Maddie Can-Can Dance!

Maddie's dance recital was held over the weekend. (It was titled "We Can-Can Dance," hence the title.) It was a crazy, crazy weekend, to say the least.

Thursday night was the leotard rehearsal, and the thing that stands out most to be about that night was the way all of these parents of these kids just let them have free reign over the Opera House. Toys and food were everywhere...kids were RUNNING up and down the aisles. It was amazing and depressing at the same time, knowing that there are parents who just don't teach their children to have respect for anything anymore.

Friday night was the dress rehearsal. All the kids were so cute!! Everyone was contained to dressing rooms the entire evening, so it was a much calmer night. However, our dressing room was located on the 3rd floor - no elevator, no air conditioning. No fun whatsoever! My poor legs would cramp up the second I would start walking up those stinking things! I can walk a mile every night, and it never bothers me. Give me stairs to climb....all bets are off.

Saturday night was just beautiful. I've never been so incredibly proud at any moment in my whole life as when my little girl took the stage to dance. Her and both of her classes did so wonderfully and did everything they were supposed to.

It was just so emotional for me - I miss dancing SO much! Watching all of those girls - young and old - reminded me of when I was young and dancing. I remember being on that very stage all dressed up and smiling under the bright lights. I guess maybe it kind of reminded me of how old I am and how I don't move well anymore. Whoa is me moment? Maybe. But I was happy to have the opportunity to experience this all with my daughter.

Anyway, here are a couple of Maddie's pictures that she had done the Tuesday before the recital:

Baby Ducks (ballet)

Boogie Woogie Piggies (tap)
And finally, this is when she was getting ready to go out on the stage one last time for the grande finale on recital night:
That's all from now...

Signed, Proud Mama!

Been Awhile...

Gosh, the last time I posted was on May 14th! Let me see if I can catch up on everything as quickly as possible.

First of all, Maddie graduated from Preschool on May 21st. All of the kiddos were SO cute, and I am going to miss seeing them all every Friday at drop off. But my goodness...I have a Kindergartener now!!!

Maddie is getting ready to be in her first big stage recital next week with Jane's School of Dance. She gets to be a piggy for her tap routine, and she gets to be a baby duck for her ballet routine. Bad part is that she and I have to be there Thursday night for the leotard rehearsal, Friday night for the dress rehearsal, and of course the recital on Saturday night. It's going to be REAL fun dealing with 20 four year olds back stage all night! Of course, I'll post pictures...

Mackenzie potty-trained herself in two days this past week. We've been sitting her on the potty for quite some time, mainly because she just wanted to sit on it like Maddie did. We were never actively pushing her to potty train, though. Well, the other day, she actually peed in it, and that's all it took. Now, we keep her stool next to the potty, and when she needs to go, she runs in, climbs up, pulls down her pants and sits down. I'm absolutely 100% amazed. It took Maddie 2 years to potty train and Mackenzie 2 days.

My absence, mainly, has been from working on replacing our floors. This project has been almost a month in the making so far, and we're still only about 1/2 done. Here is the most current picture of what's been done:
We still have to remove the spacers from the wall and install quarter-round trim all around it. I'm also going to be finding new area rugs to put under the table and between the couches. I'm so thrilled with how it looks, though!

Nothing to report health-wise, which I guess is a good thing. I still have the same annoying little things that go on, but I'm used to them by now. For the most part, the drug combination that my Neurologist has me on is working very nicely.

I think that's about it. Seems like there's a million other things that I needed to say, but in true ME fashion, I have forgotten...