An update

So, I was about to do a Tuesday Tell All because I can't think of anything to blog about these days. (Do any of you "tell all" on Tuesday?) But then I read this week's topic, and I wasn't in the mood. I decided to upload pictures from our camera instead. So now you're getting a boring update:

Whitney started up ballet again. She was so excited for her first day. As I was getting her hair ready, she said, "Mom, will you take a picture of me by the front door like jujitsu?" I guess having our amazing front door as a backdrop is becoming a tradition for "first day" events like these. But I need to not turn the flash on so harshly. Check out those shadows! whoops!

Please check out these tights. Her ballet tights from last year had a hole in them, so we improvised.

I put her ballet and tap shoes in her little pink backpack, so she was all ready to go. We got there right at 10:00. By the time I hauled the kids out of the car and opened the door to Whitney's class, the clock in the room said 10:02. The music was already playing, and the instructor was already teaching. I thought, "Man, this teacher is so on the ball!" I closed the door and walked over to the park to let Cole play while we waited for Whitney. I got talking to one of the other dance moms at the park, and I discovered that I opened the door to the 3 year old dance class--the one that goes from 9:45-10:30! How embarrassing! By 10:30, I put all the pieces together that her 4-5 year old class is after the 3 year old class. Thankfully, the teacher was kind and forgiving of my mistake and had Whitney stay for her "real" class. I'm going to do better this week.

Cole is still cracking us up despite a 2-3 day stint with the hand-foot-mouth virus. Did I mention that he likes to take my nursing pads and wear them around the house? Yeah, he calls them his armor.

I caught him wearing this necklace and hat before bedtime just hanging out reading books to himself like it was no big deal.

Whenever Whitney says, "Mom, come here quick!!" I have learned that I need to run fast and hopefully have my camera handy. This is what I found last week:Fluorosis, anyone?

Also, last week while shopping in Trader Joe's Cole yelled out of nowhere, "RRRRRRRrrrrrush Limbaugh DOT COM!!!!" Not the best thing to shout in what I would assume is a green/liberal store. Luckily he didn't yell any anti-Hillary quotes from Rush; we might have gotten kicked out. I guess I need to turn back on the Disney music in the car.

Annie is 6 months old! We took her to her check up today. If you care, her stats were:

Weight: 17 lb. 2 oz. (68%) Length: 27.5 in. (95%) Head circumference: 17" (68%)

She's not too into rolling around (she's done it twice now on her own), but she's really into sitting up. If she gets too excited and starts wiggling her arms and legs too much, then she'll fall over, but for the most part she's pretty stable!

We even went on our first walk with her sitting in the front of the double stroller! I couldn't stand how grown up she looked.

And she couldn't believe that the bow on her head was almost as big as her!