Tiny Dancer

Mama told me that she has dreamed about her baby taking dance lessons ever since she found out she was having a baby..or maybe before even.  Her dream came true tonight.  Mama and I started Tap & Twirl 2's (a ballet and tap combo class for 2 year olds).  I was a little apprehensive at first but when the teacher started doing the same thing that Mama has been showing me then I was all about it!

 tiniest ballet shoes I have ever seen - size 6.5

 I'm excited Mama!

 most of the pictures are of tap, which was 2nd tonight, after I was okay to let Mama walk away from me :)

 stomping in a choo choo train line

 Miss Amanda helping me with "head, shoulders, knees & toes"

 marching back to our hula hoops - Ainsley behind me is my friend from school

 side stepping across the gym - I did very good on this one

 finishing up class with a song

Ainsley and I waiting for a sticker at the end of class

Red Bird Fans

Little Artist

During dinner one night I decided that my buttered corn made a better art element than it did nourishment for my body...

Cruisin...

watch out world...Tori is driving...and she even has attitude already!!

Easter 2012

We enjoyed our Easter weekend at home with Papa Choo Choo, GiGi and all of the Lamczyk's.  My favorite part of the weekend was hunting eggs and celebrating the resurrection of Christ (just as Uncle Jake would have done it)!

 dying eggs

 the finished products

 handsome baby Miller came to play on Saturday

 Mama, me, and Daddy

 GiGi, me and Papa Choo Choo

 a couple of very special ladies in my life

 The Easter Bunny came...

 and he put gold dollars in the eggs!!

 who doesn't love Easter candy corn at 7:30am

 hanging out with my new Minnie Mouse

 just like my daddy..have to put my moneys in my bank

 Cousins..Tori, Gabi, Tavi

 look at Gabi and all of her eggs

 lots of eggs in my basket too

 trying a candy necklace for the first time - loved it!

Easter threw up in the family room and then we had to put it all away until next year :)

Roly Poly

Our first 10 weeks of gymnastics came to an end in March.  Tori did wonderful and really started to blossom in her gross motor skills.  Bryan and I decided that we would take a break from "nastics" to try other things during the spring/summer and will go back to it again this fall.  We will miss her friends and teacher Miss Ashley.  

OCD

I am not being serious .. or am I?? Our toddler has OCD and if you think it can't be diagnosed at age 2 check this out.

One night during tubby time she was playing quietly with her letters/numbers. I asked her what she was doing and looked on the inside wall of the bathtub to find this...

Yes, they are all color coordinated and I wanted to show her how to put them in order of the alphabet and FREAKED out and wouldn't let me rearrange them!!

*please note, we do not encourage this type of behavior, it just happens in our house, remember who her parents are*

Easter Bunny 2012

God Bless this tiny toddler of ours that we make do some crazy things in life just to get a picture!! 

She will love the memories later in life :)

 it only took a little coaxing to get her to sit next to the Bunny ~ check out her expression ~ priceless

now this is the smile we all know and love ~ after the Bunny experience :)

Disney on Ice 2012

March 2012 ~ Sprint Center ~ Suite 8

Thanks to an awesome Papa Choo Choo Train (as he is now referred to as) we got to go see Disney on Ice while we were in Kansas City in March.  Papa's vendor friend Tim invited us to join him and his wife and 3 year old son for a fun Saturday morning in the suites.  

 Papa bought me a twirly whirly thing..it was on the bar with the view of the ice 

 Nicholas and I before the show started

 this is pretty much how I sat the entire first half (45 mins) - in awe!

The original - main characters

 I thought these guys were the most funny - Puma Timon and the Lion King

 Micky and Minnie Mouse!

Thank you Papa for a fun fun day! 

xoxo, Your Girls

Kansas City here we come...

 Uncle Bryan and Brody Dane Merriman

 The girls loving the slide - Coralee 17 months ~ Tori 26 months

 Auntie loving on Baby Brody (Bman as auntie calls him)

 "Cousins" take 1

 "Cousins" take 2

 spending Saturday afternoon with Sweet Baby Ashlyn (Tori's girl crush)

 Uncle Bryan gets some Lady A time too

Uncle Leg is getting so good at this baby stuff - Auntie Anna is excited!!!