All about Alli

Monday was Alli's first dance recital. She performed "Twinkle, Twinkle". She was so excited and so darn cute. I know Mommy and the two Grandmas were crying. Not sure about Dad. We had to be at rehearsal at 5:30 and they ran through it twice, and she did great. When it came time for the show, she froze up a little, but she still did really good. Since it was summer session and not real formal, they let us take pictures and video and the costumes were very basic....they just got to wear PJs. She got to watch all the older dancers perform and now she can't wait to be able to dance like them. She is going back for the fall session next week and they are introducing tap along with the ballet she has been doing. Alli before the recital

Making her entrance on the stage

Her twinklers...Twinkle Twinkle Little Star


Echappe [ay-sha-PAY] Taking her bow

Right after the show...she really enjoyed it and Nana brought her flowers (Grandma gave her some book activity set too)

Our Tiny Dancer

Alli with her two Grandmas

Alli started preschool on Tuesday. She has been excited about it for months. Here she is eating breakfast.

Getting ready to leave for school

Her cool new Princess bookbag

She loved it! She goes on Tue/Thurs for 3 hrs in the morning. I miss her a little bit b/c she is such a helper, but it wasn't too bad b/c the first day Jim took a half day and then the second day, I had a speech therapist here to evaluate the babies (through First Steps).

The therapist did recommend speech therapy for the triplets. She said by age 2 (they are 21 mos) they should have a vocabulary of about 250 words. I think mine might have 30-40 words, and usually it is just repeating. She doesn't think they are just late talkers, b/c they make noises a lot, sort of whining, like 'eh eh eh' when they want something. She says they are trying to communicate, just don't know how to do it yet. So, although we know our children are very normal, we figured if they could use the help and its free, might as well take it. We feel it would make our lives a little easier if they could talk to us and tell us what they want rather than cry and scream all the time :) So, it will be 1.5 hrs a week (or 30mins a kid).

Here are a few more pics of all of the kids (oh, and Jim too ;)

Alli and Jim camping out watching Kung Fu Panda and eating popcorn in their tents

Playing in the house...they love this thing, but they fight over it all the time! Their latest is to crawl out the window on the right where Cassie and do a flip over the arm of the chair.

Eating on their new table....trying to get them out of their high chairs soon. They try to climb out of them all the time and they take up so much room in the kitchen.

Playing in the tent

She was so proud of her little fort she built around her :)

I thought this was funny....Alli was rocking the girls and they all looked so cute, so I wanted to take a picture. I was obviously in Jenna and Cassie's way while they were trying to watch TV.