Wallace's Wonderful Adventure: Parents-Day 2

Mom and I took all the kids to school along with Todd. Mr. Xue was stuck in a traffic jam so he couldn't get Todd at 7:00 as usual. Mom and I walked Alejandro to his spot to wait and he realized he was the first one there. That never happens when he goes with his Dad. We took a picture of him sitting all by himself. At 8:00 all the kids were walking to their classrooms. Mom and I realized no one else was going to work out so we decided not to and we walked home instead. It was a nice day for a walk.

Back at home we just lounged around. Dad did some fix em up projects. Finally got motivated and showered and walked to the 3rd Avenue veggie market. We picked up a pineapple so Cameron could have it on his hamburger for dinner. We walked back home and lounged some more waiting until 1:45 when Mr. Xue was picking us up.

Dad fixing the drain plug.

We went to school to watch the end of the month assembly for grades K-5. The assembly was painful. There really isn't too much organization or a reason to have them. Cameron told us we could go if we wanted so we felt like we had to. Luckily Alejandro's class performed a dance which was really cute. The only other thing that was funny was Mr. Li and Ms. Williamson dressed up in Sumo outfits. The funny part about that was they had them on backwards. We think they did it on purpose so the boobies and belly buttons wouldn't make the kids laugh but we think it was funnier because they turned around when pointing to a screen. Everyone saw them anyway and the boobies and belly buttons were on their backs. At least we got a laugh out of it.

Cameron was happy to see us.

The backwards Sumo wrestlers.

This is the back shot.

3:00 we took everybody home and a big storm blew in quickly. It got much cooler and windy. A short lived storm rolled through. Dad went out on the porch to watch it, of course. Cameron wanted to be out there too but he was trying to finish his homework. The storm was done by the time Cameron finished.

All the kids came up to play. They played a little Wii but the big hit was Cameron's new Nerf Gun. A big Nerf fight broke out all through the house. The kids are awesome about sharing. They set a timer for 10 minutes. When it goes off they all switch guns. That way everyone gets to use all of them. They even used the new gun as the "pitcher" for hitting practice. The bat was a big blow up toothpaste tube. They hit mom and dad a couple times with the discs. These kids sure have fun together.

Mom and Dad were pretty tired today. Mom kept falling asleep on the couch. Jet lag is a bad thing. At 6:15 the Carrasco kids came up and the ladies walked over to Ashanti for Sharla's going away dinner. She is leaving on Tuesday to go back to Canada for good. 8 girls were waiting. Sharla and Stine walked in and Sharla was shocked to see us all. Anthony handed her a huge bouquet of flowers. Sharla got a little teary eyed.

Anthony surprised Sharla with flowers.

All of us girls surprised her too.

We had dinner and some drinks. We tried to leave but Sharla was having no part of it. Finally at 11 we walked back home. My goal was to be home before Cameron went to bed at 8:30 though I knew that wasn't going to happen. It was a fun night. I'm so sad to see Sharla leave. Such a bummer.