Plays, Swim Meets, and Emergency Room Visits

This Wednesday the Moo was in her very first, on-stage play, an LCDS kindergarten production of Eric Carle's The Very Quiet Cricket. The Moo played a very glamorous luna moth, as evident from the pictures and the slideshow link below! The slide show also include some random shots by the girls of everyday life in the MooBean house with the new puppy, and some shots of the Bean waiting for the performance to begin. We hope you enjoy them!

We have a busy weekend on tap, including two swim meets and dinner tonight with Mom's friend for her high school days in Madrid. Mom has not seen her friend for about 20 years, but they recently reconnected via Facebook, and Mom is VERY excited to get to meet up with her again!

The first swim meet took place last night, and Mom was afraid that the Moo would be too tired to really get into it, since it did not start until 6 pm, and the Moo's bedtime is 630pm, 7 pm at the latest. Mom need not have worried though, as the Moo did GREAT! She did not want to swim butterfly, so Mom did not push it, but she swam her best times ever in freestyle and breast stroke, and in addition to a new best time she finished second in backstroke. We are very very proud of her, and more importantly she is proud of herself.

While Mom and Moo were at the swim meet, the Bean went with Dad to have a bug hunt and meet friends from Dad's work for dinner at Red Robin. They had a great time, but as they were leaving, the Bean was running around and Dad was concerned that she would hurt herself. As he was calling to her to slow down and be careful, she ran into the metal grate surrounding a garbage can; the grate was right at neck level, and she smashed her throat into it. When Mom called with the swim meet results, Dad told her what had happened and noted that although the Bean seemed to breathing with no problems, her voice was raspy. When Mom got home and heard her, Mom was very concerned. The Bean's voice continued to get worse as the night progressed, so around 1030 Dad took her to the emergency room for an x-ray. Everything checked out OK, thank goodness, and the doctor suspected that the raspiness was probably caused by a respiratory infection that had just coincidentally manifested itself at the same time she ran headlong into the trash can. They gave her bronchial treatment and released her - she is sounding much better today. Mom is keeping her fingers crossed for NO MORE HEALTH SCARES from anyone in the family (this means you as well Aunt P and Grandma L) for at least the next month. Please???!!!!!

The Moo's second swim meet is tomorrow at the 3 pm - Dad is coming to this one, so we will hopefully have pictures to post along with the results.