Snow White

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Isn't she a wonderful Snow White lost in the forest?

For July 4th we went to our friend's farm for a fun picnic with friends. Of course Muffin had to bring a whole boatload of dressup clothes, and wander around dressed up. And she had a BLAST playing dressup with the other girls.

Looking cute

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Last Saturday we went to a birthday party, and in the goody bag Muffin found this pair of sunglasses. Aren't they cute? Muffindaddi asked her to pose around with them, and this is what he got. Unfortunately the glasses were so full of sparkles we had to get rid of them - Muffin had sparkles in her eyebrows, face, all over her arms... you get the idea. And that's only after wearing the glasses for a little while. Too bad, they were so cute!

Dance Recital

Muffin danced a very cute tap dance number for her 2nd dance recital. Here's a picture of her in her costume:

Her teacher was helping her class along by showing the dance steps while hiding behind the curtains. I thought it was so cute that Muffin was facing her teacher instead of the audience! (she's on the left) Very adorable of course, how could she not be?

Unfortunately for her, she didn’t get to see the other dancers, she had to wait 2.5 hrs (minus her time on stage) on a side room. I brought a coloring book, plain paper, crayons & (washable) markers and that helped her while away the time.

She was very proud of her dancing - and loved the lovely bouquet that Nana & Grandad brought her! Afterwards we all went out for a nice mid-afternoon late lunch at a local yummy Spanish/Portuguese restaurant.

I think her favorite part is that I put REAL lipstick on her (medium shade of pink). I had to keep saying this was ONLY because of the recital, otherwise I just know she'd keep asking for it every day... boy does she love makeup!

Creative Painting

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If the children are wery wery quiet... be afraid, be very afraid...

Muffin and her friend decided to do some fingerpainting on their faces while the parents were chatting...

oy, I'm afraid what the teenage yrs will bring...!!!

Mad Hatter

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We had a lovely breakfast with the Mad Hatter, Alice, Mary Poppins and Pooh & Co. at Disney's 1900 Park Fare restaurant our 1st day. I love how the Mad Hatter crossed his eyes!

Vacation!

Muffin (and her parents!) had a wonderful time in Florida. I'm too lazy to write up about the whole trip but will post a few highlights:

• Spent a week at Disney's Wilderness Lodge. Love taking the boat to Magic Kingdom!
• Had some wonderful dinners with princesses and characters
• Muffin was recruited by Captain Jack Sparrow for training as pirate ( see video here!)
  


• We had dinner at Cinderella's castle while the fireworks were going on, it was an amazing view!
• We had a private storytime session with Mary Poppins (thanks AAA!)
  

After Disney we went to visit my sister and her family in St Pete area, where Muffin got to hang out with her big cousin (he's 17!)

We then drove to Miami to visit my parents, and also saw my brother and his family. A good time was had by all ;) I think a highlight for Muffin was playing with her cousin A, who's only 6 months older. At one point the girls went hiding in the bathroom where they found my makeup bag and… well, thankfully I don't have much makeup but its clear they had no clue how to use an eyeliner, LOL!
The weather was a bit cool for Florida, but we had one day that was thankfully warm enough to go to the beach. Here's Muffin enjoying the beach at Key Biscayne. The water was probably about 1-2 ft deep for hundreds of feet, just enough for a little Muffin to enjoy a nice swim...





Now we cant' wait to go back!!

Fabulous

So Saturday before going to the park we stopped at the library to return some books and take out a few new ones. As I'm walking to the librarian's desk to check out some children's books, Muffin ran up to me and asked if we could take out 2 music CD's that she handed me over. Oh lord. One of them was for High School Musical 2. So what could I say? We brought it home, and she's already memorized most of the songs. That would be helped by the fact that, at her request, we've been playing that CD almost nonstop since Saturday. And of course, any good singing is accompanied by good dancing!

Poor Daddymuffin has been hearing this CD like 15 times a day… I'm surprised he's still sane ;)