Orientation in the morning!

Tomorrow is Deo's first day going to orientation for school. It will be for an hour tomorrow. I will tell you how it went then.
Here is the picture I am bringing for his cubby.

Swimming lessons

Deo has become afraid of the pool if I bring him in past the stairs. I am upset this is happening because he used to love swimming so much. I started his swimming lessons today and he cried the whole time. I started by having him hug my neck and I hold his legs and make him kick all around the pool and say "kick, kick, kick" over and over. I do this for like 5 minutes then my arms hurt and I am sick of hearing myself say "kick" but I hear that repetition is key. I do 5 minutes sessons of kicking 3 times letting him play inbetween because the people in the surrounding apartments must think I am killing him because he is crying so much. But this is for his own good, he'll get used to it. At the end of the kicking sesson he gets dunked under and I yell kick very loud while he is under. He hates it. Seriously.
I couldn't get one kick out of him on his own today he would just lay there with his legs out crying while I floated him around the pool. I hope he gets better.
I am going to do this every morning for the next few days and afternoon too if it is not really hot.
When you ask Deo how old he is he says "2" now. I will get it on video for you.

Busy Busy Busy & new car-yay!

I am so busy lately getting ready for the even busier time that is coming up ahead. I start school next week and Deo starts the week after. I hope I can successfully juggle a child, school, Ebay work, Ilich and still clean the house and have time for sleep in there somewhere. And I have to start making a certain amount a week on Ebay because we currently lost a large part of our income, so the pressure is on! I am up to my eye balls in vintage clothing and the "to do pile" that sits on my dining room table waiting to be put up for auction only gets smaller then gets repiled in a never ending circle of vintage and ebay madness. So is my life.
But Deo is doing great and I can't wait for him to start school. I bring him to the gym daycare every morning just to get him used to being away for a couple hours every morning. I am slowly getting us (yes BOTH of us) on a earlier schedule because he will have to be to school for 8:20. That is when we wake up now so I have to start the day at 6:30 or so soon. But we used to wake up at about 9:45 so we are getting there I guess.
Look at our new car! I love it. It should be here soon. (We bought it up in MA a couple weeks ago) Thanks everyone for helping us get such a nice car. We love you Gram and Dad!

Deo and Gina: Pops & Mr. Crab