Sorry no posts this week. It has been a busy, but unexciting week. We've been getting ready for fall while trying to stay cool. It has been really hot this last week, so anything outdoors is not going to happen. It is even almost too hot for the pool!
But we have gone shopping. Shoe shopping to be exact. Lily got her very first pair of ballet shoes (and a few super cute leotards and tights) since she starts dance on Tuesday!!! I've been talking about getting her signed up for awhile now, but I was thinking of waiting until after school got going. However, I found out that most of the classes at the local studios are starting this week and nearly all of them are already full! So if I was to wait, she'd have to get put on a waiting list and that sucks. Rhiannon called around and got Lily and Carys the last two spots in a pre-ballet class at a local studio that came highly recommended. So we are excited and it is even better that Lily gets to dance with Carys!
Lily also got her very first pair of soccer cleats and shin guards this week! Yes, we are doing soccer too!!! That was part of the reason I wanted to put dance off until late fall. My friend, Heather, is coaching the team and wanted all the girls in our playgroup, who are eligible by age, to play on the all girl's 3 year old team. So it is Lily, Ashley, Emily and Christie (who was in her class last year at school) and 4 other girls that we haven't met yet. It should be VERY interesting to see how well these 3 year olds play and how much of the game they grasp!! The season is only September - November. Seven games, I think. So our fall schedule looks like this: School for Lily on Monday, Wednesday and Fridays. Dance on Tuesday. Playgroup on Thursday. Soccer practice on Thursday nights. Soccer games on Saturday morning. Not to mention my spin classes on Monday and Wednesday and Chip will be in school Tuesday and Thursday nights. I am exhausted just thinking about it all!!
To keep with the shoe shopping theme of the week, we also shopped around for new school shoes for Lily. I haven't really started fall clothes shopping since it will be warm for a couple more months, but she does need new closed-toe shoes for school. Miraculously she wore the same sneakers and shoes all last year and through summer school. I can not believe that her feet didn't grow at all in a year!! But they are starting to get a little snug, not to mention raggedy, so we got new shoes, one size bigger - 9 - and a new backpack, she picked a pink Hello Kitty one over the Disney Princess (I haven't taken the tags off yet, since I am waiting for her to change her mind) and we are all ready for school!!
Since this blog acts as my journal, I have to also document that Saturday night we all went to Donna, Cole and Todd's house with Patti, Bryan and Emily for a BBQ. It was fun as always and nice to hang out with friends while the kids played. Tuesday night I went out for dinner with Patti, Courtney and Heather. And today we had a playgroup at Heather's house and then went out to lunch with Courtney, Trent and Elise! So it hasn't been only shoe shopping! :)
Here are a few, not so great, photos of Lily in her ballerina gear. I think she would wear it all day, everyday, if I let her!
She looks adorable it her outfits. I don't think these random photos do her justice. 
And a crazy picture from our shopping adventures on Wednesday. We did buy a new sweater at the Children's Place because she loved it and I knew she would need it eventually. It was hard to even imagine buying a sweater since it was 103 degrees outside! But Lily, took it one step further and had to wear the sweater as we walked back to the car. I was miserable just looking at her, but she insisted she wasn't hot.
At least it matched her outfit perfectly! :)
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