Twinkle Toes

According to Cate this has been the "bestest day ever"...

After almost 3 years of waiting, watching, and begging to just do something like her sisters she finally got to start dance class! I'm not sure I can put into words the level of excitement this brings to our lives. She's been inducted into the big girl club! Most everything she has is a hand-me-down which she certainly doesn't mind, and this is no different. She's got Towns' first pair of ballet shoes and her old dance bag. But J knows how big of a deal this is to Cate and he insisted I take her out and make a fuss over buying her new dance clothes. So that's just what we did! You could have given her the option of having the keys to Disney World or starting ballet, and dance class would win...hands down. She's my heart, that girl!
She put on her new "liptard" the second we left the store with it. And she's wanted to sleep in it, bathe in it, and do everything else in it ever since...


We got to class 30 minutes early because we just couldn't wait a second longer. She's taking dance at our church which is where I've taught for several years now, but you'd think she's never been in the dance studio before (even though she's there almost every day) by the way she was checking everything out. It was like it was her time now which gave it a whole new look!
She really got a kick out of checking herself out in the mirror...


I went to a Beth Moore Bible study on Esther (love it!!) while she was in class, but I got out just in time to catch the last few minutes of class...

When it was over she was excited to show me that she kept her ballet shoes on the whole time...

And she was ever so proud of the stamp she got on her hand for doing a super job...

You're such a big girl, Buggy!

She's still replaying the whole class in her head apparently. She keeps saying "I did great in ballet today, even gooder than great" and "am I so big to go to dancing like Towns?" which makes me smile. She can't wait to go back!
Tuesdays are our never ending dancing days...Cate goes on Tuesday mornings and Towns goes for two hours in the afternoon. At least we knock it all out in one day, though!
After ballet and picking Towns up from school, there was a box waiting on the door step addressed to these two monkeys...

Aunt Anna Kate had a little something up her sleeve!
And when the girls opened their packages to find brown and pink owl hoodies they couldn't have been more excited...


Thanks for making my girls' day, Roommate!
We LOVE our treats!!