Two More Days!

Today and tomorrow, then the girls will be back in school. My younger daughter is going into 1st grade, so she will be starting full days at school. I ask her if she is excited about going to school all day, and she says she isn't. She doesn't want to go all day. She's worried she will be bored.

I have assured her that she will not be bored, but will have a lot of things to do and learn and the day will fly by. I told her she may even have an extra recess too. That got her attention. Her Kindergarten teacher told us that she would often rush through her work so that she could play. I hope she will slow down a bit this year and work more carefully.

It was kind of funny getting that report from her teacher since all of our older daughter's teachers have always given a completely opposite report on her. She is more of a perfectionist. She takes her time on her work and would often end up spending time during her recesses catching up on her work that she did not complete in class. She gets upset if, when she is coloring, she gets out of the lines even a little. Her handwriting has always been, by far, the best of her classmates, but it's because she takes her time and has to have every letter perfect. If it doesn't look good to her, she will erase it and do it over.

It is interesting to see their individual personalities. It will be interesting to see how our son does when he gets to school. Maybe he'll be a good mixture of both!

Anyway, we went on one last adventure yesterday before school starts on Thursday. Thanks to a friend of mine who works for Children's Hospital and is able to get day passes, we spent the day at Fort Rapids Indoor Waterpark. We had a blast! The only thing that bugged me was the inconsistancy of the workers. They rotated stations probably every half hour. To go down the tunnel slides, you had to be at least 48 inches tall. We went up the steps and even my younger daughter was able to go down each slide. The 4th time up, they had switched workers and the new guy measured my younger daughter against the stick and she was just under the height limit. He said he couldn't let her go down the slides because she was too short. GRRR! So it just depended on who was manning the slides as to whether she could go down them or not. That was kind of frustrating.

There were a different set of slides that you lay on this mat on your stomach and go through a tunnel and come out at the end and go down this steep hill. That one only required you to be 42 inches tall, so she was able to do those with no issues. She had a blast on those slides. So did I! It was a fun day and we all slept well last night too.