yoshi & checkers

we had a busy week. on wednesday, the new school had a singer entertain the kids and mcdonald's lunch. so when i picked the kids up on tuesday night, i started telling john about what was happening the next day. i said, tomorrow you get to have mcdonald's at school and then yoshi is coming in to sing to you guys. john then says "wait, wait a minute. did you say yoshi? i know him!!!" john was right, yoshi has visited his old school. the following morning he was super excited to go to school. not only did he get to enjoy the special treat at school but mimi picked him up early from school too. mimi picked him up to take him to jenkinson's aquarium. he had a great time at the aquarium. He saw a scuba diving santa! he also had one of the employees at the aquarium point out checkers the penguin that visited his school last week. now john is an expert in picking out checkers in a group of penguins. he says "checkers has a bead on her." i'm not really sure what that means, but it sounds really cute.