Parent Teach Conference

Last night was the parent-teacher conference for the kiddo.  She seems to be doing well, excelling in some areas, struggling in others, just as one might expect.  I'm happy to know that her teacher thinks her work is clean and concise and that her handwriting is neat.  That is something I have never had!

Violin

Today was the kiddos first violin lesson. Actually it was her second, but the first practice were she actually had an instrument.  It's also the first day that she did not cry about going to class.  Violin for the win! 

She also runs cross-country for her school, and she's doing very well with that!  She ran her first meet running her first of 3K in 17 minutes and 26 seconds and running her second slightly under 3K at 16 minutes!

Cross Country and Other Stuff

Saturday was the first day of Lil Bit's first Cross Country Meet and she did a phenomenal job!  She ran a 3k course (1.846 miles) is 17:26 having walked just a tiny bit.

Today she has her second meet which means she was allowed an early dismissal from school to get to the meet on time.  The bad news is that I don't get to go.  I want to know how she's doing so bad...did she get changed into her uniform okay?  Did she get to the meet okay?  Is she nervous?  I won't know how she did until her dad picks her up from the mom who graciously agreed to take her.  Or maybe another parent can post some pictures.  In any case, it's killing me.  

In other news, she recently had her first sleepover.  A few weeks ago (mid-August) she got to take a friend camping.  They had a blast and we were thankful her friend was allowed to go.  This past weekend that same friend came over and stayed the night Saturday. 

The first day of school did not go well.  First, Lil Bit had to sit next to a boy!  And that boy annoyed her.  There is even an unclear story about the boy, scissors, and her hair.  The boy is scissor-less and the kiddo is still annoyed by him.  But otherwise, school is progressing well, I think.  Parent-teacher orientation is tomorrow and I'll find out more then!

Lil Bit also has the opportunity to start violin lessons, which I think she would enjoy.  I think we have procured an open slot in the schedule but I'm not quite sure...time will tell.

Update

38 pounds (10th percentile), 46" tall (30th percentile)  June 28 2017

Hair Trim?

A lot of stuff has happened since I last took time to write a post, as opposed to just a line or two.

My grandpa passed away.  It's caused a ruckus in a lot of ways, and I miss him.  But for a brief amount of time, all the kids were together.  It was nice.

The kiddo graduated from Kindergarten.  There was a very nice ceremony that day at her school.  It wasn't until later that evening that I noticed Lil Bit had a chunk of hair missing.  She didn't want to fess up about it but I finally got out of her that she apparently used her school scissors, went to the bathroom and chopped off a chunk of annoying hair that was in her face.  Honestly, one can barely tell.

She received her report card, which at this point in time is all numbers.  She received all 4's (the highest mark) except in two categories....coin identification and writing her letters correctly.  Now, as a person with very poor penmanship, I sort of shrug that last one off except for the fact I know she writes "bubble" letters, something I've warned her about often.

Last night we took a nice walk together and she talked THE WHOLE TIME.  Mostly she told me all about her time in child care/summer camp.  Last week was Earth Week, this week in all about camping.

I signed her up for dance class again.  This time it's just over the summer...something fun to break the monotony.  She's still involved in martial arts and is on the verge of graduating to a full orange belt.

She's ridiculously tall, and ridiculously slender but full of muscle.  She completes all of the fitness class when she participates with mom and dad (even the running part).  She kills it really, I see a long distance runner in the future.

Tooth 8?

Last night Lil Bit asked to sleep by herself on the couch in the camper! Today she lost tooth 8?

Another Tooth....Again!

And out comes tooth #7.  This time the tooth came out at lunch during childcare and it came home.  Luckily the Tooth Fairy took care of everything!

This  morning the kiddo asked if she could have a TV in her room, "O. has a TV in her room, her parents let her watch TV in her room".  To this I responded with, "well, you aren't O. and we aren't O's parents; dad and I will discuss this later".  She then proceeds to inform me that her "big gift" for her 7th birthday should be a TV and for her 8th birthday, a computer is a good deal.

She amuses me, and I'm sad she's growing up so fast....losing so many teeth.....asking for big presents....I knew it was coming though.

Another Tooth! (But Lost to the Abyss)

So the kiddo lost yet another tooth today.  I received an email from her teacher explaining that the tooth fell out and she (the kid) had wrapped it in a paper towel and gave it to the teacher for safe keeping at her (the teacher) desk.  It was lost somewhere along the day, no where to be seen.  The teacher thought it might have ended up in the trash so she looked through it and even saved it for me to look through if I wanted to (and really I don't).  Instead the kiddo and I will write a note to the tooth fairy explaining what had happened and hopefully the tooth fairy can go find it (tooth #6) with her magic and do whatever it is she does with the teeth.

Always drama this one...

Tooth Five

And another tooth is out!!! This one she lost at school today and her teacher glued it on the back side of a sticker and dated it. The sticker says, "I lost a tooth". Very cute.

Tooth #5, her bottom right.

Siblings

My daughter's friend at school has a new baby brother and it's has my own asking for a sibling, hard core.  She's even suggesting we just adopt a new baby.

This was the post that a friend and childcare worker shared with me today on Facebook:

Funny convo walking D. and O. to class this morning talking about O's new baby brother
O: Baby Wyatt has the cutest cheeks
D: when I'm older like maybe a teenager I'm gonna have a baby and name him Wyatt too
😂😂 Thought you should know and be prepared

Ugh.  Time to spend a day with some friends that have babies and younger children!

Antibiotics

Today I had to keep the kiddo home from school and take her to the doctor.  She had just had a fever the day before and that came after a week + of having a cold.  There was even some worry she had Strep...but turns out, it was a nasty old ear infection. yuck!  So, Dani officially has had her first dose of oral antibiotics. She had to have antibiotic eye drops, but this amoxicillan is a first.  It's been a rough bacteria filled year for us...

Fourth Tooth Out

After living a couple weeks with what I called the snaggle tooth, the kiddo was finally relieved of her 4th baby tooth.  In this case, her upper right front tooth (I'm sure it has a medical nomenclature for it but you know what I'm talking about).  She lost the tooth on Friday, January 20th which is just over a month from when she lost the previous tooth (upper front, left).

She lost tooth number 3, on December 8th.  That date has been implanted into my brain for sad reasons.  My older brother, at this point in time, was still in the hospital for what would be almost 2 weeks.  Earlier in the day, on the 8th, I had sent a text to my brother to ask how he was doing.  It went unanswered and in the evening when my kiddo lost her tooth, I contemplated sending him a message and picture of my toothless child.  Yes, it seems silly to contemplate sending a text to one's brother but part of me felt that if he wanted to converse, he would have answered the first text of the day.  I thought maybe he didn't care much about my child losing her tooth when he was laying in a hospital bed losing his legs.  We had a busy evening and I decided not to message him again.  The following day, on Friday the 9th, I had found out that while my brother was in the hospital someone had spilled water on his phone, damaging it, and was without any way to communicate besides the hospital room phone.  In some ways I felt better about him not answering me, he just couldn't.  I thought little else of it until later.

On Friday the 9th I had received a Christmas present for my daughter in the mail. It was a new tablet.  I stayed a bit late at work that night to configure it.  Sometime that Saturday the 10th (in between my working from home on a deadline) I discussed with my mom that I had a tablet my brother could use for communication.  He said yes, he would use it.  I spent some time during the day cleaning it up and wiping some info to give to my brother.  I had planned on getting it to him Sunday the 11th.  It never made it there.  In fact, it sits as it was on my nightstand, now a sort of weird homage to my brother now gone.

I'm not sure why I said all of this.  I guess to get it all out.  It's weird how little things, or completely unrelated things are all tied together.  The loss of my kid's tooth now tied to the loss of  my brother.  But it is what it is and life is moving on and my kid continues to grow and lose teeth.  For your reference, she has another tooth loose on the bottom.  She'll be rolling in the tooth fairy cash!

Pierced Ears

Today, the princess had her ears pierced at Claire's! She did amazing. I will never forget the look on her face as they did the first ear. There was no prep, so she didn't know it was coming, and as the first ear was pierced, her eyes got huge (I thought they might pop out). As the second was pierced,  there was a stream of tears down one cheek but she had steeled herself. There was a bit of panicky whimpering which went away quickly as she walked off. I let her pick out an assortment of earrings to wear for after removing the initial studs. Those are butterflies!