The Dragonflies!!!

Jenna and Brodie had their first soccer game of the season yesterday. I'm really not sure what the score was, as they don't really keep scores for the younger kids. I do believe it was a tie. Who really knows! So, Bill made the most perfect analogy....when Jenna first started playing soccer, it took all we had to keep Brodie off the soccer field. Now that he can actually play soccer and is a part of the team...well, he just doesn't want to do it. He's the player that all the parents look at and smile because he's just standing there. I'm sure if our field had flowers in it, he would be the one acting like a pony, picking the flowers. He'll be part of the game when the ball comes to him, but just forget about actually RUNNING after the ball!!! Jenna is really understanding the concept of the game now. She loves to run after the ball and kicks it every chance she gets. We'll see how the next game goes. You'll notice in the pictures how the Koreans spell Brodie....they happen to spell it Brodle. The coach went to get this fixed. There was another player who had to have his name fixed as well.

Jenna getting ready to start playing.Creed REALLY wanting to get out on the field and play soccer.Brodie NOT playing soccer, but playing with a whole bunch of other stuff.

The tooth fairy

The tooth fairy came the other night for Jenna once again. Daddy got to pull her tooth out this time. It was just hanging there by a thread and didn't want to pull it herself. The tooth fairy brought her some ponies this time. The package was so big that it couldn't fit under Jenna's pillow, so she laid it by her clock.

We're just so proud of her when she makes these wonderful faces!Now, we know her eye is a little "crazy" as she calls it. It doesn't do that when she wears her glasses. Her prescription has changed for the better and we are now waiting for her new glasses to be done. We ordered them this weekend, so I'll be able to pick them up next week.

Quick note

I know that I need to write a few posts, but am very, very tired tonight. I'll blog tomorrow about Jenna and another tooth as well as Jenna and Brodie's first soccer game.

Sorry to keep you all anxiously waiting, but I must go to bed now.

Some Wacky Pictures

There are a few pictures that we took this past weekend that are quite wacky. I think you would only see these here in Korea. The first picture was taken as Osan Air Base. It's self explanatory.

The second picture was taken by this bridge that we cross to go to Osan. Can you even imagine?? =)This is a picture I took in June of the rice patties...nice and green.These are a couple of pictures of what the rice patties look like now. They kind of look like wheat.Chusok is this week, Monday through Wednesday. This is a huge holiday for the Koreans, it's like our Thanksgiving. They go to their relatives house and the younger women cook for the rest of the household. They eat lots of rice cakes....no not the kind that we eat in the states. As a matter of fact, Brodie actually made some in his school. However, when Bill opened up the plastic baggie....well, all I can really say is...they stink. Not appealing to the smell factor at all. Needless to say, neither Bill nor I could bring ourselves to try even one and they ended up in the trash. On Friday when Brodie got off the school bus they handed me a couple of bottles to this drink. Brodie really wanted me to open it up for him so he could try it. It smelled like vitamins. It did say energy drink....like Brodie NEEDS any more energy! Anyway, he did like this drink and drank both bottles. I tried a sip and well, to me, it tasted like vitamins. Who knows!

Open House

Tonight was Jenna's open house for her school. This is where we got to go to her classroom, see her teacher and a lot of other neat stuff. After all of this, we got to have ice cream in the cafeteria. Yum yum!!

Jenna and her teacher, Mrs. Gist.

The board outside of Jenna's classroom.

Jenna's frog.

On this paper Jenna has drawn a soccer ball.This was Jenna's interview from the other students. She drew the picture of herself.Jenna drew a jar of jam and a leaf for the letters j and l.

I've been told

So, I've been told that I need to update my blog. I guess I haven't really much to say.

Bill got home on August 31. We had an ok Labor day weekend, except the minor fact that we had 3 sick kids. Luckily, it didn't last TOO long! We celebrated Bill's birthday. I won't disclose just how old he is, but I bet that you'll be able to figure it out on his cake! =) Bill was home just one week, then gone again this week. Then he'll be home for a short while, then gone again. NOT THAT I'M COMPLAINING....well too much anyway!! I always tell myself that at least he's not gone for 15 months playing in the big sandbox.

It has FINALLY quit raining!! If this rain indicates how our winter will be, I'm guessing it will snow A LOT. It's a lot colder here than it was in Daegu, so I'm guessing that I'll probably have to buy a winter coat. I really haven't had the need for one in many, many years.

Tonight we find out who the kids' soccer coach is/are. We're hoping that they'll be on the same team. Not too sure how they feel about it, I just know that Brodie is super excited that he'll be able to play this year!

Wednesday night we have Open house at Jenna's school. I'll make sure to take the camera to take some pictures of her classroom. I know that she loves school and her teacher. She's very excited at the end of the school day to tell me what color is on her paper. Her teacher has implemented a green, yellow, orange and red color code. You start out on green and then if you talk or do other things you know that you are not supposed to be doing you move to yellow and so on. If you have green all week, then Monday you get to go to the "treasure" chest and pick something out. Last week Jenna picked out a pink bouncy ball. Now, it made some conflicts with her younger brother who REALLY wanted it. However, she did share and I'm proud of her for that.

Well, I'm off to do things not so fun and adventurous....like laundry! YUCK!

Daddy's birthday cake.

Daddy and BrodieJenna and Creed singing "happy birthday to you!"Daddy blowing out the candles.