Above are a few pics from the month...more can be found at:
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January usually feels like a terribly long month. This year it went by pretty quickly. Of course, we were busy the whole month.
Delaney kept busy with her activities. She's doing tap and jazz (which she didn't have the past two weeks b/c the local schools were off those days), gymnastics, swimming and Spanish. She does tap and jazz and gymnastics while she's at school. They're in the afternoon when the kids have free choice. Her daycare is at the rec center, so she can take advantage of everything there while she's at school, if we choose. She loves it all...especially the clickety clack of her tap shoes. I took her to see High School Musical: The Ice Tour and the Hannah Montana movie. She thoroughly enjoyed both. She sang along to all of the songs, danced, and clapped, not quite in rhythm...hopefully the tap will help with that:)
We went ice skating at the beginning of the month. Delaney started out really hesitant. But the rink had a walker-like contraption that we ended up having her use. She got to the point that she would skate 10-20 feet on her own!!! Derek didn't show off his hockey skating skills too much, thank goodness!
My mom came out for MLK weekend. She flew in Friday morning and got to spend the day with Derek and Delaney. We took her to try deep dish (which, I am soooo over...it's good about once every six months) and she liked it. Derek made her eat a grape, which was an ordeal. I get my lack of liking fruit from her. At least I will have smoothies to get my fruit. Mom watched Delaney for us on Saturday b/c we had dinner plans with the Faths (Derek's buddy from Moto). Didn't do much on Sunday. I think we went to Costco.
Derek flew out to the Boston area on Thursday morning and was scheduled to come back that night. His flight back ended up being cancelled by noon on Thursday due to the winter storm warning that was in effect here. Poor guy didn't come home until Friday night at 1. He learned that one should always take a "go bag" on planes, even if it's a day trip.
Speaking of the snow...we've had a lot this winter. Thursday into Friday we had close to a foot! I shoveled 3 different times. Delaney and Jake had an absolute blast in the snow together. She threw the tennis ball and an ice chunk for him. He loved finding it in the snow. Delaney helped me shovel. She continuously said "I'm stronger than a bird." Not quite sure what that meant, didn't ask.
I'm taking another lovely Phoenix course. I need to take these since my job is an ESL math teacher. So, I need my ESL endorsement on my teaching certificate which requires me to do at least 13 hours. Happy, happy, joy, joy....
I've got nothing else......Take care!
