Sunday, June 10, 2018

March 2018

All-Around Annika
—GOTR starts:
Against her mighty protests, I signed Annika up for Girls on the Run, a program for girls in 3rd-5th grades, where they learned empowering lessons and trained for the 5K that’s at the end of the program. It’s twice a week for 8 weeks, and her only complaint at first was that “there’s a lot of talking and not much running.”
—Raina sleepover: Annika and her BFF Raina are spending more and more time together doing their own thing, so every few weeks, it’s either our turn or theirs to host the girls. We love Raina!
—Girl Scouts Filoli Gardens outing: Annika’s troop chose to go on a guided “tulip walk” at the Filoli Gardens, an all-day sucker that she really, really enjoyed (despite not knowing much about it in advance, lol). Got some great photos of the girls and the gardens, flowers, and mansion.
—Gold Rush Day: Fourth grade at our school means Gold Rush Day in the spring, where the kids dress up as 49ers-era kids and do frontier activities like using a washboard to wash clothes, panning for gold, eating beans for lunch, and stopping by the saloon (where I, in prairie dress including a hoop skirt, was a blackjack dealer, heh!). Annika had a lovely custom-made blue calico dress and bonnet (bought from a seller on Etsy, as I’m no good with a sewing machine), and looked absolutely adorable in the square dancing and everywhere else.
—Annika ends swim class: She was one ribbon away from completing all the levels, and since they’d told us her technique was perfect and she lacked only the speed they wanted her to have, we were at the point of just letting her quit … when one of the teachers called her a “snail” in class, upset her terribly, and gave me Mom Rage like you would not believe. We pulled her out that very day, and none of us are the least bit sorry. 
Lukas Life
—Aiden's bday party:
Lukas’s classmate Aiden had his 6th birthday party at the fishbowl (bowling alley inside Bass Pro Shop, heh), and the kid did his usual “bowling savant” routine where he just chucks the ball and it mysteriously, miraculously rolls slowly down the lane and knocks over a random and improbably large number of pins, and then he dances his victory dance.
—Skateboarding lessons: The lessons started at the end of January, but Lukas’s first skateboarding road rash happened this month, and it was a doozy — two huge, adult-palm-sized scrapes on his lower back and hip, which took weeks to heal completely. He was upset at first, but both the coach and the two of us assured him it was part of the sport and meant he was doing it right — taking the risks and taking the lumps. 
St. Patrick's Day
The biggest event of March was the usual silly fun: Lukas claimed several actual FOR REAL leprechaun sightings (and worked really hard on his leprechaun trap to try to catch one at school), the yearly collection of leprechaun gold at school; etc. Annika was sick with a fever and puking on Friday the 16th, so she was worried about not getting to collect her share, but not to worry — just on the way to walk Lukas to class, she got a couple handfuls. Then, we did Sauce Patrick's Day at the Sauce Compound, where the luck was with us all — a fun time, even in a house with cats that got an allergic reaction out of poor Lukas! 

Quotable
—“toy-koise”
: Lukas’s interpretation of “turquoise” 

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