Choosing Battles

Have the terrible twos arrived? Abby cracks me up lately, she wants to do so many things on her own, and proclaims either 'no help', 'i do it' or 'my turn' almost all the time. My mom says I was just like this as a kid, so maybe this is payback.

Today I chose not to fight the following two battles:
1. her insistance on wearing my old hippie hat (way too big for her)
and
2. bringing her toy broom to target (who knows what that was about?)

Totally wasn't worth fighting about either of these things and she was happy as a clam to have her broom with her at the store. The girl at the checkout almost made me pay for it though ;).

Ballet

Grammie came out to buy Abby her first pair of ballet slippers.  Of course she couldn't resist the pink tutu they had at the store :)  Thanks Grammie!

Trying an arabesque

Don't know where she found them, but my mom brought out my old pointe shoes.

A little rusty ;)

Here we are at the dance supply store, Abby is demanding:  "I need this" :)

And finally - dancing to "I dig dirt"

Little Ballerina

Yesterday I took Abby to her first dancing class. Big day!

The fresh pond ballet school has a little class for girls between the ages of 2 and 3. I couldn't stop smiling during the class because of the cuteness. Totally, totally fun, Abby looooved it :). They do all sorts of fun little games to music and pass out stuff to play with, like floaty scarves, maracas, stuff to jump over etc. Can't say enough about how cute & fun a room full of 2 year olds dancing is! Today she keeps saying 'rina, rina', which in Abby-ease means ballerina.

Sorry about the blurry photos - the teacher doesn't really let you take any during the class. I had to sneak these with my phone!

Weekend Adventures with Abby

Abby is such a busy girl these days :)

Ivy came on friday night for a sleepover..... here they are walking in Cambridge Common.
"Let's go Ivy.... keep up!"

"Um yes, I need every single one of these crayons, thank you"

Sharing a plate of fries with my Cuz..
I noted how amazingly quiet it got when the giant plate of french fries arrived.

There was this really cool Dyno competition at the rock gym on Saturday so we met up with the Cibulskis family to watch. All of us got into cheering for the climbers who were doing these crazy leaping moves. Here is Abby, trying a little rock climbing herself. Will she take after her mom and become obsessed with it?

Emma, Jack and Abby had a great time after the competition running around on the spongy floor & jumping on the crash pads. They were terribly cute when they all layed down together on the taped floor.


The snow rolled in on Saturday night so her highness had another lesson in tolerating the white cold & smooshy stuff. She still doesn't quite get that it is supposed to be fun... why doesn't she love it like the other kids?

On to Chestnut Hill for the afternoon so Abby could play in the indoor playground. She was quite interested in the slides & tunnels and all the other kids trying to release pent up energy on a cold & stormy day.


Time to make a phone call :) I've now successfully gotten her to say.. "hey, what's going on?"
and in response to that question, "not much ;)"

"Do I really have to clean mom? This vacuum is broken."

Put me in the game coach!

Abby tried ice skating tonight at Ham Arena in Conway.  She kept saying "fun, fun, like it! "

So love to see her try new things, and have her get into it - she really is such a blessing.