ballet shoes!

saratoga has these awesome ballet shoes on display up and down broadway right now. daley loves them, and i promised her we would take her picture in front of all of them...so we set out to do so. we didn't get to all of them, and she kind of lost interest, but it was fun to look at them nonetheless. i'm hoping to get her to the ballet this year, i think she would love the nutcracker:)

and along with big brother's sass...is a little girl's enormous tantrums. seriously, where did she come from sometimes?? it made me pull out the parenting books last night. not to mention i went to bed feeling like such a failure. of course, she woke up all smiles and very sorry. i cannot wait for this fun phase to pass. she is making cocktail hour come earlier and earlier;)

let's end this on a good note...while there may be tantrums, her imagination is amazing. she and jack come up with the best games and have really been playing well together. especially because i am often preoccupied with a certain little guy! for instance, just the other day they were amazed by the fact that a group of ants were eating a dead bug(gross!). so they decided that the ants needed a salad to go with their bug. they made an "ant" salad which consisted of grass, day lily leaves & mulch! they kept checking on them to see if they were eating it...it was so cute!

again, post-nap hair, but totally adorable!