Dance Revolution

As you can see, Kayleigh and Zeb love to break it down once in a while. Kayleigh does this one dance where she looks like she is in a trance. I hope not!

An Inside Look into Kayleigh's school

Kayleigh loves going to school. Every Tuesday and Thursday she insists on wearing pig tails to match her friends. Before she started wearing pig tails to school I would put a bow in her hair and when I picked her up her hair always looked different. I really think her teachers like styling her hair. It is pretty amusing to see what new hair style she has when I pick her up. She has had a month long break from school because we have been on vacation, had a conference and the school was closed for the holiday. She starts back next week and is really looking forward to it. Below are some pictures of her classmates and an inside look at her classroom.

Kayleigh and all her classmates.

We pick up Kayleigh at 11:30 but most of her classmates stay all day so they take a nap there.

Kayleigh loves the fact that they have a piano! She loves music and really likes to sing and dance. She often comes home singing a new song that she has learned.

And the bathroom, need I say more?!

The front door of her school.

It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas....

It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas in the Greene home. I spent most of the afternoon on Saturday trying to get the Christmas tree up and the lights on the tree. Having two little ones it takes longer than you think to put up a Christmas tree. So by Saturday night all I had accomplished was putting up the tree and putting on the lights. The next day I decided to wait until Zeb went to bed and decorate the tree with Kayleigh. I attempted to decorate while Zeb was awake but he thought the ornaments in the shape of a ball where toys that he could throw across the room! Needless to say I didn't get much decorating done during his waking hours. So after Zeb man was fast asleep Kayleigh and I finished decorating the tree. We have been listening to Christmas music everyday here. Kayleigh's favorite song is "Oh Come, Oh Come Emmanuel". She calls it "Rejoice". She actually knows a lot of the words!

Ting Dian!

Yesterday we had ting dian which means that we had no power. The direct translation is "stop electricity". Around 8am the power just went off and usually that means it is not going to come back on until 5pm or later. Most of the country is warned of this event because they put it in the newspaper. Since I can't read the paper, all no power days are a complete surprise to me. Because of the warnings most businesses are prepared with a generator to run business as usual. That morning I was on the phone with a friend asking her if she had power since they usually cut the power to the whole block when Kayleigh asked me who I was talking to. I was joking and told her that I was talking to the shu shu's ( a polite name that kids call older men which means uncle) about cutting on the power. I had no idea that she would really take this to heart. Later that morning she wanted to listen to some music so I had to explain to her that since we had no power there was going to be no music. Kayleigh's reply: "Mommy lets go tell the Shu Shus to turn the power back on." The Shu Shus she is referring to are the guards at the entrance to our complex. I told her that it probably wouldn't work since they have no control over this power situation but she was determined to tell them. So we go outside and of course she walks over to the guard gate and asks me what the guards said about the power. I preceeded to tell her that they said it would come back on at 4pm. I took this piece of information lightly because they rarely know the actually time. Their answer seemed to satisfy her at the time. So we headed down to buy juice at a local store which had a generator running. She asked me what it was and I told her that it helped them to have power. Kayleigh's response " Mommy ask them if we can take it home so we can watch a movie". I told her I was pretty convinced they were not going to give up their generator so we could watch a movie. So to Kayleigh's disappointment we headed home to wait until 5:30pm until the power came back on.