Preschool and Dance

Taylor has started going to preschool on Wednesday mornings. We get together with some friends from church, sing songs, read books, have a lesson, do a craft, eat a snack, and play. All Taylor is really interested in is playing. I have a hard time getting her to sit down and sing and pay attention.... really, I'm doing good if I can get her to just stay in the same room as us. I'm hoping that she will eventually learn the routine and will get better.

Her first day was August 12th, and we talked about going to school.


The second week, we talked about things that fly. For the craft, we made airplanes out of candy and gum. As soon as I saw the candy, I knew this wasn't going to go over well. Taylor was only interested in eating the candy. I fought her off long enough-- not without some tears-- to get the airplane made and take a picture of it, and then she destroyed it about half a second later. Then, after snacktime, she found a batman mask and escaped to the bat cave.


This week, we talked about teeth and how important it is to brush them. Taylor is pretty much obsessed with brushing her teeth- she gets her bottom right teeth really clean ;-) My friend Miranda was teaching the lesson, and as soon as she pulled out a toothbrush, she had Taylor's undivided attention. Taylor sat down right in front of her and kept trying to grab the toothbrush out of her hand.. haha Miranda had made little boxes for the kids to put their teeth in when they lose them, and then we added little googly eyes and cheeks to the tooth.

Taylor is also taking a "Creative Movement" dance class. I am so stinkin' excited! I LOVE to dance but never really took lessons growing up (I got my mom to sign me up once but I was the oldest girl in a beginner's class with a bunch of younger girls and was very embarrassed so I quit-- sorry, mom!) Taylor loves to dance, too, so I was hoping that she would really like going to a dance class. So far, she seems to be having fun.

August 20th-- getting ready for the first day!! I made the tutu with help (lots and lots and lots of help) from Miranda. I still may end up trimming some length off of the tutu to make it shorter.

Admiring herself in the mirror.. haha-- can you blame her?? ;-)

Megan is one of Miranda's daughters. She is about six months older than Taylor, and aside from her cousins, she is Taylor's BFF. They are pretty obsessed with each other and talk about each other all the time.


walking into class

We don't get to go in the rooms and watch them dance (which is understandable because it would be distracting) so I took one more picture before they got started-- and then had to quickly run away because Taylor started running towards me.

Not sure what they learned in class, but Taylor kept doing this afterwards.

We gotta start making some more money though because dance classes can be expensive, especially as they get older and start taking more... and then there's soccer and gymnastics and piano lessons and..... Am I going to be one of those mothers who lives vicariously through her child??