Big questions from a little girl...and other stuff

Wow. The other night I was reading to Anna at bedtime, and after we were done, she asks, "Mommy, how did the first person in the world get born if there was nobody there to have them?" I was shocked! Not by the question, but more the fact that it was asked by a 5 year old!

Well how does anyone answer this to a 5 year old, when we really can't officially answer it ourselves?.. well all I can say is, we did our best, and I plan to find a kid version of the Old Testament to share with her, but we let her know that we really don't know for sure. We let her know that many people in the world have different theories (and then we got into the definition of theory), but there is no way to answer the question for sure. I asked her if this was something she has been thinking about for a long time, and she said that she thinks about things like this all the time. wow. Okay so...

Now for my update. The last time I posted was Saturday night, after Anna's dance recital. So, Sunday... Molly and Alan spent the morning with us, so we went to a park for a while. My mom met up with us there as well. Then we went to lunch, and after that Molly and Alan got on the road back to Plantation. We decided to take the kids to see Shrek 3. It was cute!

Monday, swim lessons, kindermusik work, but NO dance class to rush off to. At least not for the Summer.

Tuesday Anna's VPK class had their last "hurrah" at a park. Here's a picture as we were walking to the park. I didn't ask them to hold hands...they did that on their own. I simply slowed down to get this pic.

Then I had my weekly Weight Watchers weigh in! It went VERY well. I lost another 1.8 lbs, for a total of 14 lbs! When you join or return to weight watchers, they ask you to focus on losing 10% of your body weight first because research shows that if you lose that much, you receive many health benefits. Well, I did it!!! I reach my 10% this week!! It was VERY exciting to be there again, and only 5 lbs away from my goal.

Today after the kids had swim lessons, I took them over to the mall to stroll around. I'm in desperate need of clothes, so I wandered into Express. For the last 5 years, Express was NOT a store I would easily go into. Everything always runs small to me. But I did it. AND... for the first time in 5 years I bought shorts. Not cargo, or bermuda's. No, SHORTS, that show my LEGS. It was a pretty hard leap for me, because I have been "hiding" my legs for so long... I also fit into a size I haven't been in since before I was pregnant with Anna. So that is exciting too. Since my friends aren't going to believe me that I actually bought these, here's some proof! :)

Anna was very proud of a drawing she did on her chalkboard. It's a picture of her and Miss Simone during Swim Lessons.

I'm definitely enjoying the relaxed week. Tomorrow I'm taking Aiden to a makeup My Gym class since we missed on Tuesday due to the VPK park day. Then I have a Mom's Night Out. Yey!!!

Nighty night!!!

Love, Holly