This summer has been full of first for the kids. A few weeks back Baleigh learned to tie her shoes all by herself in an afternoon. She has become even more proficient and confident in that skill since then.
Both kids are reading (slowly but surely) easy reader books to us instead of the other way around.
Last week Thor and Bean decided they wanted the training wheels off their bikes and away they went. Thor was the first to take off, and Baleigh, not to be left behind figured it out by the following day. They are tooling around the neighborhood with the other kids now.
Early in the summer the midgets took swimming lessons at the public pool. After 10 days of lessons we have two little fish. Thor is confident going down the giant water slide and Baleigh is jumping off the diving board into the deep end - WITH NO LIFE JACKET!!! I am so proud of how much they learned and practice when they are in the pool. I know I was not that fearless at their age and it makes me proud to have such active, gifted children.
The summer has seemed long and short all at the same time. Starting a new job mid summer was unexpected and it has made it seem longer. I am excited for the kids to head back to school and see old friends and make new ones. Baleigh will have the same teacher as Thor had last year and Thor is excited to meet Mrs. Kryder his 1st grade teacher. I am pleased that I work across the street from their school so they don't have to ride the bus anymore. They will go to school with me and then walk across to the elementary school when it is time, and come and hang out with me for 40 minutes in the afternoon, when I get off work. It is really ideal for our schedule at the moment and Baleigh is especially glad that I will be close to her for the first few weeks. She was very apprehensive about who her teacher would be and riding the bus was a stressful thought for her. Now she knows who her teacher is and she doesn't have to ride the bus if she doesn't want to.
In other big news, Thor is having oral surgery the end of this month. He had X-rays at the dentist last week, and we discovered he has an issue with his baby tooth in the back by his 6 molar. The baby tooth has not fallen out and it is dissolving the adult molar. He has to have the baby tooth extracted and a spacer put in. So thankful that my job offers GREAT dental insurance. We would have had to dig into our emergency fund to cover this one. Also, thankful that we found this issue before it became a painful thing to fix - the dentist said it could abscess at any moment and it was an urgent issue to resolve.
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