MOMMY/DAUGHTER ROAD TRIP!!

One of mine and Macies favourite time of year happened on Feb 11th,  our annual mommy/daughter road trip. Last year was Annie, the year before that Disney on Ice, and today was Lloydminster to go and see The Little Mermaid Jr. The drive up was awesome, we sang songs and talked the whole time. When we got there we got a little Booster Juice, then hit up Carters for some baby clothes, then off to the show. It was so good and the kids did a fabulous Job. After the show we went to Spiro's for dinner and Spiro (the owner) is just the nicest guy and he came to visit with us, and brought Macie a home made xylophone that he made himself. Macie had the biggest smile on her face and played it the whole way home. We finished up with a stop at walmart as I promised Macie she could pick out one toy, and she choose a stuffed animal. It was such a wonderful trip together, and I can't wait to see what we do next year together. It might have to include a baby, or something closer to Cold Lake, but definitely will make sure it happens. My hope is when she is older that we do a trip together to New York and see Les Miserable or Phantom of the Opera together.

FEARLESS!!!

Macie has been fearless in the pool since she was a baby,  jumping off the side of the pool where the drop was as high as a small diving board at 18 months, going down the waterslide all buy herself at 2, jumping off the rope and diving board at 4, and today she topped it all. She watched this women doing flips off the diving board, and then saw this boy jump backwards off the diving boards, so she got up to the diving board, faced backwards and flipped that tiny little body off the diving board backwards into a full back flip. My heart sank the second I saw her flip back instead of just jump off the boards. The whole deep end of the pool just froze for a moment, cause nobody could believe this little 5 year old just did what she did. The lifeguards came over and asked if I was OK, and said she couldn't believe she just did that. I asked if they thought it was safe, and they said she did great and she can keep going. So she did it another 3 or 4 times. She then started to get tired and was trying to do flips but only did backwards dives. I love that she is fearless and is such a strong swimmer, but I don't know if my heart can handle it. She is swimming all on her own now with no life jacket in the deep water, and today she went off with friends well I stayed with Wade, and I couldn't take my eyes off of her to make sure she was safe.