Eden's Dance Recital Video

Eden's Dance Recital

Eden had her dance recital yesterday and she did awesome.

Hers was a little Cinderella dance called A Dream Is A Wish.

All of my crazy dance mom-ness and making her practice every day paid off. She did her whole dance but refused to smile.

She told me she wants to quit dance because she doesn't like wearing her hair up. Fat chance little one!

Dance recitals always make me a little sad because it should be both my girls up on that stage. I just tell Eden she needs to dance for her sister. Peanut loved listening to the music and we discovered that she loves Hip Hop. It was a great recital and I love watching Eden dance. It reminded me of all the recitals my parents sat through (or slept through in my dad's case). They must have endured about 20 years of dance between me and my sisters.

The Plague

At least one person in our family has been sick every day since Christmas. 

I think we have had one week of being healthy.

When I got back from girls weekend Eden was really sick.

We started her on an antibiotic but she had a fever of 102.

She basically slept most of the day.

This is how I found her after I put Georgia on the bus for school.

Poor little thing.

She was down for several days and had a cough and tummy ache for weeks.

Then Darryl got sick. It turns out he had Bronchitis and Pink Eye.

Then poor little Peanut got Pink Eye. And now I have it. Seriously we just need to all get well.

Bribes Work

I curled Eden's hair for her dance picture, I wanted a cute picture of her and Georgia.

This was the reaction I got.

Until I offered her a piece of candy . . .

Girls Weekend

Have I said I live in the greatest neighborhood in the world?

Because I DO!

We have a great group of friends here, although everyone is great.

 Some of the girls in the neighborhood decided that we needed a girls' weekend.

I found a fantastic deal on a beautiful 2 bedroom villa in Park City.

We left the kids with our husbands and headed off for some girl time.

The first night we walked Main Street and ate Thai food.

Then we went back to the hotel for some chick flicks and junk food.

The next day was full of shopping at the outlets.

We found these crazy shoes in a store we were much too old to be shopping in. Mandy was far more skilled at walking in them.

Mandy said she felt like they had a heel. Mandy is a liar. I could barely stand in them much less walk.
Then we went back to the hotel and chatted and then it was off to the spa.

Sadly, Melanie went home that night. We missed her.

I wish I had the picture from the pool of Nichole in the waterfall and flipping her hair. It was epic but I couldn't get Mandy's phone unlocked in time to get a picture.

Then I took a shower in the crazy steam shower where I felt like I was drowning in hot water.
After that it was time to play beauty parlor.

Yep, no matter how old you get, you get a bunch of girls together and they will start doing each other's hair.

Ya, we know we're sexy!

Dance party time!

Girls, They Want To Have Fun!
There was talk of going to a club but we didn't know how that would look with a bunch of Mormon moms, one caring a newborn.

The next morning was a fabulous brunch at Stein Eriksen Lodge.

It was a fantastic weekend!

Thanks ladies for all the laughs, although next time I am instituting a no cell phone rule.

Darryl handled the kids wonderfully. I only got one text that said "Eden has an ear ache and Georgia just had a blow out. But I handled it." When I got home Eden had an ear infection and was really sick and so was Darryl but Darryl wanted me to enjoy my weekend so he dealt with all of it. He knew I needed a little break. And I did. I even slept. Thank you Ambien!

I hope we can definitely make this a tradition. It was so much fun!

The Baby Bandage Dress

You've all seen the bandage dress right?

Celebrities wear them to make them look thinner.

Well did you know that now you're toddler or preschooler can have their own?

Just a few minutes of torture at a children's hospital and they can be sporting the latest trend.

Ok, really, Georgia was just being fit for her new back brace.

Poor little thing was stuffed into what can only be described, on an ample bodied girl like Georgia, as a "sausage casing" and then spun around on a spit while being covered in a cast.

She was not a fan to say the least!

The great news is, she hates her back brace even more than getting the cast.

 

Georgia needs a back brace because her spine is starting to curve and to prevent further curvature she has to wear a back brace while sitting. I'll post pictures of her in the brace later.

Swimming Lessons Epic Fail

This year I was able to get Eden into swimming lessons at our local rec center. It was much cheaper than any other lessons she's been in. I now see why.

There was a teenage kid teaching the class and he didn't make Eden do anything!

She simply said "no" or negotiated her way out of everything.

Finally on the second to last day I told him to push her. He felt bad because he almost made her cry. I told him I was totally fine with her crying.

She learned nothing and wouldn't even do things she already knew how to do.

Consequently she failed that level of swimming.

Epic waste of time and money.

But she did love the last day where she basically got to play on the pool toys the whole lesson.

And she loved her new swimsuit that Shannon bought her.