The kids and I moved down to the toasty hot desert to be with "Daddy" earlier this week. The flight was fine, although I've decided any more than two hours with them on the plane would drive me bonkers. I had some Dollar Store toys to bust out occasionally and played a movie on the portable DVD player. The kids spotted Daddy at the airport and ran after him with arms flailing and screaming. Kenna got so emotional she started crying. She was so overwhelmed with happiness, she's such a Daddy's girl.
The furnished condo we're renting is nice, 1300 sq ft, 3bed 2 bath, so we're living fine when it comes to space. It's just that we're living with the same clothes and suitcases we've had since we packed out at the end of March. It's definitely time to go shopping.
The kids are enjoying some new activities these days. We signed up as a family at the YMCA and they've already got to play in the "daycare" area while Erik and I toured the facility and checked out other programs. Deegan's soccer skills were assessed and he said he wasn't bad but still too small for the 4-5yr old class. They aren't running the 3yr old class in August because that coach will be out of town. It's only a Saturday one hour at a time thing anyway, no big games etc. So he'll have to wait until September to have his Saturday soccer session. We did sign Kenna up for gymnastics for August. She'll be doing that once a week on Saturdays. Deegan can go play in the playroom while she does that.
We also signed them up for Summer Camp Little Learners for the month of August. So that means for two hours a day for three days a week they'll have some fun schooling activities etc. It will make for a nice transition I think for preschool.
Speaking of Preschool, they called and said we got moved off the wait list for the 2day a wk school. I'll take it, better than nothing. So they'll be going to a preschool that is run at the Church rather than a super expensive private one that wants $835 per month per child, yikes. Although because I'm a full time student the gov't would pay for a portion of that but still too much for us.
Tomorrow we get their swim skills assessed, or lack of skills, to see if they can join a 3yr old swim lesson class. If they don't then they would have to do mom/toddler and I can't do that with two kids on my own. Once we get them into the group of 5 kids lessons we can do that as many times a week as we want, it's just pay per class. I'm thinking of doing twice a week to start out with. We'll wing it and see how we're all holding up.
We did have a great dinner and swim time at a friends house tonight. We met these folks 12 years ago when we lived in Japan. They have a 4yr old son, and all three kids played really well together and had a blast. The swam a lot, played soccer, catch with a nurf football, played with trains, tons in a few hours.
Tomorrow morning (Sunday) we'll be going to a different family's house, we met them in Japan too. They have three kids, 7,5 and 2. We'll hang a bit before naptime. Then after nap, we'll be joining yet another couple (and we met them in Japan too, yes that's three families from our past). This third couple has a son who will be turning four next month. So as you can see our kids have options for playdates and we haven't even met classmates, or squadron families yet.
I'm really looking forward to having six hours of free time to myself during the week. I can do my homework and have my nights and weekends free for family time. I can even go grocery shopping by myself now!!!!! or maybe get my haircut!!!! I used to have to work everything around Erik's schedule but no longer, finally.
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