Poor little bird doesn't feel well. She was coughing and wretching for a large portion of the night. I think it's definitely allergies because she has been fighting a very runny nose, which makes her cough, which makes her sick! Time to break out the Flonase again. We opted to stay home from church today and I think it was a good move because she really needs the rest. We had our new family orientation on Tuesday, to show us around her school for the Fall. She is very excited and so are we. She is doing well in the school she is in now, but she needs more to do. She will either finish quickly and then get in trouble for talking or get bored with what they are doing. She needs more challenging work in some areas. The great thing about the school she will be attending is that they will move the kids ahead in their gifted areas only, so you don't have to worry about developmental and social impacts of having kids skip grades. If Mia is only advanced in reading, she'll study ahead in that area and meet back with her peers for sciences and social studies etc. We know a few people who send their kids there and I'm friends with someone who teaches at the school so I have a very good feeling about it.
Mia's last day of school is friday, and then we're off to Breckenridge for Memorial Day. We might be able to ski at A-Basin, we'll have to see. I hear that they are trying to stay open through July 4th, because the weather has been colder and wetter than usual. It has barely felt like Spring this month and the wind has been super obnoxious. We haven't even bothered planting much in our garden other than some blackberry bushes that we picked up on Mothers Day.
Gary ran a 5K at the Cheyenne Mountain Zoo yesterday morning. It isn't your average 5K, because most of it is uphill and I believe we read that the average grade was 8%! That's a lot of uphill! Relief didn't come until he got to the top and turned around for the final mile of it, but he didn't stop running at all and we're very proud of him. I'll try to find the drive that has the photos of him stretching with Mia soon.
