Two Little Fish

Ibrahim and Isa started what will be weekly swim lessons at a hotel that is about a 15-20 minute walk each way from the apartment. It was a very cold day today, but we bundled up and managed, cheeks rosey red and little dripping noses. The pool and the two trainers, were very nice, and spoke English well. The boys has a wonderful time and I had no idea how good of a swimmer Ibrahim is. The class was 30 mins long and the boys lasted without tiring. We also had cocoa from the vending machine at the park on the way home, they enjoyed that too, Isa seemed to spill a lot of his down his jacket on the walk. I thought we would get home and they would take a nice nap... that did not happen, they played the wii until the school crew arrived.

We had a nice surprise when we returned from the hotel, Khalid was home from the road, two days early. The team that they were supposed to play is no longer in the league.

So of course all the children were happy. We made pizzas for dinner with our turkey pepperoni, also had salad. Ishmael and Idreis are off to basketball, the second time for Ish, they started basketball at school today too, and he was appointed the captian of the team, so he is very excited about that.

Very happy to have K back, it is enough to handle with all of them in a foreign country and even more when he is gone. As well as having to hear Isa cry, " I want my daddy.. I want my daddy".

They are all layed on him, all of them on the floor, watching Animal Planet.

Had conferences yesterday at the school, all of the children are doing well, wasn't able to meet with Idreis' teacher, but he seems to be doing well and enjoying school. I am just happy that he is staying out of the lockers now. Ishmael needs to work on his spelling and also writing structures, not using paragraphs... So he now has a new best-friend, the dicitonary, which he is to look at afterschool for 10-15 minutes and just study words. We have Scrabble, but he seems to rather play on his laptop, and when we do play, he only seems to come up with 2 and 3 letter words... Not to blast my baby, just some things to address with him.

We made M&M cookies last night, that was fun.. Isa of course was just interested in eating the candy.

No big plans for the weekend, they actually have Saturday school this weekend, no games, so I am sure we will just be chilling here at home. I hope to make it to the hotel where I have recently become a member to their gym. Should be a good time, it is just cold cold cold here.

Seems like my feet are still cold from earlier this afternoon. Most sidewalks are not shoveled, it is very icy and slippery on the sidewalks, not sure why people dont shovel here... Some of the stores do, but majority of the walkways that we are on, are not. Isa fell a few times on the way home today.

The internet has been tripping for the last 4 days, to say the least... it seems like we cant even get on during the day, and even now as I thought I had a signal while typing this, the internet has gone in and out. Seems like the signal only stays strong like 11pm and on.. which means I have been staying up too late. Usually we have problems when it is snowing, but that hasn't happenend for at least a week. I'm nore sure of the problem, but it is very frustrating.