Princess Camp Grand Finale

Ellie finished her week of Princess Camp -- it was mixed reviews all week long. One minute, she was practicing her "moves" at home and talking about all of her dance friends and the next minute she was saying that her stomach hurt because she didn't want to go to princess camp (sad, I know, but...) Even if the drop-offs were not always completely smooth - she always came home in a good mood, (and therefore, I kept dropping her off!)

On Thursday, she came home with an "invitation" to her dance "show" on Friday at the end of class. That would be at 11:45 a.m. -- that leaves 15 minutes for the "show." She was so pumped about this -- she could not wait to show off her dances. So, we all went -- yes, even Frank -- that's another score for Omaha -- When you work 10 minutes away, you can scoot out for half an hour at lunchtime to see your little girl do a couple of dances. Coincidentally, every dancer except two of them had both their moms and dads present -- that's omaha for you -- nobody works very far away -- even if you worked "all the way downtown," it's still not far away!

The last picture is of Ellie before the music started -- strike a pose, girl! The song was something about big hair and big sunglasses. So, the purple sunglasses she is wearing was actually one of the crafts they did this week - they are all bedazzled with rhinestones... pretty fancy!

And Nathan could not get enough of this dancing thing -- after they finished the first dance, he was whining / chanting for "all done? more music! more music!" He clapped the loudest of anyone... "Good job, eh-wee -- hurray -- hurray!" It was cute.

Ellie is all thumbs up for dancing and princess camp now. (I think, partly because she knows it's over...) :) It was a welcome diversion for us this week -- pretty much took up the whole morning -- really broke up the day nicely! It makes me look forward to the routine of the fall with preschool starting up -- a different routine to fall into.

This weekend, we decided to touch up the paint in the family room -- of course, the previous owners did not leave any of the right color to do that with. So, we decided that we would re-paint instead. That will be a big project, since our family room connects to our kitchen and our eat-in area and the back "hall" to the garage -- we're going to start with 3 gallons of paint and go out for the fourth if we need it... I guess it'll be a couple of late nights this weekend (but it will be nice to have it done!)

More later -