Watch Week

Every few months they have watch week at Ella's dance studio where the parents get to come into the class and watch. I think this was the best hour of my life. I'm used to Ella being kind of shy so I kind of expected hers to stand there and do nothing since there were a lot of strangers watching her class. She totally surprised me though. She danced and twirled and had the best time. It was so fun to watch her.

Occasionally she would stare off into space or get really into watching the teacher and forget to dance, but her teacher was really nice and would hold her hand and encourage her to follow along. I really love her teacher too. She's really encouraging and positive, but she also wants them to get the steps correctly and will take the time to individually help them do the step.

I think her favorite part was lining up at the end of the room to practice their steps. They would all race down there. Some of the steps they did were kind of hard. I think they felt really confident with lining up. It was something they were all good at and excited to do.


They even had the moms dance for one song.



She was really outgoing during tap and was stomping her feet around like crazy. I was really proud of her, and I was glad to see that she was enjoying the class. I can't wait to see her Christmas show in December.

C is for Cookies and Craziness

Ella and I have been doing a little preschool with some of our friends. It was my turn to teach the letter C on Tuesday. We made cookies and decorated them with Halloween candies and the letter C . Ella doesn't like frosting so she decorated it for Mommy and then she ate a plain one.

Afterwards Ella and her friends decided it would be fun to climb in her old crib and throw all the stuffed animals on them. It was a big mess, but they had fun.

New Twilight Trailer

Dorthy

Ella just loves dressing up as Dorthy and playing with her Wizard of Oz Barbie dolls.

Nap time

A few days ago we had a busy day and Ella's nap just never happened. She was coloring at the kitchen table, so I went down stairs to make a quick phone call. When I can back upstairs I found her asleep at the top of the stairs. We try not to skip nap time anymore around here.

The Parade

The dance studio that Ella attends was in the local parade about a month ago. Ella was so excited to be a a parade. The morning of the parade was really wet and rainy, but it stopped raining around the time we needed to leave for he parade, so I threw my umbrella in my bag and headed off to line up for the parade. As soon as our float started moving down the parade route the rain started also. Ella still had a lot of fun though and waved her flags underneath the umbrella to all the people lined up along the street. As soon as we finished the parade the rain stopped again. It was kind of funny that it pretty much only rained while we were doing the parade. Ella had a great time though and I still had fun even though we were all wet.