Lydia Starts Dance Class

Lydia started a tap class today. This is her waiting patiently for class to begin:

This is Miss Donna fitting her with her tap shoes:

It took her a while to warm up to the idea. She spent the first half of class with her arms crossed and leaning on the wall. Miss Donna finally coaxed her into participating once they brought out the maracas for the routine part. She's definitely behind since she's starting the class already in session (she was on a waiting list and a student dropped out), but we hope to catch her up quickly. :)

Fall Fun 2009

Poor Boaz! LOL This is what happens when you have a big sister!

Lydia's Preschool Field Trip To Walsh Farm

A view from our hayride:
Lydia and her best bud Bella on the hayride:
Checking out the new baby calf:
Petting the older of the two calf's:
How now Brown Cow?
Sheep!
Lydia is checking out the bum of this poor sheep. She looked up at me after this picture and said, "Mommy, someone forgot to wipe his butt!" Um...YUCK!!!!
This was her FAVORITE of the baby animals. This little brown and pink piggy looked and acted like a dog. It even came up to the girls with a wagging tail!









And we enjoyed a lunch at Chick-Fil-A afterward. Fun!!!

Lydia's First Day of Preschool

This is the building where her class is located. The library is to the right and the Rec center is to the left. The big long glass part is the hallway that I show in another picture:
Hallway to her classroom. It's allllll the way down and on the right.

Lydia checking out the room and toys for the first time:A not so flattering picture of her teacher "Ms. Donna:"


Lydia and some of her classmates checking out the corn meal table (like a sand table):
Other Mommies at check in time:
A view of the private playground accessible from the classroom:
Enjoying Lunch from Wendy's to celebrate a great first day of school:

Fun At the Fair! :)

Lydia's Lunch

Today at lunch there was a tiny little gnat that kept flying around Lydia. Not thinking much of it I just swatted at it to shoo it away from her. She set her sandwich down and watched it fly around the kitchen for a few moments. Then, she looked at me and said, "Mommy, I think that's a baby bug that's lost her family." I said, "Oh?" She went on to explain that the bugs family was probably out in the woods with the rest of the baby bugs and that we needed to open the door to let this lost baby bug out so she could find her family. I said, "Ok, go ahead and open the door then get back here and finish eating your lunch!" She opened the door and waited....then she finally came back and sat down...still not eating. Exasperated because we've so often fought the meal time procrastination battle with her I snipped a quick, "finish your lunch!" She looked up at me with BIG pools of tears in her eyes and said, "Mommy, I hope I never get lost from my family. I would be soooo sad...and Boaz would cry and cry for his Sissy and you would have to have Grandma come over because she's the only one who would be able to cheer him up!" I'm pretty sure my jaw hit the floor at this point! I rushed over to her and pulled her into a BIG hug and told her that I too hoped she never got lost because that would make me very sad. Then, seeing the nice "teachable" moment for what it was, I put in this plug: "Well, honey, if you listen to Mommy and Daddy and you never get out of our sight when we tell you not too then you won't get lost, Ok?" She blinked up at me and said, "Good idea Mom!" I love this kid!

Anniversary Party

We went to a fiftieth wedding anniversary party for some friends of Jeff's family this weekend. Here are a couple pictures of us:



And, Katie insisted they "cheer's" the new baby:

A Word List

I was trying to mentally make a list of all the words Boaz can say now so I thought I'd write them down here:

Daddy
Mommy
Sis (sometimes Sissie)
DOG
Car
Up
Down
Kitty
Out
Milk
Juice
Please
Book
Read
Grandma/pa
RIDE
NO
Yes
Pot (for potty)
Hot
Belly
Baby
Bo
"no" for nose
butt
Uh-Oh
Elmo
Bird
Ba-bird (for Big Bird)
Cookie (for both eating cookies and for Cookie Monster his FAVORITE character)
"A" and "O" for pointing to just about any letter of the alphabet.... LOL
Cheese
Snack
Mine
Ball
Block
Color
Five (Comes out when he wants a high five...it's not quite as clear though more like "fav")
Water (Said as "wa-wa")

Zoo Day Hooray!!!