Of course, that's just my opinion, I could be wrong

C turns 6

It's amazing that C is now 6 years old. What happened? Where did the time go? She looks so big compared to M&H and she's almost in 1st grade. Wow. We've had a bit of a rough few weeks leading up to the big bday. Some people have theorized that they know that a big change is coming so all sorts of things go wacky. Based on past years, and especially this year, I would say that's the truth. The few weeks leading up have been hellish with lots of whinging, needless meltdowns, and general unpleasantness. Some of it is certainly a reaction to the babies but the rest is just being a pain. And since she turned 6, C has been much more pleasant. Go figure.

We had a really nice day on C's actual day of birth on the 14th. It started off with C sleeping until 10:20A. Good for her. She had gotten 4 phone calls before she even woke up. We originally planned to go see the "Hannah Montana" movie but that morning she said she wanted to go to Build-A-Bear. There are about 7,431 stuffed animals floating around our house but it is her birthday so off we went. Thankfully Aviva was working during the day to watch the babies so that C and I could have some Mommy/C time. I think she's really feeling that. Anyway, she picked a really cute bear and got a few outfits. It was her birthday after all...

Trying to decide which bear to do. These are the tough ones in life...


Giving her bear a bath

C and her new bear Sarah
We met our friends for Yozen Frogurt (the name of the store) before ballet. And then when G was done with work, we had a birthday dinner at CPK. C said it was her best birthday ever so I guess I did well to entertain her. We have her birthday party tomorrow at Color Me Mine so there'll be more to report after that.

Another thing that's new this week, we started playing soccer. Now, C is not the most athletic child in the world nor do we expect to see the birth of the next Mia Hamm but we need to be a little more active and just be outside. Thus, after a few other dramas, we signed her up for soccer through one of the local YMCA's. We had our first practice on Wednesday and she was fully and totally shy and wouldn't participate. Tears in the eyes, the whole nine yards and she did know one boy on the team. They're in the same class and we signed up together. Anyway, it was a little loose with who would be coaching our team but we started practicing with another team. The Coach/Dad couldn't have been nicer to encourage C since it was her very first time playing but still she wasn't interested. After about 45 minutes of watching, she finally got up enough nerve to want to try. So he was really nice and had C stand with him at the goal and she kicked the ball. The next thing we knew, she was getting into it. Then when it was our teams real time to practice, she was all over it for the hour. What a turnaround and for C, a very fast one. She's such a shy wallflower until she's used to a situation and honestly, I would've expected the shy behavior to last for weeks. She did great. The next day, she proclaimed "I love soccer!" Who would've thunk that? G took her to buy soccer shoes, socks and shin guards and she was so excited.

Today was our first official game. No, she doesn't really understand the rules or strategy but we have a coach who's a nice man and it's all very low-key and encouraging. They didn't have their official uniforms yet, thus the striped shirt and leggings. But her team, I think they're calling themselves the Rattlers, won and C scored a goal! Everyone on their team scored so it was a really good day. She was excited to play and hopefully that'll continue. Yay for activity.


She shoots, she scores!!


One other shot. This is from the last Kings game of the season last week. Grandpa arranged to have the birthday message put up on the scoreboard. Very cool and YAY for Grandpa!



More to come. Just hoping my sore throat goes away sometime this century. It's on fire at the moment. Ugh.

posted by Juls @ 12:43 AM