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Last Day of 2nd Grade

I have to admit, I had a mini-breakdown on Ethan's last day of school. I was in his class watching him celebrate with his friends and teacher and I wanted in that moment for everything to stay the same for him. I didn't want him to have to move and start over. I started crying and had to put on my sunglasses. What amazes me about Ethan is that he hasn't shed a tear about this move. Has it not sunk in yet? Is he just that well adjusted? He's a great kid, one that impresses me on a daily basis.

Ethan's Play

Ethan was a village person in his 2nd grade play this year. I'm not sure the other kids in his group got the message. Here they are doing the YMCA part of the song. Which letter were they on in this picture? Everyone is doing a different thing...

Cohen's Graduation

My little graduate! I can't believe he is almost 5. He truly is a momma's boy. He loves to cuddle (unlike Ethan) and he still takes naps at least 4 times a week. It's unbelievable how different he is from his brother. Cohen is very decisive. He doesn't like to disappoint either. He gets very sensitive or sad if he knows he has made Eric or I upset. Lately, Cohen has become very helpless. It seems he has gone back on his past life as a baby and can't do ANYTHING for himself. Every other word out of his mouth is "I can't, I need you to do it". It's starting to get very frustrating. Just tonight he asked to be spoon fed. What the? It's lucky for him he's pretty cute...

Random Pool Pics

These goggles creep me out.

Beach Club

Gotta love a warm day at the beach club! While Derek and Julie town we had to go at least once. Where else can you get a chlorinated pool and a sandy beach in one? Genius.

Cohen's End of School Activities

Cohen's pre-school visited Irvine Regional Park at the tail end of school. He was super excited to hang out with his buddies Jayden and Kyle. He has loved school this year. I only hope he is that excited to start a brand new BIG school in a few weeks.

Then came his class circus. He was super hush hush about this one. I don't think he liked acting like an elephant or a monkey trainer one bit. He was very shy and wouldn't crack a smile during the performance. He was very serious - but oh so cute. Check out the mustache!!!

Back to School Night

Ethan had an amazing teacher this year, Mr. Henry. He loved going to school every day and would come home with stories about his awesome teacher that loved Tron just as much as he does. He is even type-1 diabetic which relieved a lot of my fears. Ethan was in a combo class this year which had only eight 2nd graders in it. Five of those are in his church primary class so he was loving the group he was with.

For Ethan's back-to-school night/ open house this year he had to prepare a speech about a famous person or inventor from history. Of course he chose something about Lego's. He researched the creator of Lego's, Ole Kirk Christensen. Yes, Christensen. I didn't get his whole speech on tape because there were about 100 other 2nd graders all standing around him saying their speech at the same time, but I filmed a little bit of the interview Mr. Henry had with him.

The Office

Eric with Dr. Sato. He's such a sweet man - I really pray his cancer isn't as serious as it seems. He's only 65 and wasn't planning on retiring this early in life. His patients have been amazingly loyal. Some of them come in telling stories about how Eric is now their third dentist at this location, that they have been going there since the 40's.

Dr. Ishizuka - the original dentist at this location. He still owns the building!

WOW - can you believe the sight (or lack thereof) of our building? This is how it looked from the street at the time of purchase. Dr. Sato must have gotten used to it after a while. How did patients even know where to go to find his office?

This juniper was a disaster.

Oh my gosh - there's a building behind all of that greenery! It took two and half days and a full crew to rip it all out.

Here's a picture after the mulch and plants went in. They better grow quickly - they look so little right now. But, it's a definite improvement. NEXT PROJECT: paint the exterior...

The awesome logo Martha designed. Now we need to have signs made to put out front.