Spring Happenings

We finally have some decent weather here. It's going to be short lived, but we are certainly enjoying it while we have it.

Life in the Garonzik home continues on as busy as ever. March 1st was Sydney girl's 3rd birthday. We had a couple celebrations for her. Her "kid" birthday party was at the Super Jump Party Zone. The theme was Tinkerbell. She had a blast and so did all the other kids and as far as we can tell there were very minimal, if any, injuries. Sydney really loved opening her presents and eating her cake. She even loved having all the attention when we sang Happy Birthday to her. On her actual birthday we made a special dinner and more cupcakes and more gifts. She, again, loved the attention. We can't believe that she is 3 already and absolutely the apple of our eyes.

In other fun and exciting news we signed Sydney up for swimming lessons. The girl loves the water and since we like to vacation in places that have pools and oceans, we thought it was probably time for her to learn to swim. Well, group lessons were...um, challenging. Our child has no fear of the water and wanted to be in it all the time and was having a hard time waiting her turn. With 4 other 3 and 4 year olds in her class it just wasn't working and in protest, during her 2nd lesson, our child decided to take off her bathing suit. OIY...Jed sat in the stands and said, "We don't know her." :) While I moved as quickly as possible to get to Sydney because her poor 17 year old instructor had no clue what to do. So...group swimming lessons aren't for Sydney. We always knew she was special. Private lessons were next and although the private lesson went MUCH better than the group lesson, on the advice of the instructor, we think we will wait a few months in the hopes that Sydney's attention span will grow a bit. The instructor did say that it is a good thing that she has no fear of the water...but right now there is no focus and she is not retaining the skills...so we will continue to work with her in the pool ourselves and try private lessons again in the fall when she starts pre-school.

Over the last weekend we made some significant changes to Sydney's room. She has made this shift into being a little more independant and wanting to play in her room more and more...so we moved her kitchen set and her table and chairs into her room. It's nice having those items out of the family room and really quite sweet to hear the chatter of a 3 year old playing house with her dolls. She loves it.

Here is hoping that there is more warm spring weather coming soon...we love it and we need the vitamin D!