First Dance Recital

Here is a video clip of Matthew's dress rehearsal last night. He has been taking classes all year at the studio where I work (and where I danced growing up!) I am so proud of how well he did. He was so funny on stage. They got positioned and he saw one of the teachers up front in the first row and got so excited that he ran forward to the front of the stage to say hello. I also heard him say, "Where is everybody?" The lights were bright and you can't really see the audience from the stage. While they were dancing, I heard him coaching the rest of the class. They were in a circle and I heard him go, "Now bend, bend, and break!" When he came off stage he said to me, "I thought the audience was going to help us!" His teacher had told him that she would be in the audience to help them! So cute. He had no fear. He had to spend a lot of the night with all the boys, and not his group, so I'm proud of my little buddy for choosing to have a good time regardless. I can't wait to have him do it again tonight for the real show!

Finally

I finally have someone in my family to ride roller coasters with me!!!! Growing up, my mom would never ride roller coasters. David hates them too....so I'm always odd man out to ride the big rides and Kings Island. Not anymore! I now have a roller coaster riding buddy!

And I'm pretty sure this little guy would have joined us if he had been tall enough. Here he is, staring longingly at a ride Matthew was riding. He threw several fits over not being able to ride something he wanted to! The Scrambler was the biggest fit.

One ride he was big enough to do was this little cars ride. Matthew got on, and Jacob was, of course, bothered that he wasn't with him. I realized that there was no minimum height requirement, so we put him on! He LOVED it and got so upset when they made him get off. He screamed as I carried him around to get in line again, but was relieved to get back on. He rode several times.

And a precious picture to end the day:

Milestone??

We had another milestone last night....if you want to call it that. We had our first child to climb out of his crib! Matthew never did it. He moved himself to a big boy bed before he tried. But last night, our little Mr. Adventure, accomplished the big trick. I put him in bed, much to his dissatisfaction. He was screaming for a couple minutes, and suddenly, I could hear his crying moving throughout the room. I was in Matthew's room, but could tell Jacob was at the door. For a long time, he has been able to climb into his crib if the side is down, and has started attempting to get out if the side is down (and just the day before had been caught putting his leg over the rail when it was up). I never heard a boom, which means he did it without falling. Oh, our little climber....

Jacob had been in a toddler bed for a short time, but bedtime became a struggle, so we figured it meant he wasn't really ready to stay in the bed. We moved him back to the crib, where he has been happy for awhile. We'll see what happens in the next week!