Little Dancers

Emma's learning dance moves from Ella. :-)

Matching Jammys and Headphones

Emma discovered the headphones that Ella uses to watch movies on her DVD player when Emma is asleep. Fortunately, I had a second pair and there are two head phone jacks on this player. 

Ella loves to match Emma's jammys. She says she likes to be "twins" with Emma. They have about 5 pairs of jammys that match, so most nights they can look alike. Last night Emma put on a tutu, so of course, Ella wanted to put on a tutu.

Painting

Ella loves painting. We picked up some thicker water based paints at Ikea on Saturday and Ella's been painting twice a day since. I have to admit that I held off on paint (other than watercolors) in fear of the mess during her younger years, but Ella's does great with them now and there's very little clean up needed.

Another Performance at the Little Gym

Ella had her second performance at the Little Gym last Friday night. This time she performed tap, ballet, and gymnastics!

She chose to dress as Snow White for this dance performance and then changed to her leotard for the gymnastic portion of the performance.

Emma loves these performances too! :-)

Tap Dance

Tap Dance

Ballet Dance

Gymnastic Performance

 Ella got her achievement ribbon!

Ella's Rapunzel Birthday Party

Ella had her 4th birthday party today. She asked for a Rapunzel theme and if Rapunzel could come to her party. I found a company in Raleigh that has princess entertainers and they sent us a wonderful Rapunzel!

I had planned to put more streamers on our porch, but it was so windy I wasn't sure they'd stay put. The birthday banner worked the best.

Note the "floating lanterns", they have little lights in them. There's a picture at the end of this post of them lit up at night.

I found some small frying pans (another prominent item from the movie) and used them on the table to hold cookies.

Lavender frosted cupcakes with little flower and pink pearl candies. Lavender was a challenging color to get right. Under certain lights it looked too grey until I added enough red. The girls loved them, so at least they tasted good. :-)

Lots of pink, lavender, and yellow...

Rapunzel's arrival!!!

Making princess crowns

Even Emma got to participate in the fun. :-)

Make-up!

Showing Daddy her make-up

Emma, looking cute

Getting hand tattoos

Flower hair clips...

and bracelets 

Reading Rapunzel's story

 Talking to Rapunzel about her story

Here are the lanterns with most of our lights off in the house. Ella loves them!

Emma's Little Gym Class

Emma's in the toddler class with me while Ella's in her dance/gym class at the Little Gym in Holly Springs. She loves it! It takes her about 15 minutes to warm up, but then she's all over the gym.

 Emma loves to swing on this bar. She steps off the edge of the block under this bar, hangs from the bar, then steps back onto the block, lets go of the bar, and claps.

I let her step up on the balance beam, but for now I always hold her hand while she walks across it.

Playing with a ball

 Hunting bubbles!

 Emma loves to put away the balls.

This week she got an achievement ribbon for completing three months of classes.