This was the big day for Jace and Sierra! The two of them started early with a wig and make up call, followed by a costume and mic call. The rest of the cast was ready to go at 11 and the curtain went up. They are in the very first scene dressed in their native clothes. They look like island kids with their big bright floral print dress and skirt for Jace. They sound so cute singing together and the acting itself is very entertaining to watch. I took Maci and Olivia and they sat and watched attentively for over an hour. We didn't stay the whole time because we needed to make the kids some lunch and take it back to them. They stayed until 3:00 and then we came home and made some cinnamon rolls for the long practice tonight. The rolls were well received and then we even took some to our new neighbors that just got here from New York. After that, the kids stayed home and watched a movie and I went to garden for a couple of hours at Janet Rouse's home. She is a single mom with one teenager left at home and is an art teacher at the junior high here in Logan. Her garden is overrun with Johnson grass and morning glory but she has watered well for the last two days and it is coming out beautifully. We hope to be done weeding by Friday of this week and have the garden in by Saturday.
Olivia went to her first achievement day with a friend she met in this ward. She even went to play at her house for a couple of hours before achievement day started. She had a good time with Hayley Morrill and enjoys having a new friend. Maci is working on being more obedient and is having a struggle with that principle. I thought if I could bribe her with gum (her most favorite thing in the whole world) that she would respond in the way I wanted her to, but she is not cooperating thus far. She did earn two pieces of gum in one day but today was not so good. She can be so stubborn at times and just insists on doing things her way. The kids asked her to come out of someone's apartment and she wouldn't listen. They didn't know what else to do and the apartment owner finally carried her out and sent her home. I made her go to bed early (10:00) because she wouldn't obey the kids tonight when they were watching her. She didn't like that at all and cried for longer than I thought reasonable, so I sat on her bed and explained why it is important to learn to obey when you're young. As a parent, you never know how much of what you say is sinking in but I hope she picked up something from my endless yakking tonight.
We are having a mosquito problem here, anytime we're out after the sun goes down. Sierra had 4 mosquito bites in less than fifteen minutes last night and is not happy at all. We looked for some stuff to put on them to take away the itching but the herb store here didn't carry it. We've put in a request to Dave to get some ointment for our relief. The temperatures here have been in the high 80's, low 90's during the day but the nights are tolerable, probably somewhere around 65ish would be my guess. Another beautiful day in Logan.
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