This was Maggie last summer when she had her first encounter with swimming.
We are trying to improve on that experience. We started swimming lessons last week. I think it’s going to be a good thing.
We did songs and games in the big pool for the first 30 minutes, and then Maggie floated in this tube in the baby pool for the last 15 minutes. It was a good family outing. Hopefully we’ll be ready for camping trips this summer!
The weekend was a whirlwind of activity – more on that later… We took a bit of time out to go to an Easter Egg Hunt at the Old Towne Square shops near my school.
Maggie managed to snag a grand total of one egg. One. The poor girl walked past a bunch of eggs to get to where all the kids were. Well, those kids were 3 and 4 years old and were highly motivated by the candy prizes in the eggs. Needless to say the whole egg “hunt” took about 4 minutes, and that’s counting redropping Maggie’s one egg so that we could get some pictures! Oh well, next year we can try again.
The weather was gorgeous yesterday! Despite the full work day and an evening of things to do, we eeked out some time to play outside. I’m taking yesterday as an indication that this summer is going to be pretty amazing! Wally, of course, loves being outside. Maggie is enamored with the outdoors as well, especially if Wally’s there.
Apparently the ear tubes have opened up the world of music in a way we were missing out on before…
When you get a little help around the house, isn’t it? I know I really, really appreciate the fact that Maggie’s starting to pull her weight. Check it out…
Once she finished ‘helping’ with the office supplies, she moved on to books…
And ended the night in home textiles. Every single swatch of fabric in she could reach was touched, pulled, and tossed over her shoulder. And there she sat – queen of the mountain. Sheesh.
The birds were chirping, a light snow was falling. The scene was picturesque. We ventured out on a family trip to St. Vinny’s & a tag sale we saw on Craigslist. We expected so little – thought we’d be returning home quickly & with little show for the time spent out and about. But we were mistaken.
The thrifting gods were watching out for us this crisp winter morning. They lured us out there & with good reason. WE HIT THE MOTHERLOAD. We are done shopping for Maggie for next Christmas…really! St Vinny’s was a treasure trove today. We scored some great furniture items. Granted, they’ll need some love, but that’s to be expected.
Kole found his old pal in the furniture section. It works like this - we decide on our items, and then this little old man writes up a ticket for us so that we can pay up front, but pick up our items at the service door ‘round back. Dude knocked $10 off the cupboard – he did the same thing last time we bought something there. What a steal!
Then we went to the tag sale, figuring we wouldn’t find much. It’d been running for 3 hours by the time we made it there. Ay! Besides the cooler of fabric for $4 and the plethora of miscellaneous treasures, we also got these gems.
A wooden doll highchair and a drop leaf table and 4 chairs. Again, wood glue is certain to become our new best friend sometime between now and next December, but still!
We’ve got an entire child’s kitchen and dining room ready to go once we’ve got a place for it – Do you hear me forever house? Show yourself!!! We’re running out of storage space here!
