My little Angelina Ballerina 3 years & 10 months

**Orginally written 5-13-13**                                                                                                               LilliAnn is one of the newest members of the ballerina club! (May) At the end of this month will be her last class, we are still deciding weather to sign her up for summer classes at the studio or not. Right now she is training at the Fircrest Rec Center once a week. She loves going to class and getting her leotard and tights on, and her special ballet shoes. I can remember her first week of going she did not take her leotard off all day, all the night, and all the next day. Even throughout the weeks she still wants to keep it on all day long! We are excited that she will be able to participate in her 1st recital the beginning of June. She even has her own gorgeous costume! I'm a little worried on how to fix her hair and makeup, as I've been practicing the way the teacher showed us, but can't seem to get it just right. Well tomorrow will be the real test, when we take her to have her professional pictures taken.

She is still our very creative, very smart, clever girl. Daily she blows us away, with things she stays. It's crazy to think in just a couple short months she will be....... 4!!!! ..... oh, boy! I just want to keep her mini sized forever! Just the small moments that make you stop and think, I am soooo blessed be able to watch this moment in their life! For example, pratcing for her ballet recital tonight, we were dancing around a chair with apples (we only had oranges-so we pretended) just like her recital will have, just dancing around to classical music (ballet music) hands on our hips, marching then hopping, pueroets (sp) later moving on to homemade streamers taped to straws. Naomi following around and around. We were pretending that milk was everywhere! (LilliAnn's idea) at points there was SOooo much milk we had to swim. It was lots of fun, and i was soooooooooo happy in my heart that i got to be in that moment with both my daughters. I was continuously being blessed, to get to hear LilliAnn in bed, reading stories out loud, making up her own version as she carried on for an hour
She still is our picky eater, working on this seems to be a struggle. Even bribing her with treats if she eats her dinner doesn't work. ( when i was little it didn't work on me either) Before dinner is done, she already says she doesn't like it. We try and few bites here and there. I think she only fills up with her glass of milk on some nights.

While trying to remember things to post on 4 months....speaking of treats, does bring back a family memory we had about 3 weeks ago. After dinner one night we decided to take the girls out for icecream at DairyQueen, first time we've done this. And it was a HUGE hit! LilliAnn requested that we had to go back the next day! Special treat indeed! We will make it a family special treat night, how often.....is to be decided. :)

Oh yes! Mother's Day! Was last Sunday(not yesterdays) guess where we went!? Of course Snoqualmie Falls! Totally our very own family tradition! We left a little earlier packed a picnic basket lunch. We drove the opposite way and found some picnic tables right by the trains! Perfect! LilliAnn is still into trains, and at this point in time had decided to have a train birthday party! We found a little burger place to get a side of fries to eat along with our lunch we brought. We played and walked around a little bit before driving over to the falls. It's was beautiful with an overflowing amount of water. We also found a little grassy area and the girls had a blast running around on.