Here's a compilation video of the concerts at the Levitt Shell last weekend. The ice cream and cake dancers are in it!!! Pay attention around 43 seconds into the video!
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Tuesday, June 2, 2009
Monday, June 1, 2009
Mommy Weekend
This weekend we ended up staying in Memphis instead of going to Mobile because Leila had a pesky ear infection and didn't feel up to traveling. After a trip to the doctor on Friday and then to Target to pick up some pink medicine and cupcakes, she's been feeling a little better every day.
Daddy participated in an intense all-weekend StartUp Weekend in downtown Memphis Friday night and all day Saturday and Sunday, leaving Leila and Mommy to enjoy eachother's company. Leila and Mommy aren't exactly clear on what Daddy did at startup weekend, but we heard there were zombies involved.
Mommy made the best of her solo bonding time by doing some of her favorite Leila in Memphis activities. First, we went Leila downtown to the Farmer's Market to get goat cheese and soft fuzzy peaches and to ride the trolley on Saturday morning. We saw the pyramid and some riverboats and lots and lots of tourists. One of the women on the trolley even took a picture of Leila sitting in the sunny trolley window and looking out towards the river. Leila loves pictures, and since the woman asked so nicely, she was happy to oblige.
Late in the afternoon Leila took Mommy to one of the most awesome things ever! There was a free dance concert at the Levitt Shell where we saw a show called "Three Shoes and Bare Feet." The three shoes included ballet shoes (for ballerinas), sneakers (for hip hop dancers) and flamenco shoes (for stomping around a lot and twirling skirts). The bare feet were on modern dancers and African drummers. Leila said her favorite part was the African drums--not only were there five drums, but there was a dancer wearing a traditional costume from Guinea. It was like a full-body hula skirt with a really funny mask. Some of the little girls in the audience were scared, but Leila must have thought the dancer was related to Animal on the muppet show because she LOVED it! Leila and Mommy both loved the hip hop dancers who danced to a song about cake and ice cream. During one part of the dance the music kept repeating, "Watch my feet, watch my feet, watch my, watch my, watch my feet." The dancers, already dressed up with funny bow ties, silly socks and shoes and clown wigs, started dancing with shoes on their HANDS!
If you want to hear the song, you can see it in this slideshow.
On Sunday, Leila and Mommy went to Davis-Kidd to play with the trains and read books. Mommy spent a lot of the morning on the phone with the power company trying to clean up the fallout of having a broken gas meter for as long as we've lived in Memphis. Leila and Mommy both needed a long nap on Sunday afternoon after all of that and when we woke up we decided to go on a nature walk down the street. We saw plants and talked about roots and leaves and flowers and we collected a lot of sticks from the sidewalk. Leila kept telling Mommy "Oh, that's kindof pretty" every time we pulled up another weed to examine. We also met a very friendly kitty cat that liked it a lot when Leila patted it on the back. She was very good about not pulling the kitty's tail--I'm sure Frida was jealous.
This week we're DEFINITELY traveling down to the Gulf Beach--ear infection smear infection. While we're there Grandmama and Granddaddy will be in IRELAND! It's an exciting travel week for everyone!
Daddy participated in an intense all-weekend StartUp Weekend in downtown Memphis Friday night and all day Saturday and Sunday, leaving Leila and Mommy to enjoy eachother's company. Leila and Mommy aren't exactly clear on what Daddy did at startup weekend, but we heard there were zombies involved.
Mommy made the best of her solo bonding time by doing some of her favorite Leila in Memphis activities. First, we went Leila downtown to the Farmer's Market to get goat cheese and soft fuzzy peaches and to ride the trolley on Saturday morning. We saw the pyramid and some riverboats and lots and lots of tourists. One of the women on the trolley even took a picture of Leila sitting in the sunny trolley window and looking out towards the river. Leila loves pictures, and since the woman asked so nicely, she was happy to oblige.
Late in the afternoon Leila took Mommy to one of the most awesome things ever! There was a free dance concert at the Levitt Shell where we saw a show called "Three Shoes and Bare Feet." The three shoes included ballet shoes (for ballerinas), sneakers (for hip hop dancers) and flamenco shoes (for stomping around a lot and twirling skirts). The bare feet were on modern dancers and African drummers. Leila said her favorite part was the African drums--not only were there five drums, but there was a dancer wearing a traditional costume from Guinea. It was like a full-body hula skirt with a really funny mask. Some of the little girls in the audience were scared, but Leila must have thought the dancer was related to Animal on the muppet show because she LOVED it! Leila and Mommy both loved the hip hop dancers who danced to a song about cake and ice cream. During one part of the dance the music kept repeating, "Watch my feet, watch my feet, watch my, watch my, watch my feet." The dancers, already dressed up with funny bow ties, silly socks and shoes and clown wigs, started dancing with shoes on their HANDS!
If you want to hear the song, you can see it in this slideshow.
On Sunday, Leila and Mommy went to Davis-Kidd to play with the trains and read books. Mommy spent a lot of the morning on the phone with the power company trying to clean up the fallout of having a broken gas meter for as long as we've lived in Memphis. Leila and Mommy both needed a long nap on Sunday afternoon after all of that and when we woke up we decided to go on a nature walk down the street. We saw plants and talked about roots and leaves and flowers and we collected a lot of sticks from the sidewalk. Leila kept telling Mommy "Oh, that's kindof pretty" every time we pulled up another weed to examine. We also met a very friendly kitty cat that liked it a lot when Leila patted it on the back. She was very good about not pulling the kitty's tail--I'm sure Frida was jealous.
This week we're DEFINITELY traveling down to the Gulf Beach--ear infection smear infection. While we're there Grandmama and Granddaddy will be in IRELAND! It's an exciting travel week for everyone!
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