Tuesday, February 19, 2013

Franklin, The Award Winning Dancer!

I can't believe I forgot to mention this, but Franklin won a dance contest!  On Saturday, Stanford had a Valentine's Day dance for the EV families.  It was loud, and crazy, and oh so much fun.  There were several contest throughout the evening, but the highlight was the "crazy" dance contest.  The song "gummy bear" came on, and Frankie moved his way to the front and started busting the coolest moves I have EVER seen. (Have your kids become obsessed with this yet by the way?  Well if you ever dare to show them this video, I promise you they will be.)  Next thing I know, Franklin has won the crazy dance contest!  I was so proud! All our endless hours of crazy dance training in the living room paid off!

Bustin' a move!
*Please note the Mader slippers.  Probably the key to his award winning moves

Dancing with sissy 


A little hoola-hoop action

Don't get me wrong, Elena did her fair share of awesome dancing, however, the pizza was definitely her favorite part! 

Doesn't have anything to do with the dance, but I just adore this moment of brotherly-sisterly love captured on film 



Sunday, February 10, 2013

Goodnight Moon

The bad news is Nick and Frankie have the flu.  Like bad.  They spent the day laying around glazzy eyed with icky filled tummies.

The good new is, I got to spend the day with the most wonderful little lady on the planet.   Our Stanford Courtyard had tickets to see a production of Goodnight Moon.  It was all Franklin could talk about for weeks. We even got to visit the set when we purchased our tickets so he was extra jazzed.  So you can imagine the heartbreak (mostly from my end because he was too sick to care) when my poor little baby boy, got sick the night before.

Elena and I decided to give the boys a quiet house to rest in, so we put on our party dresses and headed for the theater.  It was brilliant!  The show was wonderful, but that is not what I mean.  I am referring to my baby girl.  She was brilliant.  She sat through all 50 minutes (ok, 49 minutes, she had a melt down during the very last scene) and enjoyed every second of it.  She kept pointing to the "red balloon" saying "Baoon! Baoon!"  and every time a musical number ended she would sign and shout "More! More!"  Ahhh!!  See? Brilliant!

Afterwards, we went to the library, shared a shawarma wrap, and walked the streets of Palo Alto.  I have to admit I felt a little guilty knowing Frankie and daddy were in so much despair at home, but I must say my little girl and I, had the time of our lives!