teenagers

Tonight was Annabelle's last night of "Mommy and Me" gymnastics. She has really enjoyed this class, but she's ready to join the big kids. B took her for her last class and was not so thrilled about it. He loves spending time with the girls, but I think gymnastics and dancing school are going to by my thing with them. Miss Annabelle gets a week off and then starts the advanced class in June. I can't wait to see what this girl can do!

Gwyneth and I went to "Todder Night" at their daycare. There are some big changes comin' at the school which include new teachers and new class formats (Montessori starting at 1 years old). I was glad I could spend that time with Gwyneth and see her interact with her friends. She is a social butterfly! Her and her buddies all said "Hello" and laughed and danced together and the teachers just ate her up.

We'd already had dinner so I decided to take Gwyneth out for a little treat of ice cream. We stopped by Sonic and shared a scoop of vanilla ice cream on the patio. Several older couples joined us and ooohed and ahhhed over Miss G, which she gladly milked! She threw on the charm and was all smiles. But....who knew that we had arrived at the dreaded high school hangout?!?! Oh my, my, my....what a bunch of punks! They were all smoking, all swearing (too many f-bombs dropped for my sweet little girls ears!), all of them obnoxious!! The girls had far too much make-up on and not enough clothes (hide some skin girls, jeez!) and the boys all have that really bad Zack Efron-70's comeback-shaggy-just a quick snip away from a mullet-haircut. I was and am still mortified of the thought of my girls one day becoming teenagers -- especially those teenagers. All I could do tonight was squeeze my little girl tight, give her lots of kisses, tell her how fabulous she is and hope, hope, hope that the next 11 years go by a LOT slower than these past two!