This year our church hosted a music camp instead of Vacation Bible School. The official cut-off age was 3, but Anna (and a couple of other kids whose birthdays are this summer) was cleared to participate. Every morning she spent two and a half hours at church playing instruments, singing songs, listening to Bible stories, doing crafts, playing games, having snacks, etc. all while Kate and I ran errands on that side of town (or hung out in the nursery with other moms). As far as we can tell, Anna did great, and came home chatting about all of the things she did.
Poor kid was so overwhelmed, however, that her naps were all messed up last week. First too short, then too long, then not at all on Thursday ... yikes! Oh, well. The week's activities culminated with all of the kids from camp leading the music portions of worship this past Sunday. Anna proudly shook her egg shakers while her class sang its song :)
Our first session of swimming lessons started this afternoon and Anna is in the 3's and 4's class, even though she won't be three until Sunday. In her class each kid gets a high schooler as their personal instructor and they take the water adjustment skills to the next level. Watching from the bleachers on the side and from what Anna told me afterwards, I think she really enjoyed her class.
The only issue was when I was in the water with Kate during her class and Anna was watching from the bleachers with neighbor Alexia. Anna slipped and bonked her head and then didn't want me to leave her alone again. So she joined Kate and me for the second half of Kate's class. It turns out this might have been a blessing in disguise, though, because the instructors for Kate's class said that Anna is more than welcome to join us, which means that Anna will be getting a full hour of water time every afternoon for the next two weeks. Kate, by the way, LOVES the water so far :)
Speaking of Kate, last week's craziness helped us make the real transition to one nap a day instead of two. What this means is that she no longer gets the pacifier in the van (which means she *usually* doesn't fall asleep), and only takes one nap in the middle of the day. The crying and yells of "BA!" (her word for pacifier), are balanced out by the fact that both girls are now napping at relatively the same time ... hooray! Just in time for gardening, right?
On a slightly different note, we went to a local farm breakfast with some neighbors this past Saturday for the third year in a row. Maybe this one is going to be a family tradition. We all ate our pancakes, eggs, and ice cream (to celebrate National Dairy Month, of course!) and then visited the animals. Kate's favorite, we think, were the ducks since she kept yelling "Duh! Duh! Duh!" Anna was most looking forward to running around with the chickens, but I think she ended up liking the baby goats best because she got to feed one a bottle. We did our traditional wagon ride around the farm and then headed home before it got too hot.
(That's neighbor Carly on the left; both of our girls started with hats, but refused to keep them on ... urgh.)
One more thing, Kate learned how to say "Whee!" yesterday while swinging at a park. It was hilarious to hear her keep saying "Whee! Whee!" both yesterday and then today when she was pushing any kind of toy swing :)
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