Sleep

Freddy has found a new sleeping position in his bed.  I'm not sure how this can be comfortable being as he is longer then the bed.  Most mornings he wakes up with marks on his head because it is pressed against the railing.

I know the "Experts" tell you not to put a pillow in their beds until kids are at least 2 years old but Freddy likes having one.  He normally does not sleep on it but if we try to take it out he does not want to sleep.

Our little helper

Most of the time Emma wants to help do housework.  She already does her own laundry with me only having to supervise and fold her clothes.  Also Emma loves to help clean the bathrooms, especially the toilets, and sweep the floors.  Here lately she has been asking if she can help wash dishes so the other day I let her help me clean off the table, load the dishwasher and hand wash the few things that could not go in the dishwasher.  Here are a couple of pictures of her washing dishes.

Now if only this willingness to help with housework will continue as she gets older.  For some reason I kind of doubt that it will.

Swim Lessons and Ear Piercing

We signed Emma up for swim lessons as a way to get some energy out this winter.  She really enjoyed them and I believe that she learned quite a bit.  This was the first set of lessons without Drew or I in the pool with her and she was a little hesitant the first lesson but once she met her 2 classmates and the teacher she was gone. 

I'm not exactly sure what they did in the shallow part of the pool but this is where they started out each time. Emma is the one standing up.

 Practicing their strokes before getting in the water.  Emma is the one on the left.

 Swimming the short length of the pool.  Emma is the one in front.

Emma asked if she could get her ears pierced so I told her that we could do it for her birthday.  Then I realized that her birthday was in the middle of swim lessons so I told her she had to wait until they were over.  Lessons ended on a Tuesday so Wednesday night I took Emma in to Claire's to get her ears pierced.  Emma got nervous when the lady was getting everything out and was not so sure she wanted to go through with it but she got the first one done.  After the first one she did not want to do the second but I told her she did not have a choice.  Once she was able to see the earrings in her ears she was all smiles.