Feeding Spirit (Dear-It)

One of Jasmine's favorite things to do is to help feed our dog, Spirit. Mmmm, raw meat and chicken necks.
"Dear-It, bekfast".

Gymnastics class..

Today was our second gymnastic class. Jasmine is not shy about jumping in and participating, but she doesn't want to stop and play the structured games:) One of the photos is Miss Cathie, the teacher, helping Jasmine on the trampoline.
Later, we had a Valentine's package in the mail from Grandma and Grandpa. She insisted on opening it and putting stickers all over herself.

Chihuly exhibit

Today we went to the Botanical Gardens to see the Chihuly exhibit. Dale Chihuly is a glass blowing artist... very amazing how they incorporated his sculptures into the garden. It seems that Jasmine's time limit is about 2 hours.... which is pretty good for a two year old. We walked around for about a hour and a half, then had a little lunch at the cafe there, then went to our usual Whole Foods for grocery shopping. The weather could not be better... 80 degrees. We just didn't want to be in the house today. Plenty of time for that when it's 112.
We had a great day:)
Oh- afterwards, Jasmine helped me unload groceries.

Going on a walk today

Tet Celebration......

We had a very busy weekend. There was supposed to be a "Tet Celebration" at the Mekong Plaza in Mesa on Saturday night. We drove all the way there and found that it was just a very busy shopping center. It reminded me of being back in VietNam. The Vietnamese people have no self awareness or sense of space. It's like playing bumper cars with your shopping carts and your body. I don't know if they do it out of total lack of awareness or just rudeness, but it just made me think of how I am not looking forward to going back there some day. At least we went to Whole Foods and the dog food store.

Sunday was a much better day. The VSA (Vietnamese Students of Arizona (or America- not sure which) put on a Tet Celebration every year. This year it was at the Tempe Center for the Arts. They have music and dance. Last year, they also had food, so I didn't bring any food.... big mistake. Luckily, Joan and Jolee brought some crackers since I was expecting to give Jasmine her Vietnamese dinner there. The program was four hours long. She made it thru the first two hours pretty well, then alot of fidgiting. I decided it was time for us to leave after that because her behavior was just getting out of hand.

Today we started our first Mommy and Me gymnastics class. They have three balance beams of various heights, mats for stretching, larger mats tumbling downhill, and a bar for swinging. It was mostly freestyle today, but will be more structured later. Jasmine certainly doesn't like structure. When we were told to sit in a circle, she had a fit, even though all the other kids were cooperative. We have some work to do on behavior. I'll have photos of our class next week.

Flagstaff with Joan and Jolee

Yesterday, we spent the day in Flagstaff with Joan and Jolee. The original idea was to play in the snow and do some sledding. It was pretty warm in Flag, so the snow was either non existent or very icy. We only went down a small hill a couple of times, then had our photo taken with a snowman. We also went shopping and ate lunch at a nice restaurant. We realized that we were getting into Phoenix right at the 5PM traffic, so just hung around Cave Creek for awhile. We ate dinner at the Silver Spur... which used to be the something or another Frog. We got home really late, and had an exceptionally fun day:)

A new toy...

Today Joan and Jolee met us at Whole Foods. Jolee gave Jasmine one of her strollers, which Jas has been pushing around all day. She also made a necklace out of straws and macaroni today. I'm sure she had alot of help. Anyway, on the way home, she crunched the macaroni, so there is nothing left. She is wearing it around her head like a headband:)