Here is the video from Karla's dress rehearsal. I put pictures on the blog last week but didn't say that she danced to the song "Lollipop." The first thing she said to me when I went to get her after she had performed on stage was "I can't wait to do that again!" I was glad I could tell her she would be doing it the following night as well! I was relieved that was the first thing she said to me because I had been worried about leaving her backstage without me....but I really wanted to watch her on stage!
Flickr limits videos to 90 seconds so here it is in two parts...
Video Part 1
Video Part 2
Saturday, May 21, 2011
Friday, May 20, 2011
Here are some updates on things Karla is doing:
She is able to read/recognize about 14 words, of course she thinks she can "read" a lot more than that!
She has a new friend. Our neighbors have a boy who is 5 1/2 and he and Karla get along really well. Karla loves to play with him. Whenever she seems him outside she wants to go outside. It is fun to watch her run through the yard to his house yelling his name the whole way. It is the first time she does NOT want me to follow her and play with her outside. If he's outside, she doesn't care if I am around or not! I am happy that she has a neighbor friend.
We decided to join our local pool this summer since Karla doesn't take naps anymore. Our neighbors joined and at least one other family we know will be going. I am excited. There will probably be others we recognize too.
I think the reason I don't blog as much is because Karla isn't napping. Seems like I have less time to sit and blog and then in the evening I have other things I want or need to do....or I'm just too tired.
Karla has a quiet time in her room most afternoons. The down side of this is that usually her room is a disaster afterward. I recently went in her room and must have dropped my jaw because she said "a tornado went through here." I told her we'd better clean it up and she said "No, a cleaning tornado will come and clean it up for us." I had a little trouble getting her to cooperate with cleaning that day.
I signed Karla up for a "princess dance camp" later this summer. It is one week long for an hour each day. She will also have VBS at our church and another 3 day morning "camp" about animals. I think that will be plenty to keep her busy!
Karla is really into have "collections." I recently found a "collection" of wrappers (i.e., candy, food wrappers) hidden in a corner of her room. Most collections are hidden or put into little boxes or baskets that she has...and then hidden.
She is also wanting to build tents a lot. I think all of her grandparents have had the joy of being scrunched into a tent for an extended period of time.
I have also noticed that there has been a lot less Oso these days. Sometimes in the morning she leaves him in her bed and we don't even think about him or look for him until after lunchtime. She has also forgotten to take him in the car too when we go somewhere. I have to say Jason and I haven't really forgotten to take Oso in the car...it is habit. We just haven't mentioned it to her when we realized she didn't grab him. She still needs Oso when she is feeling tired or sad though. I don't think she'd try to go to sleep without him either!
She is really growing up. Last week she turned 4 1/2! Can't really believe it.
She is able to read/recognize about 14 words, of course she thinks she can "read" a lot more than that!
She has a new friend. Our neighbors have a boy who is 5 1/2 and he and Karla get along really well. Karla loves to play with him. Whenever she seems him outside she wants to go outside. It is fun to watch her run through the yard to his house yelling his name the whole way. It is the first time she does NOT want me to follow her and play with her outside. If he's outside, she doesn't care if I am around or not! I am happy that she has a neighbor friend.
We decided to join our local pool this summer since Karla doesn't take naps anymore. Our neighbors joined and at least one other family we know will be going. I am excited. There will probably be others we recognize too.
I think the reason I don't blog as much is because Karla isn't napping. Seems like I have less time to sit and blog and then in the evening I have other things I want or need to do....or I'm just too tired.
Karla has a quiet time in her room most afternoons. The down side of this is that usually her room is a disaster afterward. I recently went in her room and must have dropped my jaw because she said "a tornado went through here." I told her we'd better clean it up and she said "No, a cleaning tornado will come and clean it up for us." I had a little trouble getting her to cooperate with cleaning that day.
I signed Karla up for a "princess dance camp" later this summer. It is one week long for an hour each day. She will also have VBS at our church and another 3 day morning "camp" about animals. I think that will be plenty to keep her busy!
Karla is really into have "collections." I recently found a "collection" of wrappers (i.e., candy, food wrappers) hidden in a corner of her room. Most collections are hidden or put into little boxes or baskets that she has...and then hidden.
She is also wanting to build tents a lot. I think all of her grandparents have had the joy of being scrunched into a tent for an extended period of time.
I have also noticed that there has been a lot less Oso these days. Sometimes in the morning she leaves him in her bed and we don't even think about him or look for him until after lunchtime. She has also forgotten to take him in the car too when we go somewhere. I have to say Jason and I haven't really forgotten to take Oso in the car...it is habit. We just haven't mentioned it to her when we realized she didn't grab him. She still needs Oso when she is feeling tired or sad though. I don't think she'd try to go to sleep without him either!
She is really growing up. Last week she turned 4 1/2! Can't really believe it.
Monday, May 16, 2011
Friday, May 13, 2011
My Lollipop
Karla had her first dress rehearsal tonight! I am so proud! She was the best and cutest girl there, of course! Here is my lollipop!
Wednesday, May 4, 2011
Easter pictures
This look was inspired by the royal wedding last week. We DVRd it because I knew I'd want to see the dress, etc. and I knew Karla would too! She loved it!! Talked about it a lot that day. This look is the crown-with-veil-in-back look....just like Kate.
I have slacked off with blogging. Thought I'd at least give you some pictures from Easter to hold you over until I actually finish one of my blog post drafts. Click here.
Sunday, April 17, 2011
No more...
NO MORE BREATHING TREATMENTS FOR KARLA!! We went to the allergist/asthma doctor on Friday. Karla got tested for allergies and is not allergic to anything that she was tested for! Great news! The doctor also said that she could start using an inhaler with a spacer rather than her nebulizer! This means that rather than 10+ minutes of using her nebulizer (breathing treatment machine) every night and cleaning the pieces everyday, she now gets two puffs from her inhaler twice a day. That's about 1 minute in the morning, 1 minute at night! After more than 2 years of the nebulizer this is exciting! I was even excited about having more space on her dresser. I pretty much came home, took the nebulizer off her dresser and packed it up. I didn't put it too far away just in case she were to have an asthma attack or get a bad cold.
Our friends from Guatemala are visiting some other local friends. We got to see them last week and hopefully will see them again this week before they head back. Seeing them always makes us want to go back and visit Guatemala.
Last week Karla got her pictures taken for Easter. They are so cute!! I can't wait to get them later this week.
Karla is getting ready for Easter. She is learning all about why we celebrate Easter...which has led to some interesting questions and discussion. :) Last night she prayed "God, I am really sad that you died on the cross. But I know you did it for all the sins we ever do." I thought that was pretty "grown up" for her, especially since we hadn't talked about it just prior to praying.
She has also had an egg hunt with her friends Aidan and Aaron as well as another hunt at church.
Karla and Aidan were cozy in the chair eating their candy. Aaron was searching for more chocolate.
Our friends from Guatemala are visiting some other local friends. We got to see them last week and hopefully will see them again this week before they head back. Seeing them always makes us want to go back and visit Guatemala.
Last week Karla got her pictures taken for Easter. They are so cute!! I can't wait to get them later this week.
Karla is getting ready for Easter. She is learning all about why we celebrate Easter...which has led to some interesting questions and discussion. :) Last night she prayed "God, I am really sad that you died on the cross. But I know you did it for all the sins we ever do." I thought that was pretty "grown up" for her, especially since we hadn't talked about it just prior to praying.
She has also had an egg hunt with her friends Aidan and Aaron as well as another hunt at church.
Karla and Aidan were cozy in the chair eating their candy. Aaron was searching for more chocolate.
Wednesday, April 6, 2011
Lazy Afternoon
This afternoon I didn't feel like doing anything. I had plenty I could do but didn't want to do any of it.
Instead Karla and I had a great afternoon together building a tent and then playing in it for a couple hours. It was fun. We ate a snack in it, we played Go Fish in it, we played "house," and we pretended to be hiding from a giant which required whispering for quite a while. Karla has never really played with baby dolls (just used her stuffed animals as babies) but she used a baby doll in the tent today as my little sister. Karla was the mom. :) Oso was the baby's toy. It was nice that she wanted to play something "different" today. I started to take the camera out but Karla was adamant that there were not to be any pictures of the tent. I decided not to spoil our nice time together.
Jason had a meeting tonight so after dinner Karla and I made No-Bake Cookies. After we spooned them on to some wax paper to set, we each got a spoon and ate a couple of warm cookies. Karla was on my lap and it was just a relaxing time together. It made me think of when I used to do the same thing with those cookies with my mom! Grandma will be happy to find out Karla likes No-Bake cookies too!
I am thankful for afternoons like these!
Instead Karla and I had a great afternoon together building a tent and then playing in it for a couple hours. It was fun. We ate a snack in it, we played Go Fish in it, we played "house," and we pretended to be hiding from a giant which required whispering for quite a while. Karla has never really played with baby dolls (just used her stuffed animals as babies) but she used a baby doll in the tent today as my little sister. Karla was the mom. :) Oso was the baby's toy. It was nice that she wanted to play something "different" today. I started to take the camera out but Karla was adamant that there were not to be any pictures of the tent. I decided not to spoil our nice time together.
Jason had a meeting tonight so after dinner Karla and I made No-Bake Cookies. After we spooned them on to some wax paper to set, we each got a spoon and ate a couple of warm cookies. Karla was on my lap and it was just a relaxing time together. It made me think of when I used to do the same thing with those cookies with my mom! Grandma will be happy to find out Karla likes No-Bake cookies too!
I am thankful for afternoons like these!
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