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Sunday, June 30, 2013

Dance Recital Spring 2013

Julia's dance class ended last Friday. She has been attending this ballet class for almost 2 years now and really enjoys it. The class is a very relaxed format but the instructor, Miss Sandy, is wonderful! This class really helped Julia open up a little and she's always dancing around the house. The video is of the kids tap number (one of three routines that they did) and as you can see the girls were very excited.

Julia did wonderfully and I was so impressed with how far she has come since beginning ballet. She really does look like a little ballerina!

Friday, June 28, 2013

Clubhouse Progress Report

Grandpa Rick and Grandma Les had a busy morning on Saturday putting up walls! It's starting to look like a clubhouse!!

Thursday, June 27, 2013

Summertime Bliss...

is a dripping ice cream cone by the water!

Tuesday, June 25, 2013

Heard Around the House

Here are a few of the tidbits we've from Julia over the past couple of weeks:

When she picked up an iridescent shell at the beach - "a rainbow fell out of the sky and landed on this seashell"

At 3:24am the other night, half-awake while she was sleeping in bed with me - "Mama, in that little space right there (pointing out the window) there's a shooting star."

At the Audubon society class we took on finding different creatures during the low tide - "Mama, I'm having the best time right now!"

Benjamin has also been chatting up a storm and I've even heard him say his first couple of short phrases - "I want that" and "I get down." He will also repeat almost any word or sound you make except for

"Julia" which he can't seem to get his mouth around yet. He also still calls Andrew "mama" (which for some reason Julia also did) unless he really really really wants something from him and then he yells "DADA!"

Saturday, June 22, 2013

Julia Milestone: Chapter Books

So this is something that I have been looking forward to for a long time - sharing chapter books with the kids. I love to read and spent many, many hours as a kid immersed in books. I have lots that I loved but one of my all-time favorites was Little House on the Prairie. And a couple of weeks ago I started reading Little House in the Big Woods with Julia at bedtime. I wasn't sure how it go as our usual bedtime reading consisted of a Cars storybook that she absolutely loved and of course, could identify with the movie and then a second more relaxing story. But to my absolute delight she is loving the "Laura stories" as she calls them.

I started by adding Little House to our normal routine - so reading three stories instead of two. But by the second or third night she asked me to continue reading a second chapter in Little House instead of Cars! yayyy!! And each day since she has wondered about what is going to happen next and is excited for our bedtime reading. So am I!