Gymnastics

We signed Elaina up for gymnastics. Its a parent taught class so it's been fun for the whole family. I never did gymnastics growing up but I wanted to get her into something to see how she'd do and for the experience of it all. It's too early to tell if she'll be a superstar gymnast (kidding).

She did okay the first class. We have been a second time since then and she did much much better the 2nd time. The first time, she kept getting upset everytime the teacher told us that we were moving on to the next activity. Just when she started having fun, we'd have to stop to move on to the next activity. It was a good lesson for her though. The second time she went, she knew that just because we stopped one thing, didn't mean it was all over. We would just move on the next activity. Needless to say, she loves"nastics" - as she calls it So, I think we'll keep her in for a few more sessions. Here are some shots of the fun...

Prepping to jump on the long trampoline....

I have no idea what she's doing here...

Bunny hops across a balance beam...

Walking across the balance beam....

Hanging and swinging, her favorite...

Her forward roll.....

Blurry, but more balance beam action. You like her airplane pose??

Probably her favorite thing - the rings.

Climbing out of the tunnel. She looks mad but she is really having a good time. really.

One final pose...

Crazy pics

My sister Nell has a Mac laptop with a camera on it that you can do all these crazy things to your picture with... She did these with Elaina a while ago but I had forgotten about them. She sent them to me recently and I thought I'd share them. These are only 2 of many. Look at me cracking up in the first one. I could hardly breath, I was laughing so hard. Check out Elaina... she looks so funny :) And Nell looks pretty rediculous herself. Good stuff.

Build-A-Bear

My friend Courtney and I took Elaina and her daugther, Caitlin to Build A Bear last Wednesday night. Caitlin and Elaina are 10 days apart and Courtney and I went through our pregnancies together. Elaina and Caitlin don't get to see each other that often but when they do, they have a ball. We took them to eat at the mall and then to Build A Bear. We all had fun. It was Elaina's first visit to Build A Bear. She is still talking about it.

At dinner - I was holding one hand up to get their attention so they followed suit And again...

And after dinner, it was off to Build A Bear - here is Elaina with the the dog she wanted. So, she "Built -A-Dog" instead.

Elaina and Caitlin picking out their hearts....
Elaina kissing her heart before putting it in her bear, I mean dog.

What's with this face??

Posing with the dogs - they both got the same dog

Giving their dogs a bath. This was super fun for them.

And walking out to the car.... How precious is this?? They walked all the way through the mall like this....

So cute that I had to add one more....

Before leaving they had to play in the shopping carts that you rent at the mall that are like cars - they were parked in the stalls they are stored in. They could have played in these all night - we could have saved a bunch of money had we known that.

And when we got home, we posed for some more pics with her new dog - whom she named Fluffy, by the way.