I'm a little frustrated with 24 Hour Fitness right now. I am going to have to start paying for child care starting Monday. Anyway, I'm making a little more progress with my schoolwork, though I’ve been having problems printing the assignments out. I also went to a book club on Wednesday. We discussed Daughters of God by Elder Ballard. There were only two other women there, but it was fun. And we did it outside because it was SO NICE! I can use the fresh air, too.
Dante and I went to The Jungle Book this Friday at The Children's Theatre downtown. It was good for us to get out together. The garden is doing wonderfully. I picked my first few weeds this week. The peas are growing like weeds, the tomato plants are beautiful, I harvested our spinach for the first time today, and a bunch of the plants that I recently planted (pumpkin, sunflower, and some spices) are coming up. I am REALLY enjoying my garden. We harvested our first spinach, and it was so funny to see the kids eat the spinach. Constance would just grab a leaf, dip it in ranch, and nibble away. We also got our caterpillars last Saturday. They turned into chrysalids pretty much right away and they should emerge any day. Some of them started shaking while I transferred them to the butterfly garden. It rather startled me! We also got our tadpoles yesterday and got them all set up. Dante and Constance have really been enjoying the critters. We went to This Is the Place Heritage Park last Monday for Baby Animal Days, where the kids got to pet and hold baby animals and ride on horses and trains.
Danica is out of school already, and she is now nine years old. My how she has grown! She should be with us at the end of June.
Dante’s piano recital on the 18th went okay. He played great, but I was very exhausted dealing with the kids. I've been enjoying a bit of a break from practice and stuff. Dante also had his karate award ceremony on Wednesday, moving up to Yellow Belt, Second Class. He's really been giving me a hard time getting anything done, but we’re working on that. He really is a funny kid and the girls love him. We listened to some Bill Cosby today, and Dante loved it. Constance would laugh just because Dante was.
Constance is such a cute girl. When she isn't screaming or ignoring me, she really makes me smile. She loves playing with Dante, even wrestling, and he is such a good big brother most of te time. She loves the ants, and she is always telling me about their tunnels. She also spends most of her time outside playing with ants. Yikes! Still not potty-trained, though. I've been procrastinating, because I really really really don't want to do that!
Emily, though. Sheesh! She loves to move. She first started inch-worming. She would pull her knees up so that she would be on hands and knees, then lay down on her belly, kind of pushing herself forward with her arms, then pull her legs up again on her hands and knees. Wednesday she actually start scooting a bit, pulling herself forward with her arms. And today she took her first crawl steps. She didn’t go far, but she did it. She can get where she wants to go now, as long as it isn't too far away! She'll be crawling full time soon. She is just the most beautiful baby. She loves to squeal and grunt, and she is such a good eater. She gets frustrated if she sees us eating and she isn’t.
