Wednesday, November 12 Maren's Most Un-Favorite Day
Maren fell down again and got a bloody nose this morning in the gathering/play time before school. There was "a lot of blood" and I could hear her screaming in the background when Oasis called me. I took a taxi up the hill this time. She was fine, but it was a half day anyway, so I took her with me...I hadn't thought to bring her a change of clothes and her shirt did have quite a bit of blood on it. We walked home and were going to stop at Makromarket (just another grocery store, but with a slightly different mix), but it wasn't open yet. So we waited. We wandered through but didn't find anything interesting, so we started walking down the hill in the general direction of our apartment only to find out that I had wandered us into an area I had never been in before and I couldn't see our buildings or the neighboring buildings as landmarks anymore. Hmm. We found our way to another Makromarket and collected our share of, "what are they doing walking around?" looks for the day, and then spotted the park and shopping center near our house. What excitement!
Conferences were this afternoon at Oasis, so I went to talk with Miss Newcomer and Ms. Sneed. The girls are doing great and their teachers are reporting that they've adjusted well. Maren has started playing at recess, too, where she was just observing for quite a while instead of playing.
After the conferences were over we went to the exercise park behind Oasis to play with the other kids that were waiting for their parents to finish with conferences. Lacey and Maren got to show off Aeden and their friends thought he was the cutest and each took their turns playing with the new "toy" and helping him go down the slide, ride the toys, etc. This park is called an exercise park because it has grown-up big toys like at the gym, but outdoor versions. And there were people using them, that was the most surprising part.
While we were at the playground, Maren fell down again and scraped up her face. After she had had her big toe squished between the seesaw and the support on the ground. She was pretty banged up, but she made it home after all and has recovered nicely.
Thursday, November 27, 2008
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