Sunday, July 15, 2012

Keeping Busy!

We have had another busy week, but busy in a good way! Tessa had Dance Camp every morning, so we planned all of our other activities for the week around that. 
Gwen got to start her week out with some shots at the doctor's office. Adam and Tessa were fascinated by that and Tess is still praying that Gwen won't cry when she gets shots. Gwen is just happy, happy, happy and started eating carrots this week!

 We go to Story Time and the library every week. We have one more week before we have finished the library's summer reading program. Adam's favorite books this summer have been anything basketball...including rule books, and Amelia Bedelia books. Tess loves anything with animals and princesses!
Gwen mastered sitting up this week and is practically army crawling. Why do they grow up so fast?!


Adam and Tessa colored some family trees. Tessa added a few new members to her family. Notice all the Angry Bird characters around her tree.


 We made collages of our favorite things.



 We made Chocolate Frozen Bananas. Tessa won't eat them, but she loved making them.
 They have had lots of fun in the sun and tried to stay cool during our heat wave of 103 degree weather!



 I taught them how to play charades (which was hilarious to watch), and they worked on some driveway masterpieces. Tessa drew herself with lots of jewelry and Adam drew some skyscrapers!


 Friday we spend a lovely afternoon together in the mountains! We hiked up to Stewart Falls, which is a 4 mile hike. The kids made it the whole way and they did it happily! Gwen fell asleep on our way back and we got caught in a rainstorm on our way down the mountain. We were all soaking wet by the time we made it back to the car, but that just added to the fun of our trip. 












Saturday, July 14, 2012

Tessa's Dance Camp

This week Tessa was able to go to Dance Camp! She loved it and we had so much fun watching her. Each day they had a different theme and would learn a little dance to perform at the end of each class. A couple of  days Tessa's nerves got the better of her, but she followed her teacher so well and learned each dance. She is a good little dancer!
Monday their theme was Jungle Adventure. 

Tuesday's theme was Fairy Tale. She was thrilled to dress up like a princess!

She got stickers for being such a good listener.
At home practicing first position.

One of my favorite parts of Tessa taking dance was coming home and having Adam practice her dance moves and positions with her. He's a good dancer too!

Wednesday was Teddy Bear day and they got to bring their favorite Teddy Bear. Tessa had so much fun dancing with her bear!

There she goes doing some tumbling!

Thursday they had a Beach Party!

She wanted her hair in a bun every day with her biggest bow to accessorize!



She loved the mirrors!


Stretching with Miss Sue
Friday they had Dance Olympics. Each girl got to show off all the dance moves they learned during the week through an obstacle course.



Tessa was THRILLED to receive a trophy at the end of class on Friday. Miss Sue said she loved how much energy Tessa had each day at class.

It was a fun week for our girl! She said she wants to do it again next year!