Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer

Tomorrow I am taking Olivia to Smitty's Cinema for a free showing of Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer. I think she will be excited. What do you think?

Shot with my Nikon D90.  How cool is that?

Dancing Queen

Olivia loves to dance.  While all the other kids that I watch are sleeping, 

Olivia and I spend some time working on our dance moves.

Her favorite songs right now include, Party in the USA by Miley Cyrus, 

Dancing Queen from Mamma Mia!, Hot Dog! by They Might be Giants,

and Brown Eyed Girl by Van Morrison.

She has some pretty incredible moves!  I have no idea where she gets

them from ;)  I have been trying out some of her moves on Saturday

nights when I go out dancing with my fabulous friends/co-workers.  

The bottom left photo of the above set of pictures is the move we call 

"The Heisman", and below is the "Oops, I did it again!"

She really gets into it!  I love my new camera!  I feel like

I can actually capture the energy in my photos.

I love the tongue in these photos.  She just cracks me up!

We paused quite a bit to give Sydney some love and affection.

Olivia adores both of her dogs, but she and Sydney have a

very special bond!

This is how Olivia and I spend our "rest time" lately.  Not so much

resting, but a whole lot of exercise and fun!  Keep on dancing, baby girl.

Heigh Ho!

I have a really old "Walt Disney Song Book".  I remember it from the 80's when I was taking piano lessons.  Now we use it as a sing-along book.  I play the piano and sing, and the kids dance and sing along with me.  From time-to-time Olivia (or Olive Oil as Cameron and my Dad have taken to calling her) will open the book and just start singing the songs.  "I've Got No Strings", "Someday My Prince Will Come"; all the old classics.  It's a wonderful song book.  The binding is broken, and it is really falling apart, so I have got to do something to preserve it.

If you haven't already heard (which would completely shock me), "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs" has been released from the Disney Vault. Oh, that Disney Vault.  It's so mysterious!  I wonder what it looks like, sometimes.  It must be fantastic!  And big!  And guarded by trolls... but I digress.

Now, Cameron has seen "Snow White" once at Nana and Grampa's house.  For Olivia, this was the first time she saw it.  One rainy day last week we put it on the TV (OK, it may not have been raining, and it may have been the day it was released).  I was feeding a bottle to baby Cameron in the piano room.  Cameron and Olivia were on the couch with the movie on.  Then I heard one of the cutest conversations ever!  It went like this:

Movie:  The dwarfs start singing "Heigh-Ho"

Olivia:  "Hey, Cameron.  Did you hear that?  They just said "Heigh-Ho".

Cameron:  (not impressed) "Yeah."

Olivia:  "Heigh-Ho, Heigh Ho, to make your troubles go."  And then she tried to whistle.

It was just precious.  I think I cried a little.