Adelynn is 5

Adelynn turned 5 on November 25th. She was so sweet!

She wore the same outfit that she wore to the play, only without the ribbons in her hair. Instead, she but a bow right smack in the middle of her head. Oh, well.

I made her a little crocheted ballet bun holder. She wanted to be a "real" ballerina. I told her that we will ask Mom about getting "real" ballet shoes when she actually learns her first dance. (Walmart has pink ballet flats that look like the real thing.) However, I still have not finished choreographing her dance (I do not know that much ballet, and it is hard to teach her simple things- she keeps falling over when she does pirouettes and she waves her arms like a bird while doing an arabesque.)

Mom and Dad got Adelynn a Dora paint-by-number (she looks at the pictures and attempts to match the colors, stubbornly refusing to use the numbers) and a, what is it, Bella Dancerella dance thing. Basically, it is a movie "Bella", a teenage girl, dancing and looking positively ridiculous with a big pink plastic wand, five little girls dancing with her, and a dance mat that you stand on. Adelynn got upset that the movie did not teach her how to dance, but she loves to pull out the mat and practice first through third positions.

Mom made the mistake of handing Nick the video camera. I now have a video of Nick's teeth, the ceiling light, the bow on Adelynn's head, and someone's toe, but no video of Adelynn opening the presents. Oh, well.

I can't believe how old she is! Five already! And she is so sweet. Mom asked her if her birthday was good, and she said, "almost". Mom asked what she could do to make it better. Adelynn looked at her, and said, "No fighting." (Her birthday was a cleaning day for the rest of us, and everyone was being pretty cranky to everyone but her).