My Only Sunshine

Trick or Treat

If you just came by for candy we'll get that out of the way right here.
Last night we went Trick or Treating at Buster's office.  It was much fun but we came home with more candy than we know what to do with.  As Bug says, "We already have 30 gallons of candy, Nana!!!"  Add that to the candy you see at the left, which is what we bought to hand out to trick or treaters, and we do indeed have TOO MUCH CANDY.  We don't go trick or treating for another couple of hours, can you even imagine?

It's time for me to go transform these two into the Princess and Bunny Rabbit they were meant to be.

I remember

Hospitality

I forgot to mention yesterday that I have been given the opportunity to join the PTA Board for the Girlies' school.  They have a new committee, Hospitality, which is responsible for welcoming mid-year new students and helping them get settled.  I offered, during the first week of school, to be the board member in charge of this committee because we learned the hard way last year when we moved mid-year that the school didn't have a Hospitality committee yet.  They let me know two days ago that I would be on the board and that our next meeting is on Tuesday.  It will be a good deal of work but I am really looking forward to it.

Yesterday was picture day.

Monkey!!!

Last weekend my Doodle Bug was replaced by a Brazilian Dancing Monkey.  The dance studio where my Girlies take ballet/tap/jazz lessons put on their yearly ballet for children.  This performance is different from the annual Dancenter recital.  The recital is for all of the students at the Dancenter and their individual classes to show the routines they have come up with.  The school they go to also has an amateur ballet company made up of the older and better dancers at the school.  This group is a not for profit ballet that puts on productions and original ballets with ticket sales that support the company. 

Each year the company puts on a ballet called Tuzerita that is a continuing story of a dancing rabbit who has adventures.  The ballet is presented for children and the kids who take classes at the studio as well as others love to see it each year.  This year's Tuzerita was a trip around the world to see animals of different countries dancing their native style dances.

Bug's favorite teacher at the school is her Jazz teacher who is a former professional ballerina from Brazil.  A little over a month ago her teacher asked me if Bug could stay at the studio after her jazz class for a Tuzerita rehearsal.  I was surprised because most of the dancers in the production are over 14 and Bug is 7.  Her teacher, Ms. A wanted Bug to be part of the dance she was choreographing for Tuzerita, the Brazilian Samba Monkeys.  I can't begin to tell you how excited Bug was to be the "Baby Monkey".

I'm hoping to have a clip of the performance for you soon but until then all you get is pictures.

From the feedback I have heard, the Monkeys stole the show.  I wish I could buy everyone who reads my blog a ticket to see the wonderful dancers.

While we're talking about the Girlies, and Girls in general I should mention that my Diva post was featured as a Blog of the Day in the Girls catagory.

I'm pretty proud of that, mostly because I am so very proud of my daughters.  They're fabulous!

In case anyone has forgotten, including me, this is a knitting blog.  The problem is, I have NO knitting to show you in this post.  I have been spinning but I'm not ready to show that off yet.  I have been doing A LITTLE knitting, and then reknitting, and then knitting again, but after all of that I have two rows to show for it.  Not picture worthy.  Maybe next time.

Last thing, thank you for all of the advice about my headache.  It ended up lasting just one day short of 4 weeks and then it vanished on it's own.  I had an MRI/MRA which did not show anything.  I'll discuss it with my neurologist next week so maybe we can figure out what to do if the headache ever comes back.  Right now I am just really enjoying being without it.

DIVA!

We finally got around to having Bit's birthday party.  We wanted to wait until she had been in school long enough to make some friends.  It worked out pretty well.  She had a birthday party at Libby Lu at the mall.  She invited 5 friends and they all got makeovers.  That's her sister, Bug, on the left and her best friend, A, on the right.  This place has a brilliant idea going on.  All the kids got to pick what kind of character they want to be, Rock Star, Fairy Princess, Tween Idol.  Then they put on some crazy outfits, get their hair and make up done, and get to sing, dance, and have a fabulous time.  There is nothing like watching your favorite 5 and 7 year olds doing the Macarena.
After everyone was done up we went out to the food court for cupcakes.  As soon as the cupcakes were done and everyone had gone home my girlies decided they wanted to go back to the party place and get their ears pierced.  I was shocked.  They have always said they didn't want to do it because it would hurt and we have always told them that it was up to them when they wanted to do something like that.  So we did it.  I was a nervous wreck.