Why fit in, when you were born to stand out?

Well today got off to a bumpy start, I was making oatmeal when I checked my email, and there was a message from Rebecca reminding us that the DIY club started today!  Oh no, I was making steel cut oats, and class started in 20 minutes!  I got the kids to mad dash to get ready, and I popped some waffles that Jeff had premade for me and stuck in the freezer.  We made it to class I think 10 minutes late, we hit a train too!

Since I was unprepared, Gigi and I went shopping, she needed a new pair of cheer shoes, she also got a new pair of fancy shoes.

Nathan had a great time at DIY and is looking forward to the year ahead.

We arrived home and I had to make lunch as we had piano at 1.  So we went to Piano and their teacher says they both have some musical talent.  She is working with Nathan and both Marlene and Nathan are okay, that they take their time, learning the songs, just do a little bit at a time, and as much as he can do.  She is definitely individualizing their music training!  Exactly what they needed, they are so different.  Nathan likes to hear the whole song first and needs to hear the complexities of the music, before he will play it, its like he needs to know it ahead of time.  Gigi will sit down and look at the music and plunk her way through the keys until it sounds right, she says its like a puzzle.  I think gigis way is how I played a musical instrument.  We talked about voice lessons for Genevieve, Marlene says she would teach her in a musical theatre type way, in that Genevieve shows so many of her emotion when she is even playing the piano, she says you can see it even in the way she moves her hands.  So while she is singing she would get the whole showmanship stuff too!  Oh boy :)

This reminds me of Genevieve, how much I admire her!

Nathan was off all day today, just grumpy and picking fights with Gigi, of course Gigi did not help the situation!  I am sure this is because of the confusion this morning and Nathan does not do well with change, or the unknown.  But they fought on the way to Abbotsford and the way back, and on the way to Piano.  I went to Starbucks and had a pumpkin scone and an iced tea, while they were at piano.  I think it was enough for me to have that hour to decompress and figure out what my poor little over stimulated boy needed.  So we went home and had some down time before we had to race off to soccer tonight. 

After soccer, Nathan asked to have a bath, which was probably a good thing because I think it relaxed him and he was able to fall asleep quite quickly tonight.  We talked about that it is probably a good thing he is having a bath after soccer now, as he is getting older and he is starting to sweat, Nathan pointed out he has his cologne (deodorant) that he can wear for that.  I told him that that just covers up the smell, and he needed to wash with soap to get rid of the bacteria.  Lots of puberty questions arriving at our house lately.  Thankfully we he is not shy about asking things and I am handling the questions okay, jeff does better in this department!  And mostly Nathan has pretty much figured out everything on his own somehow, and just asks us for clarification, or to make sure his ideas are correct.  Anyway, I think this is a grade 5 PLO, and we are definitely hitting those :)


Maybe tomorrow we will get some sit down schoolwork accomplished?