As always, my friends come through with pictures! Thanks to Hailey's mom for sending pictures of class!
Well, Maddy did make it to Baby Ballet today. Here's one of the quick pictures I took before we left the house. I wasn't sure about bringing the camera with since there would be other kids there and wasn't sure how their mom's felt about me taking pictures. But a lot of other moms had cameras too, so many next week! I'm not sure about that either though since it's a REALLY hands on class for the moms. The instructor gives really cute and fun directions and we need to help (ok, manipulate) our kids into doing them. It's not manipulating in a negative aspect, but at 19 months they kind of need someone to help them do the moves.
Maddy is feeling so much better today. And she was feeling better last night before bed as she was playing with daddy. So the weekend is on as far as we know, or at least a bit more firmly now than before! Of course, I should be packing right now, but... well.... packing stresses me out and I don't want to stress out so I'm going to turn a blind eye to it until later tonight or tomorrow AM. I will make the list of what we need to bring now but Matt will be home tomorrow since we'll be leaving in the early afternoon we can do most of the packing in the morning.
Back to Ballet! It was a very large class as opposed to what it said on the website. There had to have been at LEAST 10 girls in it and then their mothers, too. All the little girls were wearing their tutus and ballet shoes. They were all so cute individually and now add them all up and it was just ADORABLE. Maddy did EXTREMELY well. I was wondering if going today was a good idea even though she seemed to be over her cold for the most part. I was wondering how she'd be able to handle 45 minutes of action after the cold just ending and if she'd get crabby or tired quickly, but nope! She did great! She even followed some of the directions on her own without me having to prompt her. Most of them I had to help her do, but a few she did just fine on her own!
She did fall once, really hard, flat on her face. I mean, HARD--THUMP HARD. Like head bouncing off the floor hard. I think she was kneeling in her tights and they slipped out from under her and she wasn't ready with her hands. I saw it happen, but I still dont know HOW it happened. It wasn't as if she tripped or ran too fast and lost her balance. She was standing still! But, I scooped her up and gave her a big hug and snuggled her. I thought that could be the end of class for us, because she REALLY smacked herself. I didn't care if it was the end since she had made it through a good 30 minutes happily. Even if we just snuggled and watched the other kids too, that would have been fine with me. But nope, after about a minute, she wanted to get right back in there with the other kids! So we did! I had three or four moms comment on what a 'trooper she is and my kid would STILL be crying'.
Little Miss Annabelle came to sit on my lap again today during class! She sat right in front of Maddy. I don't know what it is about my lap but she sure likes it. So for about 3 minutes I was helping two little girls dance. It was cute and fun. Annabelle's mom kept laughing and making sure Maddy didn't mind Annabelle sitting in her lap! Maddy didn't get a hoot, I think she thought it was fun. Another mom came in at about the same time and asked me, "Oh, Twins?" Uhhhh.... NO! HA!
Well, Thursday is another class. Although I'm thinking about switching to Tuesday since it's less crowded. I was going to check with Annabelle and Hailey to see if they wanted to switch, too. Since the whole point was going together afterall. But Maddy likes a lot of kids so maybe we'll just stick with what works.
Last night I had coffee night with the gals. As always it's a great time. I had a glass of herbal tea and was able to still drink it while still hot! How nice! It's a rarity now-a-days. After coffee I did a bit of shopping at Wegmans and then off to Target. I bought some more medication for Maddy (that's another story), some other odds and ends and two pairs of shoes for myself--some leather black sandals and some red kitten heels. Don't know if I'll ever wear the heels but they were only $6 and really cute. I didn't get home until 11 and didn't get to bed until close to midnight. Needless to say, I did not turn on my alarm this morning.
Ok, I'm off to make the packing list.
Tea of the day: Big glass of sun tea
WO of the day: I'm going to do elliptical after Maddy goes to bed tonight. I've been varying my workout all week and miss my elliptical!