Ballet pics

Some still frames to go along with yesterday's video...

ballet

last time we mentioned ballet, it wasn't very popular around here... but vera really likes it now, just took a little warming up.  she's in the second row, so a little hard to see sometimes from where i was recording.

Big big girl bed

Vera has upgraded to a twin bed (sniff, wipes away tear)

More WC haunted house

A few more pics from the west Chester hayride and haunted house...

West Chester hayride

Went to a hayride and "haunted house" where aunt E was working.

in motion...

and after that last post, google decided to put the pictures in motion for me.... this is a more accurate depiction of what was going on :)

Funny faces

Pretending to be zombies and other silly faces. 

Princess and the frog

We found a frog (toad?) at our neighbor's house. Vera loved it. Olivia, not so much...

Finley liked it too. And also sat on it. The frog survived

Pay phone

Vera asking if this pay phone is pretend. 

Cars

Riding in her pink car. She had lost interest in her car for awhile, until Finley got one too! 

ballet!

vera started ballet lessons this week.  we talked about being a ballerina with her good friend olivia who was also taking the class.  olivia was the star of ballet class.  while vera sat on mom or hid her face in my lap for 41 of the 45 minute class.  she joined for the last 4 minutes, which mostly consisted of taking bows b/c class was over.

she then said approximately 198457839474958456249857 times on the way home that she wanted to go to ballet class.  however, i have a feeling that next week, she will be sitting on my lap again.  hopefully for only 37 minutes this time ;)

 

Beach tower

Also visited one of the WWII towers while at the beach. 

Sand crabs

Spent a sunny September weekend at the beach. Our friend Kelly is the queen of catching sand crabs. And Vera was a huge fan. 

vera and cousin allison

posing with cousin allison at camp soles (allison is actually mom's cousin)

mom and vera at camp soles

papaberry stew

i hope there isn't a lawsuit when i reveal that the secret ingredient of papaberry stew is water that came from the 'deep end' of the lake... it also must be mixed in a large blue bucket, and add lots of sand.  bon apetit!

cameo appearance

vera (and finley) made an appearance on cousin attison's (second cousin? second cousin once removed? drat, where is that family flow chart explaining what relations are) blog today:

http://attisonjames.blogspot.com/2013/08/babys-first-camp.html


and then we also "stole" this picture from another one of attison's blog posts.  silly string fight at camp soles!!!

i need to download pictures from my camera!  we have some more camp pictures, i don't even remember what.

Rodeo!!

We went to cowtown rodeo in nj...