Creative moves

Julia started a gymnastics class at Creative Movement a few weeks ago, and she has been learning all sorts of new moves and terms (like "chasse" - I had never heard that one before) and showing them off at home for us. I took a video of her going through the whole routine in our living room. My favorite is her "straddle jump," which looks more like some sort of spasm than an actual straddle:



After Julia put on her show, I tried recording Madeleine for a few minutes, and you can see how well Julia shared the limelight:



The Rowe girls have had a very nice (but tiring!) week - Ethan was away on business, and we did a bunch of fun "girls" activities, including going out for a pancake breakfast, going to Open Gym time at Creative movement, baking chocolate chip cookies, and having dinner at my friend Emily's house (which meant my two kids could play with her two kids...) It's definitely nice to have Ethan back home though, especially since he was here to help out with the bedtime routine last night. He seemed to enjoy the conference he was at yesterday, although you'd think a bunch of intelligent, technically proficient people could have done a better job with his name tag: