Today was our final Spring Semester Monday for 2012! Our normal morning routine: breakfast, hygiene checklist, pack Nate's lunch (next year HE is in on this gig), and backpack ready. Then garbage and recycling to the curb at 8:10, up to the bus stop in the van, release Nate to Ms. Joyce a few minutes later, continue on to BodyFlow with Amy at Wilson's on Rangeline, 45 minutes until swim lessons so we play at the Parents As Teachers resource room and grab a snack, then Amelia's beginner swimming lessons at Macher Swim School. She has made a lot of progress! The first two lessons I thought perhaps this was going to be a waste of money--she wouldn't even put her face in the water. Give her a floatie and she's a fish, but not so much when she feels insecure. By lesson three she was catching on. Hold your breath, then monkey face face in the water. Now she's putting it all together--hold breath, monkey face, take a new breath when you lift your head out of the water. I almosy want to keep going so as to keep up the progress. Is it sad that it feels like quite an accomplishment when lunchtime rolls around and we've hit all the above windows on our regimented morning schedule?
Today was an extra special surprise, I had a voicemail in the way to yoga that our neighbor, Ariya, was celebrating her 4th birthday with a very last-minute celebration today at 11:00. So Amelia and I partied it up in the cul-de-sac until about 2:30. All in a day's "work!"
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