Princess Ballerina Camp

Bibby,

This is a week that you have been waiting an entire year for......PRINCESS BALLERINA CAMP!!!! You get to dress up like a princess or ballerina and go with 11 other girls your age and do all things princess. You got a special treat this year. Gigi bought you two new leotards with tutu and new ballet shoes. The best part is that she bought a matching set of everything for Virginia. You have sat patiently every morning as I get all of the humps smoothed out of your hair while twisting it in to a bun that you are very insistant on having. I love seeing you excited about something. It brings such excitement in to my life. Today, Virginia and I got there a couple of minutes early to pick you up and you had a red (shocker) scarf and were dancing around the room doing leaps. Virginia at the ripe age of 17 months already wants to be just like you. She woke up saying, "shoe..pea" which means, shoes please. She couldn't wait to put on her outfit like yours. Her dancing is more "hip-hop ballet," as Gigi says. I can't wait for the recital Friday!!

Beach babies

Girls,

We just got back from a week at the beach and you two could not have loved it more. Mary Bibb, I could not believe the change in you from last year to this one. You weren't timid at all. You loved the ocean and would have stayed at the beach all day. You dug holes and built a castle and even walked over to a little girl your age and asked her to play. You were so polite and just seemed incredibly grown up. You and daddy swam after a group of sting-rays and caught a ton of crabs at night. You were such a big helper with baby Afton and Virginia. Most of the way home you would cry and ask when were going to go back to the beach. Little Virginia, you too had changed so much since last year. Going to the beach really made me think of how fast your little lives are going by. I had such sweet memories from last year of you sitting and running your fingers through the sand so unsure of what it was. Just sitting in one place and napping in a tent....not this year. You wanted to be in the water constantly!!! At one point dad said a wave completely took you out and you hopped up and kept going. You were such a trooper the whole time. I hope I never forget the way you looked in your sundress with those pigtails bee-bopping down the boardwalk! Dad did great in the triathalon and we had the most relaxed time with the Burnetts. I am so glad you both love the beach so much and can't wait to get back down there with you.