Girls Night at the Ballet

Last night Mya and I had a wonderful night out with Grams. Our dear family friend Kerry Milner, who used to be my young women leader, has 2 beautiful daughters that dance for a local ballet conservatory that was performing the Nutcracker. I have never seen a live ballet before, and this production was absolutely wonderful! I loved every minute! I really admire people who have a talent to dance with such grace. It is such a joy to watch them share their talent.

PS - I can brag that I used to babysit this beautiful ballerina Katie when she was little.

On our way over little Miss crashed in the car and stayed asleep until half way through the party scene.

Mya and Grams

I was very surprised by how intently Mya watched each dance. We even caught her swaying her arms a few times with the dancers. She said to me, 'look she did an arabesque'. Of course she has no idea what a arabesque really is but Little Einsteins taught her that it's a word associated with ballet. She would ask about the Nutcracker prince and his girlfriend, she loved the peacock in the Arabian dance, she liked the waltz of the flowers, and the sugar plum fairy and her prince.

I couldn't help sitting there wanting to sign Mya up for ballet class the very next day. I think it is so beautiful and teaches girls such poise and grace. I always wonder how early is too early, when is it too late, what if she hates it... oh the joy of motherhood. But, wouldn't she make the most adorable little ballerina? Our only problem would be if she got my rhythm, or lack thereof.

Mya, Grams and Claire

Mya has met Claire a few times and absolutely adores her. She thinks she is the coolest! We made sure to point Claire out to her each time she was on stage dancing and you should have seen her little eyes light up when we got to see her after the show. Mya threw her arms around her and hugged her. It was so darling.

Just a Little off the Top

So, this little lady has been watching Nana quilt lately and became fascinated by the cute little scissors that she uses to trim her thread. We let her practice cutting paper into pieces, which was thrilling to her and a riot to watch the concentration on her face as she tried to figure out the one handed thing. A couple nights later she was practicing again and suddenly asked Aunt Kenzie to 'See my new haircut'. Kenz hadn't heard about any haircuts earlier in the day so she blew it off. When Mya kept insisting that she look she discovered one long curl and about a half dozen half curls on the counter. (Nana, I know you feel bad but don't, accidents happen) I have no idea where the long one came from but if you look closely you can see the short little layers she gave herself up by her forehead. At least it wasn't an entire pony tale, I think they were hanging in her face while she was trying to concentrate so she decided to get rid of them.

I've also been saving some quote gems from Miss Mya:

~ Mom, dis isn't quite a what I expected.

~ Dumbo, he was a sad boy. (This was so out of the blue I had to laugh out loud)

~Cody: Take a picture of that girl, she's pretty funny lookin'

Mya: I looking pretty great.

~I am SOOO hungry! Check my hungry meter, it goes click, click, click.. and I'm out of energy. I just can't walk, I twisted my owie and I just need you to carry me. I am all out of energy... I'm just busted.

~ Mya: I want a yellow laffy taffy.

Me: You've had plenty of candy.

Mya: Ok...(running to the pantry) I want some plenty candy.

~Here Papa, you need a cookie... (hands him an Oreo).. It's white like your hair.

All Hallows Eve

Halloween was an absolute blast this year! Mya understood more and had spend the days before practicing her "Trick or Treat" and "Thank you"s. I was probably more excited to dress them up than they were but when my creative side gets a tiny little outlet and I can play dress up, it's a happy thing. This year our little ladies were Tinkerbell. Mya was insistent that they both be Tinkerbell. I tried to get the idea of maybe letting Sadie be a pirate or peter pan, but no go... so 2 Tinkerbells.

I was a little afraid that Mya would freak out and refuse to wear her costume, just because she is funny about stuff sometimes. But she was the complete opposite, we had a melt down because she didn't want to take her wings off.




She was also very excited about having Tinkerbell make up and 'eye-scara'. She loved getting all prettied up to be Tink, and kept asking to look in the mirror. So my Cars obsessed girl does have a princess side, yay!

Sweet Miss Sadie

First stop, Nana and Papa's house. The girls and I did a little bit of door to door action while daddy and papa cleaned their rifles. Good use of time by all involved.

After a stop at Great Grandma and Grandpa Keetch's house we headed to Grams and Grandpa. Mya was thrilled that Grams had her costume on! Sadie on the other hand tensed up like a cat until Grams took her hat of to prove it was really her.

Aunt Jo and Uncle Mark treated these little ladies well too.

This face kills me, it's so her!

Sadie had had it by now and so we surrendered and gave her a bink, for the peace of all those we visited.

Sadie and Uncle Tyson... if you look close you can see his Vampire eyes.

While hanging out at Grams we got visited by cousins.

Hadlee was little Shirley Temple, complete with tap shoes.

Bo showed all of us how well Batman could fly from couch to couch and of course Mya wanted in on the action.

More cousins! Addie the Smurf (Sadie...not a fan), Holden the bounty hunter and Berklee the fluff tastic chicken.

Happy Halloween all! Hope your evenings were filled with lots of treats. (I know ours was and now I have a fabulous chocolate stash for those long winter days, thank you all!)