It seems like most of our postings lately have been about Michaela, but this one is about Felicity! She has had a few major things going on in the last 2 weeks or so that we thought we would share with everybody.
The first is her new dance class. The lady that taught my yoga class also teaches dance class. Her classes start at age 3 and go all the way up to adults. Even though Felicity is not quite 3 she was allowed to start the “toddler” dance class, so we signed her up! She will be learning ballet and tap dance. Her first dance class was on August 7 and she will go every Thursday. I stayed around to watch the first class and Felicity did really well at both the dancing and with listening to her teacher (good thing she listens to somebody because she certainly doesn’t listen to us!). this past Thursday I wasn’t allowed to watch, Miss Kim says the parents are too distracting for the girls, so I left. It felt kind of strange to leave her there all by herself, but I guess it was good practice for when she goes off to school. Here are some pictures of her in her dance class outfit with both her tap shoes and her ballet shoes.
The second major event . . . giving up her binky!!! A little over 2 weeks ago she decided to stop taking her naps (big bummer I know), so we make her take “quiet time” in her room. Well the problem was that she used her binky at her naptime and at bedtime. I told her one day that since she wasn’t taking a nap that she needed to give me her binky. That is when she told me that she wanted to go to Build-A-Bear. You see, we told her that when she was ready to give up her binky we would take her to Build-A-Bear and she could pick out a bear to make and stuff her binkies inside the bear. That way when she went to sleep she would still have her binkies, just not using them. That great idea was from my sister Ann who used it with her son when he gave up his binky. So, on the same day as her first dance class we took her to Build-A-Bear to make her bear. She picked out a very cute bear and then picked out a ballerina outfit for her. Her name is Binky Bear and she is very cute. And while this was a great idea it appears that it may not really be a quick fix for us. At “quiet time” she spends a long time hitting her bear and shouting “binky, binky, binky!” She even told me the other day that she wanted to take the bear back so she could have her binkies again. The good news is that since she is not taking naps she falls asleep much faster at nights which means we don’t her her cries for her binky for as long, if at all! Here’s Felicity and Binky Bear.
