Five on Friday

ONE

Guess who is going to see Hamilton?

THIS GIRL!!!!!

Broadway Across America will be bringing this to Austin this summer,

and me and 7 other lovely ladies will be going. SO EXCITED!!

TWO

I read this article on benefits of outside time for children

and the impact into adulthood.

It was posted in the big kids' school's parent FB page.

I love reading things like this as it motivates me to keep up

with our increased outside time!!

THREE

We got new neighbors last week.

It's a sad story because our neighbor's husband died 2 years ago,

and the wife didn't want to stay in the home they built together for their retirement years alone.

Our new neighbors are amazing for a couple of reasons:

1) they are co-owners of a whiskey bar about to open on our town square

2) they have 3 teenage daughters who like to babysit - 

I'm hoping one (two? three?) of them will be our summer nanny - eek!

How great would that be to just walk next door for your job?

FOUR

I briefly mentioned that we signed Paige up for swim lessons.

These are the same ones we did with Trent and Drew.

Where you throw the kids in the pool if they won't jump in.

At the first class, all FOURTEEN kids were crying and screaming.

And Trent kept running away.

BUT by the end of it Trent was AMAZING, 

and Drew could make it across the pool for the most part.

I know Paige is a year younger than Drew when she did this,

but that child will jump in the pool whether you are watching her or not.

I'm nervous about how the experience will go -

I think she'll be happy to be swimming 

but I could see her freaking out once the other kids are crying.

I was watching videos from the big 2s lessons...took me back ha!

FIVE

Something exciting is supposed to be happening today.

I'm hopefully meeting Erika!

I've been reading her blog for years, and she's in Austin.

And I basically begged her to meet up.

It'll be my first time to meet a blog friend IRL!!