Not all the dancers, although they did a excellent job (many choreograph their own dances!)… just the one featuring Lillian’s class in them.
Unfortunately, the lighting wasn’t great, or the camera wasn’t set right, or both — you can barely make out the details.
I thought it was a really creative answer. Crazy wrong, but a good attempt.
If you need labels for clothing, lunchboxes, bookbags, towels — pretty much anything, I strongly recommend these: Lovable Labels. They’re based in Canada and may seem expensive, but they’re durable and pretty and absolutely worth it. Of the many that are on Lillian’s clothes and personal belongings, a grand total of zero have fallen off in the last year. I just ordered a batch of new ones with a fire truck, for Reuven.
The final phase of the teaching fellowship I participated in this year is a “teacher’s institute,” where we grad students show teachers some of the lessons we used. This includes giving them enough supplies to do the experiments with their students — 20 teachers, 20 students each…
Lillian had a dance recital Wednesday night, and she did great!
We’ll be getting a better quality video of the whole performance in a couple weeks. In the meantime, here’s the footage that we shot at the recital… while you can’t clearly see their faces, it’s still adorable.
Lillian is the first girl to chassé onto the stage as they circle, then the first to chassé and kneel in line. She got distracted while kneeling, and was trying to find us in the audience (but didn’t have a chance, it was dark and we were a few rows back), and didn’t notice when everybody stood up. Oh well, she figured it out soon enough…
All the girls had a wonderful time and did a good job. We were worried that one had too much stage fright (the last dancer to chassé in the circle) but she came through!
We carved two jack-o-lanterns. The lumpy reddish one had very thick flesh, so we also made a tasty pumpkin pie!
I’m shamelessly proud of the job I did on both these home-made costumes.
Lillian got enough candy to last another whole year, at least. Wow!
This year, I asked Lillian what her brother should be for Halloween. She thought for a moment, then declared, “A pickle!”
So I made him a pickle. Green fleece, green buttons, and a bit of batting stuffed in the back to round out the pickle shape. Everybody loved it, and only a few people thought he was a peapod.
Plus, they both won the costume contest — Witch got first place, Pickle got second. I was totally stoked.
Taking your family on a trip through a graveyard looking for relatives results in rather morbid vacation pics!
Thankfully, that’s not all we did.
Today was loads of fun. We went to an Easter Egg Hunt in Sesquicentennial State Park, which was a lot more games and entertainment than just an egg hunt. The Southern Pride Rabbit and Cavy Club had a table with a lot of rabbits on display — both kids loved petting them.
It was hilarious to compare Reuven, a nine months old baby, to a Flemish Giant.
A Flemish Giant’s weight should be anywhere from 14-22 pounds. Or even more!
The one at the park definitely looked like it was on the high side of that range.
There were also assorted games available, at which everybody won something at (even if it was just a small piece of candy). We even did some hula-hooping (is that a verb?)… and this picture just begged to be turned into an animated gif!
