Ballerina Girl

Elsa loves loves loves ballet. I'm not quite sure why. I always thought it was kind of boring. Maybe it is because it is her first dance experience. Whatever. She loves it. I've noticed she is always the first one ready to get to class when their teacher, Miss Ashley, comes to gather the chicks.

Henry, Ansel and I got to watch their class yesterday. Elsa enjoyed showing off her passion for ballet. We were impressed.

The Dangerous House

Typically our children haven't seemed very accident prone. We don't go through band-aids very quickly and just don't see much first-aid action. . . until last weekend. Friday afternoon Ansel cut his pinky on a can that fell out of the recycling bin. It doesn't look too terrible, but it took a good ten minutes to stop the bleeding. We ended up taking him to the Dr. on Saturday because it just kept reopening and bleeding. It's pretty difficult to keep a band-aid on a little one. It was a good move. The Dr. glued it shut and diagnosed him with bronchitis. I love those two for one visits! Sunday Elsa fell off the chair and pulled a huge iron bowl on top of her. Yikes! Warning this picture looks like we're taking the picture in a fun house mirror, but we didn't. She is however, obviously still terrorized from the fall.

Elsa's Many Faces

"Elsa, what should I say about this picture?"
"NOTHING!"

Nana visits!

Nana came to visit a couple of weekends ago! Thanks for coming Nana. We got to spend a night in Chicago (everyone) while she was here. It was a lot of fun. The art museum in particular was a surprising delight. They have recently become quite family friendly. We were escorted into the museum by "Arty the Lion." I guess not very many families have heard of the change so when they saw us--they were very excited. We ended up staying over an hour longer than we had planned, because the kids were having such a nice time.


The fun house photo is taken in "the bean" or really "the cloud gate." That is a newer sculpture at Millenium Park that has become quite a tourist spot.


Henry's zen pose is a tribute to Aunt Milla who spends many a waking hour like that. Great souls think alike!

new house

Our house got a bit of an update. . . new roof and siding. Improvement? We hope so. Everyone thought black shutters would be awful. I think they're alright.