After a couple of weeks off school, the girls were ready to get back to their friends..
Mila officially made the HB Slammers Elite team and practices started in January. It's a bit much but we're attending the practices and games that we can and Mila is having a blast. She loves being on the team and loves all of the other girls; it's nice that they're down to a team of 10 so they're all getting pretty close. It doesn't hurt that we average 5-6 hours with them every week, whew!
We started noticing right around the first of the year how much Nellie's attitude was changing...for the good! I was worried that it may be because she had been out of school for two weeks and was just loving the extra attention but, sure enough, once school started again, the amazingly great attitude remained!
I have noticed she is much more emotional lately and is expressing her feelings with words, rather than screams. For example, we must hear "Mila hurt my feelings" 20 times a day, but I'll take that over a fit any day!
However, if you're wondering if she's lost all of her fire...don't you worry:
Nellie had her 4 year old checkup and it went great! She is 42 1/4 inches tall and 41lbs, which is almost what Mila is at! She is currently the same height at 4 as Mila was at 5! It's so funny to compare them (but not REALLY compare them...stop judging me).
She had to get a flu shot while we were there and, as she was looking at pictures on my phone, the nurse stuck her with the needle and immediately put a Care Bear bandaid on it and, in only her tough girl fashion, Nellie looked at the bandaid, made a disgusted face and said, "I didn't want that one." I could barely hold it together in front of the nurse.
Mila and Kira have been having sleepovers together for years now; it's so great for the girls that we have a standing date the first Saturday of the month and we alternated houses. Nellie has been aware and jealous for the the past couple of times and, now that Siena (Kira's sister) is older we attempted a double sleepover for the first time...and it went great! What's one more girl when you already have three?! The positive for the parents is that we each now have a standing date night every other month!
A couple of years ago, after Mila was born, we had a staycation up in Huntington Beach with Aimee and Matt (no kids!). This year we had another, but did it down in South Orange County at their house.
It was such a fun day and nice to be able to do all of the things we always talk about doing but can't do because we have the four girls with us.
Meanwhile at home....
What we're looking forward to next month: Valentine's Day and me going to Minnesota to see Whitney for President's Day Weekend...and freezing to death while I am there!
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