Week In Review

 This week, Violet and I got back into our school-day routine of walking and doing chores and running errands, with Cora at school.

Lately she's been having fun with Stripes, her new zebra pal, and Spots, her old giraffe buddy. She put a flower hairband on Stripes so everyone knows she's a girl.

The girls have been harvesting zucchini and tomatoes every couple of days. We're not getting a bumper crop, but we have a couple of productive plants producing some very sweet fruit.

On Thursday, JT, Callie and Jonah came up to visit and play in the pool. Cora was happy to play with both of JT and Jim's cuties.











Also on Thursday, the girls had their final city swimming lessons of the summer. They received certificates and candy, much to their delight.

Cora is getting very good at diving, and loved diving off the short practice diving board.

Violet earned her Stripes (zebra) earlier in the week when she had a good day at lessons, following a not-so-good day. Violet kept going under the water while her teacher was working with another student, despite repeated instruction to stay above and hold the wall.

We had a talk with Violet, and the next day she did very well, listening and obeying. Stripes was hers as a reward.













 On Friday, following a long four days of second grade, Stace thought we'd make it the night special by introducing the girls to Star Wars.

(This is probably goes without saying, but his goal was to introduce Cora to his favorite movie series, and Violet went along for the ride.)

Cora enjoyed it a lot, and Sebastian understood who the bad guys were.

On Saturday, we had Daryl and Juliana up for swimming and dinner. We all had a nice time together, as always. Juliana brought a beautiful rainbow jello cake for our dessert. Maya also started second grade this week.