Field Day

Today was Field Day at Marina's school. There were quite a few fun activities set up for th kids. They started off with a relay race and obstacle course, followed by the Frisbee toss and tug-o-war. They used a four way rope, I'd never seen one like that before. But Marina was happy to be on the winning team.

The parent involvement started after the potato sack race. The kids were supposed to run the three-legged race with their parent. However, one of her friends whose parents were not there convinced Marina to race with her. I didn't take it personally.


The water balloon toss was set up for adults and kids. Marina's friend partnered with a middle school volunteer. I was impressed with the catches Marina made. We made it pretty far into the competition.

The activities concluded with popsicles for the kids. I think that was Marina's favorite part.

First Communion

Marina has been taking a communion class at our church for the past six weeks. Today they had the conclusion with a ceremony to mark the completion. I was told most of the girls would be wearing white dresses, so I put Marina in her Easter dress. She insisted on wearing her "diamond" necklace and earrings with it. She was quite excited about the whole ceremony.

After the service was a reception. Marina was mostly interested in making sure she got a balloon to take home,

Mother's Day

Marina was actually excited about Mother's Day this year. She gave me a card she made at school (two days early, I guess she couldn't wait). The card had a butterfly decorated with watercolors. My surprise for her was that I had bought mother-daughter dresses to wear today. We even had matching shoes (although Marina's were two sizes too big for her, but she insisted on wearing them anyway).


We had a busy day. First we went to church. Then we visited Grandma. Marina gave her an angel she'd painted. She also got to look for roly polys with Uncle Mike. After that, we went out to dinner with friends. We were both exhausted by the time we came home. But it was a good day.