Emily swimming

Last week I feel like we finally made some headway on Emily's swimming lessons. We usually go so she can cry the whole time she is there . . . I was getting frustrated because the place I take her wants each child to learn to float on their back for 30 seconds before moving on to other skills . . .like actually swimming! So on Monday I had a mission to speak to the supervisor about Emily's lessons. But I was pleasantly surprised because he said that some kids stall on certain skills and sometimes it's best to go ahead and move them up to the next class anyway. So he observed her and said she was fine to go to the next class starting in August . . . finally! And wouldn't you know it . . . our neighbor gave her some floaties and she started swimming around the pool by herself and floating on her back by herself because of the security of the floaties:
So at Wednesday's lesson she floated on her back with no help from the teacher! I should have gotten her some floaties a long time ago : )

I also had to run to the mall last week to get some makeup so I stopped by the play area in the mall to let Emily play a while:
Abigail enjoyed watching all the kids running around. It's hard to believe by this time next year she'll be running around with them.

I finally got around to removing my cook books from the bottom level of the bookshelf because Abigail keeps going over there and pulling them all off the shelf. I put her books there instead and she enjoyed playing with them just as much:
There is a song that Emily loves to listen to. It's about marching around the alphabet and picking one up when the whistle blows. So we reenacted the song and Emily LOVED it:
By late Friday afternoon though this girl sent us for a loop. She had a fever on Wed night and then no fever on Thursday. On Friday she woke up fine but by late afternoon her fever was creeping back up again. The doctor said I could bring her in late Friday but I had forgotten that Joe took my car to work on it, so had no car seats to get her there. So of course her fever spiked at over 104 on Friday night AFTER urgent care closed : ) So I took her to the ER. I'm glad I did because she had strep throat and it was so nice to get her started on antibiotics right then instead of waiting another 12 hours for urgent care to open on Saturday morning. We opted for the 1 time shot of antibiotics vs 10 day dosage. The shot really hurt though. Kids never get sick in the middle of the week or in the middle of the day do they? She spent Saturday just like this. She wouldn't walk because her leg hurt from the shot so we had to carry her to the couch and that's where she stayed the whole day. By Saturday night we made her get up and walk to the bathroom and she cried the whole way . . . bless her:
My sister and her family were supposed to come spend the weekend with us doing lots of fun stuff. Emily was so sad when they couldn't come and we were pretty bummed out too. But by Sunday she was feeling much better so Michelle and fam made it a short trip and came on Sunday afternoon. She still didn't want to walk on her leg but when I told her they were on their way she jumped off the couch and started running around. Her leg was miraculously healed : ) On Monday we went to the aquarium and Emily loved playing with her cousins! Those pics will be posted soon.