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Family matters, National Blog Posting Month

Extracurricular activities

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We’ve been attending Music NaBloPoMo!Together classes for about two years now. It’s a terrific program, and I definitely recommend it for the under-5 set. After two years, though, Poppy has gotten so much more … oh, let’s call it outgoing.* She’s gotten much more outgoing than the other kids, so we’ve decided that she’s ready for a new activity.

We’ve talked at length about dance classes — because I’d like her to be far more coordinated than her mother — and she’s expressed an interest in trying gymnastics again. She’s also said she wants to do tae kwon do. (That one stems from taking a music class in a tae kwon do studio.) I’d like to just say, “Let’s try them all! Then we’ll see which one she likes best.” But then I’d have to pay for them all, and that’s not an option (particularly since Petey is still going to be doing Music Together). Oh, and I’d have to leave the house more than once a week. And then there’s also the possibility that she’d love all of them and I’d have to crush her spirit. Which we’d rather avoid.

So we need to pick one, is what I’m saying.

Did you take any outside-of-school lessons growing up? Did you love them? Should I try to make my girl a ballerina or a fighting machine?**

*She starts the songs, hands out the instruments and basically takes over. She’s also a good year older than most of the kids there, because the kids her age are now in preschool and thus aren’t going to music classes during the day.
**I know tae kwon do isn’t all about fighting. (I think.) But “fighting machine” is just kind of fun, isn’t it?

Domestic Blitz, National Blog Posting Month

The next preschool design star

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Poppy and I usually watch an episode of “Designers’ Challenge” on HGTV while NaBloPoMo!the babies have their naps. In addition to now being on a first-name basis with the host, the show seems to be giving her ideas.

“Mommy,” she said to me earlier today. “I wish a designer would come and design my bedroom.”

Oh boy.

So I asked her what she’d ask the designer to do with her room. Here’s her wishlist:

  • Pink walls, “because it’s my favorite color,” she said. Her room is currently blue. For sake of clarification, in the event that we decide to repaint, I asked her what sort of pink she was thinking. “Hot pink!” she said. “Very, very pink.”
  • A purple bed. She has a white bed now. We decided purple bedding would suffice.
  • Some blue blankets.
  • A red radio

Obviously, my girl is not afraid of color. Or opinions.

I wonder whether she’d be thrilled with something like this. Because I like it a lot, and we wouldn’t have to repaint!

Update!
I think I’m going to entirely copy these people. They even shared the paint names. Yay Internet strangers!