Don'z Discovered the Land of Paddy,SEKINCHAN!

2012 coming? need to STOCK-IN rice?? let go do a RICE-HUNT. hehehe. and here i am at the Land Of Rice.. opss.. to be exact.. is the green paddy field... not ready to be rice yet.


Here are the green green rice.. nope. paddy field.. nope...paddy sea~, can u see the paddy skyline?


ah Sze? why you're there?.. i tot you're in your driving seat? who's driving???


Green Green house by the paddy field, i believe they no need to starving at all, foods are all around them...(but have to wait till all of them become Rice la ) ;p


Man at work. checking on their paddy. he just stop working once saw we taking picture of him.. a shy farmer.


i found some ducks nearby.. hmph... seeking for lake to swim? no more loo... become paddy field jo


look at the green field behind her... soon it will become RICE land.


and we found a resident of the peaceful land.surrounded by green paddy.


Ah Sze with his ride.. here at the Sekinchan Paddy Field.


SEKINCHAN!! that the name for paddy field land. wondering will i come back for GOLDEN Paddy field to steal some rice back? wondering when would that be?

Hard work + Lots of Time =

Our kids participated in our school’s Math Team this year. 

None of us had any idea how much time it would be.  They met twice a week, after school, and did 1-2 extra homework assignments that required roughly 2 hours each.  And it was completely voluntary!  We (the parents) felt like quitting a couple of times there, so we can’t imagine how the kids felt. 

Emma’s Fifth Grade team competed a few weeks ago and did well (13th out of 49 schools), but the real payoff came last Friday night, when Gabe’s Fourth Grade team competed.

His team took FIRST PLACE!  They are the Eastern Washington long-division-story-problem-negative-integer champs~

They were feeling pretty confident, but I was kind of poo-pooing it, assuming it was naiveté on Gabe’s part.  But when 4 of his teammates were in the top 6 of the individual award portion, we started getting excited.  Gabe’s team had won the team round in his room and so we knew they’d done well in that area, too.  We were thrilled when they announced that our school was the winner.  It was fun because cousin/best friend Mallory did it, too:

Here’s a short video of the announcement (see if you can spot 3 of 5 Romney kids):

Anyway, I realize this is a boring post to everyone else, but it must be noted for posterity:  my kids took on a challenge, stuck with it and performed well.  We are incredibly proud of both Emma and Gabe for doing something that was hard for them!

HOŞGELDİN BEBEK KURABİYELERİ

Naz için hazırladığım hoşgeldin bebek kurabiyeleri

DOĞUM GÜNÜ KURABİYE BUKETİ

Sarp ın orman temalı doğum günü kurabiyeleri

HAMİLE PASTASI

Bebek bekleyen İnci Hanım ın doğum gününde eşi Saim Bey tarafından verilen pasta siparişi.Saim Bey özellikle erkek bebek bekleyen eşinin karnında keyifle yatan bir bebek yapmamı istedi.her zamanki gibi resim son dakikada çekildi :)

İSTİRİDYE İÇİNDE İNCİ PASTASI

İnci Hanım a doğum gününde arkadaşları tarafından sipariş verilen doğum günü pastası

A List

Annoying stuff about today:

1.  Wearing shorts for the first time and realizing I have Mom Legs (white, slightly thick, vein-y).

2.  Having a playdate at my house where 2 of the boys kept leaving out the third. 

3.  Faith not being able to decide if she wants to be ON or OFF of the trampoline.

4.  Leaving the last waffle cooking in the waffle maker for 30 minutes.

5.  Leaving my free cookie coupon at home on my lunch date with Ryan.

6.  Kids who think that getting the drink out of the cup with the straw requires tipping it upside down. 

7.  Seeing the first quote on the estimate of the car Ryan hit and thinking “oh, that’s not too bad” and then having the lady say, “No, there’s another page.”

8.  Coming home from the gym at 6:30 a.m., noticing the TV paused on “Arthur” (we have a no TV on school days rule), and then watching the Dishonesty Theatrics from the Morning TV Watcher:  (fake yawn) “Oh, hey…I just woke up.  I’m tired today.”

 

Good stuff about today:

1.  Noticing that I’m awesomer at “wall-sits” since I’ve started my marathon training, and, that despite the ZERO weight loss, my thighs look a teensy bit better than usual.

2.  The first really warm day here in Spokane, and the park day with friends that happened because of it.

3.  Lunch with Ryan. (We drove back home to get the cookie coupons.  Of course.)

4.  A nice yummy nap next to Seth.

5.  A new fun book to read: The Prizewinner of Defiance, Ohio.

6.  Our Friday jobs being done on Thursday, so everyone just gets to enjoy the beginning of the weekend.

7.  A babysitter hired for Faith tonight so that we can enjoy Gabe’s Math Tournament and the dessert after, sans 18 month old.

8.  Faith’s response when you ask her what a camel says.  “thpbthbpth!”