School-aged Check-in (5/9)

[oldbaylover1024]

J turns 5 on Friday! Where is the time going?!

She's got a birthday party at school; we're taking cake and going out to dinner with my parents and sister on Saturday; and Sunday we're doing cake and brunch at the IL's house. The girl gets birthday overload LOL

Dance is also officially over. She did ballet and tap for almost a year and really enjoyed it. Her performance was adorable and she's taking the summer off to take swim lessons. We'll see what she wants to do in the fall. We're really blessed to have an amazing (and affordable) rec center near us that offers all kinds of team activities. I'm thinking soccer is next for Miss J.

QOTW: Effing Shopkins. She loves those things. She's also really into comic books right now, especially My Little Pony and a few others.

[hawkward]

DS1 (7) is having another good week. He's been really truly helpful lately, which is a nice change. He did a lot of chores over the weekend, and I left him a list of tasks Sunday while DS2 and I ran errands and H mowed and cleaned the garage, and when I got home he had done them all plus a few little extra things.

He's getting excited about summer school. They pay kids to go in our state, and he wants to spend the money buying himself a new kindle. Normally we make him use just a little for something fun and then the rest for school supplies and savings, but he's been so responsible lately, we're going to let him do it.

I'm whiny (reason in the toddler check-in).

QOTW: He's really into Magic Treehouse lately, and Annie is his favorite from that. He's also into Chase and Skye from Paw Patrol, but he's starting to outgrow them.