. The twins said it was so hot that they wanted to stand in the stores' doorway to catch the AC rushing out. They were delayed in traffic on the way back. They were late for the swimming class. They went to Ben's place to swim instead. The three families went out to dinner before coming home.Daddy worked late again. When daddy came home at 8:45pm, the family was not home yet. Apparently they went out to dinner with Jasmine W's family after shopping at Gilroy. Daddy went on a walk up a steep slope in the neighborhood. It was very strenuous exercise though the round trip only took 15 minutes. By the time daddy came back, the family was back. Apparently we missed each other for only a few minutes. The twins were upset that daddy didn't wait for them for the walk. So daddy took the twins out for a walk again. The twins picked a far destination. We walked for 45 minutes. The evening air was cool and comfortable outside. But the bedrooms were still quite hot when the twins went to bed. We opened all the windows and use big ventilation fans to draw cool air from outside. The twins were able to fall asleep after a few minutes.
Thursday, Jun 22, 2006 (8y+10m+16d)
It was a very hot day. It was the first "Spare the air day" this summer. All the public transit was free to encourage people to leave their cars home. The temperature was above 100°F inland. The news said that part of San Francisco was cooler near the coast at 59°F, but other part was close to the 90s. It was not common to have 20 some degrees temperature difference within the cities. If other inland cities were compared, the temperature ranged close to 50 degrees.The twins went to piano class in the morning. The twins decided not to take lesson from the Russian teacher. They liked Shannon's piano teacher instead. Today was their first lesson for the summer. The teacher didn't promise an opening after summer. Mommy decided to take the summer class first and decide again later.
Daddy joined them for lunch at a Korean restaurant. They went to their swim class in the afternoon. Benjamin came to play water balloons with the twins. They went to Jasmine W's home for dinner. Then they played tennis near their house afterward.
Daddy worked late again. The family was not home when daddy came home at 9pm. Daddy went off to walk up the steep slope again for exercise. The family came home at almost 10pm. We watched a part of the rerun of the USA/Ghana FIFA world cup soccer match. When the US team lost 1-2 before half time, we switch channel because we knew it was the final score from the news. The twins picked to watch Masters of Champion and America's got talent we recorded earlier.
Friday, Jun 23, 2006 (8y+10m+17d)
The twins got up early and went to farmers' market with mommy. Jasmine W. and her mom went too. They bought a lot of fruits and grocery there. They also went to Costco to buy some beef steaks. The kids played together for the rest of the day.Ashley's family joined them in late afternoon. Daddy got off work in regular hour. Mommy called daddy to stop by Maggiano's Little Italy to buy some tiramisu. Daddy circled around Santana Row for more than 30 minutes before finding a parking spot. The area was packed on Friday evening. The three families cooked dinner using the food they bought from farmers' market in the morning. Jasmine was not very happy before Ashley and the other Jasmine spent all the time playing on the computer instead of playing games with the twins. After dinner, daddy took action and shut off the computer. They were forced to find something else to do, They went off to play video games on the playstations.
Saturday, Jun 24, 2006 (8y+10m+18d)
We just let ourselves sleep in in the morning. Jasmine got up sooner. Joanne woke up for a moment and went back to sleep. We got ready and out the door before noon. We headed to the twins' triplet cousins' baby party at a buffet restaurant in the city of Richmond which is over an hour to the north of us. We arrived a bit after 1pm. Mommy's cousin Kevin and his wife Vivian gave birth to a set of girl-boy-girl triplet a few months ago. Apparently, they got multiple pregnancy through fertility aids, hence their triplets are not identical. The triplets Carolyn, Ethan and Katelyn were unusually calm in the presence of the crowd. According to the grandparents, the kids were more fuzzy when they were at home. Perhaps the noise of the crowd had a soothing effect and actually made them want to sleep. We arrived late, and within the two hours we spent in the party, we couldn't catch a moment to take pictures with all three awaken babies. We left the party at around 3pm. Highway I-80 was jammed from Richmond till the Bay Bridge. Though the jam cleared up after Oakland, we didn't got home until 5pm. The return trip took almost double the time than the trip there. We asked the twins to take a nap on the way back. Joanne fell asleep, but Jasmine didn't. When we got home, Jasmine ran upstairs to take a nap on her own bed. We let Joanne sleep in the car in the garage until she woke up on her own. Daddy also took a nap on the sofa.We went out to dinner with Deanna's family. After dinner, their family came to our home to have some fruits and watch some TV. Since Deanna would have a swimming competition the next morning, they needed to go home early. They also borrowed our digital camcorder so that they could tape Deanna's swim heats.
Sunday, Jun 25, 2006 (8y+10m+19d)
Mommy got up early to have coffee with Christine, her family came back from a LA trip. The rest of us slept in and stayed in bed until mommy came home. After we got ready to get out, mommy said she didn't want to go to lunch. She was in a bad mood today. Daddy took the twins to lunch. They picked to have Ramen. Joanne ordered the kid's meal. Jasmine said she needed adult size and she could really finish it too. Joanne was generous enough to share her kid's meal ice cream with Jasmine.We returned home after lunch. Daddy took a nap on the sofa, the twins practiced piano. The twins played on the computer for the rest of the afternoon. They downloaded some Naruto wallpaper and decorated the desktop of their computer account. They downloaded so much pictures that they spent much time trying on the different wallpapers.
Mommy was still in the bad mood at dinner time. When the kids asked what was for dinner, mommy said she already had some leftover for dinner. Daddy took the twins out to find something to eat. The twins picked KFC. When we returned home, the twins washed up, brushed their teeth and went to bed. The room was still hot at bedtime, Joanne set up a mat on the floor so she could stay cool close to the floor. Since mommy was still in a bad mood, Joanne invited daddy to sleep in her bed for the night.
Monday, Jun 26, 2006 (8y+10m+20d)
The twins woke up at 7am. They were talking and talking and playing pillow stealing game loudly as if daddy were not in the room sleeping. After daddy went to work, the twins called daddy that mommy was mad at them because they made too much noise in the morning. They had to prepare breakfast for themselves because mommy was too mad to do any chore.They went to the music store to buy some books for their music class. They visited the arts and crafts store too. They had lunch at Miyaki with Christopher's family, and they went to Joann fabric to buy some yarn. They went to their swimming class. They went to play tennis with Christopher's and Jasmine W's and Benjamin's family. Then they came home to cook dinner. The kids played on the computer. Daddy worked late and had dinner at work. When daddy came home, they were just starting dinner. The guests watched some TV before leaving.
The twins said they remembered daddy and mommy had a big fight when they were three years old. We were quite surprised that they remembered anything at that age. They recalled that the fight started after they went into grandma's room to get some snacks. And mommy didn't like them to eat snacks before dinner. Daddy questioned if they really remembered so much details. Joanne ran to the linen drawers and pulled out a towel as a proof. She said that was the towel she gave to mommy to wipe her tears at the time. The incident must be very traumatic for them to remember every details after 5 years. I was glad that they talked about it instead of bottling it up. They also asked daddy why daddy got mad at mommy, but never got mad at them. Daddy asked if they wanted daddy to get mad at them. They answered no, but they didn't want daddy and mommy to get mad at each other either.
Tuesday, Jun 27, 2006 (8y+10m+21d)
The twins slept in in the morning, they didn't get up until daddy had gone to work. They had swim lesson in the afternoon. When daddy came home from work, the whole family went for a walk up the steep road a few blocks away. Mommy wanted to rest after we came back. The twins wanted to walk another round with daddy around the neighborhood. They actually wanted to play in the park. Since it was pretty dark, we didn't stay long.
Wednesday, Jun 28, 2006 (8y+10m+22d)
The twins woke up pretty late. They were still sound asleep when daddy left the house for work. Jasmine said she almost drown in the swim lesson. They were diving for the rings in 7 feet deep water. She was out of breath and had to rush up to the surface for air. Daddy explained that she must have been panting when she dove. In the future, she needs to catch her breath before starting her dive.They went out to dinner with Christine's family. When they returned home at the same time as daddy did. We walked up the steep slope in our neighborhood for exercise.
Joanne weighed 61 lb. Jasmine weighed 66 lb.
Thursday, Jun 29, 2006 (8y+10m+23d)
The twins went along to mommy's tennis lesson. The had lunch at layang layang. Jasmine W. and her mom came to our house to play. They played with water balloon inside the house. One of the balloon they left on the desk popped and spilled water near the laptop computer and some on the floor too. They didn't even notice the spill. They got a fair share of scolding in the evening when daddy found the watermarks near the computer and on the floor. They went to their swimming lesson in the afternoon. They went to play tennis with Jasmine W's and Ashley's family. They had dinner together at a Korean fast food restaurant. They came home just a few minutes before daddy did, We walked up the steep slope for exercise. Then they practice piano before going to bed.Mommy helped Joanne wiggled her old teeth to make room for new teeth. Mommy used a dental floss to pull out one of Joanne's loose tooth. Joanne was disappointed when the tooth fairy didn't come. Mommy explained it was because daddy took Joanne's bed and the fairy failed to find Joanne on the floor.
Friday, Jun 30, 2006 (8y+10m+24d)
They had their last swim lesson for the session. They were tested on swimming lap. They also had a noodle polo game.Mommy's high school buddy Jenny came visit her. We went out to dinner with her after daddy came home from work. Joanne was disappointed again to find only a dollar from the tooth fairy. She said that her friends got special items from the fairy.
Saturday, Jul 1, 2006 (8y+10m+25d)
We had lunch at home. We then went to Oakland to see a Chinese doctor for daddy's injured arm. The Chinese doctor had a different opinion from the western doctor. He said since I had no bone fracture. Then I should have kept on exercising the arm in the past two weeks. The muscle was stiff after a week of inactivity, The doctor massaged the tendon for 20 minutes and put on an alternating hot and cold dressing throughout the massage.
Sunday, Jul 2, 2006 (8y+10m+26d)
We went to Angel Island in the morning. We went with four other families. But we only knew Deanna's family. The others were friends of theirs. Some of them brought their bikes, but we didn't.We hiked around the island on the trails. It took over two and a half hours to go around the island. We were kind of disappointed to find that the immigration museum was closed for renovation. We visited the Ellis Island in New York before. I told the twins that Angel Island was the west coast counterpart of Ellis Island. The ferry back to the mainland was on a hourly schedule. We barely made the 3:20pm ferry. Jasmine wanted to go to the restroom at the last minute. Daddy asked her to hold because we didn't want to miss the boat. It was kind of funny to see Jasmine sitting quietly on the bench with her knees squeezed together. Joanne was running around the ferry with Deanna and Addison but Jasmine just didn't want to move an inch. Mommy and Jasmine was the first to get off the ferry to rust to the restroom at the pier.
We spent an hour at the waterfront of the city of Tiburon. We went to San Francisco's sunset district for dinner. We parted with Deanna's family after dinner. We stopped by grandma Ling's place to drop off something for her. We returned home to soak in the hot tub to relax our tired feet. We all had a good sleep after a good exercise in the day.
Monday, Jul 3, 2006 (8y+10m+27d)
It would be a public holiday tomorrow. Daddy took a day off from work to make the weekend a 4 day long break. The twins went to swim lesson in the morning. The twins didn't pass the third level. Jasmine failed in the free style stroke and Joanne failed in the back stroke. Benjamin passed all and moved on to the fourth level. Since he started summer school last week, he was done with swim lessons. Mommy signed up the twins for two consecutive swimming sessions, so that they could catchup quickly.The twins were on the waiting list for the summer school. Since the summer school was designed for students to catch up on their school work, The twins didn't qualify because we did too well with their school work. Mommy still put them on waiting list in case some openings would be available for them. Unfortunately, no one gave up their spot, mommy had to use swimming lessons to keep their summer occupied.
The twins came home to take shower while mommy cooked lunch. We had lunch at home. Everyone was tired in the afternoon, and we all took a nap. Daddy did some repair work before dinner. The twins watched TV after dinner and refused to take the after dinner walk of the night.
Tuesday, Jul 4, 2006 (8y+10m+28d)
It was the Independence Day holiday. Daddy didn't need to go to work. We went to Christopher's home for a BBQ party. The kids played on a slip and slide water slide while there was sun light. At dusk, the air turned cooler and and the kids dried themselves and got a change of dry clothes. They turned in door to play the Naruto game on the game cube.
Wednesday, Jul 5, 2006 (8y+10m+29d)
The twins had swim class in the morning. They did homework and practiced piano at home. They were excited when daddy brought home the Naruto Ultimate Ninja game for the Playstation. Mommy occupied the TV for Korean soap opera, they could try out the game. But Jasmine took the instruction book and studied it like homework.
Thursday, Jul 6, 2006 (8y+11m)
The twins are one month from 9 years old.
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