It has been a filled month, Erin starts a new job soon, it looks like we are buying a house, Albert has budgets and a Board meeting, Erin has a Board meeting for her old job and one for her new job. As stressful as it gets, being mindful of family always helps. Even then, we worry about reading, and school, and sleep, and calcium, and screen time and everything else that comes with parenting.
The kids are excited about the new house, and we have tried to keep up with things to do as the weather starts to warm. We began our month with Easter at Pinstripes, which was too expensive again, and went to the river to do an Easter egg hunt with Isabella’s family. We have recounted the generosity that Curie was exhibiting, and the jealousy of Elia for Curie’s attention in a different post, both heartwarming and adorable, but it stands to say that we hope the kids will keep being kind and generous, and though it was exhibited in jealousy, we hope they will remain so close throughout their lives. We bought the kids’ shoes for Julie’s wedding at DSW in Georgetown and later found out that Elia’s shoes were two right feet (someone else has two left feet).
The following week we went back to Georgetown to exchange the shoes, but because the weather was so nice for the first time in a while we took the water taxi to Georgetown. The roundtrip for four was a hundred dollars, but the opportunity to take a boat was worth it. The kids loved it and it was a good start if we want to take a longer boat ride in Victoria or on a cruise.
While at Macy’s we bought Easter dresses on sale for the rehearsal dinner and realized that Erin could fit a child’s size 16 if she didn’t mind a short dress, so the girls, including Erin will be all in the same dress for the dinner and Albert will have to find something to match. This revelation led to a different purchase. Albert was buying dresses for Curie online to replace her Elsa dress that she had grown out of, and he bought larger sizes for dresses that we see Curie in all the time, namely her Tsum Tsum dress, which we now have to call her red Tsum Tsum dress because he found a grey Tsum Tsum dress that fits the girls’ requirement for twirling as a skater dress (ice skater, not skateboarder). Once it arrived, Erin liked it so much that we bought her one too, as seen in an earlier post. At this point we are considering getting Tsum Tsum cloth to make Albert a suit coat or tie out of it.
We went to Brookside Gardens for Earth day, where we saw the tulips, visited with the butterflies, did activities, and danced to live music. The girls love live music, and we spent an afternoon after getting ice cream to dance and flip them and twirl and generally enjoy what life has to offer on the grass. The organizers even went out of their way to photograph us when the parents danced together.
So another nice month offset by the stresses of life, Curie is reading better, though we still worry, she got her tips for her yellow belt with stripe test. We are going through the process to buy a house, and Erin is starting a new job. We say it a lot, but the time with the kids is so precious. We were looking at video of the kids when they were little yesterday and we realized that not only should we take more video, but that even though we see those videos as them when they were little, at four and six, they are still little and we should relish these days even more because soon they will be older. Each day they are older and each day is another day to be together.