Mommy's little helpers

We've been busy doing chores today.

Another Evelyn Milestone

Evelyn can now climb the stairs! She is completely fearless. One night she climbed one step and decided that of course she could climb them all. It happened so fast that we didn't even get a chance to record her maiden voyage, so this is a video of her second attempt at the summit. She is spectacular! However, she has absolutely no fear of getting hurt nor any concept of gravity, so she thinks it would be fun to turn around at the top and go down head first. Obviously, this presents a new supervision challenge and we are the proud owners of some brand-new gates to try to make our open floor plan a little less open so she can't sneak upstairs and maim herself while I make dinner.

Smush face

Dancing Drama Queen

Matilda had her first ballet class today.



It was drama from the start. She screamed as we put on her leotard, tights and shoes. She cried as I put her hair up. She sniffled and snuggled her lovies for a while before being ready to take the car trip over to her dance studio. Once we arrived, she was social, friendly, and interested! I was so hopeful! She kept talking about dancing and "music class." Before class started, she was having a great time running around in one of the empty studios.



But once class got underway, it was all tears. I had to sit in with her, and aside from one log roll and stacking up some tambourines, she was not enjoying herself at all. To be fair, there was only 1 other little girl in the class and she was crying too. They sort of just fed off eachother. Even when Matilda did stop crying for a few minutes she would tap me on the shoulder and say "Mama, I still cwying." But we're going to keep trying. We'll give it another go next Wednesday and if that doesn't work out, we'll switch to the (more full) Monday class that supposedly has braver girls in it.



And it was totally worth it--she's so stinking cute in her little leo and ballet shoes!