Mason is 2 months

Mason had his two month well baby checkup today. He is in the 75th percentile for height.I can't remember exactly how many inches he is. Maybe 27? He is in the 50th percentile for weight. He weighs 11.8 pounds. His doctor says he is doing great. He also had to get his two month shots :( He got four of them, I cried and he screamed. I made Pete go with me for emotional support.

This past week Mason has discovered his fingers. They are always in his mouth. And the week before that he started smiling at us. Now we are waiting for him to laugh. He laughs but in his sleep.

Special Person Dance

Emily choose to take me to her Girl Scouts,Special Person Dance. There was dinner,dancing and prizes. Emily didn't want to leave. She was having too good of a time with her friends. She was exhausted by the time we left. She danced every song. Little did we know, it started to rain while we were there. We had to run to the car in the rain. We laughed all the way to the car,running of course. We were a couple of drowned rats! But it was fun.

It's offical

Pete has gotten his orders. We are definitely going to Virginia. We should be leaving Okinawa the end of July.Pete will ask for the 28th of July for our flight date. School starts the beginning of September in VA.,so the kids won't be missing any school. I'm glad we'll have one last beach season here. I want to get lots of pictures of the kids at the beach. We are moving from one beach to another but Virginia Beach is not as beautiful as Okinawa. I hope to go on one last dive this summer too.
We are excited to move back to the United States. We have missed a lot about the land of the free, restaurants,shopping, just simple conveniences and most of all family.

Tiny Toes

Beautiful Emily

Emily wearing her glasses. I think she looks beautiful. She picked them out herself. They match her hair so they aren't very noticeable. She doesn't need to wear them all the time. She is only slightly nearsighted. What do ya think?

Too much pressure

This week Emily has Terra Nova testing at school. For those who don't know what that is, it is a standardized test used to measure a child's skill level. Well, I think they put too much pressure on kids over these tests. First of all it's not like they won't get into college if they miss a test or don't do well on them.It is a tool used to help students. To find out if and where they might be having problems. This morning Emily had an eye appointment so she missed one portion of the test. Which by the way she can and will make up next week. When I took her back to school she wasn't allowed to join her class until lunch. Emily was devastated that she missed her test. She just kept saying"I told you I wasn't supposed to miss the test. I just want to go home". She was upset enough that the school counselor came to talk to her about retaking the portion of the test she missed. I told her that her eye sight is more important than a test. But not to her it wasn't I think they(the teachers,administrators) need a better way of delivering the importance of these kinds of tests are to the students. I'm not saying these tests are not important. I think they are a valuable tool to parents and teachers. I don't think however kids need to stress over them. Emily was under the impression that she was in trouble for missing the test. She thought her teacher would be mad at her for missing the test. She was stressed out about the whole thing. She cried for about 30 minutes.I felt bad for her. So I hope that she will learn form this experience and that missing a test is not the end of her world. And a side note, Emily will be getting glasses.That's a whole other ball of wax.

Look at me

I just wanted to put up some more pictures of Mason. Enjoy!