Mix and Taste

Taste, testing and....

mixing things up.

Isi loves having her little cooking set out with some goodies while mom fixes something yummy.
Isi's last allergist appointment went great. She is responding to her meds well, which now she only needs to take as needed, her skin cleared up, and we took a few things out of her diet just to be safe.

Things are all going well around here. I started yoga classes and am loving it. I am hoping to somehow get out twice a week, I really need to get out of the house a bit. My mom also just arrived in town with Terry last Wednesday. Looks like we will be heading up to Sedona tomorrow for a little scenery and art shopping, then off to the Grand Canyon next weekend. That should mean some good pictures coming up.

Here is Isi hanging out watching one of Athena's soccer games. Too bad I had the camera on a bad setting and none of my pictures turned out of her. I can tell you, Athena is going to be a much better player than I ever was and her outfit rocks so I can't wait to show it off.

We had a really, really, really late birthday party for Hera due to friends and herself being out of town. We took her just today to a pottery painting studio where the kids got to go crazy for 2 hours. These are our friends Jenna, Jordan, Christina and Shea.

Friday the 21st we are off to have our Biometrics done for the Green Card. Pretty fancy term Biometrics, should be interesting. No, this does not involve retina scanning although that technology does exist. The government will now officially know more about us than most people in the US. I haven't decided if I am more excited about getting the Green Card or kind of freaked that we are doing all of this for government records.

That's all for now, I hope you all are doing well and you'll check back in soon.

Love The Sfikas Family

Isi's new words - (H)Appy Day, help (hep), cheers, pretty, home, turtle (tootol), yummy-yummy, Anna (for Athena), and hun.

Dashing All the Way

Dash Point State Park in WA.

Isi and Dad throwing rocks in the creek at Dash Point.

Piece of drift wood at Dash Point.

Looks like I am almost all caught up and we have started the crazy school year off at a very high pace. Isi and I are now part of a Mom's group and meet once a week, I am swapping kids with a friend two mornings a week, Athena is playing soccer twice a week not including games start next weekend, Hera has started Choir and goes twice a week in the morning, both start Chess this week and Hera will also start dance. So much stuff and somehow we survive. Foreseeing how busy we would probably get, I officially am packing around a planner. I can't even begin to tell you how much of a lifesaver it has been.

Isi has had another allergy attack since the trip and we have had to take her to an allergist. I feel better doing this because she has now had several good attacks. We tested her for 18 airborne allergens and 8 common food allergies. She did awesome with all the pin pricks and only decided she didn't like them when we were almost done. She reacted immediately to dogs! That really, really sucks. The only other thing to be concerned of is Soy but the result may mean nothing.

Ted turned 27 (in his mind!) last Thursday. I tried to take him out to buy some new clothes, since his fit horrible with his weight lose, and made the big mistake of taking Isi. I thought she would enjoy getting out a little but she decided she would run non-stop everywhere through Macy's. She had a blast, I was exhausted. I actually had blisters on my feet from my sandals from chasing after her. My other kids never did this. Needless to say we only found Ted a pair of pants and went home. I cooked Ted an amazing diner of steak with a savory sauce, home made french bread, some mixed veggies, and Greek potatoes to help make up for things. Now I should be able to get away with stuff (like buying new clothes) for a long time after a meal like that.

I am currently working on a knit, lace hat for Hera and should have it done for my next post (Knock on wood that I don't now have to frog it because I said that). In the meantime here is what I knit for Connie's baby, Ryder, along with what Athena and I sewed and embroidered for him.

This sweater has jungle leaves, a tiger, an elephant and a giraffe (cut off) for buttons. I loved this sweater so much when I made it for Isi I couldn't help to do it again.

Athena and I embroidered all around the larger puppies and their is one more in the middle of the back. I had to hand sew almost the whole thing because it was too small to go through the machine. I ran it through the washing machine to make sure it wouldn't fall apart.

Hugs and kisses from all of us,

Charmaine

Isi Milestones; She is climbing on all the furniture including dads sink where she can go as far as turning the sink on, is completely fascinated with the toilet, can say yes or no when you ask her a question, can say bear, blanket (just today), shoes (and say it as if she is calling them when she wants to wear them), Josh (neighbors boy), Isi, fly, no way, and make tons of animal sounds, and attempts to sing the alphabet, twinkle twinkle little star.