Our Little Dancers

 Our girls love spending time with their friends Gigi and Cami so being in dance class with them is extra fun!  Don't be fooled by Claire's dancer pose - she's sort of in her own little world after the shoe change in-between ballet and tap.  She gets super distracted and has to be convinced to go back in to 'tap, tap, tap'.  This has been a total surprise to us since she was originally so excited about dance class and Stella not so much.  Amazing how they can change their minds so quickly!  Eventually Claire did return to class and once she's dancing she does seem to enjoy it!

Our silly girls covered their heads while watching Monsters Inc. on Saturday.  Claire-Bear continues to just love the characters and giggles all through the movie!

 Stella loves to take photographs.  She took this pic of a tree down the street from the wagon on our way to the playground!

Stella is such a good helper at times.  She pulled Claire back from the playground and didn't want mommy's help at all!  We're so glad we've had some warm fall days and are still enjoying the sunshine!

Apple Season!

This weekend we visited the orchard down the street.  Both girls loved picking apples from the trees and tasting the delicious honeycrisp variety that's crunchy and sweet.  Claire loved them so much she had one in each hand!

 

                       

Stella has become quite the photographer!  Here's a great pic of Claire taking a break from Princess Pets to smile for Stella.

This week the girls tried out a ballet and tap class for the first time and they both had fun.  Stella wasn't sure about it at first but when Mommy came home from working a XC meet she was so excited to share the Itsy Bitsy Spider song and dance she learned so we're pretty sure she loved it!  

Thanks to NCPR for hosting a fun kids event today - our girls loved all of the carnival games!  Thanks to Grammie and Pa too for having us over for dinner!

Getting Some Hair Paint at the NCPR Event

Welcome Fall

Fall has officially arrived!  We spent the weekend in Vermont and the moment we arrived home turned our furnace on. The weather in the North Country turned abruptly this year! 

The girls enjoyed another fun weekend volunteering at the Ronald McDonald House.  This time on our Saturday break we headed over to Pizza Putt for some indoor play.  The girls had a great time!




















Stella helped Mommy stamp a few envelopes on Saturday morning before Claire-Bear woke up (and since we weren't fabulous at that the second she bored a little we put those away for another helper!).

We made some meals and snacks this weekend also.  Thanks to our friend Brent who we caught up with at our high school Reunion a few weeks back and discovered lives in Burlington for stopping by the house to cook and hang out with us!

Stella dragged this GIANT teddy bear from the play room into our room and decided
to use it as a mattress.  Mommy rolled with this (but really wanted to run for a can of Lysol!!!)

Back to School

Crafts with Cailin at the Pig Roast

Last weekend was busy with both Mommy and Daddy's 15th High School Class Reunion and Grammie and Pa's Pig Roast.  Then it was back to our regular school year routine of getting up and out of the house early.  Luckily for us the first week back was only 4 days and we were able to spend this weekend at home recovering so to speak from the shock to our summer time no schedule fun!

Spin Art Fun!

Backyard Fun @ Grammie & Pa's

Claire being a silly Monkey, and Stella
capturing it with Mommy's phone...

Watching Dora in the City together :)