Fun and Sun

We are so excited for summer! We've been spending every extra minute at the pool. Last year Gracie wasn't able to swim and we told her this year we could swim everyday!! She has been absolutely giddy about swimming and Jessica and Jane have loved having her swimming with them.

Jessica wants to start piano lessons this summer, so we are on the hunt for a great teacher!! She loves everything that has anything to do with music and dancing and singing! She starts middle school in the fall and we can not believe it! She's really coming into her own.

Jane decided gymnastics would add spice to her karate routines and is taking gymnastics and really liking it! She still has petite-itis and is in the 3rd percentile for her age--last year at her well care visit the doctor kept referring to Jane as petite. Jane's eyes got bigger and bigger, she thought she had some disease called petite and finally she ask, "What is petite??" The doctor said, "Petite means small in French." After the doctor left the room Jane turned to Melissa and said, "Why is the doctor speaking French and not English!!" Oh, we laughed and laughed about that and it still makes us chuckle! Jane and Melissa did a cheer when the doctor said Jane was in the 3rd percentile--the doctor tried to explain that the 3rd percentile was low and not high and Melissa said, "Well, we were aiming for the 3rd percentile because last year Jane was only in the 2nd percentile!" We are glad she holding steady but we think she finally realizes that Gracie even though she's younger will probably be taller than her!

Gracie is getting stronger and stronger and amazing her gymnastics coaches everyday! She'll begin competing in the fall. She is so into gymnastics that she wishes she was there all the time! She has no doubt that she'll be just like those "gymnastics girls on TV" (she watched the Olympics avidly). Every time we look at Gracie we are grateful for eternal families and are so happy we have more time with her now.

We hope your summer is filled with fun and sun!