Princess Cadie

Today was Cadie's first dance class and I loved it so much that I'm blogging about it on all my blogs. Okay, I only have one other blog, but I know I could brag about Cadie more if I had to.

 The first thing they did was dress up like princess fairies. Cadie could not believe her luck. At last, she could be on the other side of the big window. And it was even so much better than Chloe's classes.

For the first little while she kept running up to look at the people watching her.

Then she checked out the balance beam.

Her teacher helped her the first time she walked on it.

Then checking to see if I was still watching.

Ballet games.

Lots of mirror time.

She even stood on her head and looked at herself in the mirror.

Checked out the barre.

And at the end she said "I go my dance again, mom."

Here she is two hours later fast asleep with both stick ponies.

And while I was sneaking into bedrooms with the camera, I checked on my angel boy too.

Boogie Boarding

Last Friday morning we headed out early to the beach. This might be our last beach trip this summer since school starts in just eight days. Good thing I got LOTS of pictures. It was so hard to narrow down which ones could go on the blog. Here goes:

spaghetti face

Camping 2011

Two years ago we tried camping as a family, and it was soooo much fun that we decided to try again this year. The car ride started out happy enough.

 

Unfortunately, as soon as we had camp set up, thunder could be heard, and the park closed the water area. You can see we are all ready in our suits, waiting to hear that we are allowed in the springs. There were lots of little grumpies, even though Grandpa cooked a delicious dinner.

 

This is Carl's favorite picture of Cadie. Look how her tongue reaches for the corn!

This is our favorite picture of Connor.

As soon as the adults sat down to eat it started to pour. While we tried to eat under umbrellas, the kids wandered around in their towels.

After dinner, I sat under the protection of a tent flap and photographed the kids some more.

Everyone posed with the umbrella at least once...

And last of all, my favorite thing that night...

Monster Feet!

I wish I had a video of Cadie and Chloe stomping around crying "monster feeeeeet!" But you'll just have to imagine it.

By the way, the next day was sunny and hot and we spent every minute in the water, so no pictures!

Doggie first-aid

I know I already blogged today. And since I'm averaging about once a month here, this is really strange. But I caught Cadie doing the cutest thing today so I had to take pictures. And now I have to show them to someone.

Yes, while I was making dinner Cadie found a small first-aid kit. Then she crawled into the dog kennel with Indy and proceeded to take good care of him.

Poor thing. He actually looks like he needs to be fixed up.

Happy Independence Day!

Yesterday we had to find things to do to occupy the kids so they wouldn't want to burn up all of the fireworks before dark. Carl had the idea to take them fishing. This is the same park that we took Bekah's family to, so they might remember it. I took a lot of pictures, so get ready... first I took some from the bridge:

Then I noticed that little Carl was catching something...

Uh oh...

A baby turtle!

But he was a snapper, so dad had to very carefully unhook him.

(he was only caught on the shell)

Then it was Connor's turn to catch something.

And throw it back in.

(watch for the splash)

Little Carl pretty much fishes on his own now.

(something I can't do)

Cadie had one temper tantrum after she got told no for something.

Then Chloe played with another fish.

And Cadie got over her tantrum so she could take the dog on a walk.

(hey, the rules say that dogs must be on a leash, but they don't say who must be holding the leash) 

(or that anyone should be holding the leash at all... oops)

Then Chloe put on the hat and modeled a bit...

Happy 4th!