Ballet

The girls started ballet in August. They love it! The room has a castle above the mirror, so they are in heaven. They are learning to dance with Teddy Bears right now and will give the mommies and daddies a show in 2 weeks. I had to snap some pictures before class the other day. Couldn't believe we were running early!  I'd love to know what they are discussing in this pic.  I think it is an earnest discussion about the garbage cans.


Oh, I'm also very behind on my mommy project posts. The next one is "Crazy". I'm still trying to figure out how to narrow that down to just one post :)

"V" is for Vortex

Some days I feel so confident about my mommy teaching skills, like when the girls create a new painting or when they grasped the "putting your tee tee in the potty" concept.  So, when my girls come out of the bathtub one day after their daddy (a self proclaimed science geek/enthusiast) bathed them, they started telling me about a vortex.  I gave them a big proud smile and then sneaked off to go google "vortex".  I did enjoy my nursing school sciences like anatomy, physiology, and chemistry, but  David brings a whole different type of science to the table.  He likes to think he's educating me on black holes, worm holes, whatever other kind of holes are out there in space (I tend to start daydreaming mid way through his talks or DVR'd shows).  I'm so glad I married a science geek, and hopefully the girls will love to learn science the way their daddy does.

Here are the girls and their vortexes:

This picture just cracked me up.  It's Claire Bear.

Mommy's Project 52:5 Loving

My girls are like little mommas.  They love to sing to their dolls and then rock them to sleep.  Natalie decided she wanted to soothe and rock a not so traditional "baby doll".  I call this video "Sweetheart".

Mommy's Project 52:4 Dirty

I've finally come to the realization that until my kids turn 10, you will find cheerios or remnants of lunch on my floor at all times.  I can sweep my floor 3 times a day, and my girls will still somehow manage to share their lunch with the floor.  My little brother did just move in with us, and he did bring a little helper in the form of a sweet puppy dog, Molly.

So not only do my kiddos greatly increase the odds of a dirty floor but they also contribute to the mounds of dirty laundry.  I feel like I'm always making the girls take off their shirts for dinner, especially for spaghetti night.  I seriously want to invest in spray n wash stock!

Of course, my girls love to dig in the dirt just like their mommy.  We spent the spring making mud pies and mud lakes with the hose.  It's been so hot here in drought striken Texas that the dirtiest we've gotten is indoor painting.  Here's pictures from our latest playdate with LaLa, her friend Lisha (you can find her blog here), and her sweet daughter Elle.  You can see that we controlled the situation with no shirts and covering everything in paper.  We started out making turtles and that quickly became a face painting extravaganza. (Oh, please excuse the way I look.  I'm trying out this new concept for me; it's called "exercising" :)