Life lately

Ally is settling in to middle school nicely. She is enjoying changing classes and likes most of her teachers. Interestingly gym class is no longer her favorite class. It’s a new teacher this year and I think she’s kind of over PE with all her dance and ballet. 

So far we are managing her schedule and she’s getting homework completed. Hopefully she can keep that up. 

Ally has been doing private lessons with one of her gymnastics coaches on Sundays. To make up for the times she misses on Friday at pointe class. She loves these one on one lessons. They spend 45 minutes on bars and Ally gets horrible rips on her hands but she loves it. This week she told me “my hands hurt so badly while I was practicing Giants. But I kept telling myself, you can do it, this is gymnastics and sometimes there is pain. Pain is part of gymnastics. And I did it. But it really hurt mommy”.

Here is what a rip looks like

It is a blister that has popped

So for it to heal I cut off the loose skin


So she has a hole in the skin on the palm of her hand. Yes it hurts. So we neosporin and bandage it up until it heals. Usually takes about 5-6 days and then she has another private lesson and gets a new rip.

But she loves it.

Ally has been taking landscape photos of the different views on the way to practice. This week the Saturday morning sunrise:

In new school clothes from Great Aunt Martha 

After Saturday morning practice. Very tween pose here.

Riding in the car with Cloey

Loving her new haircut!

My dad aka Grandpa Frank is visiting us for a week,

In sad news Ally’s hamster Cupcake died last night. Ally was sad of course but mostly sad because it was another loss in such a short period of time.  But she had Willow over and the girls made some awesome slime, Ally has ballet and seemed to get thru this well.