Circus and Friends Leaving

Once again I was the facepainter at Circus Day at the girls' daycare. Delaney was highly decorated with a rainbow and a kitty face.

Maya requested a heart on her face.

Delaney's little friend Joseph.

Delaney and Maya do a little "Crazy" sister dancing.

My friend Nicki and her husband Mark are moving to Atlanta and English and Steve threw them a going away party. We are all so high school when we get together.

Dance moves in the kitchen. Randy is about to break it down.....

Lovin' on Mark because he is leaving.

Randy is obviously trying to break it down with me but I am not having it.

Wow....lots of silly adults at a house party. We love you Mark and Nicki!! Come back and visit soon!

Tennis, Theater, and GABBA!!!!!!

Here is Delaney on her third tennis lesson with her instructor Miss Amy. No---they did not plan to dress alike. Delaney is doing AWESOME in tennis and Amy is really impressed about her eye-hand coordination at such a young age.

Delaney at her third tennis lesson.

Grammy took me and the girls to see Frog and Toad All Year at the Columbia Children's Theatre. This was Maya's first theatrical performance and she absolutely loved it. She sat the whole time. The children's theatre is fabulous and allows all of the kids to sit on the floor during the show.

Later on in the day a small injury was had by Maya and she sat on the counter to receive her band-aid. I just had to capture that little munchkin with her headband even in a time of distress.

Yo Gabba Gabba Live day!!!! My friend Cathy made the girls personalized Gabba outfits and they were absolutely adorable!!

Delaney tends to do this face quite often towards Maya.

Awwww....

Grammy went with us to the show in North Charleston and we made a side trip before the show to her friend Jan and Mo's incredible house downtown. The girls immediately bonded with their kitty.

And bonded with their enormous doggie.

Delaney was very cute cuddling up with Mo.

At the show they had all these stations where you could get into the different Gabba worlds. Here is Muno's mountain world.

In Foofa's flower world you could do a bean bag toss.

Brobee's world involved drumming on various instruments.

Check out that kid's Foofa costume!!!

Loving on Brobee before the show.

Maya is already dancing before the Gabba Live show even begins. We all had a long day already so Delaney was a little cranky as you can tell from the background.

Grammy bought the girls little necklace lights before the show and Maya was quite fascinated with hers.

It's starting!!!!

The girls were super excited at the beginning of the Yo Gabba Gabba Live show. Delaney was dancing her little heart out with the new light that her Grammy bought. This was the most excitment I have seen out of Delaney yet at a Gabba show. It was awesome!!!! Delaney and Maya seriously jammin' out at Gabba Live.

Maya enjoyed her light as a chew-toy.

Darn camera on this one but wanted to capture the green beans in my tummy as they headed down the aisle. Check out Grammy reaching out for those beans!!

...and the tummy cheese....

Maya, tired after a long day of traveling to show, eating and playing with animals, and dancing, succumbs to her paci and tiredly waves bye-bye to her Gabba friends.

Ballet and SKI TRIP!!!!!!!!!!!

Corn dog night is a big thrill in our house.

"I'm a walrus!"---This is usually a line said by Maya when she is eating spaghetti but it was used by Randy tonight with some corn dog sticks.

This gorgeous coat came from my friend Jean who rationalizes spending gobs of money on her granddaughter's clothes because they will then go to my girls. :) Thank you Jean!

Gorgeous coat with banana eating D. I told Delaney she was going to the ballet today with Grammy and Nana and she would be wearing this coat. She didn't want to take it off!!!

Delaney and her Grammy before going to see Snow White the ballet!

Look at this face. I was taking some pics from the back seat because the girls and I had the backseat of Randy's car together on our 4 hour trip to the mountains to go skiing. Grammy was in the front so I squished in between the car seats for our trip. It really wasn't too bad---got some good snuggle time with the girls. But one little issue---the Doodles got car sick in the mountains about an hour from Beech Mountain. She was extremely cranky and whiny and I was not sure where it was coming from until the vomiting started. Me, doing my motherly instinct thing, caught a bunch in my hands (I know...too much info) because I didn't want poor Delaney getting more on her. She handled it quite well and just kept saying, "Lots of stuff came out of my mouth! I threwed up!!". She was quite happy and chipper afterwards when we stopped by the side of the road and attempted to clean up as best as we could. It was a moment for sure.

I had to ride in the backseat with both girls on our 4 hour road trip to the mountains so Maya and I had a lot of time to talk and sing.

It was too cold to go skiing when we got there but we all donned our snow attire to head out in the snow for a bit.

Randy and I took a little escape to a bar that was recommended called Jackalopes with a great view of the mountains.

Playing in our little condo for a bit.

Not sure where Delaney is getting these dance moves. Perhaps she is watching MTV after we go to bed?

They had a heated pool at our condo so of course we took advantage of it. We just had to get some shots of Maya's little belly.

Because we had to get to and from the pool in the snow, and the 15 degrees, we had to don snow attire to return to our condo. Delaney was a little tired and cold at this point.

Heading out to go skiing! It was FREEZING when we arrived Friday but just gorgeous on Saturday for ski day thank goodness.

Renting our skis and boots. Randy wanted Delaney to snow board for the first time and I wanted her to ski. We asked for a recommendation on first time four year olds and they said definitely skis. Yay!!!!

A little frustration from the Doodle Bug when first trying caused her to have a mini meltdown in the snow.

This is Delaney's first experience on little ski lift up bunny slope. She wanted me to go with her on her first try. She loved it and wasn't scared a bit!

A little help from mommy and she was back on her feet/skis.

Heading up the bunny slope ski lift for the first time by herself!!!

Maya getting some snowboard fun.

Maya riding on her daddy's snowboard on the bunny slope.

Maya trying out Delaney's skis for a minute.

The snowboarding man himself!

Delaney does the ski lift and bunny slope by herself!

Maya trying on mommy's goggles.

Eating our barely edible lunch at the ski lodge. We were starving so would have eaten anything at this point.

Didn't take camera out to dinner but we had a really fun dinner down in Banner Elk. Strange place but good food and we could be really loud which was a plus. Funny moment with Maya when about 30 minutes into dinner she pulled a big wad of napkins out of her lap onto the table. No idea where she ganked those from and when she got them but it was hilarious. Probably a location situation but wanted to remember the moment.

Just Delaney skied on Sunday because we wanted her to get some more time in. It was cold again that day so she wasn't happy to begin with and then quickly got happy after realizing she was having fun again.

This was on Sunday when it was REALLY cold and windy so that is all the noise. We just let Delaney ski on Sunday so she could get some more skiing in. She picked up the speed on Sunday, zooming down the little hill towards Randy. This is how Delaney got back up the bunny slope. Quicker and more fun than the ski lift.

We went to a sledding hill before we hit the road again to head back home. Grammy and I were a no-go for sledding because we were FREEZING but Randy and the girls had fun.

Um...could have killed Randy for this one. He sends Delaney down the hill by herself for first time sledding and she FLIES down the hill. Little brave girl though held on the whole time. She cried after she was done though when she realized she wasn't going to die. Randy takes Maya sledding down the hill and goes a little off course. Randy and Maya continue on their wacky sled course down the hill. Love Maya's little face just grinning from ear to ear---of course with her paci. Thank goodness Randy took Delaney on his lap this go round. I don't think either Delaney or I was going to let her go by herself again. Randy and Maya sled on a little straighter path this time.

We had such a great time on our mountains skiing trip in Boone at Beech Mountain and definitely want to go again. Randy and I might take Delaney for a day trip if we can find the time before the season ends. She really did great!