..but hey, it’s a start right? Here are some people Anna drew today:

Not bad for a 2 1/2 year old, right? Interesting enough, she drew the right arm and right leg with her RIGHT hand and drew the left arm and left leg with her LEFT arm. Do I have an ambidextrous child? I don’t think so. I’m pretty sure she’s right handed, but we’ll see.

And then we worked on letters a little bit. She’s gotten quite good at writing A’s and O’s. Here’s our attempt at A through G. I did help a little with the “E” but the rest she did on her own.

Her “B” looks more like an “R”. She’s got the C down now after her first two attempts here. You can kinda see her “D”. She started to do an “E” and then got a little distracted and proclaimed it to be an “H” so we tried again. “F” is pretty good! She was losing interest when she attempted the G, but that’s kind of a hard one.

Not bad though! She’s FINALLY starting to control her drawing and not just scribble scrabble.

Yesterday, Anna was the only one who showed up for her ballet class. All the other classes have had at least 4 other little girls, so I don’t know where they all were. Before the class started she was playing with a toy and her teacher came over to say hi. Anna started babbling about the different things they do in class and then stood up and bent her knees and said clear as day “this is a plie’”. They don’t teach the word “plie’” in class, they just call it bending their knees or something, so the teacher loved that. I was like yeah…I taught her that. She took Anna to show another teacher because she was just so impressed. That’s my little ballerina for you.

Yesterday was the last class in her mini-session and I meant to take my camera and completely forgot because I was rushing out the door so we wouldn’t be late. We’ll be gone on vacation for most of the next session but she will get to make it to the last day of the session in 3 weeks. Then the fall sessions start at the end of August.

I think she loves the class, but thank goodness it’s only 30 minutes. That’s about the max amount of time that they can keep her attention. She’s still not doing quite a bit of what the teacher asks…she’ll just stand there and watch the other kids, but the parents tell me that she’ll start getting into it soon. Hopefully she will. She sure does dance all over the house so I know she enjoys dancing.

I’ll be sure to take my camera to the next class she goes to.