3 Ballerinas

Ever since we found out we were having our first daughter I was so excited for this day to come!  I couldn't wait to put her in a ballet class or gymnastics!  Little did I know that I would have 3 little girls to sign up!  I think why I was so excited for this is because as a child I always wanted to do something like this and was never able to.  After some research I found a christian studio that is very reasonably priced (especially considering we are putting 3 girls in the class) reasonable with the leotards and other requirements.  I love that b/c you don't know how kids will do until they are in class and I would hate to invest a ton of money into something they wouldn't enjoy.  Anywho... that's my soapbox!  The girls go once a week and LOVE it! :)  The class has 4 girls in it. (3 of those girls are mine! LOL) I like the small class though.  The teacher opens up in prayer and closes in prayer and it's all praise music that they are learning to dance to!  So sweet!  All 3 girls did surprisingly great with the poses and learning the different positions.  Addy surprised me the most she looked like a formal ballerina!   Of course I had my camera for their first class... :) 

WARNING! PICTURE OVERLOAD! (they are too cute to not post!)

Girls all ready for class

Taylor

Addison

Payton

 
 Opening up in prayer before class starts

Doing stretches... The 3rd little girl (not my daughter) can literally do a split!  Look at that!  Crazy!

Addy stretching

Mama distracting Taylor and Payton from doing their stretches :) Oops!

Taylor doing First Position

Addy the Ballerina (can't spell what this is called!)

 Taylor the Ballerina

  My 3 Ballerinas! :)

Payton the Ballerina

Taylor showing her teacher what she learned in her first class.  She learned First Position and how to "sit pretty" 

Payton turns 3!

My sweet baby girl turned 3 on September 4th!  I can't believe  how fast time flies!  Payton wanted everything Dora for her Birthday dinner so that is what we did.  This dinner was more low key as our kiddos have been fighting this awful cold so their cousins couldn't come over b/c they didn't want to get the nastiness!  But that was ok  we enjoyed our "quiet" house and Nana and Papa joined us and Gramma!

Payton was super excited after seeing Taylor's B-day and Addison's she was ready and knew what to do.  The day started with a shopping trip with mommy.  We enjoyed some one on one time together and I let her pick out a balloon.  Then girls made cupcakes with Nana.

 Their "Dora" cupcakes! LOL but Payton was happy! :)

 Presents and decorations

  Payton with her picture table.  I enjoyed pulling out all these pictures! :)

  Payton and Dora!

  Sweet Birthday Girl

   Yum!

  Taylor being silly

   Presents!  This pig is hilarious! It says a ton of sayings and you feed him and put her to sleep... she also has an OFF switch! : P

  Payton got a Rapunzle dress!

 
 This is what Payton asked for a Cinderella baby :)

  Taylor drew Payton a sweet Birthday picture as a gift. :)

Our first day of Homeschooling 2011-2012

Well... to say that our first day was eventful is an understatement!  But it was a good day... a very good day...   I was up all night with Addison she was sick with her weird thing that we have no idea what it is or what to about it at this point.. we were up every hour with her vomiting.  But life goes on and I told myself a shower and a BIG cup of COFFEE and we are good to go!

The curriculumn for the virtual school was due to arrive on our first day. Nice... a little frustrating cause I like to be prepared but it's free and well there wasn't much else I could do about it.  Instead of waiting I still wanted to start on Aug 22nd for the routine purpose and the fact that we had been counting down the days with the girls to when school started and they were excited.  So we did some work that we had left over from PreK with Taylor and worked on those sheets.  We are doing a bible story a week and we read our story... which was Creation.  Why not start at the beginning! 

 Taylor on her first day wanted to wear the most beautiful dress! :) That's what she said.

Addison on her first day of PreK still a little under the weather but very excited to do school!

 Addison working hard...

Addy did this on her own... which really impressed me.  She circled all the Uppercase and Lowercase Ff!

The girls worked on some fun activities too...

I got out the shape sorter to entertain Jackson and it did for a little bit...

Then he proceeded to take ALL the books off the shelf...

Payton was working on her colors but she got upset with me over a crayon and peed on the chair and pouted and was done with school. (which was perfectly fine by me!) she played with the Dora house.  Which was nice for her b/c there is usually 3 girls playing at the same time. So she could enjoy it all by herself.

 
We did a color mixing experiment and this was ALOT of fun!  I added food coloring to water and each girl had an empty bottle and we mixed the colors to see what other colors we could make!  I had a brain fart and for some crazy reason thought it was a good idea to save some glass jars... yeah I have NO IDEA what I was thinking... so Jackson grabbed one dropped it and it broke... no one was hurt but still glass everywhere to clean up.  I won't do that again!

Addy made organge

Taylor made blue/green

Payton ended up with black... but here she is with blue

Jackson kept trying to drink them all :)

Then while cleaning up the color experiment and taking all the bottles to the recycle bin, Jackson did a face plant into the driveway and scraped his forehead really good :(

 Taylor's Calvert curriculumn was delivered early in the day and she was so excited to open it!  This curriculumn would normally cost $380 but signing up for the Virtual School it's free!  I see why it cost so much there is alot of material!

Here is the big Kindergartener with all her lessons and books!  We did Lesson 1 during naptime.  So our first day was definatly FULL but FUN! :)