last Hip Hop/ Piano Graduation

This weekend was the Arizona Suzuki Association Graduation Recital for kids who "graduated" from one Suzuki level to the next. The little Suzuki's got to get up onstage and bow:) Saturday was our last Hip Hop with Stacey J and first Zumba.

On stage
Everyone at attention (not!)
Hip Hop Dance
Passing around a 4# ball for arm strength

Going out for Easter Sunday brunch at Pho Van

Grandpa did a good job picking out those shoes!

Easter Sunday morning....

Shane- the school bear....

Shane the Bear came home with us this week. Apparently, he spends a week with each child in the class, then he (as in me) writes a journal about what we did this week. Shane went to tap/ballet lessons, piano lessons, Vision Therapy, ice skating, and a Chandler Easter festival today. At ice skating, the teacher told me that Jasmine could not be promoted to Snowplow Sam 3 with the other kids because she was not paying attention. So, when the teacher tells them to do something, Jasmine just goes off and does something else on her own. Jasmine was informed that if I hear that again starting next week, we will not be going to an Asian restaurant like we do almost every Friday night after ice skating:(

Then today we went to an Easter Festival with literally thousands of other people. We had sparkly strands put in our hair, played games, saw Mr. Brad our karate instructor giving demonstrations, made some Easter crafts, then went to an Easter Egg hunt where we waited in line in the hot sun for 45 minutes - then were told that because of the number of people there, we could only get 4 eggs. It was still fun.

Shane met a new girlfriend this week too.... Jasmine's Build a Bear who is nameless.

Dancing lessons
Piano
Vision Therapy at Eye Priority
Ice Skating
Shane and his new friend

Easter Party at pre-school.....

We had our big Easter party at school today. The kids had previously made little Easter baskets out of plastic milk cartons. Of course, Jasmine's pictures/rabbits/anything she draws, always have pink glasses on. (She gets her pink glasses back tomorrow after having the lenses changed. She does tend to "cheat" with the smaller wire glasses- which is why the optometrist wants her to wear the pink glasses a bit longer).

The class made strawberry short cake. Very easy- even I could do it. Made with the little short cakes, whipped cream and strawberries. The Easter baskets were filled with little plastic eggs with all kinds of things in them- stickers, candy, pennies, erasers, etc- brought in by several of the parents. Jasmine filled all of her little eggs that we brought in with candy and stickers. One of the boys in the class, Jaxon, fell from a fence and broke his leg.. so we made him some extra eggs. Apparently, he has a internal fixation device and is in a wheelchair:(. He will be back in school next week until he has the pin removed.

The class also has little chicks which were supposed to have hatched from eggs that they incubated in the playroom. Apparently, the eggs didn't hatch.... so the teacher secretly purchased little chicks from a farmer who is going to take the chicks back in a week or so. The kids still think the eggs hatched overnight from the eggs they incubated.

Making a little chick with pre-school teacher Mrs. Slama
Reading with Mrs. Slama, Josephine, Kiera, Addis,
Showing her baby the little chicks.

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"....