Slacker!

I have been neglecting the blog lately! I have soo many pics from Spring Break to now that I haven't shared, so my goal is to get several postings done today (now) and schedule them to publish over the next few days! I'll start with today and work backwards!

We started our morning off with soccer. Alex still loves it and is probably one of the best ones in the class. She is still the only girl, but totally blows the boys out of the water! lol Honestly with our class, it isn't too hard. Of the 4 boys today, one sat in the car screaming and crying most of the time, another sat on his blanket eating a snack and the other two played in the sand. The hard part for Alex is not getting a snack in the middle of practice when she sees the other kids eating whatever they want. I'm trying to teach her a little patience, so she has to wait until the end to get a little snack.

I've been talking to her this week about what activities she wanted to do this summer. It changes every single day. I asked her, do you like dance or gymnastics better? Dance. Ok, so if you only could do one what would it be? Gymnastics! Finally today she told me she does not want to do gymnastics this summer. I asked her several times because registration started today. She always said no, until we talked to our friends in the next soccer class and they said they were doing gymnastics, then Alex HAD to do gymnastics too. Registration opened at 10am, I was there at 10:30, we didn't leave until noon! It was CRAZY! There weren't that many people ahead of us, but each parents was signing up their kids along with friends kids. I heard some people sign up as many as 10 kids! Everywhere else we go has a window where the current students can sign up, then they open to the public. Gymnastics does not, which stinks! Half of our friends ended up at one time half of us at a different time, thanks to a family of 3 year old triplets that swooped in and filled the class we wanted! Oh well! I guess next year, we have to go earlier! I decided Alex will only do gymnastics for the first summer session. The last 6 weeks of summer we are taking a break from EVERYTHING! I want to be able to go where ever with out worrying about missing an activity.

So far our summer includes 6 weeks of gymnastics and a week of Princess dance camp!

Random Pics and Stuff

Alex had her last summer session gymnastics class last week. Her instructor, Miss Summer, is moving so Alex will have a new teacher for the fall. We LOVE Miss Summer. The Fall session actually started this week, but we missed the first class because we were out of town. In addition to gymnastics, Alex starts dance in 2 weeks. It's the only studio in town that has a 2 year old class and there is only one class day/time so we were super excited to get a space! It is a ballet/tap class. We have a welcome orientation tonight!

Helen, Miss Summer and Alex

Last Friday we had 2 couples over for dinner and games. Kate and her parents came so Alex and Kate kept each other entertained. They even got little bowls of ice cream!

Alex is on an apple kick. I usually cut them in slices so when she asked for one, I cut half of it into slices. She threw a fit, took me in the kitchen and pointed to the half that was on the counter. She wanted a whole piece. Since then, she will only eat big apple halves she can bite!

When Alex was sick a few weeks ago, she totally became a Mommy's girl. She wanted nothing to do with Josh. When she got better, she was still all about Mommy. She has finally come around to loving on Josh more and more!

Alex is also obsessed with stickers! We went to Target one day and bought lots of stickers from the $1 bins. She will go into the closet and pull out a sheet of stickers and put them all over her arms!


Last but not least, I **think** we finally have our sleep situation figured out! I started leaving Alex's door cracked when I put her down, so she could still see me as I passed her room. This went on for a few days while she slept on the floor. Then she started asking for me to leave it cracked when I told her it was nap or bed time. After a few days, I moved her blanket she slept on from the floor to her bed. At first she was a little hesitant to get in bed, but after a few times, she'd get in bed on her own. Now, she is sleeping in her bed with the door cracked. I let her take the Leapfrog laptop to bed with her so she can play with it until she falls asleep. This is more for us because she will pretty much play with it until she falls asleep. When we stop hearing the computer, we know she's asleep! Last night was our first little hiccup. She woke up around 1:30 screaming "crack, crack!" Her door was cracked, but since all the lights were off, she couldn't tell. I went in her room to talk to her for a few minutes, then turned on the bathroom light so she could see come light coming through the crack. She was happy and went right back to sleep. Now we just have to remember to leave a light on in case she wakes up at night she can see a little light coming through the crack.

Gymnastics

Alex had her first gymnastics class today. I signed her up a while ago, but she couldn't start until she turned 2. Lucky for us, they had a session starting the week after she turned 2. This was her first experience where she had to listen to someone other than a parent, wait her turn and follow directions. The parents have a viewing room on the 2nd floor and also have the option to go on the floor with their kid. Miss Summer came up to get the kiddos and Alex didn't even look back so I stayed in the viewing room. I poked my head out a few times to snap some pics, but I didn't want to distract her too much. They started in a circle on squares and they went around and said their favorite food and did a lap around the circle. I'm pretty sure Alex said her favortie food was "yum!" Then Miss Summer took her and her friend Helen on their lap around the circle. From there, they split up in age groups. Alex and the other 2 year olds went to the rings first. Alex had no idea what to do, so she would touch the rings and push them away. Then she went to the wedge mat where she was supposed to try a forward roll, instead she chose to slide down it. The second station was bars, where they tried to hang, then a tunnel to crawl through and the bars again. Alex liked the tunnel the best. The last station was a wedge mat again where they would do another roll, a bar on the floor they held onto and tried to kick their feet up and a spring board they got to bounce on and jump off. She finally tried a forward roll at the last station.

Considering it was her first time in any type of organized activity, she did great! She has problems waiting her turn and actually staying on her mat when it isn't her turn, but other than that she did good. She stayed on her mat more that I thought she would. She got a stamp at the end of class!

getting ready to leave the house

sitting on her mat beside Helen

Miss Summer taking Alex and Helen on their lap around the circlethe bars

being directed to her mat for about the 30th time