All About Kids

This weekend Avery’s school had a family fun night at All About Kids. It’s this big gymnastics place with bouncies and foam pits. It’s a kids dream place (still wondering why these places didn’t exist when I was a kid). The girls love it there. There is a trapeze that you hang on and then fall into a big foam pit. Kids seem to love it. Every time we go Camille just stands there and watched kids do it over and over again. Some of Av’s friends do it but Av will not try it. I always thought C was too little for it but not daddy. He showed up after work and saw C staring at it. He thought “why not.” Sure enough she LOVED it. She did it over and over again. She would hang from it, swing out, let go and flop like a rag doll into the pit. It was kind of hard to watch your mimi kid doing it. She had quite the group of adults watching and laughing at her. Every time John fished her out of the foam pit she was run around and say more. I really just could not believe it. She has no fears. Avery’s bff Caroline was there but she was tired so she was kind of just sitting with her dad. I was so proud of Av, instead of just sitting there with Caroline she took off and played with 2 other girls that she kind of knows but not really. She was having a ball. Even when Caroline had to leave Av wanted to stay and play with the other girls she was playing with. She ran and jumped and walked on balance beams until she was completely wore out. It was a fun night!

Avery

Avery is getting so strong. I’m just amazed by her. She can now go up the stairs alternating her feet without holding onto anything! She does it like it’s the easiest thing in the world. That horseback therapy is really helping her. She has also started speech therapy at the same place. She does the therapy sessions back to back on Thursdays and so far so good. I think we are going to start OT soon too.

Mary Ann still has a strong presence in our lives. Most days she is sporting a new outfit that is supposed to be Camille’s and lately she even has started wearing Camille’s shoes and socks. Avery has many many many toys/stuffed animals/bags that sleep with her every night and she can’t possibly get them all up and down the steps herself so every morning as I am sitting on the couch cuddling with a just waking up Camille, I hear Av call down to me, “come get Mary Ann for me please!” Mary Ann has her own spot on the couch and I have to help position her legs so she is sitting up not lying down to sleep like she did all night. Heheheheh its all pretty funny.

Avery bowled for the first time on the Wii the other day with John. She had a great time. She got a 106 all by herself. It’s great eye hand coordination plus its good OT too so we will be playing more of that.

Here we go again

I got the surprise of my life on Friday Jan. 22nd. A positive pregnancy test. Wow. We were 95% sure we were going to have a 3rd but I was shooting more for the end of 2010 to get pregnant not the beginning. I really wanted Avery to be in primary school before our sweet little 3rd baby was brought into the world. I guess someone had a different idea for us. The irony of the situation is that this baby is due on Camille’s bday. I guess we are just meant to have fall babies. I am still in disbelief and shock. I think John is too. Since we found out John has been zoning out and worrying about the financial impact of this since that burden mostly falls on him (I am sooooooooo thankful of him that he not only takes that burden on but does such an excellent job taking care of us. I know how lucky I am.) I on the other hand have been zoning out and worrying about the logistics of caring for 3 kids (carting both C and a baby into Av's school to drop her off, taking 3 kids to the zoo-yikes!) and the basic day-to-day running of the house since that duty falls more on me. I’m sure John is worried about some of that too though. He is a terrific father; we are so lucky to have him!!!

feisty

When I picked Camille up on Monday the teachers had some not so good news for me. They said, “I can’t believe how aggressive she can be.” Ugh I knew that didn’t sound good. Thankfully they saw her start to bite and were able to stop her before it happened. She was wrestling around with some other kids and they were all having a great time until she opened her mouth on one of the other kids. The diligent teachers were watching and put a stop to it right away thankfully. They took her aside and told her sternly that she could not bite her friends. They were surprised because after that she sat and looked at books by herself for about an hour and then sat and did flash cards with them too. She is “Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde” and “feisty” they say. I hope she grows out of this soon!

Camille's new obsession

NYE

bed time stories