Bella's Gymnastics Fun Meet 2013

Bella had her gymnastics fun meet on Sat. May 18th.   This time she looked like she was actually enjoying it and was pretty proud of herself.  She did the floor routine, vault, bar and balance beam.   Jeff and I were taking pictures and taping with 2 phones and a camera and I think we got a little mixed up on what we were doing. We have two videos of the vault and can't find one for the bar and the balance beam one is a little longer that we are having trouble getting it off Jeff's phone.  

The peanut gallery

Look how proud she is!

The picture is kind of dark, but Bella made a new friend at the meet.   I noticed they were chatting throughout the whole thing, then as we were leaving her dad said to me "The first thing my daughter said when she came up to me was 'I made a friend!'.   It was cute.  Then Bella went to give her a hug and the little girl gave her a kiss.

And, of course, we celebrated at Subway.

Girls Class Pictures from Fall 2012

Bella's Class

Evie's Class

Evie turns 3 tomorrow

This girl is excited to take her Dora cupcakes to school. (and although It looks like she is touching a cupcake here, she actually isn't )

Tues, February 26, 2013

We got Bella registered for Kindergarten today.   She's not too excited about it.   A friend at daycare told her she'd have to get shots before she can go.  I'm not even sure if she will get shots at her 5 year appointment or not, but I told her shots don't have anything to do with school.   She's also very close to her preschool teacher, Ms. Amanda and I know she doesn't want to leave her.

Evie wore underwear to daycare all day today and had no accidents.   She wore a pullup at naptime and it was wet when she woke up, but otherwise it sounds like she went on the potty 10 times.   It seems maybe like we are starting to turn a corner.  She previously was telling me she only goes to potty at school.   She's very excited about her Hello Kitty and Princess underwear.  

I know we haven't been posting, and both girls are doing and saying things every day that I'd love to record, but I'm not writing any of it down.   Maybe I can start taking 5 minutes just to do that!

Would you like to put your head on my chest?

I heard Bella say this to Evie so I ran into the room where they were watching TV and found this.   Love it.

I will be hanging this up in my cube at work

A bunny rabbit by Bella

Butternut Squash 2012

It is a tradition!   Grandpa Groves brings butternut squash.   I attempt to prepare it and get the girls to eat it.  Grandpa's haul this year.

And captured with video. I just noticed the first video also captures Evie's hair twirling habit. Those knots are really fun to get out with a brush!








And the links to last years posts about butternut squash

butternut-squash-2011.html

butternut-squash-retraction-we-have.html

iMother's Day

This post is way overdue but I couldn't let it slide by.. I had a great Mother's Day.

Jeff surprised me with an iPad after I got myself an iPhone a few days before. So I had lots of new toys to play with.

If you ask Bella about Mother's Day she'll say it's the day we put up a bounce house inside. I ended up purchasing a small bounce house at a garage sale and the girls really love bouncing on it. We've only put it up inside so far.

It was a beautiful day so we went to Kent park for picnic. Evie didn't eat so well and kept trying to wander away. Bella was being a good big sister kept going out to get her and bring her back.

After eating we played at the playground for little bit.

We ended the wonderful day with ice cream at ColdStone.

 I'm so lucky -it was such a great day.

Evie sings 'Twinkle Twinkle Little Star'

We have a video of Isabella singing 'Twinkle Twinkle Little Star' when she was about Evelyn's age or a little younger.   When I heard Evelyn singing it I knew I had to get a video.

Last day of Blastball

The last day of Blastball was a sweltering 97 degrees, so not too many kids came out.  Bella did really well, she had some good hits and got lots of balls out in the field.  We are so glad that she seemed to really enjoy it.

Here is a video of a good hit and a run around the bases.  I'm not really sure what the boys on the other team are doing as she runs the bases, kind of chasing at her, and as I watched the video again it kind of annoyed me....  

The Team (the ones that made it that night)

Our celebratory end of Blastball celebration dinner was at Subway (Bella's favorite).  She informed me in a serious tone that she only like lettuce on her Subway Sandwiches on Tuesdays and Wednesdays.  Guess it was a good thing it was Wednesday, because I had them put lettuce on it.

Bella and Aiden at Blastball

This video cracks me up. Bella's team is playing Aiden's team in Blastball. Aiden is up to bat. Bella is way at the front of her team because they are trying to give her a chance at getting the ball as she has only gotten one or two all season long. One of the reasons I like this video is that Aiden is Bella's best friend and you can see the both in the video even though they aren't on the same team.  Bella wipes out while trying to get the ball and then you see Aiden running to first and back.

   

 The next video is one where Bella does actually get the ball and yells out 'Blastball'.

 

Bella's Gymnastics Fun Meet

Bella had her "Fun" Meet today at gymnastics.  She had quite a bit of stage fright and had a shy sheepish look on her face the whole time.   She didn't seem to be enjoying herself, but after it was over she said it was fun.   The meet was basically they went around to four different stations: the balance beam, floor, horse, and bar and did a routine on each one.   Just yesterday I took her to a makeup gymnastics class and she was doing all this stuff on her own, but due to her stage fright she didn't seem to want to do anything on her own.  We are proud of her that she went through with it and at the end had fun.

Hard to get pics in that gym, she's the blurry one in the black on the balance beam

She basically either had her hand over her mouth or in front of her the whole time

Starting her floor routine

Receiving her medal

Her "fun meet" look

Evie and Grandpa were there to cheer her on.

Posed picture afterward when she was all happy again