Moved by the Music

Leah got so excited when John let her in his music room and started playing a trumpet cd that she just had to get up and dance. This went on for at least half an hour. She even dragged Beppe up on the dance floor! There's no doubt we're signing her up for dance classes as soon as we can.

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The Baby in Red

Over the weekend, we got to watch Leah strut her stuff out on the dance floor again. She busted a few new moves, as her dancing is getting better with all this practice. We attended the wedding of my niece and had a great time at their beautiful reception. Leah had a great time running around with her cousins, especially when the music started after dinner. She made a big mess of herself with her mac 'n cheese at dinner and surprisingly, her dress doesn't look too messy here. Yes, that's her running around with a wipe in her hands.



I got a chance to practice with my new camera and took a lot of pictures, but many of them turned out a bit blurry unfortunately. I'll post more pics and tell more when I get a chance...

Party Girl

We were in full holiday mode this weekend, as we had two Christmas parties to attend. The first was John's company holiday party, and the highlight of that for us was watching Leah go crazy out on the dance floor. There were tons of kids at the party, but Leah was the youngest one there. Since we don't have a babysitter yet, we brought her along. They had a special room for the kids to hang out in, with lots of food and activities for them (magician/entertainer, balloon animals, etc). We got Leah a balloon shaped like Elmo, which she just loved carrying around.

While the grown-ups finished eating and chatting, they had a DJ in another room playing really loud music for the kids to dance to. And Leah went nuts! She was running around and dancing like crazy and having so much fun. She saw the bigger kids sliding and throwing themselves down on the floor, and she just had to imitate it. There were times when we had to go and get her because of some collisions or near-collisions on the dance floor, but she had a blast and danced for at least a half-hour straight and got lots of laughs from everyone. She danced around with her Elmo balloon and by the end of the night, he didn't have legs anymore.

Here are a few pictures and a video of her (watch how she is trying to imitate the other kids sliding around), but they just don't do it justice. I wish I had thought to take some video earlier, but I was having too much fun just watching her!

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The next night, we went to some friends' annual Saint Nikolaus party. It was a great party for kids and there were definitely a ton of them there. Leah loved playing with all the toys there, especially the little kitchen and the art easel. Santa Claus made an appearance and handed out stockings full of goodies. I was hoping to get a photo of Leah sitting on his lap, but she was not having it! I guess we'll have to hope Santa photos go better next year. Anyway, we had a great time, and here are a few pics from that night.

New Dance Moves

One morning, we put in a DVD about Shanghai (since we're exploring a possible transfer there), and Leah loved the music and started dancing right away. Her dance moves keep evolving and she just started doing this new stuff swinging her butt back and forth about a week ago. She always likes to ask "das?" or "dis?" nowadays when she's doing something, like "what's this called again?" Even while John tosses her up into the air, she's busy asking "das? das?"

Also, now that her hair is getting longer, she always wakes up with some crazy bed-head!

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