Ballet

So, what can I say...I'm not updating as much as I'd like these days! Some of you know why! I'd rather be sleeping during Eden's naptime rather than playing on the computer! It just sounds more appealing to my mind and body for some reason!!! Hmmmm....?

So, Eden started taking ballet 2 weeks ago this past Monday. And, may I say she LOVES it! She does 15 minutes of tap, 15 minutes of ballet (her favorite), and 30 minutes of gymnastics (tumbling on mats, working the balance beam, and swinging and flipping around on the uneven parallel bars like a maniac)!

I saw an ad several months ago in a 'sample' paper that was thrown & it was for Claudia's School of Dance. Below her telephone number, she has a verse from Ecclesiastes quoted. So, I called (Jason and I had been talking about starting her in ballet or something similar this spring) and asked her about music, her Christianity, let her know Eden is being raised for the Lord, and questioned her views on a few things. After going that evening to watch a class, we enrolled! Eden was a bit timid & OVERWHELMED at the start of tap, but by ballet & gymnastics, she was the class goof-off & impressing her teachers with her ability & comprehension! She's the youngest of all of the students (total in the studio, and youngest by almost 2 years in her class of 6 or so).

It's a real treat to watch her & those of you in MO will get to see her put on a recital with her class mates & the "older kids" at Santa-Cala-Gon this summer!

We're baaaaaaaaaaaaaaack!

And we brought warmer weather! Our trip was very nice. Eden was MOST excellent on the drive down & home! She really could not have been better...not even a fuss or fit to speak of!!!! We're truly blessed with such an amazing little girl. I'm so thankful!

We spent Monday, the 10th in Corpus Christi, TX with my dad & his wife Trista. We went to a great Mexican place for lunch, then to the Texas State Aquarium (Eden really loved that), the mall briefly for a ride on the carousel w/ Pop, then to The Torch for Telly's shrimp (an old friend of my dad's, Telly, owns this incredible Greek rest.)

We fed the deer almost every day, went down to the "creek beach" to dig in the sand, watched the turkeys and cows, spent hours and hours swinging...

On the 14th, we headed up to San Antonio to eat along the river walk, visit the Alamo, and eat more Mexican food (Mole chicken), and picked up some yummy tamales on the way.

Pop, Eden, and I headed to Magnolia beach on the chiliest day...we walked nice and bundled up...and also got to watch somebody wind surf up close!

I'm only posting a few pics...for now...will post more later.