Easter

30 days

We have been, we just haven't been here. 

In the last 30 days or so, starting with gym and eyes... 

Boo has competed 2 inner squad meets and one soft landing season icebreaker (36.87 All Around, the judging tends to be nicer than in season). Sadly, her dad has been out of town missing all 3. Settling for phone calls about how it went. 

Her skills for getting her contacts in are vastly improved. But the quality of her vision in them is pretty poor so school work has been on the thin side. Today is the first day she has put on her glasses in over a month. She couldn't believe how well she see with them verses the contacts. And yet she continues to do well at gym. She now has a clear-hip to double giant flyaway on set! Big coach D takes every chance he gets to tease me about how worried I was about that giant. 

I had also been worried about her front tumbling. That was needless too. It is so BIG and beautiful. 

Boo is requesting a change in her back tumbling pass on floor because she is bored. Big coach D is allowing her to work the new pass in practice but whether he allows her to compete we will have to wait and see. Next meet is Lady Luck in Las Vegas, Nevada in mid January.

From the parent bench I have seen her working on a beam dismount that includes a half twist. So much for my request she do her beam routine then turn to the judges and explain that her mother does not like her running and flinging herself full force off the end of a beam so she is just going to salute and climb down nicely. 

 

Which brings us back to eyes. We have ordered the next step in the contacts transition, which turns out to be a series of 3 sets of trial lenses. Each can correct for a few of Boo's vision issues but none of them correct for everything. That wasn't in the plan. On top of the horrible timing we love her doctor but dealing with Walmart is a nightmare! 

 Soft Landing December 6, 2014 

Link to her Floor Routine (9.3) 

Every thing else is just life. Mostly relying on our friends to keep us sane, busy, and happy. 

Having Boo's papa working out of town is hard. But there is also strange blessings that show up. Like really appreciating the time we do have together.

 The last topic is school work going forward from here. I am taking the weekend to pull us back together and despite that our life barely looks familiar to me we plan to return to the books on Monday. 

her space

Boo spent the night at friends giving me a little time to not be somebody's mom.  But I found myself visiting her room anyway. 

Her door covered with art and her calendar covered with GYM.

The air vent her papa promised to finish and tuck away that she turned into a giant green snake and a few of her many ponies.

Of course there are these which she says, "I like winning them but I don't care about having them." And yet in the corner over there the 1st & 2nd place hooks look exceptionally full.

We have Thanksgiving decorations out....

...and her Christmas list.

She's a good kid.

 I like her space all it needs is her.

we are here

We are here and it feels really good. With everything else going on in our lives- gym schedules, meet schedules, travel schedules, work schedules, eye/contact schedules,... we need to 'UN' ourselves a touch.

And 'UN' we did.

Put away the planner and the rules.... 

and self-directed learning takes off.

 We read some stories, play a few math & word games, created a couple of poems on the board with the magnetic literacy letters we found at NPS, and then it starts with "Mom, I have always wanted to..."

 "To trace these Halloween placemats and make my own haunted house drawing with it."  Perfect activity to do while listening to Neil Gaiman's Halloween on Selected Shorts. 

She is still working on it. We had to put it aside to carve a pumpkin and get contacts in before gym. Boo has big plans for the sky and for the colors on the house itself. The beauty is she has all the time she wants. We didn't even bother to clean-up.  

 This is what learning looks like over here these days.

 And if someone were counting, just out of curiosity, we still managed to touch on every 'school subject'. I doesn't always go like that, nor should it, but for what it is worth it was nice to feel that good about such an easy day.

a little of spooky

 A slow morning filled with baking and books.

Math and math games.

Art and more stories.

 A little sprucing up the house.

When Boo was very young she would say "a little of spooky" to the witches.

 And a real creepy crawly to watch.