Lessons, Animals, and Day Trips

Haven't written on this forever and so I figure it's time for an update...

Sarah has really been enjoying her Ballet classes and made a little friend in her class. They were cracking up and really trying to make each other laugh. The teacher was really good at regaining the girls attention and she is so patient with them. Her class is so small, it started off as 4 girls but last week there was 3. It's kind of nice that it's small, seems more personal that way.

Julia will be starting her Swim Lessons on Wednesday! She's been asking for months so I know she will enjoy them.

The girls have been catching Geckos lately. It's all the rage at their school. We try to encourage them to let the Geckos go after catching but they really want to make friends with these Geckos. So as a result they end up losing tails; I'm pretty sure the tails grow back but I'm sure the lizards appreciate having them just the same. It's a lost cause at this point but a cute hobby of theirs.

I've been trying to do more things with the girls during the weekend. We've noticed the longer they are cooped up in the house the more we drive each other crazy. So last weekend we went to the Zoo and the Aquarium. We've got a family pass to the Zoo so we really should be going more often. They love the goats usually because you can go in the pen with them but this time we went the Goats were ramming each other and chasing after people. Julia was chasing after the Goats trying to pet them while they were ramming each other. I chickened out and made the girls get out of there.

The Aquarium was very cool. Julia seemed more psyched about it this time then the last few. Each of the girls were given a radio where you push the numbers for each tank while you are walking through and then it gives an explanation of the animals. The girls really loved that. They are still working on numbers but they got the hang of it as we were going through.

Sarah had found a coral fossil a few months back so she brought it for people at the aquarium to look at. They didn't know much about it and asked us to come during the week when the experts are there. They also said that maybe they could use it for display there; Sarah was really excited about that. Julia was mostly excited about holding the hermit crab because this time she wasn't scared since she's been finding them on the beach.

They loved going out and making a day of it but their only complaint is that they wanted to go to the beach. So that's the plan for this weekend.

Broken Camera :(

So almost as I got my new nifty Video Camera my regular camera fell on the cement ground. Now when I turn it on it asks me to turn it off. I will miss that camera because I got it right before Julia was born to document the kids growing up. I guess this just means that I really have to use this video camera. I used it at the beach when we stayed at Bellows the other day and I got Sarah's first wipe out in the water and Julia catching a moth. It was really funny because as soon as Sarah got out of the water she was freaking out and not because she got caught in the undertow but because she lost her goggles! Dad found them so all was well but she said she didn't mind going under the wave and that she wanted to do it again!