Fun Filled Day with Babysitting, Ballet, ASL, and Chance Encounters

Maki and Erin had an early morning ASL class so basically I stayed in bed till late then lazily got up and did some computer. Then from 10:30 Naomi dropped Maki and I off to Heather's house to babysit Malia and Bella. They are soooo cute and it was so much fun to babysit them. Ok, I was babysitting but mostly just playing with them. ^_^ Bella LOVES this beachball which she keep hugging, sucking, then hitting with her hand. She would suddenly start laughing, too.

Malia still calls me Printella while she called Maki sometimes by the name of 'Monkey'. lol! Malia had this Noah's Ark toy which is lots of fun playing with...

For lunch Maki and I 'made' ramen while Malia had a lunch made up for her already. Feeding Bella was REALLY fun because she's starting to eat baby food from those little baby food jars. Got a little messy (:P) but was still an intersting experience.

Later on tucked Malia into bed for her nap. Bella was still very awake so played with her a little more before putting her into her crib for her nap. So for about thirty minutes Maki was doing some studying while I was working on my ballet report. Heather came home a little after 2:00; Naomi had arrived a little earlier. We talked a bit but I had to leave by 2:30 because I had a ballet class at 3:15.

Went home and got all my ballet 'stuff' together (got changed into my ballet clothes, got my shoes, water, and towel, and printed out my Learning Log homework). Class was lots of fun and I'm really feeling a change in the way I'm doing all the ballet techniques. Today for the first time we worked on turning! It's similar to what we practice whenever we had the Newsies and sign dance practices... except we did everything on 'tiptoe', which is VERY different. It was funny because I demonstrated the turn at home and Maki's eyes widened, saying that I looked even taller and bigger when I'm on tiptoe. :P

Got home and starting working on new craft hobby. ^_^ Lots of fun... it's actually turning out better than I thought it would.

After a delicious dinner (Naomi cooked chicken and spring rolls besides have Japanese 'mixed rice), we went over to Kahala Mall for the Deaf event going on at the food court. It seems that every second Friday, Deaf people and ASL students will gather and just 'sign' and get to know one another. At first I thought there wouldn't be too many people but when we got there, there were maybe 40 people! Everyone was signing and laughing so it was a bit intimidating. But Naomi and I noticed our ASL teacher, Ami, there and 'talked' to her a bit. Then we saw a woman with a black papillon with perfect markings! She was learning ASL, too, so we got to sign a lot with her (and of course pet her dog. ^_^) We met and had conversations with several other people. And then the funny thing was, we met Don there! He had been doing some shopping and spotted us among the signers. So he joined us for the rest of the evening though he didn't have a clue what all the signs were. :P

Then around 8:30, we met Greg and his wife Yuko outside, because they came with their golden retriever, CJ. Greg and Yuko recently started going to Kaimuki Church and they had wanted to get together with us. Yuko is from Osaka and Greg speaks fluent Japanese so it was fun talking together. And of course, I LOVE their dog. CJ is really adorable and he's like Bianca in a lot of ways, though a bit more reserved. lol! He LOVES food so I kept sneaking him some of Don's scone. :P

It was so funny because while we were talking, we saw Rose walk by (she's a member of Kaimuki Church). She's a really energetic lady and I always love talking with her. Then there was ANOTHER chance encounter... a whole group of the 'young' people from Kaimuki Church walked by, too! There was Dave, Tiffany, Matt, Paulette, Yuriy, Jin, and several others. I mean, I knew Hawaii was a small island but I didn't think it was this small! lol!

We talked late and finally around 10:30 we got home. It was nice because I was able to talk with my parents on the phone, which is always very special. Ah, well, I'm heading for bed now. Joe's having his drum class tomorrow from 9:00 so I'll have to wake up semi-early to make it in time. Nothing else planned for tomorrow but who knows, at the rate we've been going something will most definitely probably pop up. ^_^

Today is Colin Firth's 45th birthday! In his honor, just a picture because I don't want get into the quotes thing; there are just too many movie quotes from his movies The Important of Being Earnest, Pride and Prejudice, and Relative Values that I love. ~_^