Our Kids

We are taking gymnastics with Coach Mike. The girls have taken his gym class several times. We went back to his class because gymnastics at the big gym was really working Lela over. She was so stressed out and cried and it broke my heart, even though she loves gymnastics.

Today was our first day back to class and she was loving it. She follows directions so well and is such a good girl. There was a little boy named TJ there and he kept invading her personal space. So there she would be on the balance beam trying her little heart out and doing so well and he would invade her space and she would crumble. That look that she gives me rips your heart out. Then once she makes eye contact she wells up and runs over to me. I soothe her and then off she goes to have her space invaded 3 more times. She still enjoyed class and I know she has to deal with it but it is hard to watch.

Oh man oh man oh man! I think we are seeing a taste of Piper as a teenager! HA!

She is really in to power plays right now. For example, she says she wants something, you tell her that she can’t have it and the reason why, you may even make a compromise with her about the item and then she quietly walks away and comes back with her step stool to procure the item for herself! Oh what a pistol!

She wants the opposite of what you are offering. So if Jason is reading her a bedtime story she is all for it until bedtime actually arrives and then she only wants the other parent. I think she must be most like Jason because I swear he would rather jab himself in the eye with a hot poker than deal with her when she is like that. He does well even though I can see his blood boiling underneath.

Sometimes you just have to laugh even when you are being boiled alive by your 4 year old.

Landis is such a crack up! She has this thing where she has to be holding something if she feels insecure or is sleepy, or nursing. It doesn’t matter what it is but it has to be something. Today she had to have the shoulder pad from Piper’s car seat to fall asleep at nap time. She is VERY insistent that she wants exactly that and nothing else. She might hold a pretzel, a pillow, a note pad just whatever strikes her fancy. It is so cute to see her all curled up in her little toddler bed clutching a kitchen towel. She prefers her baby from Nana Peggy the most but if that isn’t in site she picks an alternate.