Ballerina for real!!!!

Last weekend, Emma had her very first ballet exam. It was serious stuff, they bunned up her hair with a ton of hair gel and pinned on a tiara and all. I thought she looked like an old grandma with her hair all bunned up. Haha....

We weren't actually allowed into the ballet exam so the video below was the practice just before the actual exam. Emma is on the far right. I personally thought her balancing exercise leg-lift thingy-me-jig was rather good! I think it is actually much harder than it looks! This is coming from a doting mum of course but I thought she was the best! I hope she doesn't fail after all that bragging from me. Results are out 3 weeks after the exam. Anyway what kind of examiner would fail a 5 yr old on her ballet exam anyway!

If You're Happy and You Know It...

I haven't really been online nor blogged much lately. Last week I was really swamped at work and over most of the weekend I was feeling pretty terrible with food poisoning but after Cate's little performance I felt MUCH better and well..... HAPPY :)

I have a transcript of what she was singing below cos she still can't really pronounce her words properly! We've decided to give her till she is 3 before we start to worry. :O

If you're happy and you know it, clap your hands (x3)
If you're happy and you know it and you really want to show it
If you're happy and you know it, clap your hands.
If you're happy and you know it, clap your hands.
If you're happy and you know it, do your face
If you're happy and you know it, clap your hands,
If you're happy and you know it and you really want to show it
If you're happy and you know it, stomp your feet.

What now....

After my 7km run on Monday earlier this week, I decided that this would be my last run until after Paul Jr arrives. It wasn't cos I felt bad during the run, or tired (not at that speed anyway!) or any pain at all,.... but I knew my body was telling me something. I could feel some pressure at my pelvic floor like my womb was weighing down or something. I put it own to this being the 3rd pregnancy. I have found that with each pregnancy, I would feel this pressure sensation more as if my muscles / ligaments (?) are just not holding up my womb as well anymore. I didn't have this feeling with Emma. With Cate a little,... and now more.

Anyway, this morning I woke up, surprisingly a little down at having decided not to run anymore. I didn't expect that my pregnancy 2nd trimester running stint was going to be quite this short. So I decided swimming would have to be my thing moving forward..... boring as it is. Managed to swim 1km during Emma's swimming lesson. Hopefully I will grow to like it more...

Vain Pot Ballerina!

Check out the pose! I just told her "Ems, you look so cute in your ballet clothes, let me take a picture!".....

Voila, that was the pose she came up with! I think I may have serious worrying to do when Emma turns into a teenager..... Sigh! Perhaps I will let Paul handle it.