Finally! The girl's accomplishments

And since it's been what, 2 months?  There are so many more to report now!  But I think I'll stick with my original plan. 

Clara -

She finished out her year of gymnastics at The Little Gym. She really enjoyed it, but we are switching back to music for this coming year.  And, the big news of the past few days is that Clara will be a kindergartner next year.  Mike & I have debated endlessly about this and finally after talking to Mrs. Matejka (who knows Clara from all the parties and other events we attended for Gracie last year), we decided to go ahead and let her start.  She'll be an afternoon kindergartner, since those are the spots that were left.  Hopefully, it will be a good fit for her and it will be nice to have her year be a little different than her big sister's! 

But, back to her gymnastics - here's are two short clips of routines she did during the final performance:

Gracie -
So this video clip is from her recital at the end of her music camp.  It was her first keyboard classes (she'll continue in the fall with the same - group keyboard) and it was the first camp of the summer.  Poor Gracie missed one of the four days after she got some sort of cold/virus and ran a fever.  I don't know that she really felt well on the last two days, but I hated to have her miss when it was such a short camp and she was so excited.  But she hung in there and here's the end result:

I'll have to make a new recording of her playing that (or something else), because we now have a lovely new (to us) piano in our living room!  Thanks to my Mom & Dad for scouring the metroplex to find us a really nice piano.  We've had it for about 2 weeks now and the kids really enjoy it.  Gracie has learned to play all of the sheet music she has (simple songs from her classes) and even wrote out a duet for her and Clara to play. 

 In other exciting news, Gracie has now lost *4* teeth.  And yes, those would be all of her front teeth.  When she lost the last of the front ones, we poked some fun at her about how tough it was to make those "ss"  sounds, but she was a good sport about it.  And luckily, she now has both bottom teeth about half way in.  Those top teeth are probably going to be awhile coming in, but more on that in another post.