Delayed Posting

If you notice the last post was about the puppy...well I don't believe in animal cruelty but if I did...this "puppy" would not be alive anymore! Ha Ha! We have begun puppy training class but it never goes as quickly as you would like. The older Sadie gets, the more she looks like Sammi and it gives me bitter sweet feelings. I hope that she will be as well behaved as Sammi but it also makes me sad that she is gone.

As for the kids...I realize that I take so many more pictures of James than Rachel because he is always doing crazy things that I want on camera. Sweet Rachel just does what she is supposed to which makes blackmail pictures to use on a wedding video for her are almost impossible to take these days!

We had Rachel's Clytie Adams ballet performance 2 weeks ago and she was in this cute little silver outfit. I will attach later! She is having fun going to summer camps and every morning she wants to know which friend can play or who's house she is going to go to! The problem is she doesn't quite get that you don't call a friend's house and ask if you can play there!

OHHHH....big news! Rachel lost her first tooth 3 weeks ago. We had MANY crying episodes that she and one other girl in her kindergarten class were the ONLY KIDS ON THE PLANET who hadn't lost any teeth yet. Then when the front one on the bottom became lose, she only wiggled it a bit. We got in the car after swimming lessons and she said matter-a- factly, "My tooth is really loose. I think I am going to pull it out." Then she reached in and ripped it out. I almost threw up! I was the type that would wiggle my tooth until it was hanging by a thread and fell out. I NEVER had what it took to pull it out. Then that night, we put it in the little tooth fairy pillow that we had already had for months in anticipation for that day! In the morning, she found a dollar in the pillow. The next few days when she showed people the hole in her mouth, they all would ask what the tooth fairy left. She would say, "I only got a dollar!" ONLY...!!!!Of course every adults response was that they only got a nickle or a quarter! It was funny!

Also, Rachel has changed from North Davis Gymnastics to Clay's Tumbling. In 3 weeks (3 times going to class) she can do a 1 handed cartwheel and round off perfectly, has almost nailed her back walkover and is close to being able to pull herself up from a front walkover. It is amazing how with appropriate instruction, how quick she has picked up on all of that. After 1 year at North Davis, all she could do was a cartwheel! She may be our little tumbler!!! We aren't sure if she will be our little ballerina because at her age all they do is skip around and jump in circles!!!

As for James, his vocabulary is advancing daily. His language is changing from Chinese to English! He obviously says Mom, Mommy, Dad, Daddy and ChaeChul (Rachel)! Then he has been saying no, out (when he wants out of the high chair), don't (when you are doing something he doesn't like), dink for drink, shoe and every time you said we are going bye bye he says, "shoe" and goes into his room to grab shoes. He also says outside, bye bye, car, carseat, good girl - to the dog, tantu for thank you, bless you when you sneeze, nummy for yummy, cereal for anything you put in a bowl for him, ni nite for goodnight, sleep when he wants to go to sleep, uh oh when he drops anything, NO said in loud volumes, baby which he says when you lay him down to change his diaper because he wants you to give him the picture of him as a baby for him to look at, eye and then he pokes you in the eye, boo for peek a boo, book, bite when he wants a bit of whatever you are eating, gama for grandma, papa for grandma, and I will have to add more as I remember them!

Also, every time he toots...he puts his arm in the air and pulls it down like he is pulling a train horn and says, "toot toot" really loud. It is quite the crowd pleaser! Of course, his Dad (I say his Dad, not my husband because I don't like to claim him on this one!) is the one that taught him this little stunt! Somehow the "toot toot" has now also adapted to every time he burps too?!

James NEVER stops moving. I am chasing him constantly. Within two seconds he is up on the table dancing or stomping or is sitting up on the kitchen counter. A few weeks ago Ryan and Christie were here and all the sudden we noticed James wasn't behind us. He had gone into my office, climbed up on the chair and was SITTING on the wireless keyboard in front of my laptop and had the phone up to his ear! I don't think Rachel learned how to climb on anything until last week! She was and still is so calm and easily entertained where James has a 20 second attention span and is always moving!

My birthday was on July 1 - the big 34 and Jason and I went to the movies. We saw Get Smart and had a good laugh. Then on the 3rd we went to Alicia's (Jason's sister's house) to swim and celebrate my birthday with his family. On the 4th we went to the Bees Baseball game with my his family and my Dad. My Mom has been sick with Bronchitis for over a week running fevers and has been in bed since last Saturday when they got home from their Alaska Cruise.

I have started doing rehabs in Saginaw with some business partners and Jason is still trucking along with the cabinet/carpet company. They broke last year's sales in the end of May! They are doing phenomenal, it just takes a while to dig out of the whole you create when building that large of a company. Last week they bought a $40K water filtration system that they had to get or the EPA could shut them down. They use a lot of water cutting the granite and the water needs to be cleaned before it is dumped?? I don't know all the details, it just has to be done!

It has been tough financially for our family to make this all work and it has taken some fenangling to make it happen but the things I am noticing are that everyone in my immediate family and remote family are all healthy. Everyone around me has illness plaguing their children, parents or has a rocky marriage and we don't have any of that! If we could chose our trials, I would take financial all day long over many of the others that are out there. I know on any given days Jason would say I am his trial or vice versa but overall, we are very happy and blessed with wonderful children. We love where we live, we love seeing his business continuing to grow and make money on a daily basis and couldn't ask for a lot more! (Except for the money tree to start growing in the back yard or the concrete in our driveway to stop sinking!!!)