Catch-Up

There were not any posts yesterday because a certain someone decided it was a a great idea to be gone almost the entire day.  It was all good though.  Linda had the best time teaching all her classes (Thursday used to be her day off because she only taught one Body Pump, now she is doing three more classes!) and an even better time watching Penelope and then... having dinner with the family in the evening.  Sarah made her world famous home made apple pie.

 Taylor said in the 5 years he's been eating her pie it was the best one yet.  Obviously, the pie was for dessert.  Dinner was homemade pizza!  Sarah does things right.  No throwing a frozen pizza in the microwave for that girl.  She also sent home 3 slices of broccoli and spinach pizza, some spinach and snap peas for Linda to enjoy.  (There was no way Taylor was letting her take the leftover pie!)

Penelope was asleep for dinner, but woke up at the end.  She was pretty crabby since none of us heard her whimpering to come downstairs and enjoy the party.  (Everyone must have been too focused on digging into the warm pie.)

Two of the classes Linda added to her Thursday schedule are 4-5 year old movement/dance classes.  She adores teaching them.  Imagine being able to be Big Bear Bill, pretending you are at a circus or on a safari, being a fairytale book come to life and prancing around the floor like a show horse?!  A bunch of weight lifter type guys were watching her through the window as she was perfecting her Transformer moves and swinging her arm around like an elephants trunk. She wasn't sure if they were making fun of her or really wishing they could come in and play.  Here are her two favorite lines of the day.  One boy remembered the stretching they did last week and asked "Can we do the Yoda song today? (it was yoga, but he heard Linda to say Yoda.  Aaron just renamed the cool down!)  The second favorite was a new 4-year old who told Linda he was going to be great at this class because "He was born clapping!" And guess what?  He was great at the class and an amazing clapper.

Maybe she should get this for some inspiration

For anyone who is wondering about the status of our lamp, Linda got it out of the box, or should I say boxes.  It was double boxed, wrapped, foamed, framed, taped, foam peanut-ed, and she STILL does not have it totally unpacked yet.  It was so exhausting doing it late last night that she gave up and went to bed.

It's so small!  The box and packaging was 5 times this size!!