Three Things for Thursday

Now it's been a month again since I posted.  Oh well, I can only move forward, right?  Try harder in the future?

• Veronica started ballet again a few weeks ago and she is the tallest and probably the oldest in her class!  This has never happened.  Her teacher told me yesterday that next time Veronica can move up to Intermediate Ballet, so that's great, right?  Miss Johanna, her teacher, told me last week that Veronica knows all the terminology so I asked her the other day, do you know what papillon means?  (It means butterfly, I know from past ballet classes). Veronica said YES!  I DO!  I said what and she said ESCAPE!  Ha!  (Miss Johanna told me that's echappe - so not even close, ha!).  She's excited to move up and I am excited too.  
• She is doing well in school, she has a friend named Franny, although she says she has a FLIEND named FLANNY.  She loves her teachers and lately, Mike just drops them both off at the door, he doesn't even go in!  How about that!  
• She is very grown up lately, the things she says are adorable and you can really see her coming into her own as a person, free of Maria.  Maria certainly never did anything on purpose to squelch Veronica but she is, in fact, just 16 months older, and she is, in fact, the way that she is, so I know she feels freer and she is really being who she is and it's so cute and so ... inevitable?  Or something?  When I think about how worried I was about Veronica and how she didn't used to talk very much, it just seems like NOTHING.  It doesn't seem to have anything to do with who she is now.