Funny Nicknames

Cianna explains in the car that all the kids have nicknames: She is "Cici" Natalia is "Nini" and Peyton is "pee pee." As soon as it came out they just busted out laughing so hard. I explained that maybe we should find a better nickname for Peyton because it wouldn't sound very appropriate shouting pee pee at her all the time. LOL!

Peyton's behavior

Peyton has been getting more and more difficult with her behavioral issues and at school gets in trouble fairly regularly, so coming home with a green smiley instead of a yellow or red one is very exciting. This year, she has received detentions for 1. Spitting at a kid who was "being mean" and 2. kicking a student for touching her stability ball, which was her substitute chair to help with her hyperactivity. This week was a whole new one, she got a red for "showing her butt to a friend." AHHHH!!! What do you even say to that? I am sure I have a ton more surprises ahead of me with this one. I need some extra patience if I am going to make it.

Cianna and gymnastics team

Cianna was invited to join the competitive gymnastics team in fall of 2012 when she was only 5, which was very exciting, but she was not really ready then. The practices are 2 hours long and we tried 2 out and she was in tears on the way home from being so tired, so we just did another year of recreational gymnastics at a level higher. She joined the team in 2013 and loved it, had a great year. She even got a first place on bars once and man that was really exciting. She learned all the skills for level 2, including her backbend kickover, which took a lot of practice. At the awards ceremony, she recieved the fun "drama queen" award. She is a great athlete, but does tend to draw out those injuries for a little extra attention. This year she is on team again at level 3 and it has been difficult to do this along with soccer, but she was not ready to quit either, so we are just making it work. Luckily the club she goes to is very flexible and let her just do what she can, without penalty. She is working on learning her back hand spring this year and really enjoys all the team activities they do like gladiator night, team sleepovers, parent's night out and summer camp.

Peyton and her moody self

Peyton had a humongous tantrum tonight, just one of those moody nights that kept getting worse and worse. She kept screaming how she wanted her dessert, but that was clearly not going to happen tonight. Once she was finally over it, she went around and apologized to everyone and  came to lay with me in bed. Now I am getting a foot massage, what a nice change. However, I was told she couldn't massage my legs because they are too spikey and "perhaps I need to shave." Oops!