First Dance Class

Another first. Ava has been begging me for months to let her go to a dance class. Since September the requests happen daily. I finally called around and found a school with an opening. You can imagine her excitement when the day of her first class finally arrived. She was so excited, in fact, that she couldn't stand still long enough for me to take a picture before we left. She was "practicing". Because she's a ballerina, you know. I hoped the experience would live up to her expectations...and it did. She loved it! Even better yet, her friend Anna will be attending the class with her. She had such a good time demonstrating what she learned in class while I made dinner. She wouldn't take her leotard off.

Here she is before we left for dance class tonight.

First Snow

It started snowing here the week BEFORE Halloween and we've seen flurries off and on ever since. However, this is the first real snow of the year. The one that stuck. We were all excited to put on our snow gear and slide around. Yesterday after I picked up Ava from school, I put Emily down for a nap and took Ava out to play. We built a little snowman. Before we could give him a face, Miss Emily was paging me through the monitor. What to do? Leave him with such a blank expression? Nope, I put him on a cookie sheet and brought him in so that we could all share in the decorating fun. He got mini oreos for eyes, the traditional carrot nose, and a pepperoni smile. Emily had fun eating snow. She'd take a big bite and make a horrible face from the cold and then go back for more.
More snow fell overnight and so this morning we bundled up again and this time Emily got to share in the fun. The forecast predicts snow every day through the weekend, so there is no end to our fun in sight.

Here are the pictures from last night and this morning.

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First Word

Emily said her first word last Tuesday. She was in the bathtub, which is one of her favorite places, and she stood up and lovingly patted the faucet and said, "Bath, bath." It was so darn cute. The next morning she expanded her vocabulary to "Dada". This week, if you ask her to say grandpa she says, "Ga Pa" or "Papa". She's putting together lots of new sounds this week, so who knows what she'll say next. Can we get a mama?! Please? Here are a few pics of her last week being her cute lil' self.




And one of her this morning with some serious hat head after playing outdoors. See all of those teeth? #6 is on it's way through!