So, Aly is now officially a 4 year old! She had a wonderful birthday party with her friends at the local bowling alley where the highlight of the party was to laugh at how bad of a bowler i am. I am very grateful to Kary for taking some of the spotlight off of my amazing gutter-ball records, by getting her finger squished in between bowling balls. I had to give her a REALLY big piece of cake to make her feel better. I was hoping to put pictures of the party up, but for some reason we only got pictures of butts. Lots and lots of butts. (Note to self, don't let Paula take pictures again. ) Nobody needs to see picture after picture of my butt helping toddlers bowl. Permanent eye damage would ensue.
Immediately after seeing those pictures, i decided to go back to teaching dance classes in hopes that doing "Heads, shoulders, knees & toes" repeatedly with aspiring ballerinas would make my hiney shrink. While that hasn't happened, the classes have been lots of fun so far. The best part is watching my girls take the classes that i teach. I don't want to brag, but they really are the cutest things in tutus ever! They love the classes and really do have natural talent. (must come from Daddy or Papa.) Kary is the youngest in class and by far the smallest, yet she keeps up with the 3-6 year olds without a problem. It is such fun to watch her try to leap over the pretend river (a scarf or whatever is handy that i put in the middle of the room for them to practice jumping over.) Her legs are so short that so barely skims the top and all of the other kids clap for her when she makes it over. Aly enjoys each part of the class, but especially the 'magic wand free dance'. She gets so into dancing that she forgets about the other kids waiting for their turn, and has been known to decapitate fellow students with the wand. Did i mention how cute she looks doing it???
Kary has had many milestones in the past few weeks. The biggest is, hold your breath! She is sleeping through the night! Now all of you parents with that amazing breed of 'good sleepers', stop your eye rolling and scoffing. After 4 years of not sleeping through the night, I am so stinkin' excited about this! Aly is doing much better as well, her night terrors aren't as often and her growing pains are getting better. So my toes are crossed that I will finally be able to sleep more than 4 hours at a time!
One of Kary's other milestones is she refuses to poop in her diaper at night/nap time. Which is really great except for when she has to poop and i can't hear her calling. WARNING, the following is not for the squeamish!! So a few nights ago, the little angels were asleep in their beds so i snuck off to the bath with relaxing music and a good book. Unfortunately, between the music and bubbles in my ears, i didn't hear Kary crying until i got out much later. I ran into their room to discover her standing in the corner of her crib, tears streaming down her face, empty diaper in hand with a pile of poop on her sheet!! The poor kid had woken up needing to poop and didn't want to go in her diaper since she's a big kid. The result was a messy middle of the night cleanup that cancelled out any relaxation that my bath had brought me! So tonight, we are putting Kary's mattress on the floor with her potty nearby so she can take care of business whenever she needs to. I am SO not ready for another mobile kid! Maybe I'll start to sleep in the crib where they can't get to me.........