After I picked Avery up from Friendship (not early this time, I got in trouble for her not getting enough play time on Tuesday!) we went to the grocery store and got fixings to make our own pizzas. She chose pepperoni and green olives while I stuck with just cheese. I cheated and got pre-made crust so we could eat sooner, and I don't actually have a pizza pan. Anyway she got a kick out of making hers and they looked great and tasted even better. Along with some garlic bread and 7up we had a dinner that made Avery decide every Thursday should be pizza day. =) I said maybe once a month...

Last night she had a brief sleep walking episode. She stumbled out of her room shortly before I went to bed and said "Is there anything you need me to do for you before I go to bed Mama?" I said "No, but why don't I tuck you back in." To which she said "Okay." and turned around and went back to bed. It was super cute.

Leprechaun (Chaun) passed away today at the age of 30. This was the first "big" horse Avery rode and she won a ribbon with him in the last fun show at the farm. She adored him and he will be missed. This one was kind of expected, but it just seems like there have been a lot of sad happenings at the farm this year. Say hi to Sam for us Chaun.

Okay second post for today because I have to transcribe some of Avery's writing journal from school. It's adorable!! Mind you, I'm going to spell correctly, otherwise it will mess with my brain and typing. =)
12/2/11: I take care of my cat. I brush him. I give him a treat in the morning.
12/3/11: I never take candy from a bad person.
12/12/11: I have a dog. I have one only. His name is Riley He doesn't like kids but he likes to play with toys!
12/21/11: My favorite Jan Brett book is Hedgie's Surprise because it's funny. I like it because I love it. I like the boy.
No date (I imagine after Christmas): I have a Monster High doll! I have a working pony! I got a Monster High doll shirt! I got a Zhu Zhu Pet. It's name is Freezy...(not sure what the rest says).
I got some Zoobles in a carrier.
-I made a paper doll at home. You have to draw the doll first ,then you color it. Then you cut it out.
-I have a cat, his name is Majik. I love him. He's so nice.
1/11/12: I love going to school. It's so fun because we get to learn and its so so fun!
-I have a hamster. He is a beanie baby. His name is Twitch. He is cute.
2/6/12: At my birthday party I got a balloon crown! And some Polly Pockets that can go in the water. I have not opened the box yet. I think it's fun. (She drew a picture of the Polly Pocket water slide). I love my new Polly Pocket!
2/8/12: The way I cheer myself up is to do something funny. I would dig to China!
-I like to ride horses, they are fun to ride. I have some Orbeez. They smell. It is a Scent Bug. Not the little one, the big one.
-Avery ate some apples. Crunch crunch. Avery had some apples. Yum yum. They are sweet, so very sweet.
2/22/12: The 44th president is Barack Obama. He is a good man. I care about him. He is nice. I love him.
-If I were president of the United States I would give to the poor; food, and water. And flowers. I would bring them to a safe place. I would care for them.
2/27/12: On Friday I was sick. Instead I watched A Dolphin Tale. The dolphin is Winter. She had to get her tail fin off so she had to get a mechanical tail. Winter lives in Florida. She must be happy there.
-I had the best weekend because I was having good fun stuff. This is what I played with: Barbies, my Orbeez.
-At riding lessons I did a jump! I did a western game! At the beginning I had to do a warm up. It was so fun. Riding is so fun!

If you could see the pictures and misspellings, it's a hoot. I sure do love that little girl! ;)

So the apartments recycling hasn't been picked up in over a month. I have called 4 times, and talked to a person 3 out of those 4 times and left a message the other time. I took a picture of the pile of recycling that has piled out and out of the bins and onto the parking lot. I sent this to the management company and have heard nothing. I want to know why no one will flipping listen to me, and how hard it is to figure out how to get a recycling truck to come here when it had already been coming regularly for the last year and a half I lived here. I'm so frustrated right now!!

Avery has a ringworm lesion on her stomach. Originally I thought it was a scrape from when she fell (multiple times) off her scooter. Then I realized it was getting bigger, and the other scrapes went away. So I took a picture of it and sent it to my Aunt Pam and my mom sent it to her friend Chris and they both agreed it appeared to be ringworm. So on Saturday we went to the Minute Clinic at CVS which should be called the 120 Minute Clinic because that's how long it took us. Then 10 minutes for the PA to say yes it is indeed ringworm and get a prescription for econazole cream sent in to Target.

So anyway, it's only the one lesion, and really until we started talking about it all the time, she left it alone. It's getting better already, but I've been putting a big bandaid over it for her to go places during the day and then taking it off at night. When she went to school today I told her not to tell everyone, it's not that big of a deal and she didn't need to freak people out. So what's the first thing she did when she got to school? Pulled up her shirt to show her teacher Mrs Grossen and said "I have ringworm and it's contagious! My mom told me not to talk about it." I found this out when I stopped by to give her a sweatshirt for under her rain jacket and a hat because it was so cold today during recess. Mrs Grossen told me and I about died. She's so funny. I said that's exactly the OPPOSITE of what I told her to do. Kids!

Watching Hoarders never fails to entertain me. My favorite line I think, is when they say "I just have a lot of clutter". I consider clutter the few dishes that are too big for the dishwasher that may take me a day to get to. I think our definitions are a bit different.

So it turns out the instructor that I really like for my boxing class will not be coming back tomorrow after all. It's been 6 weeks I think since she's taught the class and it turns out it's because she's pregnant. She was having heart issues and the doctor didn't want her getting her heart rate above a certain level. Teaching a cardio class wasn't going to work for that. Apparently the restriction was extended out for the whole pregnancy instead of 6 weeks. Brenda, the woman teaching it now is making the class just dreadful. I think I mentioned it in an earlier post, but you barely work up a sweat, if at all, when she does it. I hated it so much I didn't go back while she was teaching it. Now I guess I'll have to do Zumba on the days when I can get there early enough, and when I can't I'll have to figure out something else to do. Without that day of heavy cardio I've definitely felt it in the weight department.

Well I have one tired little bunny back in his cage right now. We had our first rabbit agility class at the Animal Humane Society in Golden Valley. It was at 10:30 and we left around 9:40 to stop by the bank to get cash to pay for the classes, and we ended up there a little early. Geronimo decided he needed to get acquainted with some of the other bunnies via mounting them, so he wasn't allowed t roam free at first. Once everyone got the harnesses and what not figured out we started with teaching them how to sit, and to hop/walk when told on the leash. Geronimo did pretty well I think. He got a little tired and confused about half way through and started laying down a lot and keeping himself tight against the wall. We worked a little on going right and left with foot cues, which he did a few times, but we'll be working on it some more. The last thing was going to a target, which was a blue lid type thing in our case and we gave him treats when he went to it/or us. He was pretty pooped by that point, so that didn't happen much.

After class was over we stopped by Jen's Pampered Chef party at her house. We came just in time for food, which was a quiche type egg dish, and dessert. Avery played with the kids and before we left we took Geronimo outside on his leash for a little hop around. So now we're finally home and he is voluntarily snoozing in his cage. Big day for a little bunny!

I was standing by the patio waiting for Riley to do his business when I looked in the glass and realized I'm wearing camo sleep shorts and a tie dye t-shirt. When did I get so classy? I was also thinking how before when I received a free t-shirt with some sort of logo on it, say from the Walk for Animals, or work picnic I would only wear it to bed. Now I wear them everywhere and when I get one I'm really excited at the fact I'm getting a free t-shirt.

Avery went to Robin's on Friday and since they're packing to move, the items we had stored from Avery's baby days got brought back. It's weird to see her little massage chair, car seat, moses basket, etc. They're so small it seems like forever ago she was in them, and yet so recent at the same time. I wish there was a little newborn baby I could borrow for a day or two to put in all these things again. Or if I could dial back the time a bit and have Avery tiny again.

Tomorrow is Avery's field trip to Saxon Lanes for bowling with her class. I'm meeting them there and I get to be in charge of a lane and finding the kids their shoes. I wish there was a way I could go on these things without having to look after the other kids...ah well.

The music program was quite cute, but the gym was very crowded and there wasn't enough places for people to park. Avery had a afternoon performance so she wore her outfit of "a plain red shirt, and dark bottoms" to school. I asked her to try a little harder to stay clean, but I know accidents happen so just do your best. Well when I picked her up from Friendship she was literally soaked all the way through to her underwear. Her coat, snow pants, and boots sopping wet, because she was laying in puddles outside. Even her hair was wet, and she smelled like a wet dog. Riley, her friend went home the same way as did some other kids. So what I'm wondering is, why were the people in charge letting them do this?? Today they didn't even go out for recess because it was just too wet. I wish the idiots at Friendship would have thought of that. We had a different pair of pants to change her into, put her shirt had to sit under the fan in the kitchen until we had to leave. Oh socks and underwear were changed also. Her boots have been sitting on a plastic bag under the fan ever since, and they're still not dry. I bought her some rain boots at Fleet Farm today and she'll be wearing those until her winter boots dry out. I also got her a Carhart style jacket to have embroidered with the Pine Lake logo to wear at the farm. It's light blue and lined with fleece. I'll take pictures once all the embroidery is done.

Avery's singing softly to herself with her headphones on in bed. It's pretty darn cute. Tomorrow is her music program at school. She asked if I could bring her the colored flowers we like. (For last years dance recital I bought her dyed daisies). I was informed that she would share half of them with me, and that I could stop by Costco to pick them up where we last saw them. Isn't she funny? I almost feel like I have to now or I'll be the mean momma who doesn't buy her special girl flowers.

I wonder when her costume will be in for this year's recital. It's a purple sparkly one, and if she doesn't do dance next year as requested then this will be the last time she's all dolled up in a super cute costume dancing around on stage. =/ Aw. Maybe she'll have a change of heart in the fall. We don't have to register right away in the spring, so she has time to think about it.

She got a new pair of hot pink swimming goggles in preparation for swimming lessons at Foss this summer. We went to Kohls after lunch with Jen and Cordelia yesterday. We met at Panera in Roseville. I forget how delicious their sandwiches and soups are! Avery didn't like her chicken noodle, so I even have leftovers for lunch tomorrow.

Today I'm missing my Pete. I was uploading pictures onto Flickr and I have the pictures of Pete from last summer on the memory card still. I usually only keep that last 200 or so pictures on the card, but I can't bring myself to delete them, even though they're on Flickr, my back up hard drive, printed in a Snapfish book, and on Facebook... He was my sweet bunny boy. Don't get me wrong, I love Geronimo, but he doesn't love me like Pete did. I could cuddle that boy all day long and he wouldn't say boo about it. He groomed my knee when I brushed him =) and he loved his bananas with papaya tabs so very much. I know I should be grateful for the time I had with him, I just wish it could have been even longer.

I'm hoping once we start agility with Geronimo and he gets a little training, he'll learn the love us a little more. He does, in his own way, he just seems like such a grump when he grunts and kicks at me just for picking up poop in his pen area. Maybe he'd feel a little differently if his cage wasn't cleaned and litter box scooped every morning with fresh fruit and vegetables twice a day, unlimited hay, food and water didn't show up like magic. Then what!! Take that grumpy bunny!