Summer!

The summer has been a busy time at our house, and my blogging has suffered as a result.
At the end of May Reese finished her last day of MDO. Even with her only going to school twice a week, the year seemed to fly by. After many reminders, I don't think it sunk in that school was over until the following week when Reese asked, "Do I have school today?" Her sadness was short-lived when she realized that she got to stay home and play instead. She will be attending two weeks of summer school in July and she's already talking about being in her "big-three-year-old-class" next year.

I thought that summer was supposed to be the ONE sick-free season. Unfortunately, it's not panning out for us quite yet. The week after school ended Reese got a bad virus of some kind. She was laid up on the couch with a high fever for a few days. Kevin jokes that she likely caught the bug on the last day of school--the timing seemed right. Usually when Reese is sick it's hard to get her to abandon her activities and rest, but this time she sat on the couch and watched movies without complaint. She even fell asleep during "Follow That Bird."
As always, Paige followed suit and caught the bug quickly after Reese recovered. It didn't seem to bother her nearly as much though.

Once we got everyone well, we started in on our summer routine: mornings are for the park or water play in the backyard, and most afternoons you can find us at the pool. It took Reese three screaming trips to the pool before she remembered that she actually likes to swim. Now she's an independent fish who will swim for hours with her life jacket. Don't try to help her in any way, though, or you're in for an ear full of "I can do it myself!"

Just this week, Reese started dance classes at the community center in our neighborhood. Since she dances around the house constantly I thought it would be a perfect fit. She was very excited about getting to wear a leotard and REAL ballerina slippers. Since she isn't three yet, she is part of the 2 year old dance class. When we arrived for class on Tuesday afternoon we saw that there were five other girls in her class-four very young two year old girls and her friend from school, Sofia. We had no idea Sofia would be joining the class, so it was a welcome surprise. I snuck a few peaks through the window while the girls danced. The young girls had a hard time staying on their "magic dancing spots," and kept trying to run out of the room to find their moms. Reese and Sofia stayed put on their spots, but Reese didn't participate at all. She watched the teacher intently, but didn't move a muscle the whole class time. Maybe she's just taking it all in...She did dance up and down every aisle at HEB yesterday, so having an audience is not the problem.


Paige is finally getting her first teeth. Both of her two bottom teeth have already broken through the gums. She's not drooling at all, and it doesn't seem to be bothering her one bit. Paige has also made a slight rebound from her picky eating and is doing really well. When I weighed her this morning the scale said she's already over 16.5lbs. Since we've managed to wean her from her medications, we're going to try to introduce some dairy (yogurt) next week and see what happens. No crawling from Paige yet, although she does manage to spin her self around on her belly and push herself backwards easily. When Paige sleeps, she pulls her knees under herself so she's in the crawling position, but for some reason when she's awake she can't manage to coordinate all her limbs quite yet.


Two one liners from Reese just yesterday:
* "I only share on Monday and Tuesdays." This was her response when I told her not to take her sister's toys away. I'm still not sure how she knew it was Wednesday.

* "This is getting ridiculous!" This was her expression of frustration when I told her to look for her sandals and she couldn't find them. It turns out she was storing them in her refrigerator...now, that's the ridiculous part if you ask me.