Wet and Wild

January has been a bit of a long month. Little Lady started swim and gymnastics lessons. She loves them and is doing really well. In fact she just completed her first session of swim lessons and went from a paddler to a level 2 swimmer! I am very proud of her and I hope she continues to love swimming like her Mommy does. Lucy is going to puppy kindergarten and she is doing well too. She already knows plenty of commands; Sit, stay, down, off, come, paw, leave it, and wait. The problem with her is her attitude. She may know the commands but she just plain chooses to not do it. Her teacher laughed in class tonight because she just plain refused to come when called. Oh well. We keep working on it. S has been busy but not here. He has been on a business trip all month. He returned home after 3 weeks away and we decided to escape for a little getaway. We found an amazing pet sitter to stay and watch Lucy, Downy, and Dusty and we went to Great Wolf Lodge. We had never been before this weekend. It was fun. I don't know how anyone stays longer than a few days though. Little Lady could have but S and I were more than ready to leave on Tuesday morning. We spent 2 nights there. There was plenty for us to do our only real complaint was that the air actually hurt our eyes and made it hard to breathe after a while. I don't know if they have poor ventilation there, if it was just the one we went to, or what was going on but the Chlorine in the air was hard to handle. S and LL were coughing. At one point LL was sobbing because her eyes were burning so bad. I would say it was from swimming underwater but mine hurt too and were watering and I tried very hard to not put my head under the water at all. Either way we did have a lot of fun and it was a great way to celebrate S being back and LL passing her first swim levels. 

Crazy Monday

Crazy monday. With our good friends ready to leave America we had to have another fun outing together. We picked them up and headed to Baltimore to visit the aquarium. The girls had a fabulous day seeing the fish and particularly loved the dolphins. They were asking the trainer questions, got to touch a replica skull, and were even splashed by a dolphin! The girls got to inspect some jellies up close and were even offered the opportunity to touch jellies, horseshoe crabs, and sea stars. They declined the opportunity but Pao did it. After a fun day at the aquarium we had Chik Fil A for lunch. The girls ordered their own ice cream and the manager was so impressed with their manners that he gave each of them a stuffed cow. They were thrilled. After lunch we drove back and met up with Josh, Rachel, and baby Sonja for some dinner. We had a great meal and conversation then Little Lady and I quickly exited to get to puppy school for Lucy on time. Last night was our first official puppy kindergarten class. Lucy had so much fun meeting all the other dogs. She had to say hi to each one. She is already pretty good at sit and down which were what we worked on last night. That meant she had an easy night. Next week is stay and wait. I can't wait to work on that. We have been trying but so far she is not impressed with sitting still or waiting.  Everyone was home and crashed by 10. Lucy was the first asleep at 9:15. What a wild and crazy Monday.