February 11, 2011
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Random
We (josh and i) were just at the French Elementary school this morning to meet with the Director with regards to Judah’s enrollment. He’s a very nice man and can even speak English for the times when my french lapses. ha. We’ll know by March if Judah gets in, but i dont suspect there will be a problem. Unfortunately, as i referred to in a post a few days back, due to the economic issues that many are struggling with i reckon many national students who would have gone to the French school wont be due to the higher cost of tuition than other schools. Josh pointed out that a mark in Judah’s favour for being accepted is that we’re in the ‘international’ category for tuition rates, which means that we’ll be paying the highest amount. ha.
Asher is continuing to grow like the proverbial weed. He is currently 14 months and has now learned to walk backwards, which he enjoys showing off to anyone who will watch; eat on his own, which his parents dont generally allow him to do very often due to the mess it creates; and push chairs towards where he wants to climb up on things. Uh-oh! The challenge therefore is to protect the things he thinks are climb-up worthy, namely the computer, tv, and various other non-toddler-friendly items. He continues to love talking on the cell phone whenever he can get his hands on it. He puts it to his hear (or lower neck) and jabbers on, walking around the room like he’s obviously seen his parents do. How cute… except when he stashes my phone in places where i cant find it. His favourite food is homemade mac&cheese, of which he can eat huge bowl-fulls. He sleeps mostly well during the night, going down with a milk bottle (which i KNOW is bad for his teeth, but nevermind! he brushes morning and night most days) and still takes 2 naps a day for between an hour and 2.5 hours at a time. Recently, however, he’s been bucking the afternoon nap with a vengence and the other day catapulted himself out of his crib, following his teddy-bears, blanket, bottle and mobile animals which he likes to throw vehemently out of crib. He loves being chased, playing in the truck, playing in the sandbox and playing with little cars, which his brother never did like doing. He’s also been putting things into his mouth, which judah never did and thus i became not as vigilent with keeping small items out of reach, but last Wednesday at the Superbowl party at a friends’ house he was (thankfully!) walking past me and choking on a plastic bottle cap he had found lying on the floor. Egad! It gives me the heebie-jeebies just thinking about how, in that room full of people watching a loud football game, he could have choked and no one might have noticed!
Today is Judah’s last day of school before (Valentines day?) school holidays. I dont know why there are holidays just now… it’s not because of Ash Wednesday because that’s in March… and we’ve also got another two weeks off in April over Easter. Yikes! We’re planning on building a secret fort these holidays in the back garden area, behind the bushes. Stay tuned for photo status-reports.
Recently there has been a pop up of new Madagascar Lotteries billboards come up around the city. They make me exceedingly angry! Here, while the ______________________ government has been the cause of the economic crisis in the country, they now have the gall to create a lottery program whereby they rob the poor to feed the rich, so to speak. The government needs money so they bring in a system to give false hope: free money! to the poor in order to pay for the huge budget items the rich government officials are struggling due to their own poor choices. gah! I wish i was stupidly courageous enough to print my own posters to pin up under the billboards declaring the real reason behind these flashy new signs. Doesnt the government know that the price of being in power means using your OWN money to pay for the things you cant afford?! if only. >> “Société d’Exploitation de Loterie is a quasi government-owned entity set up to operate, or contract with third parties to operate, lotteries on the island.” Society of Exploitation indeed! GAH! Go pick on someone your OWN economic level!
I’m currently working on the second volume of the MAF Inflight Magazine. It’s not very fun… either that or i’ve gotten used to not doing office work and am chafing at this new job. Thus the long blog entry whilst i should be working. haha.
