Busyness

It's been brought to my attention that I've been slacking on my blog.

The reason...busyness. We've had some fun stuff going on. First off, Kenny has been in a drama club for the last few weeks. They had a final presentation last week at his school. The teacher read from the Dr. Seuss book "Hooray for Diffendoofer Day" which runs the gauntlet of emotions for the kids to demonstrate. It was fun to see the facial expressions these kids came up with. Kenny really seems to have a knack for this stuff. Then they did a few skits, some involving the audience. Lauren was called up to drum to the beat during one of the skits. She did well.

holding up an elephant (below)

Next came the school's variety show. Carley's teacher had her morning and afternoon classes sing a couple of songs. The first was an alphabet song that the kids also signed to. Carley really didn't want to go to this but once we got there and she saw her friends (in which she is standing next to none of them in the pics), she jumped right in!

During intermission she was brave enough to get up on stage and mess with the microphone, even though she shouldn't have...

Not to be out done, Lauren did have some excitement of her own. She started ballet on Saturday (Carley decided to do soccer instead, which hasn't started yet), and she finally was able to get her earrings out in exchange for new ones! Carley got to take hers out today. They are both thrilled to change out their earrings as often as they change out their clothes (I try to keep it to a minimum). Sorry no pictures. :-(

I've got say, I'm so glad to be done with the ear cleaning stage. Remembering twice a day for 6 weeks turned out to be quite the challenge. I only thought about their own pain as they got their ears pierced, not the pain I was going to experience in making them get their earrings cleaned. And just so you know, the bottle of cleaner they give you is plenty for two girls instead of just one. I'm glad I opted out of getting a second bottle when Carley got hers done.