2/27/11 Skating with Thea and Delila, and some other stuff

My mom, Leah and I met Renate (Tiffanie's Mom), Tiffanie, Thea and Delila at the Plymouth Ice Arena for some opening skating. What a fun afternoon. I really can't believe how far Leah has come this year. She has some speed to her now...and she glides!!! It was also fun to see the progress that Thea was making. She's a natural. Plus, I spent most of the afternoon working with Delila. She had so much fun going "fast." She would glide her feet along the ice in a downhill ski motion while I skated fast. She did start to get the idea near the end. I think once she understands, she is going to be fast. Leah and Thea were cute to watch as they tried to "help" me teach Delila. After, we headed to Chili's for dinner. Fun day.

I am happy to report that we now have a healthy household. I spend some time in the Same Day Clinic yesterday. Why, well, it seems I now have a new antibiotic allergy. I started to get the same lovely rash that I was too familiar with during past reactions to penicillin and sulfa, this one is now to Keflex. Fun stuff. Guess I am going to have to just stay healthy, cuz who knows what they can give me now.

Amber is a walking machine. It is so rare to see her crawl anymore. In fact, she will come close to a run when she really wants something. Amazing to me how fast that transition happened. Seems 1 week she was wobbling around, then the next she was a natural as can be. This age is so much fun. She is getting another molar. She does handle it well, but she has had some more crabby times than we are used to, but nothing that baby orajel and tylenol doesn't help!

Leah had a fun weekend. Friday night she spent at Nonna and Grandpa's house and Dan, Thea, and Delila were also there. Can we say late bed time? Then, of course, Leah still gets up at 5:30am. Why, you ask? I have no idea, I wish I could figure out how to turn that internal clock off that tells her to wake up early. Any one now how to teach a 6 year old to sleep in? Saturday morning, Nonna took her to gymnastics where Grama Mary, and eventually Dan, Thea, Deilila, and Grandpa all came to watch. Saturday night, My mom, Leah and I met Deb, Jaci, Kaysee and Kurtis at the Children's Theatre for their new show "Barrio Girl." It was cute. Not my favorite, that is still held by "Babe the sheep pig." We will see next month if "Annie" will take the top spot. So, today, again Leah wakes up at 5:30...seriously. Off to church where we faced a melt down (likely due to fatigue). Finally, after I was able to calm her down, she was quite pleasant. She then fell asleep in the car as we headed to her friend's birthday party. So, she made it home today at about 4:30 and had a low key evening. Hopefully she is not too tired at school tomorrow!

And, as a final note, I just love this project that Leah brought home from school a couple of weeks ago. How I hope they will always be friends!