Last Monday we were shoveling almost a foot of snow, today the kids were digging out their shorts from the back of the closet. It warmed up to about 70 degrees this weekend-it feels like Florida! I saw the first yellow crocuses blooming next to the shopping mall. Mine are not far behind. Speaking of shopping malls, Allison and I just spent all of Saturday night out with the girl scouts and about 2000 little Jr Scouts working on badges and arts and crafts projects. We were up all night at the Columbia Mall Sleep In where we don't actually sleep. My girls helped put on an arts badge station and earned a few patches themselves-I want to be a Rock Star, and the Harvest for the Hungry patch-they collected food this weekend and donated to the Maryland Food Bank. So did the cub scouts so Scott and I went and picked up donations Saturday morning from people's mailboxes where we left bags last week. I especially enjoyed that it was time to spring ahead cause we only had to work a 5hr night, unlike our 6hr night last year. And the girls still enjoy eating Chinese food at 2am! Unfortunately, I was not happy that most of the parents forgot about daylight savings time (even though I emailed them and reminded them) and they were 45 mins late picking up their girls. I had to call them all at 6am and wake them up for pick up. I was home by 545(it was very dark out, but very warm that morning). No coats for a change! So Allison and I crashed in the basement while Scott and his sleepover buddy ran around the house keeping us from getting a completely restful sleep. Guess we are hitting the hay early tonite! We woke up when it was time for Cookie's puppy class. We are working on sit and stay, come, drop it (a very important command) and leave it! The class is wearing out little girl out. Us too! Tom just wants to know when she is going to stop pooping and peeing in the house (we still have about one accident a day). I keep telling him not bad for a 12wk old. She is still real cute (I could have sold a few of her today at the pet store). And Pika our cat still keeps her distance and is happy the dog goes out of the house.
Both kids tried out their new higher level green belt classes-Scotty's class got to spar, and Allison's class makes a weird breathing sound that is something like the sound of an asthma attack. Supposed to help with concentration (right). Tom says Scott is pretty good at sparring (actual physical contact). Scott also enjoyed another week of bouncing and flipping in gymnastics-it is a crazy place-lots going on in the gym at once. And it makes it hard to watch the kids-they move around all over.