A few more firsts.

A friend forwarded me an email the other day which contained the most A-MA-ZING infant photographs. A new mom (and clearly a very creative mind) from Finland by the name of Adele Enersen created the most beautiful, unique, and whimsical scenes of her infant daughter as she slept. She is super protective of her copyrighted images (as she should be), however, she allows link backs to her blog. I wanted to share just a small sample of these photos with you. Feel free to Google her name and check out more of the images, or, if you'd like, I can forward you the email that was sent to me which contains a concise collection of some of her watermarked, copyrighted images. (Message me!) Click here, then click on the YouTube video to see some of her creations.

This past week has been full of firsts for the kids. And what I've realized is that I am an overly-emotional mother. Every single one of these firsts made me want to bawl my eyes out.

Last week, I registered Ysabella for school. Ideally, we'd like to send her to a school that offers early french immersion, but since they don't start early french immersion until SK anyways, she will attend the school located right behind our house for JK. This school will be one of the pilot schools offering full day JK starting in September. It is a rather small school, and while registering her, I also had the opportunity to meet the principal and her future kindergarten teacher. (I think I was just as excited as she was!) How nostalgic it was for me to walk around an elementary school! Oh! the desks, cubbies, and water fountains! They all seem so very, very small to me now!

Bella, exploring her future kindergarten room.

In addition to registering her for school, Bella had her first ballet class this past Saturday. Well, the class is actually called 'Creative Movement', and is a pre-ballet class. She was super-excited to dress up like a ballerina and she couldn't wait to pose for me while demonstrating some ballerina moves (learned by watching the movie 'Barbie & The Nutcracker'!). Be prepared. She's all girl in these photos!!

On her first day, she expected to perform these sorts of moves:

Unfortunately for Bella, these were the sorts of moves they did instead. A whole lot of toe pointing, hopping, knee bending, and walking. She felt very frustrated, however, she agreed to return next week.

Patience, dear child, patience.

For once, it was nice to see that I wasn't the only camera-crazed mother taking a paparazzi amount of photos! (I wasn't sure they'd allow us to take any photos at all...) The instructors were kind enough to tolerate all us mothers because I'm sure it was very obvious that this was the first class for many of us.


This past Sunday, Alejandro tried some dee-lish brown rice cereal for the first time. Nothing exciting to report. He didn't love it, but he didn't hate it, either.

Bella wanted to feed her brother today. I loved watching her. She's gentle, careful, and so sweet with him.

And for your viewing pleasure, allow me to share with you a short video of Bella doing some 'creative movement' with a scarf. (After the scarf was folded, of course.) That's my girl!! ;-)