More dancing

We've been making the most of Dayssi's good counts, running around to as many regular activities as we can handle. Yesterday was India's dress rehearsal for her upcoming dance recital. We made it to class, on time, with all of the pieces of India's costume, and with a complete picnic for Dayssi. I remembered my new cell phone/camera (thank you Jim!) but, alas, couldn't get it to work. So these pictures are courtesy of Annika's mom Susan Chao. Pretty cute aren't they? Susan is trying to send a video clip from the rehearsal which I will also try to post. The show is on June 10 and we are bringing a big cheering section. Apparently no photographs or video taking allowed.

Today we went to Dayssi's gymnastics class, at her request, but she wasn't interested in doing any gymnastics. We put on her pink leotard and said hello to the teachers and her little participant friends. But she stayed in my arms and it seemed to satisfy her for today. She said that next week she wants to come again and to wear her black leotard. If counts allow, we will.

We also picked up India from pre-school and watched her acting out the song "I'm a little green frog . . ." with some classmates and the origami frogs they had made. On the way out we bumped into our friend Sharon and her daughter Edie, who were going to pick up Edie's brother Cole from kindergarten. We followed them to the International Day celebration at the elementary school (which is right next door to our pre school). The celebration was pretty exciting: when we arrived all of the kids were on the playground, and there was an announcer with a loud speaker calling out the names of different countries. As each country was named, all of the kids from each place ran up to the front of the crowd, took up their nation's flag and fell into a parade, kind of like at the Olympic ceremonies. It is a very international school and some of the kids wore native costumes, so it was pretty colorful. India marched hand in hand with Cole behind the American flag (sorry Jim!), and Dayssi stayed in her stroller but urged me to "catch up with Cole and India," so we ran around behind them. Finally we went to India's gymnastics class, and then we went home and collapsed.

The hospital called today to schedule the PORT surgery, so barring some kind of illness this weekend, it will be inserted on Tuesday (could be Wednesday, I didn't actually talk to anyone there yet). We will keep you posted.