Me-not a whole lot. I've been feeling not so great lately and have been trying to figure out what's up. So far, nothing concrete. So, I'm back to a couple more doctor's appointments in the next couple of weeks. And probably have to "donate" more blood.
Jason-he started taking a Japanese class and is now learning hiragana. Nothing like being here 3 years and taking it with one to go, huh? In any case, he's catching on rather quickly.
Brendan-being as crazy as ever. That kid has the WILDEST ideas-and is seriously smart. The connections he makes between things just blows my mind-and sometimes leaves me saying, "huh?" He's been doing really well in preschool this year-almost zero problems. He's still got attitude at home unfortunately. We're in for a rough ride with this one I think. He's starting to really "get" his letters and letter sounds-he's quick to tell us that he "just discovered that blanket starts with B" and other things like that. I am now realizing how tricky English is-he thought that "seed" started with "c"-and had a hard time understanding why it actually started with "s."
We had a very interesting conversation in the car the other day that went a little like this:
Brendan: "What's going on in China?"
Mom: "What do you mean, what's going on in China?"
Brendan: "I'm wondering if the battle of China is still happening."
Mom: "The battle of China?"
Brendan: "yeah, is it still happening right now?"
Mom: "Where did you hear about the battle of China?"
Brendan: "I watched it on Mulan."
Mom: "Oh. That was a long, long time ago. It's over now."
Brendan: "Like 100 long ago?"
Kieran-talking more than ever! People are amazed that he is just 26 months-he's literally holding entire conversations. Sure, they are simple conversations, but full sentences and such. It's nearly impossible to believe that he once had a speech delay-he's more talkative than most 2 year-olds we meet! His current favorite thing to say is "okay Mommy" when I tell him to do something. He's for the most part a very good two year old-the exact opposite of Brendan. It's refreshing, that's for sure! Nothing like a kid who (mostly) does what Mommy says!
Us- we're looking forward to a busy winter and busy 2011! We're going to have visitors for Christmas-Mama, Papa and Uncle Ian are coming to visit and we're all pretty excited. It'll be our last Christmas in Okinawa, so we're going to hit up as much of the holiday stuff here as we can. Then, we'll be headed out to Sapporo for the ice festival in February-it's hard to tell who is more excited for that one! This will be Kieran's first introduction to snow, and Brendan's first time that he will actually remember. After that, it's the usual Oki stuff until the end of May, when we go to Tokyo (and yes, Tokyo Disney!). Then, in November, we'll PCS from Okinawa.
Speaking of PCS'ing-we have no idea yet where we'll be going to. We're keeping everything crossed for another overseas assignment, but also are being realistic-Jason will put on MSgt in April, and overseas assignments for MSgts in his career field are few and far between. There was only one lone assignment on this last round...so we're not holding our breath (but toes and fingers are definitely crossed!). We'll have two cycles to pick up an overseas assignment and if nothing is open....stateside it is. We'll know by March at the earliest and August at the latest.
Today we went up to the northern most part of Okinawa-so here are a few pictures from Hedo Point!
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