Summertime

I've been reading Little House in the Big Woods by Laura Ingalls Wilder to Ellie every night before bed. I read a chapter a night. She seems to enjoy it, especially when she's tired and it's easy for her to lie still and drift off as I'm reading. I love reading it to her and usually I want to keep reading after the chapter is over, but I've mostly been good and put it away.

Ellie had to get two shots last week because we've been behind in vaccinations and needed to make them up. So we had a special appointment just for shots and I warned Ellie one day ahead of time that she was going to get shots. I told her that there would be two shots and they would be over very quickly and then we'd go out for breakfast afterward and she could get pancakes. She was totally awesome for the shots. She got very nervous right before and I held both her hands and told her, "Think about pancakes. Think about pancakes." And she flinched a little bit for the first one but not so much for second one and didn't cry at all. She was a brave little girl!

That was also the first day of camp, which she said right away she didn't want to go to. But of course she loved it and has a new best friend who she plays with every day and who she has to wait for every day so they can go home at the same time. We've been swimming almost every day at the YMCA, which is also a big party, since we almost always run into someone we know from preschool, kindergarten, camp or the park. I've been very pleasantly surprised at how many people from the neighborhood have joined the Y.

I can't believe how little summer there is left.