You may not know...

that Lil is a runner. (Unless you have been reading my blog for a while and remember this post.) She is currently training for a half marathon. Anyway, before and after her runs she stretches, as all runners should. This post is to document one of those stretching sessions. Not really because Lil wanted her stretching documented (I believe she wasn't excited at the prospect), but because of her stretching companions.
Yes, Lil is turning my girls into runners. They love to stretch with her. They love to "read" her running magazines (although they get very concerned that all the runners have cold legs/arms/bellies, due to the lack of clothing covering those parts). They regularly tell me that they need to go run fast.
As you can see, they are getting quite good at the stretches.
This last pic is, perhaps, my favorite.
A story to go along with it: one day while I was making dinner I turned around to see the girls lying on the kitchen floor, much like you see them in the picture above. I had no idea what they were doing, so I asked. Cora looked up and said, "Stretching." Okay, I went on about my business. A few minutes later the girls were wanting me to let them out the front door so they could go running. Then it all made sense to me. When I told Lil the story she knew exactly what they were doing.

By the way, happy birthday, Lil!

Upside Out

The other day, Ruby took her jammies off, turning them inside out, and held them up. "It's upside out," she said.

All ready for the day

Is something wrong?

An invalid should never be left alone

Good thing Lil had the girls to keep her company after having her wisdom removed.

Oops, make that wisdom teeth.

Nurture vs. Nature Quiz

Question 1:
Give a girl a football and she will
a. kick it
b. throw it
c. rock it like a baby and sing it to sleep


And, no, I didn't teach her that.

Who could she be?

Did you ever know a tiara could double as a mask? Or glasses, as the girls call it?

Riding double

on a stick horse.

My first ball

That would be the dancing kind of ball. Ray is a youth leader and the youth had a Regency Ball. Ray had to go, so I got to go with him. :-) In the morning they had practice where we learned some basic steps to some old time dances (commonly called "Jane Austen dances"). Then that evening we got all dressed up and had the ball. I didn't have any idea where to find a ball gown. I borrowed Lil's Halloween costume dress, which worked pretty well. I was amazed at some of the dresses the girls were wearing.

They had dance cards for the kids to fill out before the dancing started -- for some reason I ended up with the same partner for every dance. :-) The ball started with a Grand March, during which they managed to have everybody pass everybody (I really don't know how to describe how it was done, but it was cool), I think so you could look at all the cool dresses. After that, all the dances were mixers, where all the couples start out in a big circle and you move around the circle as you dance. Some of the dances we switched partners over and over, others we would move around the circle as a couple. It really was a lot of fun. I would love to have a ball more often.