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Last night Eva attended her last Young Athletes class (and this time Sully and I came along!) She was the proud recipient of a certificate AND a ribbon, and lucky for me she paused long enough to pose for a picture, because the rest of the pictures I took all turned out blurry (from all the fast-moving athletics she was doing, you know?)!
To comemorate the event, here's a link to a recent column Mike wrote about taking Eva to her gym classes these past weeks. Enjoy! And have a nice weekend!
At Eva's school, they teach the kids to write in cursive right away. Which, up to this point has resulted in Eva writing her name in big block letters, all touching each other at some point and decorated with little culicues at each corner. But lately, she's been bringing home papers with rows of cute little cursive e's and i's and n's scrawled across the page. And she's incredibly proud of what she's learning...yesterday after school she drew some lines on a paper, asked me to write a sample letter for her on each line, and sat at our kitchen table practicing her cursive.
The other day, when I picked her up from school, we had this conversation:
Mama: What sort of day did you have today, Evie?
Eva: A GOOD day!
Mama: Oh, great! What kinds of things did you do that made it such a good day?
Eva: Well, I did some very challenging work.
You guys, she's growing up so quickly!!
Who cares if it's cold and rainy? There are worms to save!
(And Happy Earth Day, too!)
Sully wasn't feeling well yesterday, so we spent most of our day snuggling and snoozing on the couch. By the time his daddy came home from work, however, Sully was feeling much more like himself:
Are you familiar with letterboxing? (If not, you can go here and read a bit about it. We'll wait for you.) I first heard about letterboxing when Eva was just a tiny babe. Back then, Mike and I talked a lot about it, got really excited...aaand then continued to talk about how we were "totally going to do that someday!" for years.
Well. Yesterday morning, I took one look outside, saw the beautiful sunny cool weather, and decided that was day we would finally become letterboxers. Over breakfast, we all decided together on the design for our stamp, then we headed to the store for a carving kit and a new blank book in which to begin recording our "finds." When we got home, I sketched out and carved our stamp (Which is a LOT of fun, by the way. I may have a new obsession for a while...), and before we knew it we were in the woods, counting paces, looking for landmarks, and forcing Mike to stick his hand into a creepy dark hole. (He was very brave.)
The letterbox we found this first time out was a quick beginner- and family-friendly hunt. But there are many, many more in our area, and we are all looking forward to our next search--on the way home, Eva asked if we could go on another treasure hunt tomorrow!
Sully-Man, sporting his own headband, after watching his sister put hers on this morning. (Hint: It's not in his hair...)
Have a great weekend, everyone!
Mike
mikeyp23@gmail.com
Shannon
shannyp43@gmail.com
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