Michael's Interview

1. Where were you born? At the hospital, I think -- oh, in the car.
2. What is your favorite color? Blue
3. What is you favorite TV show? Star Wars
4. Do you have a special pet or possession? Well, pets are coming to my classroom.
5. Who is your favorite singer? Me
6. Who is your best friend? Maggie and Sandie and Aitana
7. What games do you like to play? Star Wars, Lego Star Wars and Spiderman
8. Do you belong to any clubs? School clubs
9. If you were an animal, which one would you like to be? I think a horse.
Why? Because I like them.
10. What is something unusual that happened to you in the last year? Something happened that was embarrassing.
What? Umm, I saw a cow oinking -- I mean, not oinking, mooing. And it was embarrassing, because I saw it.
11. What are your favorite things to do at school? Play in the sand, and play with Connor in the block center, and play with legos, with Connor, and play with Zane in the fishing center -- you know that place where there's a puzzle and we have to get the stuff out at the same time (this was accompanied by a lot of gesturing).
12. How many different houses have you lived in? Umm, I think 55.
Where were those 55 houses? I said that I think that's it's 55, I just don't know. But I do know that I've been to Korea and the place by Grandma and Grandpa Poulson's, but I forgot what other houses I've been to. Oh, yeah, I do know one -- Arizona. Arizona's my favorite one that I've been to.
13. When you grow up, what would you like to do or be? I think I would want to be someone who eats brownies a lot -- a boy who does that.
Why? Because I like brownies a lot.
14. Name a person you admire. Well, it's someone in my school -- Zane
Why? Because Zane is a funny talker. Well, it's actually not because of that. It's because we do jokes together.
15. How old are you? Five.

Michael wanted to add the following information:
I like my turtles and I like my turtle, but we don't know their names, because one of them got lost. And we don't know their names now, because now there's only three. But I know that mine is still here, because there's one with sharp claws and mine has sharp claws. And they like their log and they climb on it sometimes. One of the turtles tries to get more water in. Well, I think that one down there is trying to get up, but it's falling a little bit down. Hey, hey! Did you know that the one without a leg is the one that's lost? I think it's because someone wanted a turtle and DJ listened and he picked that turtle up and threw it over the fence. I think that's what happened.

and the Curtis Family is moving to....................

Fairbanks, Alaska.

Janina's lunch

For lunch today, Nina requested, "An egg with toast, without the toast."

This in from Fort Worth:

Random thoughts and photos

I realize that I've become very flaky about blogging, so I'm making up for it with a bunch of random photos and this one random thought. If I'm really feeling like blessing all of your lives, I may even add some random captions...

They match!


Her first snow! And she liked it!

We spent 30 minutes getting dressed up for this?

When snow and ice collide...


On his birthday at the park


My cute baby


Not 'THE CAKE,' but a near relative

He is NOT a baby, just ask him

This just in... Derek is going to Fort Sill, OK for his first 6 weeks of training. Still no word on where we go when he finishes training (in the middle of September).

We went swimming this afternoon. DJ hated it. Sadly, we have hardly had our kids in water since we left Korea. Back then he loved it, but he has no memories of that now. Combine that with his current irrational fear stage and it was almost impossible to get him in the pool. When we did, he didn't last long. He was, however, very happy to sit on the side and splash us. Naomi, on the other hand, loved the water! She kicked and splashed and had me thinking of parasites the whole time (she had to have had a lot of water to drink).

Happy Valentine's Day!

A teeny bit of our future has been brought to light...

We have received one of the many details pertaining to our life after graduation. Derek will begin his post ROTC training on June 7th. He will go to either Fort Sill, OK or Fort Benning, Georgia (one of the many missing details). He will begin his job-specific training immediately after that (Jul to Sep) at San Antonio (we already knew that detail). We are anxiously awaiting his assignment. When is nice, but where is pretty important, too. Oh, the many things we will actually be able to plan, when we once know all of the details...

The rest of the story...

So it turns out there is much more to the previous lunch story than I knew. Let me, Jenn, tell the WHOLE story...

1. Saturday Jenn purchases angel food cake and lazily tosses it into the fridge still in the shopping bag.

2. Sunday evening Jon packs his lunch in his lunch box, forgetting the drink. Nina packs her lunch in a grocery bag, because she can't locate her lunch box.

3. Monday morning Jon puts his lunch box in his backpack. Because Nina is not moving quick enough, Derek gets her lunch for her. She tells him it's in a bag. He gets THE BAG.

4. Later Monday morning Nina prepares, with her class for lunch. She opens her bag and sees...a cake!? She tells her teacher that she has Jon's lunch.

5. Her teacher, not realizing what was in THE BAG, helps Janina trade lunches with Jon as they pass his locker on the way to the cafeteria. Nina happily eats Jon's lunch (with the milk she purchased).

6. Approx. 30 minutes later Jon goes to his locker to get his lunch and finds...THE BAG. Being only seven and not knowing what else to do, he takes the bag to lunch, assuming it is Janina's lunch.

7. Jon eats cake (very discreetly, as he was evidently very embarrassed to have only cake for lunch) for lunch.

8. A short time later, Jenn sees Nina coming in from lunch recess with Jon's lunch box and thinks, "That's weird," but doesn't put any additional thought or action into it.

9. Monday afternoon Jenn opens the fridge to prepare her own lunch and finds Nina's lunch.

10. Jenn finds out from Jon and Nina that Nina ate Jon's lunch and Jon had angel food cake. She finds this very funny, but can't figure out how it happened, because no one's stories match the facts.

11. Tuesday morning Jenn goes to help Nina's class at computer lab. Jon walks by and waves. This reminds Nina's teacher of a funny story. Jenn finally finds out the WHOLE STORY.

Jon really is very embarrassed about the whole incident, though I think he's starting to see the humor in the situation. I tried to tell him that most kids would be nothing but jealous to see someone else eating a cake for lunch. I also told him that he could tell his teacher, should something similar to this ever happen again, and I'm sure she would help him. I really do feel bad for him, because he was such a victim in an unfortunate series of events.