New Semester....

Yesterday was our first day of gymnastics and today we started "Songs for Tots" which is a singing, dancing, craft kind of class. I forgot the camera yesterday.. so no photos, but I was surprised that Jazzy is now able to "skin the cat" on the bar by herself. Just a few months ago, she couldn't even hold onto the bar. Today we did singing, dancing and crafts.

Jasmine making her name tag
Listening to a poem

Yet another kid's fair....

Today we went to a fair at the Arizona Cardinals Stadium.... about a 1 1/2 hour drive on a Sunday morning. The first thing we did was a "Meet and Greet" with Dora the Explorer and Spongebob. We waited in the long line, got up to the front, and Jazzy was afraid to go up to Dora!! So, I just carried her up and she was fine. She wouldn't go near Spongebob. He was much too big. There were lots of other characters there like the Backyardigan, Dr. Suess, The Veggies, etc. There were a few other things she didn't want to do like ride the ponies, and a very large assisted trampoline, which was surprising because she is fearless at gymnastics. They had camels there too, but we didn't even attempt that. Next we went to the rides. They sold tickets in pages of 20 for 20.00.... so we bought one page and couldn't even use them all because Jazzy was too little to go on most of the rides. I had to go on all of the other ones with her which I'm sure looked ridiculous. We watched a few live shows, went to the Princess area and painted our nails, then made some crafts. Jazzy slept all the way home.

Kid's fair....

Yesterday we went to the Casa Grande kid's fair. They had all kinds of games sponsored by various businesses in Casa Grande... parachute game, tricycle races, bean bag tosses, crafts and other games. She still can't reach the pedals of any tricycle yet, but we did some of the other games. Today we went to Panda Express for lunch... Gee, we go to all the really nice places.


Eating a granola bar. Our community pool where we had swimming lessons this summer is in the background.
Playing with bubbles.

Tire woes....

Luckily, we hadn't planned on going anywhere this weekend because our tires keep going flat even though the dufuses (plural dufi?) at Tire Pro said they fixed them. We have to keep driving to the closest gas station 10 miles away twice a day to keep the tires filled until tomorrow when we can go back to the "pros" at Tire Pros. On the way, we had lunch at Mimi's Cafe.... since we didn't have anything else to do:)

A little change in plans..

Today we set out to do our usual Saturday routine.... work out at the gym, then drive to Chandler for swimming lessons and shopping at Whole Foods. it was pouring down rain (yeah-- we've only had .7 inches this year). When we came out of the gym, both right front and right rear tires were flat. By the time I got the car to the tire place and had the tires fixed, it was too late to go to swimming lessons. They had to take all four tires off and check them for leaks because they thought that someone tampered with them. Nothing surprises me in Casa Grande anymore. The tires didn't have any damage, just flat.

Since we couldn't go swimming, we went to the Golden Corral (yee ha!) for brunch, then to Blockbuster to pick out movies for our exciting weekend indoors.

Jazzy picking out movies.

Swimming and Dancing...

Jazzy has been having fun at swimming and dancing lessons. They only let us take pictures of the dancing lessons for 10 minutes once a month! and of course, my camera malfunctioned as it usually does... so the photos are not that great. She wasn't paying attention to the teacher... which is I guess why they don't want parents in the room. On the other hand... at the other place in Chandler where she takes gymnastics and swimming, the parents get to watch and after a few lessons, it is just fine.
She is making good progress in her swimming lessons. Her teacher puts her underwater for a good 5 seconds.... much longer than I did in the "Mommy and Me" classes. He also makes her swim under water and put her head in the water much more than I did.

We also went to downtown Phoenix to the Phoenix Children's Hospital for a doctors visit... just to get us established there. It was fine until the techs went to take her blood and kept poking and jabbing for about one minute. She was ok for about 20 seconds, then started crying. After about 45 seconds, I told them they had 10 more seconds to get the blood or they were going to have to take the needle out because she was screaming by that time. I counted to 10 and just said "needle out now"... and that was it. No blood work. What a bunch of yahoos.....

on the way to dance class
dancing
filling out their sticker books
in front of the dance school
swimming

Jazzy's ER visit.....

Jazzy has had a temp of 104 since last Thursday. She received every treatment I could think of.... including Tylenol and Ibuprofen which only had a very temporary effect. Her lungs were clear, but she has/had an extremely sore throat. When she became so lethargic yesterday that she couldn't even open her eyes.... I took her to the ER for a second opinion. Just as I thought, they said she was fine and just had a very severe sore throat which was causing the fever, but I wanted someone else to listen to her lungs. Then.... I thought of an old naturopathic treatment. Within an hour the fever was completely gone and has been normal for 24 hours. She is back to her bouncy ballerina self. She lost 3 # -- which was alot for her, but now she is back to eating again. Here she is today having her snack. All of this stemmed from the birthday cake, candy, ...etc, etc.. which she is not used to. Her immune and lymphatic system became overwhelmed and the fever is a normal response. I wonder what my ER bill is going to be:) just to get a "second opinion".

Jazzy is all signed up for her fall classes. Gymnastics on Monday AM and Saturdays, Singing and Art on Tuesday AM, Swimming in Chandler on Saturdays, her favorite ballet and tap on Thursdays.....

Jazzy having a snack today.