Aleana's first dance recital and other family fun!

Aleana and I have been attending a mommy and me dance class that my friend Janaca Segrist has been teaching.  We started in the middle of February part way though the dance session but there was only one other mom besides my friend who taught the class. It has been fun to have this class for Aleana and I to attended together. Might as well take advantage of only having one child :) 

Teddy Bear picnic! 

Dancing teddies

Using Aleana as my Teddy :) 

Getting ready to put my little one to sleep and carry her off the stage! 

After we finished this dance and were clearing off the stage Aleana ran off the stage and grabbed the fish props from the older girls dance and ran on the stage and started to dance. She wanted to be like the older girls.  

You'll be in my heart from Tarzan. 

So Cute that Aleana has caught on to some of the movements! 

She loved playing with the Balloons! 

Cracking up:)

making a run for it:) I had to run off and grab her! 

Side stepping and kicking the balloons. 

Solo dance, she loved kicking the balloons and dancing with mommy! 

She was fighting to get off my legs, usually she likes this :) 

Kicking feet and sticking touge out at her little friend

Escape number 2:) 

waiting to see if she is going to come back, I grabbed her as she ran back on the stage for our final pose. 

For the finale they announced each girls name and they got to have a solo dance.  While we were waiting back stage for our turn she was clapping with the audience so when it was her turn she just stood on the stage and started to clap.  I had to pick her up and take her to get her flower.   

Receiving her flower:) 

Mommy and Aleana! 

 Aleana and Jesica!

 I am so glad I invited her and that she was able to come, Jesica loved watching Aleana dance. 

 Aleana and Brooke! 

I guess Brooke was dancing through the room while the dances were going on.  She also wanted on of the dance costumes.  She is a cute girl. 

 Cousin Layla

She had fun watching the dances and enjoyed the balloons as well. 

 Julee! 

My Beautiful Ballerina! 

It was so fun to be apart of this and have family come and support! 

After we went back to the house to visit.  Julee bought Aleana a car and while they were putting it together we took Aleana and Layla out to play.  Allen took some cute pictures while they were swinging. 

what a cutie! 

Aleana was so excited when she saw her car but together.  She kept trying to climb in it and drag it out side while curt and his dad were putting it together. 

She had lots of fun playing in it and being pushed around. 

Just love her cute smile! 

 Right when we brought her down from bed she wanted to play into 

 Even wanted to play in the car with her pretty dress on:) 

We are going to need to make room in the garage for it but for now we will just let her play in the house with it all she wants. 

Cute pose of us hanging out after church

18 months!

 Tuesday April 1st Aleana decided to pull all my baking stuff out of the cupboard, and then when I went to take a picture she said "cheese, chesse, chesse", because she wanted her camera (our old camera to take a picture.  

 She loves trying to take pictures of her self and random pictures of the house. 

 My Cute little 18 month old. 

She turned 18 month on April 2 she is getting so big. 

 on Thursday April 3 my mom and sister came up to watch Aleana's dress rehearsal for our mommy and me dance class.  She decided she did not want to take a nap and then was a total show off during lunch.  It is a good thing she was not wearing any clothes.  

An attempt at a picture of us in our dance clothes. 

Aleana did really pretty good she only tried to run off the stage once per dance.  hopefully she dose good tomorrow for her recital.  Aleana loves to dance and danced on the floor during the older kids dance more then on stage.  

 We went and got Aggie Ice Cream after and Debbie was nice enough to share her cone and ice cream with Aleana.  This is Aleana first Aggie Ice cream and I think she enjoyed it. 

 First bite of Aggie Blue Mint. 

 Eating her cone! 

I love the sun light in these pictures. 

 Family photo, but Aleana is more interested in the cone which is fitting. 

 Aleana has figured out that crayons are for more than just coloring in coloring books. I will have to watch her better when we get crayons out. 

 On Saturday April 5th we went to the Zoo for Layla's 1st birthday.  It was fun but it was cold and rainy and Aleana got a cold.  Luckly we bought a pass so we can come as often as we want throughout the year. 

 Layla opening her present from Aleana. I think she liked it, she did not want to open any more for a few minutes. 

 Keeping warm with Dad. 

 She liked the otter until it swam right up to the glass in front of her and scared her.  She was a scared on Animals behind glass after that because she could not tell if they were going to stop or not. 

 Giant gloves to keep her hands warm. 

 Looking at the fish with uncle Brian, even these scared her if she got to close. 

 Helping Grandma hold the umbrella 

 She thought the giraffe's were pretty cool and just watched them. 

 Layla loves the giraffe's and was pretty excited when it come over to say Hi! She is even wearing her giraffe jacket.  

 Aleana and Debbie looking at the giraffe,  the giraffe sneezed and scared Aleana and then she was done. 

 Walking along with aunt Cadie and Grandpa.  

 Checking out the monkey's with dad.  Although it scared her when it came up to the glass.  She did enjoy the bird room she loves birds.  

I am sure we will be back again soon, but we will have a couple extra pair of clothes because Aleana leaked though one on the one to the zoo and one while we were there.  The second time she just had to dry out.  Luckily no one minded to much. 

After the Zoo we headed up to Kamas to see Tiffany and meet her kids Zavane Zola and Zoe.  I forgot to get pictures but they can fun playing with myself Curt and Aleana.  They are very active kids and I would get along well with Ryan's kids.  To bad Mary was sick so they did not make it up to see Tiff and her family.   We stayed the night which was rough because Aleana dose not like to sleep any where but her own bed.  We did get her to finally sleep in her bed by 11:30 and she slept through the night.  

We watched the morning session of conference with Curt's parents.  Aleana discover markers and colored during conference and actually did pretty well she only got marker on her hands.  

We spent the afternoon at Julee's.  Aleana would point at her cat and say meow but would not go near then.  I think Aleana is allergic to cats because she was itching her nose and carrying a good portion of the way home.  We bathed her and put her to bed and she woke up with a nasty runny nose the next morning.  She is over the green gunk but she is still runny and often coughs when she sleeps.  I hope it goes away soon.  

This week has been nice so we have been enjoyed playing out side and taking lots of walks. She loves her stroller and will climb right up into with out my help.  I love the spring!  Aleana loves seeing all the animals all around our house and also loves to play in Rykers car.  I can't wait until Julee bring up the one she bought her tomorrow.  

Last night we had another meeting for FSA which went really well, it was under an hour and we got a lot planned.  It was a much better meeting even with Aleana there.

We had Aleana's 18 month Doctors appointment today.  She is growing so fast she is now 32 1/2 inches tall in the 70th percentile and 25 lbs 2 oz in the 80th percentile.  She cried each time we put her on the table and just started to scream and cry when they gave her her shots.  She calmed down pretty fast when they gave her a sucker.  She is not a fan of dr's office but luckily she does not have to get shots again until 4 years.

Aleana is getting better at talking and communicating with us and has learned how to use please, uh-hu, and no.  This helps me know what she wants. She understands what we are telling her and often listens really well, when she wants too. She has learned to say bus and every vehicle she see's is a bus.  She is cute and it is fun to watch her grow.