Go, Go, Goers!

Ava started her twice weekly swimming lessons this past week, so the time has just flown by the last seven days.  When we walked into the lessons on Tuesday night, I wasn't really sure what to expect...it wasn't having 20 instructors, that's for sure!  I'm really impressed with how organized these swimming lessons are, especially with so many kids enrolled.  Ava started out with a group of three other little girls.  Two of the girls proved that they could move on to the next level, so Ava and the other little girl were left with one instructor - pretty good for 45 minutes of swimming time!  Her instructor was very attentive, and even if she resisted doing something, he looked past any drama, and got her to do it anyway.  Hooray!  I'm not going to say she'll ever be a fish in the water, but as long as she learns the basics, then I'll be happy. On Thursday night, Grandma Karen joined us, and after lessons we went to the Rosemount library and p...

...unless you should be at work/daycare.  Little G was pretty sick this week.  As soon as I walked into the office on Monday, I got a call from our daycare provider that he was running a temp (and no, he wasn't warm when I had dropped him off!)  We tried to send him back to daycare on Wednesday, but at the end of the day, he developed another fever.  So...out of 5 days this week, he was at daycare for 1 day.  Which means that we were splitting our schedules the rest of the week, making sure that he was taken care of. On the bright side, he is doing MUCH better now - when we took him to the doctor, they told us he had a virus, so there's nothing we could really do for him.  On Wed night, his fever went away, and he was back to his happy self on Thursday and Friday (and we didn't have daycare on Friday, but at least he wasn't cranky.) Ava had her last baton twirling class this week, and she didn't show any interest in being in the parade this weekend, so ...

Ava and I have had quite a bit of quality together time this week.  Baton twirling, extra hours at home on Wednesday morning (no daycare, unexpectedly), all day on Friday and Saturday, and then out both Friday and Saturday nights together.  She continues to impress me, and drive me crazy, all at the same time! On Friday morning, I was recalling how Ava covered up G's ears when the smoke alarm went off for the first time this past fall.  I will never forget coming down the stairs, and catching sight of her, hunched over his swing, her little hands covering his tiny ears.  And she did it all without prompting - she was just worried that it was too loud for him and would scare him.  I reminded her of this, and let her know how special she is, and what a very good big sister she is to Garrett.  I told her we are very lucky to have her in our family, and that we love her so very much.  She looked at me, leaned over to give me a big hug and told me how muc...

Happy Fourth of July!  What a great holiday weekend it has been.  We kicked off the weekend with a viewing (or two) of The Lego Movie - Ava already saw it in the theaters, but I really wanted to see it, too, so we rented it for the weekend, and have had "Everything is Awesome!" going through our heads for the last three days. Scott had to work a little bit on the 4th, but in the evening we headed over to Eagan's carnival and fireworks display.  Ava's a big talker, but when it comes right down to it, she's not a fan of the carnival rides.  She chickened out on going down the big slide (a slide!), and practically had a nervous breakdown when we were riding the Dragon Manor (the smallest roller coaster ever.)  We found a few rides that she liked, and then quickly moved on to the food.  We had root beer floats, cotton candy, popcorn, beer, and then attempted to get cheese curds.  But, after we stood in line for 20 minutes and moved about three feet, I th...