Sunday, March 24, 2013

my little pony

Yesterday, Charlotte made her stage debut as a pony in the ballet 'Roar of Love.' It is based on The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe, and is performed each spring by the Columbia County Ballet Company- where Charlotte has been taking ballet for 2 years now. (That was a run on sentence, y'all.)

 
So, the ponies come out with Father Christmas to deliver gifts to the four Pevensie children to help them in their battle against the White Witch.  The ballerina in red is a robin who came on stage as sort of a story-telling narrator... or something. Charlotte is third from the right in the front row, wearing hot pink pants.  Truly, a better camera might be on my Christmas list this year.

Aside from standing in these lines, the ponies prance around (wearing jingle bells on their ankles,) do a turn or two, kneel and rise, and sashay about the stage.  It's not a very complicated part, but Charlotte was delighted, and she did a great job 'ponying up.'

Here she is backstage in all her pony glory.  Wearing make-up, ribbons, and glittery bits made her massively happy.

Charlotte is in LOVE with the ballet.

With Daddy and Toby after the big show.  

We left Jake with a friend, which was a very wise decision, he would have gone bonkers.  I asked Toby if he liked the ballet and he said, "Ummm, not really."  Turns out this was Rob's first time sitting through a ballet too and he pretty much agreed with Toby.  Looks like it's me and my girlie girl who will continue to attend these performances together.  Which is fantastic, because we love the mommy-daughter time. 

Congratulations on your first curtain call baby girl!

baby on board

Just a note to announce, on the blog, that we are expecting baby #4 in September.  :)

I am about 14 weeks along now and this has been a really rough first trimester.  I feel like I am starting to come out of the fog a bit, and hopefully I'll begin to pick up some of the activities that have fallen by the wayside.  (Like this blogging thing.)

So far I can report that this baby really, really likes bread. (I think I mainly lived off of bread for about a month.)  And despite the horrific all-day-sickness, I've also had massive cravings for buffalo wings and things like Zaxby's kickin' chicken sandwich.  Oh soooo good.  I can' think about it too much, or I'll be stopping to get that for lunch tomorrow.

Hopefully in April or May we'll be able to find out if we are having a boy or a girl.  Charlotte has her heart set on a baby sister, so we have a lot of talks right now about the fact that you don't get to pick- "you get what you get."

That's about all the baby stuff that comes to mind right now.  We are truly very happy to be adding to our family.  I think the only one who doesn't know what's about to hit him is poor Jakey.  He is quite happy in his position as baby of the family.  ;)