Jordan's 1st dance recital!!

Hello all,
Here's videos and pictures from Jordan's 1st tap dance recital. She was so excited to perform on stage! Not nervous at all. Rob, Jacob and I loved watching her. Jacob was very impatient for his sisters turn! The file was to large to post it as one video so I broke it up into two. You'll notice Jordan's teacher, Miss Megan, suddenly appear. She was not supposed to be there. I guess that is to be expected with a bunch of 4 year old girls. She said it was her 4th class that she had to go on stage with. Jacob brought Jordan a dozen pink roses. If you listen carefully to the video you will hear him ask if he can give her the flowers now. I hope you all enjoy it as much as we did! We know this is just the first of many.





Jordan before her recital

Showing Mommy her Plié

I am dropping Jordan off in the "Big Girls" ballet room. She had to stay there with Miss Megan until it's time for her to perform. She thought that was great!

Jacob gracefully give Jordan her 1st bouquet of flowers.



Sitting together on stage. Jacob wants to know when he gets to go on stage! Jordan is always teaching him things that she learned in class. Rob just loves that!!


Jacob really was proud of his sister!

Doesn't she look so grown up??

Jordan's beautiful flowers

New car seats!!

Jacob and Jordan's new car seats just got here. We got them Britax Frontiers. They are great car seats. We are able to keep them in a 5 point harness up to 80 pounds and then it converts to a booster until 100+ pounds. Most car seats only have 5 point harness to 40 pounds, a few to 65. Rob and I were not ready to put the kids in a booster with just a seat belt. The kids are still way to squirmy to stay seated correctly in a regular seat belt. 5 point harness's are so much safer. For some reason I thought a booster seat was more than just a chair to raise the kids up to get the adult seat belt to sit correctly, it isn't. Kids have to stay still and seated perfectly for the adult seat belt to work correctly. My twins sure don't do that! Stay still, HAH!! I just wish that I had this information when the kids out grew their infant seats. I wouldn't have had to buy the 2nd one. Could have saved some money.
When I was doing research for this car seat I also realized how misleading car seat packaging is. You really have to read closely to see when the 5 point harnessing stops. I know that several of my girlfriends were under the impression that they could 5 point harness their kiddos in their car seats much longer than they actually could because of the way it was worded on the box.
I also believe that if more consumers would request extended 5 point harness feature on more car seats the price would become much lower. The one we bought was NOT cheap. I just think a lot of people think that when their kiddos get to 40 pounds you just move them to a booster. No options and it's just as safe as 5 point harness! Not true.

When used correctly, 5-point harness car seats provide significant safety advantages over securing your child in a booster seat using the adult seat belt.
* The crash forces are spread over the skeletal body
over five points rather than three.
* The crash forces are spread to the strongest parts
of the child's body.
* Forward head excursion (the distance the head is
thrown forward) are lessened.
* The child is secured in the correct seating position rather
than being able to wiggle around, lean forward etc.

OK, off my soap box!
This is the very last car seat that we will have to buy for them! YIPPEE!!

Check out this web site. Some of the videos will give you chills. http://www.kyledavidmiller.org

Thanksgiving Day Parade

Hi everyone,
Hope you all had a great Thanksgiving! We were by ourselves this year so we decided to take the kids to the Houston Thanksgiving Day Parade. We bought tickets to make sure Jacob and Jordan could see the parade. It was very well worth it. We had to leave the house at 7:00 to make sure we were in our seats on time. As soon as we got to our seats we got presents! T-shirts for the kids from Children's Place. That was just the beginning of all the stuff the kids accumulated at the parade. Thank goodness the t-shirts came in big bags so we had a place to put all the stuff. Jacob and Jordan were magnets for everyone in the parade. Everyone stopped by to give them high five, say hello or to give them candy or a trinket. Jordan waved practically the entire parade. Both of them loved it. We will go back next year for sure, that is if we are still here!
I hope you enjoy the pictures.

This was the name of the section of seating we sat in. Appropriate huh?

Both kids loved the marching bands. The drums were their favorite

Sporting some of their gifts and eating more candy!!

Aren't these bicycles neat? No pedals. The arms do all the work.

Even pimped out cars in this parade! Notice that the car on the left is on 3 wheels!

A Texas Christmas tree

No Thanksgiving parade would be complete without the big guy himself!