Spring Break Staycation

Leah and Aaron had their Spring Break on April 4-11.  We didn't make any plans to go out of town because Matt is still deployed and we have a family vacation planned for Hong Kong in June.  Also, we had (and still have for another week) a house guest so a "Staycation" made sense to us.

Our house guest is the perfect guest:  quiet, polite, doesn't make a mess and doesn't eat.  He's also small enough to fit in a purse or backpack.  He is a Flat Stanly that our friend Brady Suan sent to us.  We actually renamed him Flat Brady.

Brady Suan and Flat Brady

The idea of the Flat Stanley/Brady is that he spends some time with us and we send back postcards, trinkets, etc. back to Brady.  His other classmates send their Flat Stanleys to friends who all do the same.  The class then can learn about different places.

We took Flat Brady all over the area, to some of our favorite spots...



Leah and a friend at Bio Park.

And to some new ones...

Leah and Aaron at the Sasebo Zoo and Botanical Gardens.

One day I plan to blog it all but until then, if you want a taste of what these places are like, feel free to read the blog I created for Flat Brady:  http://flatbradyinjapan.blogspot.com.  I created Flat Brady's blog because I was afraid if I sent postcards to Brady Suan, it would take too long to get to him.  Brady's mom, my friend Beth Ann, said that Brady loves the blog and that his teacher has been reading it to the class.  Please remember, if you read it, it is written with a first-grade audience in mind.  Happy reading!

Leah, the Toothless Wonder

Leah lost another tooth tonight.  For those of you counting along at home, that brings the grand total to six:  two on the bottom and four on the top.  The interesting part is that since she lost the first one in mid-July, about eight-and-a-half months ago, none of her permanent teeth have grown in to take their place.  She truly is a toothless wonder.  I don't know how she eats sometime and all things considered, she talks pretty well despite having a huge gap on top.  Leah likes the gap--she says she can drink through a straw without opening her mouth.  I sincerely hopes some of her teeth start to grow in before she loses any more.  Are there such things as partial dentures for kids?