Dancing and Sliding

This video is from the Jumpapalooza. It's really just for Marin because she loves to watch herself slide down in this video. :o)

MVI 7087 from Stacey Brednich on Vimeo.


I used to watch Dancing with the Stars to see all the cool dancing but now I watch it so that I can see Marin and Hollis dance around like the dancers on tv. They both have to put on their "dancing Kate's" to watch. So cute.

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Jumpapalooza

Have I mentioned we could have a play date every single day??? Texas is so stinkin' friendly. Thursday we had a little play date with friends from church at Jumpapalooza (sp??). It was a huge room filled with about 9 different bouncy things. Marin LOVED it. Hollis was terrified of them. :o) But Marin seemed so big and grown up. She just ran and played and did her own thing the whole time. I would glance around to make sure I could see her and sometimes she would come find me to show me a "trick' but she was little miss independent. Hollis wouldn't get in the bouncy things but she did walk around and play ball with some of her little friends. 

She found a ball! 

And her friend Jackson played with her!

Climbing the big wall to the slide. 

Little Miss Crazy on the loose.
(The Yo Gabba Gabba shirt. She wants to wear it every day.)

As close as she got to the bouncy things. :o)

Loved it! 

Having a little snack. 

Should have had the camera on the sports function because she was on the move!
Even though she didn't jump, she did have fun running around.
I did go down the slide with her a couple of times.
But climbing the ladder while holding the 30+ lb kiddo was too much. Twice was all I could do. 

"It's Scary" and a little Halloween!!!

Whenever I would pull out the vacuum cleaner, Marin and Hollis would both start crying saying "It's scary! It's scary!" But one night we were vacuuming (one of craft projects...oopsie) and the girls wanted to actually have a turn. They loved it. Loved. It.  Each one had to have multiple turns and then once it was all over they each had to have several turns pulling the cord and watching it fly back into place. Burke and I both agree...we liked it better when they were afraid of it. Now, a 5 minute job is a 50 minute job. :o)

Vacuuming instead of going to bed.
Clever stall method, Marin. 

She had to have the dress over her PJs.

And I put out a few Halloween decorations. Love Halloween. And Thanksgiving. And Christmas. Such a fun, fun time of year.

Marin the Photographer

Marin loves taking pictures these days. She has specific things/people she wants to photograph and then just like her dad, she takes 800 shots of the same thing. :o) But she is so very proud looking back at all 400 shots of her shoes. Some of her recent "work"....

Her Little People all seated for the show.
 I'm sure it was Yo Gabba Gabba on the pretend television , Betsy. 

I'm always an easy target.
It's like she is getting payback for the zillion pictures I have taken of her. 

And her feet.
 Really, I think she was aiming for her shoes but I am glad she got her little piggies! 

Some Park Time

We went to the park yesterday and I played around with my camera. We had lots of fun and I went completely overboard with all the pictures. :o)