5 on Friday

1. The girls and I are driving home in the car and out of no where Ellie tells me that if I want to make some money I should go to "Diko dot com."  (We have been stressing to her that when we go and buy things we have to pay money, and in order to have money we have to work hard for it and it is not just given to us.)   I ask a few more questions to figure out what she is talking about.  Questions such as "Where should I go?"  and "Where did you hear this?"   She heard it on the radio.   A few minutes later a commercial comes on the radio.  One about finding money under a rock and how you can save money by going to... Geiko.com.   Ellie pipes up, "See mom, this is what I was telling you about!"   Oh my.   The kid hears things even when we don't.


2. Ellie started her second year of t-ball last night.   She was pretty excited and seems to like it.   One of our neighbors is the coach this year and she knows a lot of the other kids on the team.  That helps- I just hope they pay attention during the game instead of play with each other.


3.  "Our" park is complete!    The kids are super excited and Neve loves swinging.   I wish they had added more to the park, or at least left the original equipment and added to it.   The park is now geared towards kids ages 5+, which makes it a little nerve-racking for Mommy when Neve climbs across the rock bridge to get to the tall slide.


4. Wednesday night is girls night in our house.   I gave the girls the option to: play at the park with the neighbors, go to a class at LT or go swimming at LT.  Can you guess what they opted to do???  Swimming it is!   I am going to have little fishies by the end of the summer (which is perfectly find for this big fish.)   I remember riding my bike to the pool all the time during the summer as a child.  I feel bad that my girls won't have a similar experience with two working parents, but this works for us.


5.  Ellie is participating in Waukee's Safety City program offered for kids entering kindergarten.   She is in the session with a couple of the neighbor kids and loving it.  Lucky for us our neighbor offered to watch her for an hour + before the program and transport her two and from the program each day.  Thank goodness for wonderful neighbors!