Abby's Night!

Abby had a piano recital tonight. She played beautifully and always does. She is so talented on the piano. I am so proud of her. She played "Variations on a Russian Folk Tune". Dan and I were able to go and listen to her with no interruptions thanks to the boys who stayed home and watched Estee. After the recital we took Abby to dinner at The Quarter Bistro, she wanted to order something really wonderful. She ordered the ALLIGATOR!! I hate reptiles and the last thing I would want to do is eat one, however she thinks it is cool that she has done something Dan and I haven't ever done--eat alligator meat! It actually looked a lot like chicken strips. Here she is eating her alligator!

She brought the alligator left-overs home and Jake was upset that we supported her buying and eating an endangered species!

Abby also had a cello AND choir concert in the last couple weeks.
She is MEGA talented girl! We are so glad she is ours and are so proud of her.

Estee's First Dance Recital

Estee had her first dance recital! I loved watching her so much. She is so excited about the whole thing it is infectious! Here she is on the first day of her dance class, with some of her cute little friends who took the class with her.
And.........the day of the recital.


Does it get any cuter?? I just love this little girly, girl doing her ballerina moves. Can you see her stitched up forehead? I did my best to hide them!
Estee LOVED this class so much, she was always so excited to go to ballerina class.



In case you still want more....check out the two videos. It might be just because I am the mom, yeah probably, but I think this is one of the cutest things I have seen! They did their routine twice, so I recorded it twice :) Estee was running circles around the other girls for probably half the time she was up in front. You can see her doing it in the first video.

Ouch!

Estee got 8 stitches yesterday!! She jumped, or rather dived into a bean bag playing around in the basement. The edge of the coffee table on the other side of the bean bag was right in the way of her forehead. It bled a whole bunch and you all would be so proud at how calm I was. Jake was home from school because his school had a power outage, and he was crying. Poor guy. Blood was everywhere and gushing from this deep gash on her head. We also had a friend over playing and he was super calm, even more than me. He must have seen something like this before, he should be a doctor someday if all that blood doesn't bother him.

Luckily, Dan was able to meet us at the hospital and stitch Estee up. She sat on my lap in the chair so I could help hold her down and calm her down. She was really upset by the needle poking her to numb things up. The two nurses and I finally got her calmed down by talking about ballerina class, promises of a play date with friends, and I also promised her a new sleeping beauty dress up dress. By the end of the stitches she was almost asleep! She had worn herself right out. She was a brave little three-year-old.
She wanted some eggs for breakfast this morning so they could "help her owie get all better". Cute!