Today

The day with Bella went well. After lunch we went to the pool at our gym. She had a blast. I'm an official soccer mom now. I didn't have the handbook though to know what to do. So apparently mom's talk to each other. I haven't had much exposure to talking to random strangers about just about nothing. The most awkward conversation was with a half naked woman in the locker room talking about how its 100 degrees out and she wants chili for supper and her husband hates pasta so that puts a damper on the meals she can make. But, overall it went well. The pool was great. Bella's still hesitant to get help with swimming, but that will come with time.

After that we went to our "secret" destination. It was a secret because I didn't know where we were going. Plus, it made it seem a whole lot cooler when we got there. We ended up at Storyville at the library in Rosedale. She loved it. I found out today she has some issues with counting, so we worked on that. The good thing is Storyville is built to help educate kids with reading, counting, spelling, etc, so it made it fun to practice stuff with her. She's obviously a cute kid, so a lot of the time I think everyone is quick to get her to the girly clothes or purses or whatever, so I think sometimes we fail to work on "teaching" moments. They had a play grocery store, so when we were done playing we had to put our "food" back on the shelves for the next people coming through. Instead of just putting them away we learned what "sections" of the store they belong in, like the bakery, produce, snacks, meat, dairy, etc. I was honestly so happy to hear that she retained some of what she learned today. We went to Safeway and were looking for bread. She told me we had to go to the bakery and if we wanted chicken we had to go to the meat section and carrots were in the vegetable area. She was so excited that she "learned" stuff today she wants to go back tomorrow. She wants to do that instead of the pool. I guess we're going back. How do you tell a kid she can't go to the library? After Storyville, we went to the library section and got tons of books....a bunch on counting and pairing and stuff. I also signed both Bella and Brandon up for the summer reading program. Brian and Bella are working on the first set of stuff for the program right now. She's so excited. I just wish we had more time to work on it with her. The one thing I'm finding with having the kids live in two different households is the consistency in certain stuff like learning and discipline, etc. Brian and I have decided to take advantage of the time we have with them and make learning as much fun as we can with them. Luckily, Taylor is all about reading, so she does a lot of self-learning.

Brandon's doing a little better, again. Today he was able to sit in a chair for 15 minutes by himself. He wasn't very talkative though. Brian said their conversation revolved around having to pee-pee and eating soup broth. His Grammy came to visit him today and read him quite a few library books. Brian says he's more awake but still drained, which is to be expected. I'm looking forward to seeing him tomorrow afternoon. I think it will be such a change to see him from when he was so, so sick the other night. Anything has to be better than that.

I'm still Bella sitting tomorrow so there will be no weigh in. And probably no gym time. And quite honestly, I'm okay with that. My priorities, at least for this week, have totally changed. Its not about me at all.