The Dance of Life

This orange dress. You will see more of this orange dress soon. I could not stop shooting her in it. I loved that she put her rain boots on with her cute little summer dress and she danced her heart out.

We have been outside a whole lot lately. When we were in Florida last week it was so miserably humid and hot that being outside wasn't too enjoyable. So since we came home we have been mostly outside enjoying the warm sun, no humidity and mild breezes. Keith also set up the hose so that it sprays a light mist hanging from the tree in the front yard. Its a wonderful thing to cool off in.

Life doesn't get any better than this.....

Dance, Dance and Dance Some More

Dancing. My child loves to dance. She is a booty shaker, thru and thru. Maybe its because ever since she was a baby, we have squeezed her little butt and told her how cute it was.

Anyways, I decided to have my hand at storyboarding from Stacy's tutorial on making a storyboard. It was fun! But not as fun as doing the fairy wings. ;) I had a great time going to Deviantart and finding brushes. I would download everything if I could. It is my new favorite website! For this, I went with Asian flowers.



Speaking of booty's....My child is backed up! Yup, you know what I mean. We have been having problems potty training her when it comes to #2. She squeezes her butt cheeks together and just does not want to let it out. Whenever we see that, we bring her to the toilet and she immediately tells us she doesnt have to go anymore. The pee thing is fine. Great actually. But when she started complaining of stomach aches, I thought I'd better bring her in to be seen (not to mention, my wise, young sister in law has been telling me for months about the problems she has heard of with her friends babies getting all backed up and telling me I should get it looked at). So Ella got an xray and sure as sh*t (pun intended) she was stuffed! This also lead to her appetite being diminished.....Another little sign that I should have known something was wrong.

The doctor prescribed Miralax, which is over the counter, for a few weeks and to bring her back in for another xray. Well, after 2 days she is doing pretty much hard diarreah (if that makes any sense), and tooting up a storm! My poor little girl. Atleast it is starting to come out. We'll see how the next couple of weeks go. Another thing she said is to lay off the potty training and put her back into diapers (pull-ups) for the time being! Silly as it sounds, I started crying, which was a sure sign that this whole potty training thing is stressing the both of us out. She does prefer to do it in a diaper, and she does prefer to do it in private...but how do you get them around this. Time? How much? Will she be ready for preschool next fall? She cant bring "diapies" into preschool!

In any case, I dont know if I want to go as far as giving her diapers full time again because I obviously dont want her to go backwards as far as peeing is concerned, so we will have to see what happens.

Dancing Queen - Part 2

Here's a few more images from our "Aweemoway" dancing session. In this first picture, I just love the look of excitement and action as it looks like the wind is blowing her away with all of her hair flowing in the breeze. But I couldn't decide if I liked the color or the b/w version. To begin with, the color version was a little grainy that's why I did the conversion. I love the colors of her jammies and how beautiful it makes the pictures look, but I loved her eyes in the b/w shot. Which one fancies you more?


The next two pictures I loved because, as I said in my previous post, with the headband on her forehead like that, she totally reminds me of a Flapper from the 20's. My little Peanut getting her groove on!





This last set of photos kills me. She is SUCH THE ACTRESS! In the middle of dancing, she went into the garage and explained to me that Princess Snow White was sad. I asked why and she just said, "because she is". So I asked her if I could take a picture of "Sad Snow White" and she happily obliged (phew, dodged that cranky bullet). Then after I took a picture of her sad, I asked if Snow White could show me how she looks when she is happy. I was so bummed that they came out blurry, as this all happened in a matter of 30 seconds, but I still loved her expressions. Again, SUCH AND ACTRESS, that little girl of mine is!

Dancing Queen - BSM

My child LOVES to dance. I signed her up for gymnastics class, but I really need to find a dance class for her somewhere. These pictures were taken the other evening. Some of my favorite times are when I am sitting there taking pictures of Ella and Keith playing together. It was beautiful out that night and Ella had already taken a bath, gotten in her jammies and we just ate dinner. Earlier in the day, we had heard the song "The Lion Sleeps Tonight" from The Lion King. Every time we sang Aweemoway, Aweemoway, Aweemoway, Ella jumped into a little groove. She was like a robot, right on cue.





She reminds me of a little Flapper girl here below, with the ruffles on her jammies and the headband on her forehead.






But this last picture I am calling my BSM. Because no matter what she does, just the look of pure joy and happiness in her face melts my heart.



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