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Wednesday, May 30, 2012

Ballet Practice

Since last summer Annette has been in ballet classes at Sugarland Dance Center.  She has gone every Tuesday night to dance practice.  She absolutely loves it and often practices her moves or shows them off to others at home.  A week from Saturday she is going to be performing with her class in her first recital.  Here are some pictures and videos I have taken of her at dance practice with my phone.



Getting ready to go in and dance.

You have to be in the zone.

You need to be ready to get down to business.

And don't forget to stretch.

To get started the class will practice some moves on the bar.



Then do some practice of their routine.
Then apparently its time to run around.
(Sometimes you have to shove your neighbor to get started, that is perfectly acceptable in ballet)


On a different practice day I got pics from the upstairs viewing room.

The girls practiced pirouettes (that's a ballet term)

Then did some other ballet-y stuff.


Annette paid close attention to her teacher.


She has learned so much.


The music accompanying the videos is from Vivaldi's Spring
(I just did that for copyright stuff)


Tuesday, May 29, 2012

Cody's Party

The girls were invited to Cody's fifth birthday party on Saturday.  It was at Pump It Up.  We had been there once before when Carolyn was too little to do anything and Annette loved it.  This time both girls ate it up.  I was a little worried that Carolyn would be too whiny to try anything, but she jumped right in while her big sister chased Cody around all morning.



Carolyn absolutely loved the slide.  The rest of the kids liked it, but Carolyn would not leave it.


Annette and Zac tried out teh obstacle course while Gramma and Poppa looked on.


Now Annette is following Cody.

They were moving so fast we couldn't get a good picture.

Even Carolyn, Austin, and Zac did the obstacle course.


Finally they paused long enough for a good shot.


Then everybody started sliding.



Carolyn had fun in the other bouncies too.



Baby Ella came out to the party too!





Carolyn says "Hi Baby Ella!!!"




After all that playtime, Cody got to sit in the big chair and blow out candles.

Thursday, May 17, 2012

Gymnastics Party

For our second of two birthday parties on last Saturday, we went to the Little Gym in Katy to celebrate Thomas' birthday.  We knew that Annette would love it but were a little unsure what Carolyn would do.  Once we got there though those worries disappeared and she had such a good time that now we have to get her into a gymnastics class.

 

The first thing the girls found (well actually the second after the big inflatable train but I was too busy running through it to take pictures and Emily was too busy doing.........I don't know but it must have been important since she couldn't be bothered to take pictures)  (and yes I know how tremendously passive aggressive it is for me to write things like that on this blog, but since it is Emily's blog that she started and now she can't be bothered to do anything with I fell it is acceptable) was the trampoline.

 
 


Carolyn liked it too.


Already practicing her dismount.



On to the bars


Despite her looking like she is going to do something, she did not.


 


Whoo hoo more bouncing!!!!

Then it was off to this giant pit of soft cube thingies.

The first of Annette's many turns on the trapeze.



Swing forward...


...and back....


Then let go


She'll fly through the air with the greatest of ease,
The daring young Annette on the flying trapeze.



And down into the cube pit too.



Looks like Carolyn is still trying to get out.


Uh oh, I think she has developed some kind of plan.


Yes our mischievous young mastermind is throwing them.

She was absolutely covered with blue fluff when this was done.


Thankfully, she made it back to the trampoline.



No Mommy, No, not the cube pit!!!!!



She had a really good time.

So upon putting this all together, I realized that there is a huge lack of Annette pictures.  The main reason for that is that she was having such a good time chasing around after Thomas that she wouldn't stop for pictures, and all of hers came out blurry.



Sunday, May 13, 2012

Mother's Day

This evening for Mother's Day the girls and I took Emily out to Chuy's at exactly the same time as Emily and Will were taking Carol there for her Mother's Day (it was so coincidental how that worked out). We had a really nice dinner and I wanted to share some photos from it.






Two baaaaaaad mothers.......and Emily.






Chuy's gave all the Momma's this cool teaspoon and tablespoon measure.






Carolyn thought it was a phone. (To give credit where it is due Austin started it)







Important calls to make.






Carolyn didn't want to sit still for a picture.








See above caption.








But when we got home both girls had to hug their mommy.







Happy Mother's Day!!!





Cheeese!!!!






Before going to bed the girls sweetly wished Emily a Happy Mother's Day.

Tuesday, May 1, 2012

Little Mommies

Last Sundayafter their baths but before Church we had a little bit of time to kill.  So the girls went into the playroom to play with their dollies.  They were so cute being little mommies and sharing the toys that I had to share it with all of you.


Aww, Carolyn just woke her baby up.

It looks like it might be bath time.

Brushing baby Ariel's teeth!!

For the love of Pete, KEEP THE BLOW DRYER OUT OF THE TUB!!!!!!!!


NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!


Thankfully Annette is their to save her.


Bath time.



It's not the method I would choose, but after bath they decided it was time to feed them.


Annette's Baby got milk.

 


And Carolyn's got apple juice.


 



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