Sophie's First Dance Recital

Today was Sophie's first dance recital!  She danced to two songs: "I Wanna Be Like You" from The Jungle Book (tap) and "Are We Dancing" from The Happiest Millionaire (ballet).  She's the one all the way to the right in both numbers.

We were only allowed to take video during the dress rehearsal, so there's a lot of crowd noise during each piece.  

I Wanna Be Like You

Are We Dancing

She also danced with her school dance club in the morning recital.  They performed a dance to "In It To Win It."  

In honor of the fact that I haven't posted anything on this blog since March, and despite that fact I started a new blog today called Christmas Rapping, I give you this picture.



You're welcome.

Big Girl!

Thursday, Elisabeth finally started crawling... albeit in her own way. We call it the "gimpy" crawl. She's so proud of herself, she has to stop and clap every little bit. What a sweetie!

A Disturbing Video

I got a new toy-- a Flip Video camera. And to inaugurate the camera, I bring you a very disturbing video of what happens when a baby isn't being fed fast enough. This is not for the faint of heart.

A Giggle to Start the Week Off Right

(These Are) A Few of my Favorite Things

These cheeks. They kill me.


These blue eyes. Where did they come from? Will they stay around? We don't know, but we sure like them.


These dumply, chubby thighs. Is dumply a word? It is now.



These sweet hands. She holds her hands together all the time. I love it.


The dimples in these elbows.


These rubber band wrists.


Did I mention these sweet hands? I just love them.


The expressions, the sweet noises, and every single minute with this sweet baby.

First Day of Kindergarten

Catching up on posts today! Whee!

Here she is, ready for her first day of Kindergarten. Or as Sophie likes to call it, "Big School."


I got her this "Getting Ready for School" chart. It really does help to keep her on task in the morning. Each box represents something she has to do, like "Get up on time" and "Eat breakfast." As she completes each task, she moves the square from the red column to the green column. When all six tasks are done, she gets a star for the day. When she got all her stars for the first week, she earned a prize. Hey, whatever works!


Here is her school! It's only a few years old and it's very nice.


Here is Sophie with the class pet, Chub Chub. He's a Chinese Pygmy Hamster. (Why do I always want to put a "p" in hamster?)


Sophie loves her some Chub Chub.


And here she is, settled in at her table with her first-ever Kindergarten assignment. It was a big day for a big girl!