Family Fun at LICM

Due to Leah's very busy dance intensive schedule our time together as a whole family has been cut down some. It's well worth it, as she absolutely loves dance and is thriving. Still we miss being together. We try to spend as much of our free time together. After the Festival of Trees we rode Nunley's Carousel, had some lunch and headed over to the Long Island Children's Museum. All three are located on Museum Row.

The museum is perfect for our kids. There have plenty for both Leah and Louis to do.

Matt and Leah bicker and fight much like children do at times. He has a special relationship with her and I suspect she finds this type of bickering amusing.

Here they are fighting over who gets to play the instrument in the music room.







No fighting, only helping.




There is a special exhibit on Vietnam and life there. This was taken in the engagement hut.


Messy Afternoon

Baby It's Cold Outside

Leah had her first dance performance of the current dance year. She and her dance mates danced to "Baby It's Cold Outside" at a local charity event, Annual Festival of Trees hosted by the Cradle of Aviation Museum to support the United Cerebral Palsy Association of Nassau County.

Contrary to the song's lyrics it hasn't really been cold out at all. Still we were able to stay in the festive holiday mood.

The dance studio had a number of performances featuring holiday songs. The kids danced beautifully and had a lot of fun. Afterward we wandered around the museum looking at the exhibits. We were joined by Grandpa George and Grandma Ruth. It was a nice way to spend the morning.

Leah worked really hard on getting her grand battement en attitude (think Rockette kicks) for the past month. I was so proud of how well she did them.

She's the dancer at the far right.





There was a Santa for a photo op.


There were also various characters walking around greeting the children, taking photos. We stopped to say hi to Elmo. Leah may be 7 and some would say a bit old to get excited over the characters but she isn't. Not one bit. She loved meeting and taking photos with them.


There were activities for the children. We decorated cookies and Grandma got the kids stuffed kitties.