More Baseball and Dance

Thursday with Grammy was busy with me teaching, Maddi going to dance and tutoring and Cade going to swim team practice. Grammy enjoyed some time at the park with Emma while we waited for Cade to finish swimming. That afternoon, we met Maddi's friend Jarid at the park. I mentioned in an earlier post, it was God's perfect timing that we had a playdate set with Jarid while Grammy was here. It was emotional for Janet and Jarid's mom to talk about their children with cerebal palsy and I know it made Janet's heart very happy to see Maddi and Jarid interact. I know it certainly made my heart happy to see Maddi with Jarid, she had talked about him all year, but I had never met him. As we were leaving the park, he drove his wheelchair over to our car to try to see Maddi one more time. He was busted by his mom. So cute!
On Friday Maddi had dance most of the day and Cade, Emma, Janet and I had a nice lunch at Chilis. That evening Cade had a baseball scrimage.
Saturday morning, Cade had a baseball game and Maddi had pictures for dance. Emma insisted on wearing a costume like her sister and wanted to get a picture taken too. I snapped this on my phone, but the photographer did take a cute one of the two of them together.

Emalyn was wearing a costume Maddi wore her first year in dance company, when she was in first grade. It was a little big on Emma but considering she's only two, it's hard to believe it fit Maddi when she was 7. Emma matched little Caitlin so we got a picture of them together. Little cuties!

Maddi was very interested in Grammy's cane. This was the first time we have seen Grammy using a cane, but we were glad to see she was using it, she makes us nervous walking! Maddi talked Grammy into letting her gem the cane for her so Maddi spent Saturday afternoon making the cane all sparkly and colorful. Grammy is a good sport and will let her grandkids do whatever they want. It made Maddi quite happy.

Sunday was a busy day that started with a baseball game, followed by lunch and then a mad dash to Maddi's dance recital. Cade and friends hanging in the dugout.

Grammy with Cade in uniform at lunch. Cade's lucky he got to have both grandmother's at his baseball games two weeks in a row.

At the dance recital, they had some raffles (we didn't win. boo!) and Maddi and Katie were the assistants. Maddi's friend, Jarid, came to the recital with his mom and sister. Jarid was really enjoying the music and dancing and would squeal when he really liked something, like when Maddi was dancing. So cute!

The recital was very long (4 hours)and Jarid and Emma only made it until intermission. Janet and I stuck it out to the end. Emma, Brett and Janet at one of the breaks. Emma insisted on wearing a costume to the recital too. She just wants to be like her big sister. I can't blame her!

At the end of the recital, they presented the teachers with scrapbooks that everyone made a page for. Maddi had a bag to give to the ballet teacher, but she had to leave before it was over. There are many things about dance that I don't love (the time and money, really) but the teachers are so good the girls and really care about them so much.

The dancing queen with Grammy after the show.

When we got home, Emalyn wanted to show us her dance moves. Brett had her take off her costume while she ate dinner, but she wanted it back on right after she ate. She slept in it too and kept talking about her ballet class (she doesn't go to a ballet class. ha!).

Emma learns all of her dance skills from her sister and from watching dance videos in the car. This is one of her favorite moves. Funny, it's one of Maddi's favorites too.

We realized we didn't have many pictures with Emma and Grammy from the trip so we got a few Sunday night before Grammy left early Monday morning. Emma was very happy to see Grammy for a couple days and then she wasn't very sweet to her. In fact one time I came downstairs and Emma told me she had yelled at Grammy! I'm not sure if she was tattling on herself or was proud of herself. It earned her a time out anyway. Thankfully by Sunday night she was a fan of Grammy again.

Something was very funny!

One of Emma's favorite things to do is to "ding dong". When we get home from somewhere, she always wants to run to the front door herself and "ding dong" us. She doesn't know to ring the bell, but just presses on the window and says "ding dong". It's so stinking cute. She wanted to ding dong us while she was playing with Grammy.

We had a great visit with Grammy and are so happy she was able to come visit us. She's never come for as long as she did because she always had to get back to work. Now she's retired, so she's got time to do these kinds of things.