Excited to try something new!
We took the girl to Millennium Park to take free ice skating lessons.
Our first lesson was that ice is slippery, and skating is hard.
The girl kept trying:
By the end of the lesson, she was skating on her own!
We have so much to be thankful for! This year we were reminded to give thanks for good health. The girl has been under the weather all week. We even had to cancel our travel plans.
Nurse Amos was quite concerned.
By Thanksgiving day, the girl was up for a craft…
Here is our turkey. It has a snood (with polka dots) and a waddle, and according to the girl:
A turkey is a funny bird
His head goes, wobble wobble
And all it knows is just one word…
Gobble, Gobble, Gobble
We did have a somewhat “traditional” thanksgiving dinner with turkey and dressing:
But all the girl has been talking about this week were tacos…so we ended up with thanksgiving tacos too!
Princess of the weekend!
First Snow!
Bonus smile
The girl played in her fall recital yesterday.
She played Bach Minuet No. 2 as her graduation piece. She really did a nice job! This mom is very proud of her girl!
Playing in our favorite city!
A few bonus shots from our day in the city:
Halloween was really fun this year! The girl wanted to be a cheetah, so I dusted off my costume making skills and came up with this:
The best part was the magnetic tail.
We carved some mean pumpkins!
The squirrels thought that they needed to be meaner, so they changed the design a bit…
The girl wasn’t too happy about it until I convinced her that Cyclops were very scary!
Trick or treating was so much fun, despite the cold wind! Here’s the neighborhood gang!
I wonder what the girl will be next year? Here is her Halloween history:
2014 -cello playing cheetah
2013 – Dolphin
2012 – Rocket Girl
2011 – the Parrot and her pirate
2010 – busy bee!
2009 – the cutest caterpillar you’ve ever seen!
