Just ballet mommy

Tonight, I took Reagan to a ballet class tonight to see if she wanted to take the class. The basic answer was no. It's funny how we got there.

So, she really misses her friends from her old school. It's sad to listen to, so I thought maybe I'd sign her up for a class they were in. Ballet. I know better, but thought I'd try. She's not a dainty ballet type, she's a karate type, a tumbler. All sorts of anything but dainty type.

Regardless, I thought I'd try. I was more worried about her making it through the hour long class. As my day went on, I started worrying about losing the one night we had to ourselves. So I just decided I didn't want to enroll her.

We got there. All her friends were there. She acted shy and "interested" sorta. I went to the bin to find some old ballet shoes that she could borrow. She said "I don't want to do this". I wasn't sure what she meant - the class or the old dingy shoes.

I took her to class. She said "yes" kinda and went along with the crowd. She did great. She could do everything everyone else was doing. She did great. I was happily surprised that she did that well. I actually watched for a while and was impressed myself. I actually started rooting for her to take the class... a little.  I eventually left and went to sit with the other ladies.

At 6:30 pm, I went back to pick her up. She was happy, dancing and giggling. She was playing with her friends. When I asked the teacher how she did, she said "great" and that she kept up with everyone else just fine. She seemed happy.

The girls played for a while after class while we waited for all the moms to come pick up the girls. While we waited, she played hard.

So, we get in the car and I asked her if she wanted to take dance. Her immediate answer "no". What? Really? I said "really? how come?" She said, "mommy it's just ballet and nothing else". Well, she was right. Nice. I asked her a few times and the answer was still the same.

So that's out. Interesting.

Please and Thank you

Maddy has got Please and Thank you down. She is the most polite one year old I've seen. Of course, she's 23 months, but she's been working on it for the last month or so. The sunday school teacher told me that she was a little lady and really enjoyed her in class. She was so polite.

Way to go Maddy!

Teeth

Her molars are in - all of them... Really!?

Rockin' the piano

Reagan is really starting to take off with her piano. Not only that, she really likes to go and loves her teacher. She doesn't practice yet much - but she only needs to see it once before she has it. Sometimes she doesn't even need to see it. It's really cool to watch her.

I  hope she loves music in her life!

Nice

Maddy and Reagan play a lot together. Maddy will sometimes pick something up of Reagan which causes Reagan to have a fit. (The other way around does the same thing). Most of the time, if you tell Maddy to give it back, she will.  Sometimes she'll run with it. Eventually she will take it back to Reagan and say "here Reagan".

If we've told her it wasn't nice, she will automatically say "Sorry Reagan" and try to give her a hug.

Loves to dress up and pretend

Maddy loves to dress up and pretend with her dollies. She's been doing it for quite some time, but she has started getting into it more over the last month or so. If she sees any dress up item, it has to immediately go on her body in some way. If it doesn't fit, she tries it on Dora. Right now, she's wearing Reagan's barbie glasses... upside down. :)

Blowing her nose

Maddy knows how to blow her nose. Is that weird?