Second Easter Egg Hunt: American Legion Grounds

We know that you true Lola-blog addicts don't want to see many pictures of other people, so here's a posting with a bunch of pictures of The Countess.

It was so difficult to get the family rolling this morning that Mommy came out to the hunt in work clothes!



Here's the field of 0-3s.
Here are the big kids.
The big kids have a gun on their field.
A kid with a bucket on his head.
Josh wants this picture titled "Local Color."
No makeup on Mommy's face!


Lola is excited and somewhat uncomfortable in the presence of the rabbit.

Easter Egg Hunt at Lola's House!

Lola's Multilingual Bent

I checked out a video for Lola called "The Princes' Quest." It's an animated fairy tale somewhat reminiscent of the Arabian Nights, and approximately half of it is spoken in Arabic. Amazingly, Lola has watched it twice and enjoyed it both times. I like it too, but I can read the subtitles. Having had Spanish lessons at school, Lola is now familiar with the concept of a "foreign language." She was speaking a pretty good fake Arabic this morning--not "blahblahblah" but "cant-a poon-a," etc.

Lola with Giraffes

I had a conference in Richmond, VA this weekend. While I was working, Josh took Lola to the zoo. They both got to feed giraffes and zebras! Here are the pictures.

Dance Class Furlough

Lola has stopped her dance classes until next Fall. Instead, every Friday night, she and I will have dance class at home. We did our first class yesterday, and it went very well. We both put on our dance clothes (thanks to Josh for finding mine in deep drawers!) and turned on the Handel. I found out that one of the secrets to keeping her attention is that she must have interpretive or creative content mixed in with the basic steps. We pretended to be fairies and lions. I'm sure that in the Fall she will be much more mature, and less liable to be stressed out by a class without Mom!

Snow in Atlanta!