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My favorite summer show is now going to be my favorite fall show.  YAY!!!!  So You Think You Can Dance will start it's 6th season in September.  I just love this show so much.  The choreographers are just phenomenal.  I am so amazed at what these young kids can push themselves to do.  They are just incredible and immensely talented.  I have posted my favorites.  Please let me know who your favs are.  C'mon now...I KNOW you watch it! 

PRINCE AND PRINCESS BIRTHDAY PARTY

Enjoying some snacks.
The Birthday Girl
Cinderella, Gracie (Estelle's sister), and Estelle
My niece Karlie
The fabulous and delicious cake from The Sweet Shoppe
My sister Jill and my nephew Luke (my sister Kari's baby).  He is hands down the most precious baby I have EVER seen!!!
Cinderella and Estelle
Lillianne enjoying making her tiara with Cindy.
Sophie and Lillie
Lillianne eating her tiara.

Yesterday was my niece Estelle's third birthday and my kids were treated to a Prince and Princess birthday party with a special visit from Cinderella.  It was a darling party.  The kids got to make their own crowns and tiaras, take pictures with Cinderella, hit the tiara pinata, and have a tea party.   Estelle is all about princesses and she was completely enthralled with Cinderella.  Jill turned her garage into a precious princess fantasy and the goodie bags were jeweled goblets filled with candy rings, necklaces and treasures.  That girl does NOT mess around when she throws a party.  We had a terrific time.  There were 3 or 4 boys in attendance but I don't have any pics of them.  Happy Birthday, Estelle!

HAPPY FATHER'S DAY

Happy Father's Day to my wonderful husband who is the best father I know.  I hope all the dads have a lovely and relaxing day and I hope my own father enjoys his special day and I know we will all enjoy the boiled shrimp dinner we will have this evening to celebrate all the wonderful dads in our family.  Yum!

BIG GIRL PANTIES

After six months of saying that Lillianne needed to be potty-trained and many not so subtle hints from my husband I finally took the bull by the horns and Lillianne is offically potty trained!  I used the ABA program that I used to potty train Andrew (took him two days) and she was trained in less than 8 hours.  Before that day she would not go pee on the potty so I was expecting the worst. I am so happy that I don't have to buy diapers anymore but really sad my baby is a big girl.  She was promised a Build-A-Bear if she didn't have any accidents for a week (she didn't have any after the first day) so we went to the mall and she picked out a pink bear and a t-shirt with a cupcake on it and she insisted that the bear have big girl panties too so we got her bear some of those, too.  She named her pink bear Pinkie (she must get her creativity from me!) and she loves her very much.  I have been changing diapers for 9 years.  This is really weird!

OUR LITTLE STAR

The University of Louisiana at Lafayette's Dr. John Oller is having a book published on autism and it's rise as an epidemic (it is the fastest growing diagnosis) and affects more children than pediatric diabetes, cancer, and AIDS combined.  Dr. Oller explores the issues of toxins, disease agents and their interactions in his examination of the disorder.  I can't wait to read this book and I am especially excited because our little sweetheart Andrew appears on the cover of the book!  He is in the lower right-hand corner.  My sister Kari took the photo.  www.karismithphotography.com