Super Readers to the Rescue!!!!!

Gigi's favorite show is "Super Why!" on PBSKids. She is so cute watching it, shouting letters at the screen and dancing. Audrey took this video one morning (regretably, she was still in pajamas and her hair was in her eyes, but hey....she's still cute!).

Mick will be gone on her birthday, but we won't tell her and she won't mind. We're going to have her party on Wednesday, November 3rd (a full 2 1/2 months earlier than her first year's birthday party, poor 4th child, take this as a win) and of course, it's a "Super Why!" theme.

I ordered the CUTEST appliqued shirt of WonderRed (Red Riding Hood's Super Ego) and she'll wear a pretty red tutu that I got for Christmas, but today, her Halloween costume came in the mail.

My camera needs to be sent in for service, so I ran over to my friend Megan's house and borrowed hers to snap some photos.

Gigi loved their swing!

We had to pick up Claire off of the Yochien bus, so we whooshed away and went home for some more photos!

WonderRed...running in!

With her Superhero super hearing, she heard someone coming!

It's Princess Presto!!! (The Princess and the Pea's SuperHero ego.)

On the lookout for more Super Heroes!

She can scale small buildings in a single climb!

And then Audrey came home and came up with the greatest photo op of them all!

We were just running out of sunlight, as evidenced by the pretty sunset behind Wonder Red, but....

We got this one that Audrey photoshopped and made into....

SUPERGIGI!!!!!!!!

I love Halloween.

It's a shame it only comes once a year! :)

New Fish

We went to Mister Max in Yanai yesterday. It's a Japanese Wal-Mart, sort of, and a really pretty 45 minute drive from Iwakuni along the sea. All of our friends who have fish have gotten them there, so since I'm THE MEANEST MOM IN THE WHOLE WORLD because I am refusing to get them a dog (forever, hahaha kids, no...for the 1,000 time, we'll get one when we move back to the States, please stop asking me) this was our Saturday activity.

I bought this way cool fish bowl this week on base (on clearance!)

and we bought two koi fish to put in it.

But they must have realized that they were on American soil and tried to commit suicide within minutes of being here. Luckily, I walked out (and freaked out, I'm not known for my ability to be calm and cool under pressure...a military officer I am NOT) and Mick came running and threw the one flipping and flopping right beside the bowl back in the bowl. It took us longer to find the other one, who had flipped and flopped through the flower bed and was covered in dirt.

It has been over 24 hours, they are still swimming (not doing the back float) and we are hopeful that our fish will become American citizens someday or at least realize that we are allies and not the enemy.

We also bought a few bug eyed fish and this cool little waterfall tank and put it in the girls' bathroom.

The black bug eyed one is Olivia's and she named hers Nimrod after a character in "Mr Popper's Penguins." Audrey named her koi fish LaQuifa after some "Dance Mom" (reality show) song.

Claire's fish's name has a bit of a story. One day we were in the van and Olivia was making up stories and she said, "My name is Alexander, but you can call me Alex." Claire followed quickly with, "My name is Crystal Rainbow Rose (and then there was a long pause and we thought that was her full name, but she added on) Sparkle." It was truly hilarious because she wasn't trying to be funny, but Claire is so CLAIRE. Or Crystal Rainbow Rose Sparkle.

We are waiting for Gigi to talk some more and let her name her fish. The smart money is on Dora.