Melanie's Dance Class

As I said earlier in the summer, Melanie got to take dance lessons for her birthday gift from Matt and me. For the final class the kids are allowed to invite family and friends to come watch to see what they've learned, so naturally Melanie wanted her grandparents there.

Grams, Gramps, Melanie, Grandma and Grandpa all ready for Melanie's end of the session dance performance

In the rush to get the whole family (as opposed to just me and Melanie) out the door on time for class I lost all hope of winning Mom of the Year by forgetting Melanie's bag with her tap and ballet shoes in it!

Matt went home for it and got back before the ballet part of the class, but Melanie had to do her tap routine in her rubber crocs :(  Talk about mother guilt! (even though Melanie really didn't seem to care at all, she was just thrilled to have all her family there)

To celebrate afterwards we all went out to Orange Leaf for frozen yogurt.  This was the first time we had taken the girls out for "ice cream" and they absolutely loved the experience of choosing their yogurt flavor and toppings.  It's a funky looking little shop, too, so it was quite the treat!

The chairs that spin around and go up and down were especially fun.

Claire made sure she scraped up every last bit of that delicious yogurt!

And finally, the cute baby picture to finish the post up :)

Melanie really enjoyed the dance classes, so she's taking them again.  The city parks and recreation activities are proving to be a nice, inexpensive way to let Melanie try new things before we decide to spend lots of money to let the girls try a new activity only to find they don't like it after a couple weeks.  Melanie is going to try out a soccer skills group in a few weeks to see what she thinks of that as well.  I highly recommend giving the parks and rec classes a try!