The Big Girls Take Swim Lessons

This year we decided to take the girls to the "Y" for lessons. They both did great. They were in lessons for 7 weeks and they really excelled.






Elise had a boy instructor that helped her girl teacher and Elise wasn't so sure about him at first. In fact, she told her Swim Teacher, "There's just something about that boy that I don't like." Her teacher said, "Oh really, what do you think it is?" and Elise, pointing to her armpits said, "he has hair under THERE!" He soon won her over and then she loved swimming lessons inspite of the fact that she had a teacher that was a boy.

My Future Olympian!

Hannah is taking swimming lessons right now. Because of her lessons she has taken a special interest in the Olympics. She loves watching the swimming. She notices when Michael Phelps "blows bubbles" just like her! She has also been enjoying the gymnastics and has taught herself how to almost do a cartwheel. Hannah is fearless when it comes to doing flips and jumps and somersaults. She is a girl after my own heart. I love you Hannah, my little future Olympian!

Confessions of a Mama about...Dresses and Daugters!

Today Hannah gets to go to a Tea Party for her friend Sydney's birthday. She, like any other four year old, is extremely excited about this party. On the invitation it said to come dressed in your Sunday or dress up best. Last night, Hannah asked me what she was going to wear to the party. I, being a mother who always wants her child to look her best, told her that we were going to get her all dressed up in her cute chocolate brown dress with the pink polka dots and the pale pink sash. Hannah's response, "I HAVE to wear CHURCH CLOOOOTHES!!!" In that response, I completely saw myself at her age. I HATED wearing dresses. The only days that I wore dresses were on Sundays and picture days at school. I didn't grow out of this hatred of fancy clothes until I got a grown up job and realized it was nice to dress up like said "grown up" and be treated with the respect that such wear demands. I didn't realize that Hannah felt like this about dresses at all because she loves to wear dress up dresses (which I did not)! And she loves to wear skirts and skorts and the like. Of course I can completely relate to her dissatisfaction toward wearing "church clothes" to a birthday party. I quickly changed course and told her that she could wear her Snow White dress and she skipped away as happy as can be.

So to all you doubters out there (there may be one or two, but their probably aren't any), it's official. Hannah really is my daughter and a lot more like me than I even realized! Too all you fellow readers and bloggers out there, which one of your kids is the most like you and what was your Ah Ha, light bulb moment when you discovered this to be so? Let me know in the comments I'd love to hear from you...

Hannah's First Day of Sunbeams

(As you read this post imagine that the song "Mama I'm a Big Girl Now" from Hairspray is playing in the background. It's one of Hannah's favorite songs and is one of the first songs I ever heard her sing all by herself.)

Well, it's official. Hannah is a Sunbeam. And oh what a cute little Sunbeam she is. She wanted to go to Primary all by herself but I needed the closure of taking her myself. I definitely took her for me not for her. She would have found it just fine without me. She absolutely loved Primary. She got up and bore her Testimony all by herself. She told me, (in a confessional type voice) "I was noisy some of the time, and I didn't get to hold a picture but sometimes I will." She came home singing "I'm Trying to Be Like Jesus". I heard her singing it in the bathroom. She had been in there for a while, so I went to check on her and found her getting into the soap and putting it all over her arms and legs. Irony? I think so! Hannah congratulations on your first day of Primary. You really are "a big girl now"