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May. 30th, 2007 11:14 pmI haven't had much to say lately, it seems. Everything is fine, I guess. I, as usual, wish I felt more motivated and organized. But that is just going to be my chronic problem in life, I think.
The neighborhood pool opened last weekend. We've visited twice. As has become something of a habit with her, Mari decided to just...swim. She was just beginning to float and paddle a bit at the end of last summer. The second time we visited the pool this year, within about 20 minutes she had tossed me her life jacket, jumped in the five foot end of the pool, and paddled back to the wall. She proceeded to do this over and over and over again and then moved on to swimming from the wall, out a few feet, and back. All by herself. Daddy was close and I was close, but she wasn't looking for us except to admire her skills. What is up with that kid? Does she really need to grow up all of a sudden like this? I would really appreciate it if she'd SLOW DOWN and let me catch my breath!!
I never did an update on Luci. This will be short and not really an update...just thoughts.
Her latest obsession has been the book Bread and Jam for Frances. And I do mean obsession. You guys know about Luci and her obsessions, right? I think I talked about her year long obsession with The Wizard of Oz enough that people probably got the idea. Well, every day for LITERALLY three solid weeks, I read her that book. And she drew pictures of the story, acted it out with her stuffed animals, made me do "scenes" from the story with her verbatim, ate bread and jam at every opportunity. I was fascinate, then amused...then not so amused. She is finally branching out a bit again, with LOTS of encouragment on my part. Tonight I read her Froggy goes to bed and I saw that gleam in her eye...I'm afraid I may be reading Froggy until I want to burn it...
She is, however, being her usual adorable, achingly lovable self lately. Her latest fun/cute/hilarious antic is her "Daddy boopy dance". I have no idea what that means, but she puts her arms above her head, hands in fists, shaking back and forth, while she wiggles her hips frantically and chants "Daddy boopy dance!" over and over. It makes us laugh everytime. No one could resist this clown child. All she has to do is grin and shoot those dimples straight into your heart and you're hooked. Her preschool teacher told me at her conference that she and the assistant teacher were discussing Luci one day recently and the assistant teacher said "I think Luci was my child in a former life". Her teacher said that is how they both feel, like Luci is "their" child. It is that kind of love and affection. Luci glows, Luci radiates, Luci draws you in and doesn't let you go.
I am so lucky to get to be her mommy for a little while. How did I get to be so lucky?
The neighborhood pool opened last weekend. We've visited twice. As has become something of a habit with her, Mari decided to just...swim. She was just beginning to float and paddle a bit at the end of last summer. The second time we visited the pool this year, within about 20 minutes she had tossed me her life jacket, jumped in the five foot end of the pool, and paddled back to the wall. She proceeded to do this over and over and over again and then moved on to swimming from the wall, out a few feet, and back. All by herself. Daddy was close and I was close, but she wasn't looking for us except to admire her skills. What is up with that kid? Does she really need to grow up all of a sudden like this? I would really appreciate it if she'd SLOW DOWN and let me catch my breath!!
I never did an update on Luci. This will be short and not really an update...just thoughts.
Her latest obsession has been the book Bread and Jam for Frances. And I do mean obsession. You guys know about Luci and her obsessions, right? I think I talked about her year long obsession with The Wizard of Oz enough that people probably got the idea. Well, every day for LITERALLY three solid weeks, I read her that book. And she drew pictures of the story, acted it out with her stuffed animals, made me do "scenes" from the story with her verbatim, ate bread and jam at every opportunity. I was fascinate, then amused...then not so amused. She is finally branching out a bit again, with LOTS of encouragment on my part. Tonight I read her Froggy goes to bed and I saw that gleam in her eye...I'm afraid I may be reading Froggy until I want to burn it...
She is, however, being her usual adorable, achingly lovable self lately. Her latest fun/cute/hilarious antic is her "Daddy boopy dance". I have no idea what that means, but she puts her arms above her head, hands in fists, shaking back and forth, while she wiggles her hips frantically and chants "Daddy boopy dance!" over and over. It makes us laugh everytime. No one could resist this clown child. All she has to do is grin and shoot those dimples straight into your heart and you're hooked. Her preschool teacher told me at her conference that she and the assistant teacher were discussing Luci one day recently and the assistant teacher said "I think Luci was my child in a former life". Her teacher said that is how they both feel, like Luci is "their" child. It is that kind of love and affection. Luci glows, Luci radiates, Luci draws you in and doesn't let you go.
I am so lucky to get to be her mommy for a little while. How did I get to be so lucky?
