arabesque.

in the kitchen.

100 SURE

wednesdays just got trickier.

no more infant seat to trap him into while max does dance.

would you look at those dimples on his hands?!

JOY.

i could put max in pink tights and black leotard all day every day.

with a little gelled bun on top.

better than a cherry,

that's for dang sure.

she found brennan's monkey on our way out of dance last week.

i was shouting and hollering in the parking lot i was SO excited.

i am 100 SURE i looked ridiculous.

brennan told her she was the 

"bestest 100 sister in the whole world!!!"

after preschool when she told him the good news.

he's all about 100 right now. 

yesterday after dinner he told me i'm a "100 great mom." 

those brown sugar spicy chicken drumsticks are clearly the way to his heart 

b/c he was eating one when he told me. 

so proud:) so cute. 

the way to a man's heart is truly through his belly. 

even at age 5.

he's been lost for weeks now.

monkey, not brennan.

and i was trying to come to terms with what i thought was destined to be monkey gone for good.

i'm so glad he is found.

i sure love that monkey.

the little stuffed animal too;)

oh to be almost 3 {ballet}

first day of ballet.

"bow-way"

at dinner she told us that the spinning at "bow-way" was the favorite part of her day.

she wore her ballet shoes to sleep tonight.

i took about 123 pictures.

and 3 videos.

i can't ever imagine watching her dance will get old.

she was timid at first.

needed me to sit next to her and do the stretching with her class.

then Emilia, her dance teacher, went around asking each little girl what their favorite princess name was.

the first little girl said Ariel.

max didn't need me after that.

she scooted to her carpet to stretch and warm up with all of the other little girls,

and when it got to her she named her favorite princess.

tinker bell.

???

that's what she said.

i was 100% positive she was going to say Ariel, 

but she must have thought she needed to be original.

or just got stage fright.

or maybe today it's changed to tinker bell.

either way,

it was the princesses that helped max do "bow-way" with me behind the observation window.

even though i was so glad i got to sit with her for the first 10 minutes of her first ballet class.

{tap was a hit too.}

{she even showed sean her "heal/toe" move on the kitchen floor when he got home from work.}

on her way out of the tap room,

she tried to go back into the ballet room for more.

and then asked me how many sleeps before it was time to come again.

oh to be almost 3.