'Nastics

Lila has been taking gymnastics classes since the fall, but I've never documented it with pictures - until now.
This was actually our last "nastics" class. Lila is not the most compliant child, and having her in a mommy-and-me class was at times painful for me. I decided early on that she needed to learn how to be in a class. We wouldn't quit going just because Lila wasn't following directions, in fact we would keep going because Lila needed to learn how to follow directions. Well, she's gotten better - not great, but better. And truthfully, I'm tired of going every Tuesday morning, so we're done. Spring is coming and we'll find other things to do. She's actually really good at gymnastics, though. She has the perfect strong little body for it. Maybe we'll pick it up again sometime in the future - when I can drop her off and not have to watch her do the opposite of what the teacher says every week.

Night of the Notables

Emma had a really cool school event last night - The Night of the Notables. Each kid in the gifted and talented program (grades 2 through 4) with her has been researching a "notable" person this year. Last night was a party where the kids came in costume and the adult guests mingled with them - in character. The kids stayed in character and weren't supposed to tell who they were. They answered questions that the adults asked them and partied with punch and cookies. What a cute project! The kids really had an understanding of who they were portraying, and they were SO cute!

Emma was Princess Diana. She was gorgeous and knew her stuff! At the end of the night, the kids all got up to the microphone and gave their real names and their notables. Here's the video:

Beauty Shop

This is what you play when you have two little girls.

Dancing Fools

So, it's a snow day, and I'm going to try to figure out how to put video from my camera to my blog. It can't be too hard, right?

We had a school skating party on President's Day. At the end, when the skates were turned in, it changed into a dance party. Lila loves to follow Emma and her friends with their dance moves. Here they are:




Lila also did much better on her skates. She wanted to go with Emma and Hailey - not Mommy and Daddy!

Lila's favorite dance move is the "Elaine" from Seinfeld. I think I maybe captured it here.

Snow Day!

Yeah! We've been waiting for one of these all winter! All three of my girls had a blast out in the snow. We got about 3 inches, maybe more, but it's supposed to rain later. Afterwards, the hot chocolate was delicious!

Breakfast in Bed

Monday morning, while I was still recuperating, the girls decided to bring me breakfast in bed. Such sweet and thoughtful daughters I have! Ryan was gone for the day, so they were downstairs while I tried to sleep in past 7:30. The next thing I knew, I was awakened (yes I had actually fallen asleep between yelling at them and at Trudy), by two very proud girls. They brought me a kids plate with one piece of slightly toasted bread and a little tiny bit of butter spread (I've not had any calories in days - the real butter would have tasted good!). Also on the plate was a kid bowl with about 7 grapes in it. The toast already had 2 bites taken out of it, and Emma was scolding her sister about that. Lila asked for some as soon as I picked it up to take a bite, so I tore off a piece for her. Then Emma looked at me longingly. She wanted some too. So there we sat. Three of us in my sick bed sharing one piece of almost toast and 7 grapes - good times!

Sick Mommy

I'm recovering today from a very bad stomach thing. It hit Saturday night and involved simultaneous stomach explosions (if you know what I mean) until dawn. I'm trying to decide if it was food poisoning or a bad flu bug - but does it matter? I lost 3 pounds! I'm hoping it was the food poisoning thing so the girls won't get it next. This morning I feel pretty good. I just ate some cereal - my first food other than a couple bites of chicken soup last night. We'll see how it sits in my tummy.