Performing

This video is of the performances from Friday morning. Apparently, I left too early, though and they had a dance with parents before leaving, but I just found out today when I read the weekly newsletter that mentioned it. I was shocked Dellaina hadn't told me.

Performances

Here are a few videos of Dellaina's class performing songs at different parties. I'm never on the right side when they start to really capture her, but you get a glimpse every now and then!

From Zoo Day




[I give up. This video will NOT load. The other one is cuter anyway.]



This video is from the Easter Party and I warn you, this song is super addictive. I kind of love it and sing it all day long. And I LOVE Dellaina's dance. This is her signature move these days and I love that by the end, she's taught her friends to do the pelvic thrust body wave.

Video Overload

Once again, I've been working on getting these posted for months. I have to transfer them to our old, dilapidated computer, because it actually has a Movie Maker on it that somehow converts my really huge files that come from my camera into much smaller files even after I've added titles, transitions, effects and credits and made a movie!

Here's one from our trip to Savannah back in September where Wyatt is getting down to the live band. I love that he's such a singer and dancer and so social. at least at this age I do.

Also, in September, when Wyatt first started taking Gymnastics. It took a couple of classes, but once he got how to flip over the bar, he loved to just keep flipping.

This is a longer one of several different ones I took of Dellaina in dance class. The first segments are from a class at the end of September. Wyatt was in my lap and pulls on the camera strap several times, causing the camera to be very shaky at times, but I keep recording. I love how intent Dellaina is. And she seems so happy - she loves all of the imagination and pretend things they get to "act" and dance out. It seems right up her alley. I show several of the other girls a lot just to show how focused she is in comparison. (was that mean? oops.) She finally gets to be the leader of the class and wear the fancy tutu at the beginning of November and seems to enjoy the different things they are doing and takes it all so seriously, but hopefully is having fun, too!

Here's video of us trying out Wyatt's new tee that he got for his birthday. It would "pitch" the balls and while we improved immensely with more practice, it highly amuses me to watch the first few Bloopers. (the bat that came with it is plastic and actually can slide up in itself to condense, so you have to make sure you pull it out tightly, as you will see)

Here's a video of the fun we had at our neighbor's house back in November.

Also from November; I like to watch them jump up to dance along with the TV. Especially when we get cute Risky Business shots.

We hear this "song" quite a bit when the cousins get together on the tire swing. They love to twist and unwind.

Moving Pictures

Water, water everywhere!

We’ve had lots of fun with water this hot summer. In addition to the lake or sprinklers at G&G’s, we’ve been to the pool a couple of times, once even with Daddy!

(gotta love the ABC’s sauce still around her mouth from dinner!)

Water Day at school:

*Dellaina did an art project at school that she calls, “water, water everywhere” and mentioned the full name a lot.

He may be a handful at times. . .

but, he does make me laugh.

He wasn't doing the laugh exactly like he has been, but it's just this hilarious raise of the shoulders, sink head down in and bounce it, and act like you are laughing, but it's silent! ?! cracks me up every time. Dellaina and I ask him to do it again and again and it never stops being funny.

Outdoor Recreation

In addition to playing on the playground or “hiking” to the “waterfall”, we also have a few other activities we’ve been pursuing outdoors in spurts this frigid month.

Thanks to Mammie, Grandaddy & Mema, we get some great magazines (Highlights – remember the picture searches? – and 2 through the National Wildlife Federation) delivered every couple of weeks (initial thanks goes out to Megan for sending us Ella’s old copies of Animal Baby many moons ago and introducing us to the great series) and we have fun sitting down and reading them together. They have games and activities and stories and fun facts and even pictures submitted by young artists. So, we decided to send in some of Dellaina’s work! We made copies of 2 (I had a hard time convincing Dellaina not to send in any and everything she’s ever done – or was sitting down to do to include) of our favorites (“Zillica” and “flowers”) and put them in a envelope (which of course had to be decorated as well) and mailed it in. Dellaina has mainly forgotten about it or has accepted that “they may not use my pictures. if they need flowers or underwater animals, they might, but if not, they may not” but someone else *might* still be anticipating a response about publication because they are just too good not to use, right?! And she’s totally not biased. at all.

One day, we even broke out the Easter eggs and had an impromptu egg hunt. Getting in some early practice this year.

A similar version we like to play is called “treasure hunt” where we just hide 1 specific object.

Or there is always posing and modeling as one day Dellaina wanted me to take her picture here

and here

and like this and here

and what about here

and on this rock

and like this (?!)

(got something in her eye, but still smiling)

she said we needed to take 12 pictures for the bathroom frames (I do regularly comment about needing to update it, but pointed out we might not want to exchange all the pictures out with ones of her. . at least wearing the same thing, maybe we should get some in a different outfit at least)

Then, there’s entertainment with ice and snow. We chipped away at the frozen bowl of ice that is normally the dog’s water and whenever it colds enough to freeze the boards to the driveway, here’s how Dellaina likes to knock them loose:

Dinner Conversation

It's a little long and pretty silly at times, but still a fairly accurate reflection of a typical dinner interaction.

Stuck

Guess what movie we watched this evening? If for no other reason than to hopefully learn a couple more words to the song. . .

Taste Test

I got it from my mama

Hope this little video glimpse into our day yesterday makes you smile as much as it makes us laugh.

and I'm sure you can imagine how the rest of our day was spent. . jumping off the table onto the couch.

Babes

After the baby shower, we loaded up and headed to Athens. We actually went straight over to my friend, Katie’s parents house because she and her husband, Tracy, were over there with their son, Jack. He’s 7 months old and I hadn’t met him yet, and actually, they hadn’t met Wyatt yet, either! I had gotten to see Katie last Christmas when she was pregnant, but it was without kids in tow. And they’d missed 4th of July the past couple of years.

Katie’s brother, Will, and his wife and son, Wylie, were there as well. Jack and Wylie are only 9 days apart! Both are just precious. Jack has gorgeous eyes and is a big boy! Wylie reminded me of Wyatt, actually. They have an awesome backyard/patio area, so we just all hung out and the kids ran around and had a big time.

Katie’s dad really needs to invest in a swing, poor man! Especially once he offered to start “swinging” the bigger kids! Dellaina was loving the babies and getting them to laugh.

Wylie

Jack

bridge!

I called this the “castle” and Katie’s dad built it all by himself! It was really great, but high, so I tried to keep the kids down on the ground.

Megan, Ella and Ashley Kate finally came over to visit, too. It was really great to see them and Dellaina and Wyatt both had a big time following Ella around.

We did eat our pizza up in the castle. This is a great picture and I love how Ella ran over to jump in and posed so perfectly! That girl is a pro and knows how to turn in on in front of the camera!

view from above.

doll babies!

love both AK and Wyatt’s eyelashes!

and the drool on the chin, too! ;)

Jack and Megan

super cute.

Happy boy!

sweetness.

cups of ice were a really big hit. so was digging the ice out of the cooler.

Poor Jack was getting tired and did NOT want to take a sweet family photo.

But we got it anyway! cute!

Kasey came over right as we were heading out, too, so it was a good time seeing folks I haven’t seen in quite a while. Jack talking to Kasey. I love Tracy’s face in this picture.

Will’s little family.

I forgot to get a picture of the girls until we were out in the driveway leaving, so we had Ella. . .

and then Dellaina (love the change in elevation – I thought they were closer in height, but I think Ella was holding it up above her head rather than tilting it to make sure she got the tops of our heads in the picture). . .

and then Wyatt snap one for us. classic.