Mother's Day Ballet

Not only was this weekend Memorial Day weekend, but it was also the spring recital for our dance school. We kicked it off Saturday afternoon with dress rehearsal and then Ashley and I took Emma Claire and Mary Alice to see the Company's Jazz Night and High School Musical production - this, in particular, sealed the deal for us - in addition that our babysitter for the summer was one of the lead roles!!!! The girls had a blast, even though we were there for 4 hours - 10:30 on a Saturday night is LATE - especially with church AND a recital of our own in the very near future. But it was well worth it - it was AMAZING!!!!!

The dress rehearsal went fabulous - it finally ALL.CAME.TOGETHER!!!!! 13 little girls on stage with strollers and baby dolls = chaos, if not carefully planned!!!!! But, it WAS carefully planned and EXECUTED by some wonderful little mommas and teachers!!!! The preschool theme was Calendar Girls, with ours being Mother's Day - they were precious in their hats and dresses, pushing their babies in strollers and swaying them in the air!!!! The only thing lacking on Emma Claire at rehearsal was a smile - but she hit it big at the recital!!!!! She's typically a serious child and she was trying so hard to do it JUST.RIGHT!!!!!

No photography was allowed at the actual performance, so all these were taken at the dress rehearsal!!!!

(not even half of the beautiful bunch!!!!)

After the dress rehearsal (you can see I still have my swimsuit on - more on that later)

After the performance - flowers from her daddy and Nana!!!!

Patton and Chandler came to watch her too and gave her a sweet ballerina bear!!!! She proudly displayed it on her desk in her room!

Opening a gift from mommy and daddy - it contained: candy, pack of gum, new ballet tutu, High School Musical DVD - guess what she ended up being most excited about???

GUM!!!!! Isn't that typical????

She actually is really excited about High School Musical - watched it as soonn as she got home, but when she pulled the gum out, she exclaimed --- GUM!!!!!!!!!!!!!! - we all laughed!!!!!

Emma Claire and Caroline - sans hats!!!!!

What a wonderful day for our little ballerina!!!!!

We're so proud of you Emma Claire!!!!!!

A day for the history books...

......Or at least a day to remember on my blog!!!!

Friday is the LAST DAY WE WILL HAVE 3 CHILDREN IN PRESCHOOL!!!!!

On one hand, it's a sad day, because it means my oldest child is venturing from toddlerhood to childhood, but on the other hand, it IS like a payraise!!!!!!

They all enjoy being in school together - they get to see each other many times throughout the mornings. Wilson and Henderson will be together for 3 more years at the Dayschool and Emma Claire will finally get to go to BIG school with her cousin, Chandler, and some close friends!!!!! I'm sure I will Blink and they will all be in elementary school together!!!! Though it will be nice to have them all in one place again, I sure don't want to wish these days away!!!!

Enjoy some summertime popsicles!!!!!!!

I try to photograph them together anytime they are dressed all alike - I know that sadly, that is coming to an end in the next year or so too.





Be Back soon!!!!!!

Crazy Daisy

Time for a quick update on Daisy, our beloved Weimeraner. (Wilson surprised me early one morning in the kitchen and actually, Asked {gasp} me to take a picture of him and Daisy - don't mind the size 6-12 months pajamas that he is wearing b/c that is about all that will fit him in the waist - pretend they're supposed to be capri pants!!!)

Daisy is doing great - doesn't she look good? Well, that's only because I didn't allow her foot, that got hung in the fence, to be photographed. Put it this way, there is a big hole in her leg at the ankle and you can see about 2 inches of pure bone. Yep, it's pretty disgusting. She's handling it all well though - takes her pain medicine and antibiotics twice a day and soaks her foot twice day - well, we do that, she doesn't do it - we only wish. She did run (hobble) into my room Monday morning when my alarm went off - she still wants to go on her runs. Will told me she whined the entire time I was gone - he had to close her in our room so she wouldn't wake all the children up - and this was after I got in my car, closed the garage and drove down the street so she wouldn't think I was running. Tomorrow I'm meeting a friend at her house to run, so maybe Daisy will go back to sleep quietly. It's sad for both her and me to lose the running partner.

Next up was Emma Claire's Wildcat Soccer Party - the girls had a blast as always - such a fun time and memories that were made with these girls!!!! I can only imagine the future that lays ahead of them!!!!

This little guy had his 12 month check up about 2 weeks ago. I forgot to post about it. He is doing great, but at only 17 lb 13 oz - barely on the chart at 2nd percentile.

Ya'll, I was so dissappointed (not in him, but just generally) - he is SUCH a great eater, I just knew he was going to be like 20 lbs or something.

His height was in the 10th percentile and his head was 50th, so that's better news. My little boys - I love them so!

This is the last week of 3 children in preschool - Yay Yay Yay!!!!!!! I decided to do bud vases of daisies for the 4 nursery teachers and director and supervisors - great idea until I got to my car and wondered how on EARTH I was getting all those bud vases to the school without spilling water or breaking flowers.

Well, the good news is that vans these days come with about 10 cup holders and pockets galore!!!!

Wilson and Emma Claire's teachers got something special too!

I had some great helpers at school to deliver them to the deserving ladies!!!! Fairy Emma Claire is always willing to lend a hand - they had dress up day today and this is what she chose!!!

A day at the Lake and a Ballet recital are coming up this weekend - so be ready - I'm sure my camera will get quite the workout!!!!!

2 Concerts and a Graduation

Sunday night was Emma Claire's spring choir program at church (and my precious 3 year olds that I teach) and ALSO the Dayschool's end of the year program and Graduation. They seem to always fall on the same night, at the same time. Emma Claire's group, the 4 year olds, sang second at church, so we let her sing, then raced over to the school to try to catch the program there.

We ended up missing Emma Claire's class because they sang first in order to get dressed in their cap and gowns for graduation. As we pulled up, Wilson's class was lining up to walk in the sanctuary to sing. I ran down the hall with him and literally threw him crying in his teacher's arms. They walked up on stage and this is what Wilson did the entire time, through Jesus Loves Me and Twinkle Twinkle Little Star

(Notice his Jon-Jon is still bunched up from me holding him like a football running down the hall)


He did take a peek to see what all the clapping was about.

Usually Wilson LOVES being on stage and "performing", but I think he was a little afraid of me running down the hall with him and catapulting him into his teachers' arms, whom he hadn't seen in over a week since we were at the beach.





Emma Claire made it down the aisle and even got to sing 2 more songs!!!!!

They all started giggling everytime someone's name was called to receive their "diploma" - I guess when one starts something, they all follow suit!!!!

Henderson didn't have a singing part, but his picture was flashed on the screen a couple of times!

Henderson had had enough of sitting still and listening to other people - he was ready to MOVE!!!

At the end, all the children and teachers got on stage to sing Jesus Loves the Little Children. Wilson was okay until he saw me - then that's all he could think about.

It was a fun, but crazy night - Congratulations Emma Claire - Kindergarten, here you come!!!!