Dr. Jasmine Stolz

Yesterday, I had a small lesion cauterized on my leg. Dr. Jasmine pulled a chair up right next to the dermatology resident who was doing the procedure. She stuck her head right in his line of vision so she could really see what he was doing:). I heard him chuckling about it. Then, the nurse handed Jasmine the bandage to hold until the Dr. was ready for it:) Then they both put the bandage on my leg:) Pretty funny. Wish I would have had my camera even though I probably couldn't have taken the photo since I was laying face down!
Dr. Jasmine always walks around the house with her "chart notes" and asks me "How can I help you today?" When I give her my medical history, she whips out her cookie monster syringe, and the affected area gets a "shot".

last Drama class for awhile.....

Monday night... Jazzy's drama class had skits prepared for the parents to watch. One was with four kids driving a "car", picking up someone/something. Jasmine, of course, was a dog. It kind of goes along with the fact that she says the same thing to everyone she meets....."I have a dog. Her name is Jessie. She is a Chihuahua":) Everyone in the world knows that Jasmine has a dog named Jessie who is a Chihuahua.

The second skit was called "Goats in the Chili Patch". Jasmine was a rooster who tried to get the goats out of the chili patch unsuccessfully. Then later in the skit, she was one of the 4 ants who did get the goats out by biting them on the nose.

Photos didn't turn out because they were all "in motion"....

Rainy Saturday....

Almost unheard of cool and rainy day in April. I'm not too concerned since it will be in the 90's again this coming week. Went to Environmental Education Center for "Meet the Creature Day" again. We wouldn't have signed up for it if we would have known that most of the animals would be at the Dayspring field trip last week. Oh well. There were a couple of new animals.... a kind of rare albino hairless female Guinea PIg. Can't remember her name:(. A 5 day old South American Paca-- a "amphibious rodent". Kind of looks like a spotted rat.... as well as Quinn the Patagonian Cavy, Raspberry the iguana, all the other guinea pigs, chickens, and a pot bellied pig.

Then off to Hip Hop Class with Stacey J. After meeting Stacey J, Jazzy now calls me "Mommy J":))

Dayspring Pre-School field trip.....

Morning and afternoon 4's classes at Dayspring went to the Gilbert Riparian Preserve. Lived here almost 30 years and have never heard of it. It is a nice little park with ponds with ducks, lots of wildflowers, hummingbirds, butterflies, hiking trails, "dino dig", and playground.

We had different "stations" to go to. First we went to Linda's station.... the same lady from Environmental Education Center with the animals. Quinn the Patagonian Cavy was there, Harvey the Flemish Giant bunny... who is still a "baby". Apparently, they get up to 40 #. Raspberry the iguana and a little goat were also there. In her own little wagon, was an obese, elderly and blind opossum. The kids pulled her around the park in her wagon for her "walk".

After the hike to feed the duck and look at wildflowers, we did the "dino dig" and found vertebrae and hip bones:)
The kids also learned about various types of dinosaurs. Jasmine said, "Do you think that Dr. Vince likes T. Rex"?

As usual, the weatherman was wrong. It supposedly was going to rain, but I should have known better to believe that after living here for so many years. It was extremely hot and uncomfortable in the morning, then some black clouds rolled in as we were leaving, but it never did rain.


Jazzy's preschool class waiting to go into the park. (Margo, Megan, Kinley, Jasmine, Ben, Aaron, Olivia, Addis, Georgie)

Socializing with "best friend" Kinley.

Harvey, Raspberry, Jasmine.

The obese blind opossum who rode around all day in a wagon:)

Dino Dig... Jazzy's favorite part!

Eye Dr. Appointment....

At Dr. deSimone's office today. Vision is very slowly improving, but improvement is tapering off. No improvement in stereoscopic "depth perception"- which is typical for amblyopia. Probably will still need corrective surgery for strabismus someday.

Birthday party for Addis...

Today was Jasmine's classmate from pre-school, Addis- birthday. They had the party at "Pump It Up"- with all the bouncy houses and games. We need to buy stock in Zhu Zhu pets... We have purchased many this year for birthday presents and for Jazzy.

Jasmine, Addis, and his little brother, Max. Addis is adopted from Ethiopia.
The party.
Playing air hockey when she can't even see the goal:)

Vehicle Day at Pre-School.....

All kinds of vehicles... Tempe Police cars, DUI Enforcement trailer, motorcycles, Firetrucks, Ambulances, City buses, backhoes, free cookies and sandwiches from Great Harvest Bread Company and free Chicken, etc from ChicFilae. It was a mad- house. 90 degrees with the sun blaring...(99 degrees tomorrow). The kids had free access to climb around in all the police/fire, etc vehicles... honk the horns and turn on the sirens, and they took advantage of it. It was so loud I almost had a nervous break down:))) and Jazzy was crying at first because of all the sirens. She did sit on a police motorcycle and in the police car.... as well as climb around in the SWAT vehicle. Of course, she ate lunch there too.:) We also went in the uh-hum...Tempe DUI enforcement truck and sat in the seat with the handcuffs..... where they randomly stop people, do the breathalyzer or blood test right there in the trailer and haul the person to jail if needed:). I didn't really get the purpose of the day.... especially for pre-schoolers.

In the SWAT vehicle.
On the police motorcycle with the siren blaring.
In the loud police car.