This girl literally gets moody if she goes more than 3 days without being in the water. She was super irate over the holidays when we received a lot of much needed rain -- the rain preventing her from surfing (you know because all the crap - literally - on the streets and in the riverbeds was floating around in the break).
She is currently in water polo season, and I love watching her play.
She practically lives in a bathing suit. We are constantly telling her to put clothes on to come to dinner. Our dinner conversation this week as we are talking about an upcoming trip to Costa Rica:
KT: Do I have to wear, like, clothes there?
Mo: People generally wear clothes when not in water.
Kids are still not tired of surfing. Seriously, 4+ times a week, they sneak in a session whenever they can. Last Friday night they were in the water until dark.
Well maybe not eight days, but it sure feels like it. Surfing is the "it" pastime right now.
The girls go at least 4+ times a week. Mo joined the middle school surf league. My new car is regularly covered in sand. We literally watched Endless Summer last night as a family.
...just got voted "most musical," by her 8th grade class.
The beginning of quarantine was tough for her. Everyday she'd come into my office:
"We should be performing in Simi today..." "What are we doing today?" "We would be having our dance today." "We'd be on Spring Tour today." "Can we go to the beach tomorrow?"
She was pretty mad about her social life being put on indefinite hold.
Two months later it's down to:
"What are we doing today" "Can we go to the beach tomorrow?"
She's definitely less angry which is nice.
I get it, no music trip, no Washington D.C. trip, no 8th grade dance, no 8th grade promotion event (which has been rescheduled as a "drive through" event -- that will be interesting) and probably 6+ music performances cancelled. It really isn't fair. I keep telling her, at least she's not a high school senior.
She has been doing a lot of solo music. She has started composing using software which I for one think is pretty impressive (yes, I'm her mom, but still).
All in all we've settled into quarantine life pretty nicely. The girls and I have found our weekday rhythm and I have to admit -- it's not terrible.
Oddly enough the COVID-19 pandemic has not changed my schedule exceedingly. If anything I have more time as I no longer have to drive people to school and then pick up and drive around to various practices after school. No joke, this probably gives me anywhere between 2-3 hours more a day.
But, the tradeoff is I am no longer alone in my office (house). The number of interruptions in my work day is countless. Questions about their school work, how to email an image to a group when they have email accounts that are limiting, how to crop an image for an assignment, how to change a document into a .pdf, questions about how to get answers from a counselor, etc.
I guess I should be happy they are cute little faces popping in ...
But, clearly as the image shows those regular interruptions are also accompanied by quite a bit of noise.
And, yes that is a saxophone. Katie convinced her music teacher to loan it to her before school let out.
The sounds of guitar, ukulele, clarinet and now saxophone fill the air at all hours of the day and night in house of the Little Wickies.
Katie has started composing, which can be frustrating for her as in her words "I can't get what's in my head into this program!" And, she really has no one to help her as this is way out of my league. A snippet of the intro she has been working on:
Mo has been teaching her "sisters" Lani and Keera to play uke. They made "The Coronavirus Song." If you listen, make sure to have the Closed Captions (CC) on so you can see the lyrics.
I am so happy they have music in their lives ... but, man it's loud around here these days!
They are NOT best friends. They tolerate each other. Yes, sometimes they play fight, and that's actually pretty funny. It's slow motion fighting. I'll need to post that someday.
In the last few months Tobey has been peeing on Fitz's bed. What a jerk.
We've purchased 5+ beds in recent months for Fitz.
I finally bought a waterproof bed and slipped it inside a Costco outside lining (he prefers the soft outside), and it's like Tobey knows. He hasn't peed on the bed since. Like I said ... what a jerk.
Love watching them play sports. It's easy to get swept up in the excitement of watching your kid play. We try hard to keep it all in perspective. I want KT and Mo to have sport in their lives. I think it's important, and fun -- but, there is way more pressure on kids and families to play competitive sports then when we were young.
