The pool is open!

Mommy, the water is really cold!
BBRRRRR!

Sojung had the right idea. She watched from the chair wrapped in a towel.

New suits!

Strawberry Festival

Water balloon toss! I think she dropped this a half a dozen times, however it was Audrey that ended up wet.

Lunch!

This is fun!

The finish line!

Plenty of room to run and twirl.

We went to Delaplane, VA for the annual Strawberry Festival. The weather was perfect!

Mother's Day

Happy Mother's Day!

Sojung gave me a beautiful silver heart necklace. One side says Mom and the other says I love you. So sweet. Marcus took the girls shopping and bought a Vera Bradley messenger bag...it is time to break out the Mommy bag since I am officially a Mommy! They also bought a very cute Vera Bradley photo album.
Audrey created a book for me for Mother's Day. I was very impressed with her artwork. Looks just like me! So cute. The cover of the book says "Top Ten Reasons Why I Love My Mom" Here they are:

1. You correct me with gentleness. (OK, what 8 year old comes up with that? I asked if she came up with these herself and she told me her teacher put some on the board and used them and some she thought of herself. I am going to assume she copied this one.)


2. You care for me with cloths, (exact spelling!) food and warm blankets.


3. You love me when you help me with my homework.


4. You rock me when I feel sad.


5. You read stories to me.


6. You fix me breakfast.


7. You let us play.


8. You take me to the mall.
   
9. You turn up the volume in the car.


10. You let me sleep in on a Saturday. (However she doesn't let us! Those little darlings are up with the sun!) Betty created a cookbook at school. (She has a fantastic kindergarten teacher, wink wink) The kids all picked their favorite food and then told how to prepare it. There are some really interesting recipes in there like Banana Bread that takes 5 large onions and 3 carrots. Uh, no thank you. Betty's recipe was for Birthday Cake. You are going to want to rush to the store and get the ingredients for this. Here it is:

Betty's Birthday Cake

17 scoops of chocolate and vanilla ice cream

Put in cake pan and bake at 150 degrees for four hours. Then cut and put on a plate for your family.

Pretty toes

Sojung and I went out for pedicures today. It was nice and relaxing and Marcus agreed to let us sneak in a nice lunch of sushi and a quick shopping trip while he was home with the girls.

Pencil vs. Chopsticks

The other morning as we were pulling into the school parking lot we saw one of the high school students walking up to the building. This student is very tall and slim. Sojung said, "He is like a chopstick!" I had to laugh because in America we would compare a very tall and thin person to a pencil.

My three girls

These were taken in our backyard.

Life keeps on changing...for the good!

We found out tonight that Sojung will be extending her stay until the end of the year. Sojung expressed an interest in staying longer several weeks ago. We explained to her that it may be difficult to get into our local high school, epecially since she was only going to attend one semester. After saying our prayers we made the appropriate phone calls and got the ball rolling. The school called this afternoon and left the good news on our voice mail. Sojung is thrilled beyond belief and we can't wait to share 4th of July, Halloween, Thanksgiving and Christmas with her!

Sojung will be attending Brentsville High School. Sojung is excited about getting to ride the bus to school, attending a larger public school and the fact she will be finished with school everyday at 1:50!!