More snow
This kid…she is so much fun. She loved the latest batch of snow.
She became a Kid Who Can Sled By Herself. No surprise, given how much she loves a slide at a park. She outlasted her sister by 30 or 45 minutes in our first round of sledding, through the snow that was still falling from the sky (onto her eyelashes- so beautiful!).
We made four sled runs down our front yard. Every time she climbed back up the (small) hill, she would say “I have to use my climbing muscles. I climb! I climb! I climb!”
Crazy Kamikaze Amelia really got into sledding head first. It was fine because we had so much soft snow the first day. Sort of ok on the second day because there was still a lot of snow.
Tonight she wanted to sled down our neighbor’s backyard head first- with one small pop over a snow pile which would land her in a creek- so I didn’t let her. She is so fun.
Sometimes they sledded together. Here, the saucer was toppling and Amelia lost Daphne! I love this shot.
We spent a lot of time sledding with a kid on our laps. Ending in a pile of snow and human. I love how they make us 30 years younger. Until we are so sore the next day and they are not.
We made snow sundaes with syrup and rainbow sprinkles, reminding Amelia of our trip to Grannie and Grampy’s last year.
The girls and their Daddy the super sled run maker! He made our best and fastest track and many grilled cheeses and hot cocoas.
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Snow Day Ballet
Those sweet feet.
The girls had their own ballet practice today since we had a snow day. It was two hours of mostly “Mama, watch me!” They danced to Amelia’s Nutcracker record.
My girls are so different. This one is so much drama (and gorgeous!)…
and always has an inner story going on…
And this one is pure joy, everything on the surface.
This one is for Aunt Melissa. Remember leaping over the row of shoes with Mrs. Mole?
Amelia enjoyed dancing with her shadow. And I might have let her try her tap shoes on our wood floors. She has some tricks I didn’t know about!
Dance class always ends with Dead Bug!
I liked Dead Bug much better than 4 Corners. According to Amelia’s 4 Corners rules, the teacher never says the same corner number twice, and therefore, the game never ends! She goes to the corner I just called, each time.
Daphne’s just getting started. She’s really cute. But, I really can’t believe how well Amelia moves her lanky limbs. Maybe this is normal, but this is not her parents.
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Good stuff and fabulousness
Amelia made this beautiful card for her friend’s birthday. Left to right are Snow White, Sleeping Beauty, Jasmine, Ariel, Belle, Cinderella and Pocohontas. Art takes time. This took two days.
Inspired by an Arby’s kids meal toy, these are Amelia’s secret passwords. Shhhh.
A great job accessorizing.
Blurry but fabulous.
Painting their new room
We are getting the current guest room ready for the girls to share. It’s a big room with their own bathroom. Amelia wanted us to paint the room black, because then she would sleep well. Second choice was to be “like outside”. So we are kind of redoing her current room (the green below), leaving the wall with windows blue (sky) and decorating whenever we finish. The green is done but we still have to correct the previous owner’s lack of taping on the molding.
Amelia loved doing this:
Roller was a bit too heavy for Daphne, but she loved painting on the wall, too.
Wonder if there is any correlation to her two recent events of writing on two walls in our house.
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Daphne started dance class last Monday. Here are the girls in their dance clothes, before going to school.
The best part was Amelia being speechless at how beautiful she thought Daphne looked in her dance clothes. They are incredible sisters.
Spinning…
Amelia taught Daphne “Dead Bug” and “4 Corners”, including all of her strategy, on the way to school. For example, “I never go to the corner my teacher just called because then she won’t call that number again” (and you stay in the game).
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Christmas 2009
Wow we had a good one. The girls were so much fun. We were lucky to still have snow on the ground for Christmas – crunchy at night, slushy in the day, but the ground was still white. Here is Daphne sprinkling her reindeer food and saying “ho ho ho!”.
And here’s her face when she saw the tree & presents on Christmas morning!
They opened their presents in about 2 hours total…it used to take us 3 days. Daphne had fun playing with each toy for a while as she opened them. Amelia moved more quickly through the unwrapping this year. We have all enjoyed playing their new games, and enjoying each gift this past week.
Daphne asked Santa for a Little Einstein’s toy. The girls are playing with her Little Einstein’s Rocket below.
Amelia asked Santa for a ring. Amelia especially LOVES playing games, and she is good at them! She also loves her new computer learning game & her Leapster. She’s really working on growing up lately, and those are big kid presents. I think Amelia wore her new cowgirl boots every day since Christmas. Which is much better than her blue crocs, this time of year.
Daphne literally squealed when she opened this Elmo hat. She adores it. We hear people commenting on her hat as we walk by when we are out and about, and several people have asked me where to get one (Bebe got it at Richmond’s Bizarre Bazaar).
Thanks everyone for your thoughtful and fun presents!
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