Learning to Swim

Mia finished her swim lessons a couple weeks ago, now, and with great success!  Very comforting for us.  She had a little swim partner, Holly, and they became fast friends.  Their instructor was wonderful with them.  If I do say so myself, she was the best instructor out of them all.  Mia learned to identify lifeguards, hold her breath under water, float on her back all by herself, back paddle, retrieve toys from the bottom of the pool (shallow water, of course), bob/doggy-paddle to the edge of the pool in shallow water by herself, and started learning how to fully doggy-paddle without assistance. 

Her instructor said she did very well because of her no-fear attitude, and she even gave her partner more confidence and helped her to be less scared.  We're very proud of her!  She did so well that next year she'll be ready for the Level I class and I think she'll then learn to swim all by herself.  Can't come soon enough!

Princess Party

Mia and her friends enjoyed some pampered princess playtime the other day at our local princess play place.

Lots of P's.

The girls got to pick out their favorite dress and shoes, pick out their jewelry and make their own tiaras.

Then they had their hair done, got their faces painted, read stories, colored and played with puzzles.  All princess themed, of course.

And then came the dancing.  Or I should say freeze dancing.  When the music stopped, they had to strike their best princess poses. 

Did I mention it was one of the funniest things I've ever seen?   >_<

The girls had a lot of fun and felt like real princesses with the royal treatment. 

Of course, the word princess is used pretty loosely when it comes to Mia.  Because when you're donning Rambo combat boots under your princess dress...somehow it loses its effect, ya know?

Oh, well.  She'll always be my little Warrior Princess :o)

Things she says...

“I’m gonna go to college!”  (…does she even know what college is?)

“Mommy, who’s gonna fix the cracks on the moon?”

“Are you serious?  Are you really serious?  You’re killin’ me!”

(*unexplained crash*)  "Mia?”   “It wasn’t me! It was the fireworks!”

“You can’t talk to me like that!  I’m a nice girl.”

(*calling out from the bathroom*)  “Mo-om!  I wiped my own bu-utt!  I did a pretty good jo-ob!”

“This is a really, really, hard, hard, hard, hard time.”  (translation: I’m tired and ready to go to sleep)

“Oh, my gammit!”  (thank you so much, Fred movie -_-)