School

Sorry I missed yesterday’s post, it was an eventful and late day.  We decided that on Wednesday Natasha would accompany Hailey to school for the full American high school experience (I assume that involves lots of texting and selfies). As posted previously, we planned Natasha’s clothes the night before (thank goodness for that, we’ll get to that soon) and made them go to sleep early.

Marine woke up early with the baby (as usual) and because I always plan for the worst, I had him check on the girls to make sure that they were bright eyed and bushy tailed and wouldn’t miss the bus. If by bright eyed and bushy tailed you mean, unconscious and out cold fifteen minutes before the bus was coming, then yeah, great, winner winner. Marine flipped the switch, yelled out an alarm to wake the dead and finally got a mumbled “Are you kidding me? It’s seven?” from Hailey. Marine said that he had never seen the girls move that fast before. Hailey took charge and got Natasha going (we were a little worried that she assumed that the bus would just idle and wait for her) while Marine stood at the bottom of the stairs and did his best impression of a NASA countdown official.

Ultimately, the girls got off to school on time, wearing suitable clothes, with iPod and cellphone translator in tow.

Their school day ended up being a little long, since Hailey couldn't find Natasha in time for the bus (not sure why) so they stayed after to study for chemistry with the teacher.  (Her chemistry studying happened to involve a boy she has a different kind of chemistry with...).  However at least they were with the teacher, so I ended up picking them up on the way to youth group and just let it go.  They did have a great day together at school, used up the batteries on both phones with their non-stop pictures and Natasha's first words when I picked her up were "Hailey, school, me, tomorrow?" .  Everyone had a great time at youth group, we all went home, didn’t have to clean up after dinner and it was a good night.

Thursday was a good day for Natasha. Earlier in the week, we had driven past the state capitol building and she was excitedly gesturing towards it. So, after taking her to the Realty Exec office for a meeting, she and I ditched Marine at work and toured the Capitol. Natasha was really excited for something the rest of us take for granted! She ran around taking selfies, exploring everything and all in all had a great time.

When we went home, she then decided to cook for everyone. Natasha made this great hot dish using hot dogs, eggs, spices and potatoes. Don’t know what it’s called, don’t know how to make it, can barely describe the taste, but it was a hit!  We did have another episode of "I want to chat with my boyfriend on VK" but when she realized it was not going to happen she got over the issue much more quickly than before.  Off to the zoo tomorrow!