An August Wednesday

UPDATED

A few things from today:

First, "I decorated him," Lev said, and Linc proudly showed off about a dozen beaded necklaces.


This afternoon, a trip to Costco turned memorable when not one but two little old men on one aisle after the other stopped us about our beautiful kids, their pretty eyes and their gorgeous hair.

"Wow, two redheads, huh," one said.

Dad and Mom looked at each other and at the kids and said, "Yes, it looks like it."

Linc walked about 75 percent of the way through the store. Costco has huge carts, with double seats for the kids where they both started out, but Linc soon decided he'd much rather be on the floor. His sweet little wobbly walking left almost everyone we passed saying, "Isn't he cute." Yes, he is, we thought.

He walked outside a lot, too, and earned his first boo-boo on the knee.


Also, Lev had a trial gymnastics class today at a little kids gym about a block from the YMCA, around the corner from the library and next to our haircutting place (don't we live in a convenient neighborhood?). Since the Olympics, her interest and talk of the sport has kind of put the swimming aside. We even tried a soccer class at the Y last week, but she wanted the gymnastics.

So our girl brushed past mom introducing her gingerly to the teacher today and made herself at home in the class with a few other 3 and 4 year olds. Mom thought they would do some stretching, maybe some rolling around and maybe a little balancing on a little beam.

Well, Lev executed a routine on the uneven bars, a full-sized balance beam act and dozens of perfect little somersaults down a inclined mat. OK, really, she did jump up to a mini version of the bars, swung back and forth and then landed on her feet with a big proud "ta da!" and a huge smile. And she held her arms out so straight and balanced her way across the beam, but instead of the big jump off the end, she carefully knelt down and slid one foot down and then the other. Not pushing her luck today, that one.

Honestly, two days ago when we brought the class up, Lev was a little apprehensive. She kind of got teary and said, "But the vault is too big for me!" Sweet girl thought mom and dad were sending her to do what the big girls do. But when we explained it was a little class for little kids learning how to one day do like the big kids do, she was OK. But after today, she really thought she already was a big kid. Mom and Dad thought so, too.