Frog Days of Summer

Molly had her 1st recital last Saturday.  Any reservations I might have had about dance class being "too much" were quickly erased when we saw her on the stage.  Too cute is the only way to describe it.  It was interesting to watch how much harder she tried when in front of an audience. She now asks me about the stage and when we're going there again and before class yesterday, she told me she loved dance class and that she wanted to stay there forever.  Since she's such a big fan, I signed her up for the summer class.

For the performance, they were little frogs and danced with Kermit and Miss Piggy to "Who let the frogs out".  Terrible I know.  I don't care, it was freaking adorable.

  Maggie was a trooper during the show and actually really got into it.  She even quietly fell asleep at one point, which is kind of unheard of for her.

Maggie is still going blueberry crazy.  I'm going to have to change her name to Violet Beauregarde.

Swim class was good and bad.  Good for Maggie, bad for Molly.  She screamed her way through the 1st week.  I spent my time avoiding eye contact with her and trying not to upset her more than she already was.  I think it's a combination of being intimidated by the older kids and being up-set at me for being in the pool with Maggie.  I made her tough out 6 days, but in the end I let her drop out.
After one particularly horrible day at class, she came home and passed out. 

Happier times...before swim class.

I asked her one day to think of things that she liked about swim class.  She came up with this: "going home"

I bought candy land yesterday and we've been playing all day.  She actually obeys some of the rules.  Mostly she likes making up stories about the gingerbread boys.  When one game piece gets ahead of the other game piece she gets sad and wants them to be together again.  Next time I'll have to get chutes and ladders.

Summer Fun

It's getting hotter as always and we keep doing summery things, I suppose we should just embrace the heat.  My mom bought Molly and Maggie a fun little kiddie sprinkler to play in.  Maggie's not sure she likes it, but without fail, she always crawls into the middle.

Of course we have a lot of watermelons to eat.  Giving Maggie her own slice was pretty funny

Thank goodness she likes it, I don't think Jonny could stand having a kid that didn't like watermelon.

Molly, showing her how it's done.

We told her she should do it "pie-eating contest" style

but she's a cheater.

We also started swim lessons this week.  Maggie is in the parent tot class with me, and Molly started in the preschool class.  The first day went pretty good,the 2nd day was a little rough.  I could see Molly just looking pitiful the whole time.  Maggie's class lets out a half hour before Molly's so I went in to get Maggie cleaned up and I guess while we were in the changing room, Molly had told her teacher that she needed to go to the bathroom.  They tried to find me, but we were in the bathroom, and they didn't know.  They asked her what I looked like and she said that I looked like she did (sweet, but not exactly accurate).  Eventually they took her to the bathroom, but they didn't know that their toilets are too tall for her to hop up onto.  At this point I found them, but just a second too late.  When I went in to help her, she just started crying and peeing all over the floor.  Whoops!  After that, we just called it a day and went home.  Thankfully, today went much better and she seemed to be much happier in class. 

Blueberries!

I used to feed Molly little frozen blueberries all the time.  I had forgotten until recently.  The only drawback is that their little hands get stained and look kind of bruised.  I never really intended to feed her like this, but I'm almost exclusively giving her finger foods.  I did do this with Molly too, but I also made a lot of purees.  I'm sure Molly was like this too, but I hate trying to spoon feed her since she's always knocking it out of my hand and trying to steal it from me.  I gave up pretty easily this time around and decided that if she wants to eat, she can take care of herself.  For the most part, she does.
Sort of random fun fact about Maggie:  She has a Mongolian mark.  I hadn't ever heard of it, but I noticed awhile back that she has a faint  bruised looking patch on her lower back and butt.  I know they say you shouldn't use google to diagnose, but in this case it worked out.   I typed in "bruise like marks on baby's back" and there it was.  Hers isn't as noticeable as some of the kids on google (I can't even take a visible picture of it) , but that's definitely what it is.  They say is goes away by age 3, and it isn't any big deal.

Molly went to work with my mom today and she was cracking me up because of how "grown-up" she was trying to be. After I told her that she was going to go, she became obsessed with getting ready by herself so she could go to work. She even made a few comments to me about how Gran really needed her help and how she'd better hurry-up for Gran. I'm not sure how helpful she was, but she did have a good day.

Maggie's getting ready to walk now. She's pretty good with the walker now, this video was from about a week ago, so she's even improved since then.
She's also getting good at picking out watermelons now that Jonny always has several laying around.