Soccer and Spring Break

And, at the age of almost four, Violet has restarted her soccer career.

She's taking part in the 3 1/2-year-old to 5-year-old Kidz Love Soccer class on Saturday mornings. When she was 2, we had her in the parent-child class, and her attention span wasn't great.

But in recent weeks, she said she would like to play soccer, too. In her first class, she did just fine, dribbling the ball back and forth between the colored cones at the edges of the field.

Cora is on her two-week Spring Break from school. On Monday, after we took Violet to class, she and I ran a couple of errands.

She asked if we could get a nice snack as a treat together, and a pair of Del Taco tacos fulfilled her request. Not exactly what I would have picked at 9:45 a.m., but it was her choice.

Later on Monday, we played at the park with Cora's classmate Cami, and her sister Melanie, who is the same age as Violet. The girls got along very well, with their imaginations on full-force.

The pile of wood strips in the foreground, on the left side, was a bed, and the yellow leaves were the pillow. Each girl had a bed, and a large rock was their table, in this house-in-the-bushes.

Here is Violet's favorite part of Cora's mornings off of school. Most mornings, the girls will cuddle up (or snuggle, as Violet puts it) and Cora will read aloud. Cora's reading has taken off. She loves sneaking in a few pages in the mornings after she gets ready for school, or at night after lights-out.