Tuesday is the new dance day!
Kyla was able to put a ponytail in Katja's hair and it stayed in for hours!
Cute little ponytail!
Katja started speaking understandable words! More than knowing animal sounds for cat, dog, bird, pig, cow and frog. She says, apple, purple, pizza, ewww, yuck, disgusting, please, thank you, welcome, Luella, baby, Momma, Dadda. Plus yesterday evening, Kyla swears she said her first sentence, "MMMmmmm, that's good!" in reference to grilled cheese and tomato soup for dinner. Of course, she doesn't perform for the camera, so no evidence.
Side view so we can pretend Katja is smiling for the camera!
Luella is in a new dance class. Same teacher, same dances, just different time slot and different girls in her class. We now attend the Tuesday afternoon class so we don't have to miss preschool Wednesday mornings.
Luella is demonstrating a plie' with a lollipop!
Luella really loves being the oldest kid in a very small class. Her new class has 2 other girls, one born October 19th and the other March 9th, so Luella is in her element being the oldest, like growing up in Maryland. This really has Kyla thinking we'll hold her back a year for Virginia and start her the same time as her Maryland friends, being the oldest kid in her class as opposed to the youngest.
The quick jump up after a plie' is the funnest part!
Luella demonstrating all her dance moves for a video.
Comments
From our personal family experience, I think that holding off on kindergarden for Luella another year might be a good thing. My sister was born and December, and was always the youngest in her class by a lot. She had a hard time socially and that seemed to follow her for a while. In hindsight, my parents wish they'd waited a year.
But you'll do the right thing.