Mommy the "nino" is yucky

The other evening I was reading "The Giving Tree" to Lily in Spanish. The book starts out with the young boy the "nino". At the end of the book, the "nino" is old and crotchety looking. Lily says to me..."ewe Mommy the "nino" is yucky". I guess she hasn't seen too many older people lately!

Some pictures from April, May and June

Lily and girlfriends...American Idol watch out!

Doesn't she look adorable in her traje?

Look Mama I found your high heels!

Modeling her dress and "zapatos del tacones"

1st day of dance class

2nd position...my favorite photo

Making Arepas with Sra. Rosa

On the boat!!!!

Olav fun....

I love it...Jingle bells, jingle bells...jingle all the way...OLAV Fun it is to ride in a one-horse open sleigh.

Of course, Lily just loves Christmas as well...She has talked about it all year so far!

I'm Angry!

Our beautiful Lily is such a sweet loving little girl. Who is so full of life and energy! She recently has learned to identify some of her emotions. Her primary ones have been..."I'm angry" or "I am putting on my angry face".

Insectos....BUGS!

Lily is deathly afraid of bugs...I have absolutely no idea where she got this fear from...we are of the mentality unless it is really offensive...live and let live...her philosophy is KILL IT MOMMY...KILL IT DADDY!

We think her ears are broken!

What did you say? You heard us! Lily's ears are officially broken...her compliant listening days have gone (wait after 9 months were there any complaint listening days:)). Maybe they will return...hopefully!

Easter, Passover and Dance Class

Wow...all these firsts...

This was our first easter here in the US. While we did a "light" easter in Guatemala last year (basically looking for plastic eggs), this was our first year doing all the "easter" crafts. First, let me say that coloring eggs with a 3-year-old is much more exciting in thought, than in actual practice. I was so excited about doing this with her. Unfortunately, the egg dying took all of 3 minutes! Lily didn't want to use the wax crayon or put stickers on the eggs...she wanted to dunk them and dry them. Then she wanted to eat one. So she smashed it with her fist! Now that was funny! At first, I thought maybe it was just me...maybe I didn't explain the whole egg-dying process to her properly. So we had a second chance at Tia Lisa's house. I thought now that she had some practice, maybe it would go more smoothly...not...3 minutes later, and she was done!

Easter morning I hid her basket...she promptly found it with no time to spare! Later that afternoon we went to Pop-Pop's house and found plastic eggs that the "easter bunny" had hidden. Very fun!

Lily also went to her first Passover seder. I was concerned because it was being held at my aunt Dianne's house which is not child proof and the sedar can take quite a while. Of course, my sister had said that last year her kids sat through the whole sedar. I couldn't believe it...there was no way Lily was going to sit for that long. We got through the first page...after that...I don't remember much of the seder. Lily was busy and active! Shortly thereafter Kodi and Aly decided to get into the act as well! Shortly before dinner, someone offered the great idea of watching TV...MAGIC. The 3 children were unmovable, quiet, and focused. We enjoyed our dinner without distractions.

Lily began her first dance class as well. Talk about cute!!!!! OMG!!!! I felt kind of emotional though as this was a class for 3-year-olds and it wasn't a mommy-and-me class. At the beginning of the class, the teacher went around the circle and asked the children who their best friend was. I thought for sure Lily would say Aly or Kodi or someone from daycare...but she said, MOMMY!

They then did 10 minutes of Tap,, 10 minutes of Ballet, and 10 minutes of Creative Movt. Can I say again...oh soooo cute!!!!!! My favorite was when the teacher was teaching them the basic positions of ballet...1st, 2nd, and 3rd....when Lily did 2nd...she spread her feet way apart and squatted...Oh so cute...I laughed so hard!