Sleeping Baby

So, the girls have been sick. Addison mostly. She threw up three times on Monday. We thought it was something that she ate, but then she threw up again Tuesday morning. And then Regan started throwing up and I started feeling queasy (maybe from all of the throwing up and being thrown up on more than once), so we decided that it was probably a virus. Addison threw up again this morning, but has seemed fine for the rest of the day... We hope we have turned the corner. But I have to say... she is just like me when she is sick. She sleeps it away. Yesterday Regan came and asked me where Addison was. We were all pretty lethargic yesterday, but I hadn't heard the door beep so I assumed she was inside. I told her to go find her and tell me where she was. She found her sleeping in her bed. She slept for two hours. Today we went through the drive through, and Addison fell asleep on the way home. I left her in the car until she woke up and then I brought her inside. She slept for at least forty minutes on me and then she got up and wanted to eat. So, I brought her food to her chair. She got up and went into my room and I heard her fuss but she never called or came back out. I went to check on her and she was asleep on the floor. She then woke up and went back to her chair and is currently sleeping on her chair. On Monday (before we knew she was sick), I made her lay down in her bed with her milk. I was debating on whether or not to wake her up to take Regan to swim team when I saw her sit up in her bed. When I went in her room she seemed to be pulling at the strings on the blankie that she no longer has. She looked up at me and said "Mommy, I didn't get a strike." and then she put the air blankie to her mouth like she was chewing on it (which I think is how it disintegrated in the first place) laid back down and started snoring again. Had I known that she was sick, I would have left her sleeping.

Beach

We were on the MS Gulf Coast this weekend for my grandmother's 80th birthday. I think it is the first time that I have stayed on the Gulf Coast since I have had children. It was a lot of fun spending time with family that we don't get to see very often. My kids really liked seeing one of their cousins, Wyatt, who they would like to adopt as their little brother.

They really wanted to go to the beach while we were there, so Sunday morning before we left... we took them. My kids are extremely spoiled when it comes to beaches, because when we go to the beach we stay at a hotel with a pool and pretty water and sand. So, as soon as we got there they wanted to know where the pool was. And at first they wanted no part of "the yucky brown water." Which Matt and I thought was funny since we both grew up with that yucky brown water. As soon as we got there Addison needed to potty. We told her to go in the water, so she walked to the edge of the water, squatted and started peeing. They did eventually get in the water. And then I realized that in that way it was better than Destin, because there is no undertow and it doesn't get very deep. So, I could let them go in by themselves and now worry. But we will still be going to the beautiful beaches of Destin. : )

Kindergarten Program

I have to say.... I LOVE the music teacher at Regan's school. The kindergarten program was adorable. I meant to get a video of it, but keep forgetting. Hopefully, I can still purchase one. It was ocean themed and everyone had a speaking part. It was the cutest thing! It brought tears to my eyes, though. I think because it finalized that kindergarten is over and we are done with the little school. I'm not sure who is having more anxiety about the big school, Me or Regan. I think I would have to say me. But they took the kindergarten to visit first grade and Regan said it was big and there are a lot of kids. Which anything would be big compared to where she is now. She also told Matt that she wanted to stay in Kindergarten. I talked to her about it and she seems to be worried that she won't have friends in her class. Which I explained to her that she knows all of the kids in Kindergarten, so even if it's not the kids that she has in her class this year it will still be kids that she knows. They have summer camps at the big school and I am sending her to one at the end of the summer to hopefully help alleviate some of her anxiety.

Art Spark

The kindergarten performed at Regan's school's Art Show. People have made comments to me lately about Regan's voice. It is loud and she has good pitch. Someone even suggested that I put her in voice lessons (as if I don't have enough to do). She definitely loves to sing and she was so close to the microphone that there was one song in particular that you could only hear her voice.

After the performance we walked around and looked at the art. We were really impressed by some of the art. The most impressive were these pieces of art that looked like drawings, but were really a bunch of words that created the art. Apparently the art teacher at the big school is really good.... which is good for Regan, since she truly loves art.

Dance Review

It's finally over and I can take a breather from dancing. Having two in dancing this year has been hectic, to say the least. We thought Addison wasn't going to do it again next year, because (unlike her sister) she has no love for the stage. She even cried a few times (as if getting their makeup on straight isn't hard enough), but would dance once she got on stage. She told me that "All those people looking at me makes me look funny." I swore that I would never be the mother that forced her children to do dancing, so I kept telling her that she just had to do the rehearsals and the review and then she never had to do dancing again. Well, she loves the makeup and she of course loved getting a present.... so now she's decided that she wants to do dancing again.

May Day

Last Friday was May Day at Regan's school. She was very excited, because the kindergartner's get to hold the ribbons on the may poles. After Addison's muffins with mom's we went over to Regan's school where Matt met us. The kids had fun running around and then we all went to lunch together.

Muffins with Mom's

Addison had muffins with mom's at her school last Friday which also happened to coincide with May Day at Regan's school. Addison's teacher was nice enough to have Muffins with Mom's early, so that I could do both. It was really cute and unfortunately the picture that I took did not come out. But they gave us presents and we had delicious muffins. Her teacher said this has been the best class that she has ever had and complimented us all on our parenting which I thought was nice. They also had chapel at Addison's school that morning which I don't normally go to, because I always thought it would be to hard for her when I left. I think she could handle it now, but in the beginning of the year she couldn't have. She was so happy that I was there. She kept looking back and waving. It was cute.