Young Party of Four

I promised I would write up a quick recap of Kenzie's year in dance to document how she did and what it was like. This year she took a Combo 1 Ballet/Jazz class. Last season when we talked about it, she decided to go with jazz rather than tap (in addition to ballet that is taught with both classes) and I think she is so glad that she did. It was her first year with a different teacher as she had the same teacher for Pre-K 1 and 2. Her teacher this year was amazing. So great in fact that we signed up for her Combo 2 class next season and Kenzie is very excited. Kenzie has really grown this year. She loves jazz. Her recital dance this year was jazz and I think she actually found it a fun break from ballet. She likes ballet and I once thought that is where she may want to focus once she finishes the combo classes, but I could see her choosing jazz now. She has another year of combo so we will see what she decides at the end of next season. Her recital was this past weekend and s...

We skipped this post last week because we (amazingly) didn't do anything on our bucket list for a full week. So, even though this post says Week 2... nothing was actually done that week. That doesn't mean we weren't really busy. We just didn't mark anything off the bucket list. In the week since then (Friday of last week until Thursday of this week), we did mark off a few things. Warning: Long post ahead! We started on Friday of last week when we decided to take a last minute trip to Disney. We had on our bucket list to go have dole whip at the Polynesian but we didn't plan to go to Disney at that point too because our passes were supposed to be in blackout. Lo and behold, Disney decided to extend our time to visit the parks until the end of June (when they open Toy Story land at Hollywood Studios), so we were able to make one last trip before we blacked out. We decided to do Magic Kingdom. That was a twofold thing. One, because it is the kids' favorite park o...