Dance

I found these quotes today, and I thought they are a very good do scripting of Katharine.

"Let us read, and let us dance; these two amusements will never do any harm to the world."
Voltaire

"We should consider every day lost on which we have not danced at least once."
Friedrich Nietzsche



She also competed her solo for the first time today and did a fabulous job. Here she is with her friend and fellow competitor Alisabella:




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Dance, What Else!

We had a showcase at the dance school today. Keira and Katharine performed and did a beautiful job! These are two pictures from Katharine's solo.


Katharine's confirmation faith partner came to watch. Kathy Griffith is the best!





Above is after RAD exam was done, below was taken before going into the exam.


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Hot Cross Buns and Cookies

We spend the better part of the day making hot cross buns and Easter cookies.




These buns are delicious!




I adapted my mom's cookie recipe and made it gluten free.

Lennon really loves sprinkles!


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Downhill

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Cherry Blossoms

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Bible Boy

Lennon fell asleep with the bible in his face.






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Not Guilty

Floor Snores

Yes, Lennon is actually sleeping like that..

Doodling between Acts

Katharine was wise to take a sketch book with her to the theater. Here are two of her - I am quoting- doodles:







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Cinderella

Katharine is one of the horses and a wedding guest in Texas Ballet Theater's Cinderella this weekend. Erik and I went to see it last night and it was absolutely delightful!



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Rain and Cookies

Aiden and Nolan stayed over last night.

They went through lots of movies, soccer, video games, playing in the rain, and snacks.

And all of that activity left them in a good enough mood to allow me to take some silly pics this morning :)

Painting

These are water color paintings by Lukas, Lennon, Keira and Kassidy. Their version of how to paint the "Lord's Prayer". The boys wanted to add it to their lessons in school for reading, writing, spelling and painting.
We waited with the paintings for Keira and Kassidy to be on Spring Break.






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Arbor Hills Nature Preserve

The kids worked really well this morning! I rewarded them and the dog by going on an other adventure:





























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New Friends

The Dallas Arboretum is in full bloom. I took the big kids yesterday morning and we had a great time making new friends:
















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Pictures of flowers will be posted separately.

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Thing 1

This week the school celebrated Dr. Seuss. Keira dressed up as Thing 1, minus the blue hair which would not have worked on a day you need to have your hair ready for ballet class right after school.
Here is what I made her:







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