The past week

This time of year is always so busy. End of school year performances, parent gatherings all wound up in the usual craziness of practice, appointments and its just busier than normal. But busy isn't bad. Its just busy.

But not too busy for some typical fun and usual antics of our pets.

I found some biscuits at WF that taste like British scones and Ally has been eating one with raspberry jam every night. Honestly she has been going to bed pretty early around 830 and then waking up at a few hours later hungry and having this as a "midnight snack".

Cloey and Carl love to hang out in Ally's room, especially when Ally isn't home.

Becky and I were busy on Saturday while Ally was a practice. Can you spot the difference in the two pictures?

We traded in our blue CRV in the lower picture for a  dark gray Pilot (upper picture). We decided we'd like to try something bigger for a while. We picked it up on Monday. Ally came straight from ballet to the dealership with us, so she has on her tights and gym shorts.

The best thing so far this week has merited what I am calling "Celebration Fro-Yo"
Ally had PT last night (she went to practice from 4-6pm, I picked her up at practice and brought her to PT for 630-730 PT) and at physical therapy she did some jumping. And no pain.
She has been running at practice the last few times, and even ran to the spring board for vault yesterday.  This is just what we thought and had hoped would happen. That as Ally got back into full participation that if she could work thru the pain, the pain would eventually go away. We talked about it some in the car yesterday - and she said the pain is basically gone at practice. She thinks what she feels as pain now is because she hasn't been doing things - and while she is much stronger than ever before, her endurance for repetitive skills and drills is lower.

I was so happy for her that I suggested fro-yo to celebrate. So of course she got her favorite and usual order of original with chocolate chips and gummy bears.

Ally still has lots of work to do to keep up her strength and continue with stretching to keep her body in top shape. And we will be working with her physical therapist for a while still so that Ally has some support.