And so it begins....

Why not go for it all at once. We now have a ballet dancer, gymnast, and 2 school girls.

At our community center they have ballet classes for kids so Emmi said she would like to give it a go. Since it was a last minute decision I had already offered to watch my nephews which worked great since they entertained Moo during the class. Tyler took over a hundred pictures. Here are a few pics that made the cut.

Here is Emmi at her gymnastics class about to jump on a trampoline.

Then doing a flip.
Then here are the girls walking in to school since we had meet your teacher day. Mixed emotions with Moo walking in.

Here is Moo in her class where right now there are only 4 kids one of whom is Sawyer (Griffin's little brother). We are super excited about her teacher as she is the best 1 year old teacher. Emmi's class has 12 kids which include her best friend Brooke and of course Robert. Wednesday this coming week will be their first day.

Vacation

We had a great time on our trip up to Massachusetts have many posts to catch up. We got lots of quality time with Alana which of course had to include a haircut for Emmi and I. We also got feather extensions in our hair.

She came with us when we went to check out the seals.

Being silly on the trolley ride to go see the seals.
We also had Lobster one night. It was too late for the girls to partake but they did check them out before bed.

Then we also had a visit with Great Grammy & Grandpy while in Gardner, not the best picture since I took it with my phone.

The girls also stayed up late while having a blast running around and playing with their cousins.

Moo also loved playing with Uncle Joey's dinosaurs. She had her pick of blocks or dinos. Dinos won. She would roar when playing with them too, so cute.

Vacation cont.. Boston Childrens Museum

One thing about vacation is it really helps you realize how fortunate we are to live in such an awesome area. Our Discovery Place Kids Museum is so much better than Boston Childrens since ours is focused towards young kids while Bostons tries to have something for everyone but we still had fun. Our passes to DPKs got us in free to Boston so it only cost us parking. Then we went to Uncle Peeders for a dinner party with friends.
Moo playing with a water table.
Another one.
E in the Wizard of Oz exhibit.
Emmi playing with bubbles in the bubble room. I think this was the best part.
They had a huge climbing structure that Emmi went in.

Vacation cont.. beach

Of course we spent plenty of time at the beach.





Naptime, although this only happened once.

Vacation cont..... lighthouse & ice cream

One thing Emmi really wanted to do while visiting Memere is go see a light house. Unfortunately she isn't old enough to go inside the lighthouse since you have to be 6. So we went on a random day to check it out.





We also went out for ice cream one day while there. I usually like to go daily but since my favorite shop is a bit of a drive we only managed one trip.

Moo's 18 month check up

Moo went to the doctors for her 18 month check up. She weighed in at 23lbs and 31 inches tall. She is on the lower percentages of 25% but has always been in that tract. Basically all that means to me is she is probably going to be more on the shorter side.

In other news she is finally sleeping through the night more times than not. A few weeks before vacation I decided it was time to night wean since getting up 2 or more times in a night was not cutting it. She did really well with it with virtually no tears. But then when we went on vacation we went with the flow a bit since sleeping arrangements weren't always ideal to make it happen. It is amazing at how awesome one can feel with a solid 8+ hours of sleep.

Here she is again playing with more boyish toys. I think she is going to be our tomboy since she gravitates towards dinos, cars, trucks, etc when playing.

Crayola Factory

It was a perfect place for a half way resting place. I definitely was psyched up for something much bigger and better thinking like Willy Wonka type place but I guess in the grand scheme of things it was exactly what one could expect. Tons are areas set up with their different Crayola products that you could color, create, and/or make. Here were a few pics I captured with my phone:Playing in the under 5 area.
The crayon area.
Crappy picture of everyone coloring. They had huge bins of every color of unbroken crayons.
Clear walls to write on.