I won't start this blog post with a big apology for not blogging lately. I will just say we have been pleasantly living our lives and completely enjoying ourselves. Analese did art camp this past week, and she was in her own little Analese heaven the whole time. There is nothing that the child likes better than doing arts and crafts. It is her crack. Poor Mariele was not buying into the whole "you must be at least six years old to do art camp" argument. She VERY begrudgingly left with me each day after dropping Analese off. Although I tried to have special one on one time with her, she usually asked if it was time to pick Analese up WAY before it was time to pick Analese up. When we did finally go to pick Analese up at noon, Mariele ran into the building ahead of me, excitedly exclaiming, "Analese, I'm HERE! I'm HERE Analese!!" Those two are very much joined at the hip. Homeschooling does seem to foster a very close sibling relationship. It does warm my heart to watch them.
The school year is off to a great start. Actually, we are already about 20% through second grade! Mariele is doing her pre-K. If it was up to her, she would be doing way more, but I am trying to rein her in a bit. Slow down, dear!
This was the summer that Analese learned to ride her bike without training wheels and Mariele got her first bike with training wheels. These girls LOVE to go biking now. Not to mention the rollerblading. We are almost ready for the roller derby. Mariele's swimming has tremendously improved over the summer, as I knew it would. She has now reached "fish" status. She loves to dive in around the 6 foot deep part and touch the bottom (or touch Polaris, the pool cleaning robot). She is a very good swimmer now, and I am a more relaxed mommy knowing that my girls can swim well.
In closing, I will not promise to blog more frequently, but I will blog when I can...errr when I feel like it :P
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