This is my right foot, hahaha-haha

Tonight was a special night at dance

because the parents were allowed to come in the dance room and observe. 

This momma was super excited!

Waverly did an excellent job 

and I was very impressed!

She mimicked the teacher, Ms. Kayla, and did every

exercise and step that she was supposed to.

She even waited patiently with the other girls

while they took turns practicing their pointy toes.

This picture (below) is of my favorite dance!

The song is called "This is my right foot" and its adorable when they 

do the laughs!

We are very excited for the next parent night, 

and of course we can't wait for the recital in May!

Conspiracy Theory

I have suspicions that the kids know that I am pleased

when they are being nice and holding hands in the car... 

I think they do this on purpose to suck up before being rotten.  

(It usually works!)

Lights under Louisville

Have you ever heard of Lights under Louisville? 

It is truly spectacular! 

In Louisville, there is a mega cavern underground. 

It stretches out 17 miles under the city streets!

For the Christmas season, there are over 2,000,000 lights on display.  

Intrigued, this year, for the first time ever, we 

loaded up in the car and drove through the caves to see the lights. 

We were amazed!

First, we unhooked seat belts and the kiddos got to ride up front with us.  

Even though its the middle of December, the cave was nice and just warm enough that we were comfortable to cruise through with the windows down. 

Christmas music plays is turned up and everyone is dancing and singing along in their cars, 

self included.

The light displays are so cool! 

So many of the exhibits imply movement, like the tank above shoots the bullets, 

which the lights blink off and on so that it appears to be soaring through the air. 

Both kids were so pleased to find their favorite characters, 

including Peter Pan, Cinderella, and Santa, of course!

The whole trip only takes about 30 minutes, 

but we had so much fun, we turned around and drove through a second time!

I hope we make this a family tradition. 

It'd be nice to go every year!

(I'm just glad I don't have to pay all of that electric bill!)

Stringing Lights

Every year that I remember, we've had the annual "decorating the tree" party at Pappy & Nana's.  This year, they had a real live Christmas tree!

All the little kids love helping hang up the ornaments. 

Most of the decorations are those that we made when we were about their age.  

Harlan was very focused in the play room...

but I eventually convinced him to come put some ornaments on the tree!

Almost TWO!

Can you believe that Harlan's 2nd birthday is almost here?

We celebrated his birthday a little early over at Pappy & Nana's

this weekend.  All the kiddos were there and they had so much fun!

The cupcake-cake was a huge hit!

The boys were all about icing, especially Harlan!

He had his cupcake and then I'm pretty sure he snuck off with a second one!

But, eh, it made him smile.  

And it made his tongue blue!

Our friend Sydney had a birthday just a couple days before, 

so we did a special cupcake for her!  

What a ton of presents Harlan had!

(We sure do know how to wrap presents in this family... its all walmart bags or tissue paper!)

Harlan loved his gifts and we send a big thank you to everyone!