Pretty awesome kid

Anna's second week of dance class went really well. I forgot the camera so I can't exactly show you how well but dang, she was fun to watch! She's such a big girl, balancing on one foot with the other high behind her. Making big arm movements. Prancing across the floor. Putting on her own shoes. Well, they were on the wrong foot but her teacher realized it during an across-the-floor-prance. They were her tap shoes.

I even sort of taught myself to put her hair up into the required bun. She fit right in with the best of them. And follows directions really well.

She's really a cool kid. She's going to the potty now from beginning to end (AND #1 and #2) without wanting us to come in and help. She's tossed the potty adapter seat sized for her little butt in favor or sitting (with balance) on the big potty seat herself. The sheer logistics of getting her undies/pants down, climbing up the step stool and balancing on the seat all by herself made me worry she'd find it all too troublesome, but no. She's a big girl. She's regularly in undies now everywhere we go and she's even stayed dry a few days this week during her nap.

She wants to do EVERYTHING by herself and I have to remember to stop myself and let her. Paul's better about that than me. She's such a big girl and says these things that make you say, "my gosh, she's not even 3!" She's developing into such a cool kid.

Her teacher called last night and said she talked to the director of her pre-school and they are recommending she start to be transitioned to the next older class. I have mixed feelings about this but it's the third time it's happened and so I have come to realize it's always been the right decision. More challenges and more fun. They're going to start sending her over to the other class to see if she can hang with that age socially (they're 3's going on 4), and since some are her friends from a previous class, I think she'll do fine. I have just hated it, though, when this happens and she leaves her current friends behind even though it's never seemed to have an impact on her as far as I can tell. Plus I like her current teachers so much. Lately more than other times she has her favorite buddies so I wonder what she'll think of all this. Guess we'll see how it all shakes out. I'm optimistic even though change kinda sucks.

It's the phrase of the week.