Wallflower

Maya's spring program was this week and she blew her performance at her Christmas program out of the water. Not that the bar was set very high, all she had to do was keep her finger out of her nose and she was golden.

At the finale, when all of kids are singing, Maya just stood up with her arms spread and was singing her heart out. I was so excited for her that I just started laughing. It's a wonderful feeling to see your shy little girl coming out of her shell.

Let's Fly A Kite (Seriously This Time)

More windy days came along after that last one and we bought another kite, a better kite, a kite that doesn't inflate. The only bad thing about these kites is that they have the habit of nosediving in such a severe way that you worry about someone being impaled, but hey, that's all part of the fun, right? The kite ended up taking so many nose dives that it didn't live to see another day.

I ended up buying one with Tigger and Pooh on it since the selection was limited to cartoon characters. What ever happened to just a plain red kite? Or at least dragons? Dragons are supposed to fly, not honey obsessed bears and their hyper friends.

St. Patty's Day

We were asked to bring in green grapes for her party at school as well as green plates and green napkins; I smell a theme. So when we were walking into school we noticed a little boy surrounded by his mom and grandma. I would guess that he was 4 and this poor kid was dressed up like the saddest leprechaun I have ever seen. They were seriously taking advantage of the fact that he was too young to know better or stand up for himself. Do leprechauns even wear bowties or sparkly vests? And he just stood there with a huge smile on his face saying, "I'm a leprechaun!" Yes you are, I hope you realize this is going to be in your senior yearbook.

Even though it is now April, I couldn't let the opportunity pass to show how cute Maya looked on St. Patrick's Day.

Let's Fly A Kite (Maybe)

There's something about this part of the country that seems to be able to avoid storms, and after living in Tennessee, where every spring you spend most of your evenings waiting out tornado warnings in the tub, we don't really mind. So when we had some rain come through and brought a windy day, we took advantage of it and bought a kite. The selection wasn't great but we noticed that there were kites that didn't require any sticks, instead you would blow them up like a balloon, filling just certain sections with air. Sounds like a cool idea, right? It is, until you try to fly it and realize it already has a hole in it.

Poor Maya, she looked so cute chasing this pathetic kite around. It was able to hold a little bit of air, about enough to give the same effect as running around in the wind with a sagging balloon. Maya still had a blast; since this was her first time with a kite she didn't know it could be any different.