When I was appointed Coordinator of Leader Accreditation (CLA) for our LLL Area, I also became part of the Area Department Coordinator (ADC) team. This morning I had just started talking with another ADC member on the phone about facility reservations for the area conference next spring. I was upstairs in the kids' room, holding a naked Cole while we both stared out the window. Suddenly I had a noise, looked down and I had poop covering most of my pajamas. There's definitely a reason women seem better able to multi-task than men, and it's because of moments like this! So I continued on with this conversation while trying to clean both me and Cole up AND try to keep a fussy Cole and chattering Accalia relatively content. And I have to say I handled it fairly well. I would just prefer not to do it every day! LOL!

Accalia and I were up before Cole this morning. As we were walking down the stairs, she said, "I had a dream last night, Mommy." "What was it about, sweetie?" I asked. "Cinderella," Accalia replied. She didn't go into any more details than that, but I think it's really neat that she's remembering her dreams and wanting to share bits and pieces with me.

Her quest for letter recognition continues. She sings the ABC song almost constantly now, and I can tell that she's getting more and more of the letters in the correct order :) Yesterday we were grocery shopping, and she was riding in the cart. On the cart handle it says "Hy-Vee Food Stores", and Accalia was asking me what each letter was. After I told her once or twice, she picked out all of the "e's" and "o's" to show me.

My exciting news for yesterday and today is that I've discovered I can wear two more pair of my jeans! Woo hoo! Now I fit into three pairs of jeans that I haven't been able to wear since I discovered I was pregnant with Cole.

Gosh, so many things to talk about!

As many of you know, Accalia has been obsessed with ballerinas for some time. Yesterday we were looking through the city's park & rec department summer programs and I mentioned to Accalia that they had some dance classes for her age group. She nearly jumped through the ceiling when she heard. "Where's my ballerina clothes? Let's go!" So, it looks like we're going to be trying out dance class for the first time. From the description, it sounds pretty easy going. Classes are twice a week for 45 minutes each time for the few weeks it runs. It's a tumbling/dance class, so I'm assuming the girls (it says it's just for girls apparently) will get a chance to learn how to do a few basic dance steps as well as run around to a bunch of music. Accalia was showing me all of the ballet moves she's picked up from watching Angelina Ballerina and reading different ballet books, and she's so excited to share her knowledge with others :) Hopefully this class will be fun for her!

Summer storytime and the reading program at the library will be starting up next month, too. Every time we go to the library lately, she asks if it's storytime. Guess I should have signed her up for that last time they had registration! During the summer, though, there's no need to sign up so we'll just make a point of going when they have it.