Sammy the Fish

Sam has been a busy and impressive girl.  She continues to learn to read.  I signed her up for preK at the school we are districted for.  She already can do most everything on the needs to know by the end of Kindergarten list.  I hope she will not be too bored in school for the next few years.  

She had a small ballet recital at her school carnival.  

She also just finished her week of swimming lessons.  We are so proud of her.  The week started with tears and fear and ended with confidence and smiles.  She learned the basics of breathing and strokes.  Next year she will be able to learn the actual strokes.

She even chose to swim to her teacher in a few cases.  Such confidence to swim to the middle of the pool.  She did have a few issues with taking a real breath since she often did not need it.

Zoey stays a busy girl.  She spends a lot of her time pushing something around. 

                                           

She is also picking up words and signs so quickly.  She is even showing some imagination.  She learned the word hat and a few weeks ago she put a book on her head and said hat and smiled.

Zoey has had a bit of a rough time, but stays mostly smiles with some crankiness.  She has had a mild cold or harsh teething with snot.  When we were at a playdate recently, she sat down and tried to take off her shoes.  I asked her to leave them, but she kept at it.  I thought there might be mulch in them so I went to take them off. When I did, an ant bit me and it hurt!  I noticed spots showing up on Zoey.  The poor girl got probably 20 or so bites and never cried.  She still has pink bumps.  What a trooper!

A cute Sam and Nick moment.

 The girls are starting to actually play together more.  Sam is so good about sharing and helping Zoey.  She is such an amazing big sister.  We are all so lucky!

She loved this flower hairclip and wanted a picture.

 Right before Easter we had some bunny pictures taken.  Zoey was not too cooperative, wanting to grab the bunny and such, but Sam had a great time.

The USF-Poly split is official and so much is uncertain now.  We will be teaching this summer and fall.  We are also doing online courses for Marshall.  We are hoping for a sale of the Atlanta house soon.  Followed by good news from the new University.  But only time will tell.  We have gotten good news for papers lately, good reviews and 1 moving into official in press status.  So that was nice, but we are hoping for some stellar news.