Show-A-Thon

Today Lizzy had her first dance recital for the year. It was adorable. I could tell from practicing at home that it was going to be entertaining! Lizzy performed 2 numbers: Tap, Tap, Tap and a hip hop number called Big Bad Wolf. Before the Big Bad Wolf Dance, Miss Alison, her teacher, was positioning the girls on stage and Lizzy shouts out in a loud voice, "Miss Alison, I'm so excited my grandparents are here!" Everyone thought it was cute as Lizzy waved to them. After her performances were over, Lizzy, James and friend Kayla stayed at the front of the stage area to watch more of the dancers. When it was time to go, I went to grab her and she stood up to leave. However, a girl started singing so she started dancing in front of the entire audience. It was cute, but I had to run up and grab her. What can you say, the girl loves to dance!

 Before the show in the dressing area. Lizzy with almost half of her class...

Look Who's Walking!

Today was an exciting evening in our house! Luke has been taking a few steps here and there for the last few weeks and I knew it was a matter of time before he took off walking. Tonight he was standing at the gate by the stairs and took off for the learning table toy. We then got the camera out and he went the distance! He is shy of 11 1/2 months by 2 days. Did I also mention that yesterday we were shopping at Fred Meyer and he looked at me and said, "Momma". It was so cute and made me so happy. To bad the little turkey won't say it on demand!

Snow Day

Well it finally snowed it Seattle. Lizzy declared it the best day in January ever! The kids woke up like it was Christmas morning. I am pretty sure Lizzy jumped up and down for 2 straight hours until she was allowed to go outside and play after we found out church had been cancelled. I know it seems funny to hear "church cancelled". Seattle really does shut down. It was snowing quite hard and the roads were icy with no one to plow them. The other problem is actually getting to the church. The church is on a hill and the road to get there becomes incredibly icy so they cancel. Is it bad to admit that in Lizzy's prayer tonight that she was thankful it was cancelled?

It didn't take long for Liz and James to start with now angels until dad arrived to build a snowman in the front yard followed by a snow fort.

 The kids got cold and came inside for awhile. After all, we did need to have church!

 Grandma and Grandpa R came over after their church was over to spend the afternoon. It was back outside for building 2 more snowmen, a snowball fight...

 eating the snow...

 and then to the front yard again for sledding down the sidewalk.

Life doesn't get much better. It is supposed to snow again tomorrow much to the kids delight!