Dance and Swiming

Addi got to sign up for a few classes at our gym and she is super excited about both of them. First she started Dance class. She was so excited to put on her new dance shoe I had a hard time convincing her to wear other shoe until we got to her class.
She wanted to leave her leg warmers on during class. Don't you love the panties sticking out from under the leotard?
She is in the class with of friend of hers and sometimes it is really hard to follow the teacher and not her friend. Addi is very much so a follower of her peers and this worries me slightly.
They got ribbons and the teacher said they were going to be princess or fairies as they danced across the floor. When it was Addi's turn the teacher asked if she was a princess or fairy and addi looked at her and said I'm a ballerina.
Our happy ballerina.
Then they were suppose to be bunnies and hop across the floor. Addi is not very good at jumping and can jump with both feet leaving the ground. Hopefully dance will help with that.
She also started swim lessons. I don't have many pictures because your not suppose to have cameras or use phone in the Y (I guess they don't want you taking pictures of people in the dressing room and such) but I snapped a couple really fast with my phone.
She really likes her swim class but she doesn't like putting her face in the water. She swims with her face as far away from the water as she can which doesn't really help her swimming technique to much.

Addi's new favorite place

Last month we went on a field trip with Addi's playgroup to Bounce U. Addi loved it and didn't want to leave. I finally got her to leave by telling her that maybe daddy could be her back sometime.
She was bouncing all over everything.
And climbing all over by herself.
She even went down the big slide. When I ask if she had fun she said yes, but if you asked her if she wanted to do it again she said No its scary.
Aidan had fun too crawling all over the place.
And playing on the bouncy horsey. We love our playgroup and all the field trips they take us on we are going to miss them all when we move. Here is a picture from another playgroup fieldtrip at another of Addi's favorite places Chuckee Cheese.

A little of what Daddy missed

Jared left town again for some more interviews. Addi was not very happy with him. When we told her that daddy was going on a planed she cried when I said she couldn't go with him. When we dropped him off she gave him the cold shoulder and would give him loves and she does the same thing every time he calls. When we left the airport she asked if that is where daddy lived and asked if she could stay there. To ease her pain (and mine) we tried to keep ourselves busy. We played and, had dance class, went to the gym and play group. I didn't clean (as you will see in the pictures) and I didn't cook (unless you count mac n' cheese). I would not be such a great single mother. What is the point in cooking if you have to force it on the ones eating. And what is the point in picking up the toys if there is no one coming over or coming home when I know 2 sec later they are going to be right back on the floor. We did do some new things and here they are.
Aidan discovered that he loves licorice. Addi had a piece and apparently left it sitting where Aidan could reach. Once he got a taste he was not going to let us have it. He covered it with both hand or moved it away when I reached for it. When I finally did take it away he screamed and was shaking in anger. It was hilarious.

Addi has dressed herself everyday and some times she did better than others.

Addi made a train and we all went for a ride.

Princess Party

Daddy was gone for a whole week in January interviewing for jobs. To keep mommy from going insane we kept our schedule pretty full so there wasn't much down time at home. One of those things was our princess party.
We invited all of Addi's girlfriends over for a princess dress up playdate. We had a royal lunch.
With of course royal cupcakes which Addi helped me make
We had many dresses to choose from and most of the girls came dresses up in princess dresses.
Every princess need her accessories.
Aidan was asleep through most of it, but when he was awake I don't think he liked all the little girls runny around.
We made daddy's chair into a thrown for the princesses to take their picture in. Addi thought it was funny to pull the tulle down over her face like a wedding veil.

We also made fancy princess wands. Love the tongue sticking out, very princess like.
I think all the girls had a lovely time and mommy loved the break from entertaining the toddler. I do think we will be doing this again sometime.

Let it Snow

I know my midwest friends feel they have it bad with the snow there, but you got nothing on New England. The snow is getting ridiculous. We got are first big storm right after Christmas and we have had 2 storms a week ever since.
These first pictures were taken after the first storm back in December. The snow is up to my thigh and along the road where they plowed it is taller than me.
Our deck is almost completely filled with snow. There have only been a couple of times we have ventured out because it has been so cold. Now it is warming up but then is rained and froze so all of our lovely snow is now covered in a sheet of ice.
This is my view out our kitchen window. Snow and ice.
It was so cold in our house so we hung blankets up over our big window which helped, but I swear it made me depressed. I didn't clean the house all week so our house was a mess which made me more depressed, so I finally just took the blanket down.
One day when it was snowing it was actually above 30 degrees so we hurried out side for a little adventure and to get some pictures of Aidan in the snow. He had not been out in the snow yet. He did not like laying in the snow, but he was o if he was sitting up. He hates his snow suit because he can't move in it and he is very mobile these days.
Addi had to bring her camera too. She was also the leader of our snow adventure. She lead us over snow mountains and all over rescuing animals just like Diego.
Addi loves to caught the snow flakes in her mouth. She asks all the time to go outside, yet she insists on wearing shorts. Silly girl.
It has been so bad that we have been able to have dad home a couple of days. It had to be really bad for daddy to stay home. Someone please tell me why dentist are essential state employees. Other state employees have at least one day a week off this last month.
Mommy likes when daddy is home because she gets to take a nap. Mommy was really tired. Addi took advantage and covered me in stickers.
This last week we finally saw the light and maybe we will go all week without a snow day so we can get out and actually make it to playgroup or storytime this week.

Bringing in the New Year in Style

New Years eve we went downtown to the park to checkout all the festivities and to go ice skating. Normally never in my right mind would I go to Bushnell Park after dark, but thought that just this once it would be ok since there would be tons of people and security.
There we different random performers (ie fire dancers) and people making there own little parades in the street.
There was a firework show, but Addi was a little scared of them. I guess we were a little to close.

We had gone downtown to go ice skating, but it was full and they weren't doing another session until 8 because they had a little performance. Although Addi was very disappointed she didn't get to go ice skating (were talking crying and screaming disappointed) she did love to watch the skaters she was in aww.
Daddy stood in a very long line to get us some hot chocolate because we were freezing. Aidan lost one of his socks that was covering his hand so daddy used the cup to warm it up.
Then it was time to head home for our 2nd Annual Sorensen Family New Years Eve Dance Party!
It was just as much fun as the first and included many costume changes.
We got to eat all of our favorite party foods.
We attempted to take a family photo using our remote.


Maybe not very professional looking but a lot of fun.
Addi thought it was cool and we have many many random photos because of it.
Since Addi was so disappointed that she didn't get to go ice skating daddy took her back the next day to try it out.
They didn't have ice skate that were small enough and she wasn't very stable but she sure looked cute trying.