Pleasanton Highland Games

You are going to see a theme here in the next few posts... they all are really outdated.  Sorry.

We went to the Pleasanton Highland games with the babies on Labor Day weekend.  I had been looking forward to it for months! Growing up as a Scottish dancer, I went to the Pleasanton games almost every year.  And recently, I've started dragging Boris along to it every year since it's so close. Then this year, we moved just a few blocks from the Pleasanton fairgrounds.  I couldn't wait to bring the babies! We bought little mini kilts for them and everything.  They weren't quite as excited about it as I was (read: lots of screaming), but I still thought it was a successful trip. Just a bit shorter than I would have liked. We got to watch some dancing, see my old teacher Kyla and her kids and husband, and some of the dancers I used to dance with.  Great fun!

I'll be honest about the real reason it took me so long to write a post about this trip... I was unsatisfied with the amount of adorable pictures we had from the trip, so I demanded a photo re-shoot.  That was accomplished eventually, so here they are in their adorable kilts!

Flipping over!

It's official - both babies can flip over in both direction. AHH, THEY ARE MOBILE!

As per usual, Alexis was first. She got so frustrated when she couldn't get onto her belly and just tried and tried until it finally worked. Amelia was perfectly content laying on her back calmly for another week or so. Then she just calmly flipped over. Amelia is definitely the tortoise - slow and steady wins the race.

Here's Alexis flipping over:

And here's a short video of the girls displaying their relative strengths: Alexis flipping over, and Amelia "talking."

Bloopers

Every parent has them…. those photos that didn't quite turn out how you planned, with hilarious results. Most of the photos below were not quite "Facebook-worthy" for one reason or another (although some made it onto Facebook anyway), but were too good not to share with the world.

 

 

 

 

 Don't miss the vomit spewing out mid-photo on this one: