It's all about dance:)

Ballet and Jazz at least for this post.  We all both dancers, but we like different types of dance.

Here we are in our dance clothes, respectively in ballet and jazz first positions.

Emma has her hair in a bun for ballet, mine is in a pony tail because usually you don't need your hair in a bun for jazz.

Here are our feet, ballet shoes on the left, jazz shoes on the right!!!

Here we are stretching.  As you can see, Sophia is more flexible than me which is rather annoying.  I wish I were as flexible as she is!!!!

And more stretching.

And last but not least, practicing the splits.

Happy New Year:)
That is is you are Jewish!!!  Today is the first day of Rosh Hashanah.  It started at sundown last night.  Most Jewish Holidays start at sundown the day before and end at sundown.  Rosh Hashanah actually lasts for 2 days.  It's the only Jewish holiday that is a new moon holiday the only one that is celebrated for 2 days by Jews all around the world.  So, last night we went with our human and her family to our human's grandmother's apartment to eats supper and then once it was sundown to celebrate and eat sweet foods for a sweet (and lucky and happy) new year.  Jewish people use a different way of counting days, months and years and the year that starts today is year 5773!!!!  There are lots of websites to look at if you want to learn more about Judaism or Jewish holidays and traditions.
L'shanah Tovah!!!  Is the traditional greeting for Jewish New Year, it means "for a good and sweet new year".

Here we are eating dinner (everything was delicious)

Traditional foods:  honey cake, apple cake and slices of apple to dip in honey, yummm.  We don't like apples that much but honey makes everything taste better.

Isn't this a cute picture???  (it's a closeup of the apple slices and honey)

Amaya and McKenna guest post
Hi Everybody,
Amaya and McKenna got to visit the pool at our human's grandma's new apartment building.  Her grandma just moved in there last month.

Chilling on the grass by the pool, forgot to mention that it's an outdoor pool:)

And a back view, you can see the pool this time, that's the shallow end (the deep end isn't very deep though, it's not over our human's head).

Here they are relaxing and enjoying the sun.

McKenna is pointing out shapes in the clouds.

Emma visits Point Pleasant Park
This lovely park is a great place to visit and take your dog too.  I was wearing my glasses instead of my contact lenses on this day.

First thing I saw were some mushrooms growing on the ground but they aren't the kind you can eat!!!

This is Fort Ogilvie.  It was built in 1796 by Col. Ogilvie who named it after himself without permission it seems.

This hatch is welded shut.

Here I am standing on the back of a cannon:)

I'm climbing up between 2 trees in this photo.

It started and then stopped raining as we were getting ready to leave the Park and then I saw a rainbow.

If you want to know more about point pleasant park, there is a website of course:
www.pointpleasantpark.ca


emma

Hi, it's me Amaya again.  Finally here is Part 2 of my adventures.  I hope you enjoy the photos as I enjoyed the adventures.  I'll be back another time for 1 more guest post with a friend that you have met before:)

Here I am at the Monkey Show cart.  They are between stores fronts just now.  3 of us have awesome (mini) sock monkeys made from kits from here. 

Our human picked up a kit to make an owl similar to this one.  Isn't it cute?  For more info and photos check out their website www.themonkeyshow.ca  they have a facebook page too.

I didn't really eat all of this but it sure looks delicious doesn't it?  This is from Two If By Sea's  Halifax location.  They have a website too:)   www.twoifbyseabakeshop.com  and of course a fb page too (the owner is a new dad as well))   There is even a pretty leaf pattern on the surface of the latte:)

Here I am hanging out with my human's dad (the one with the beard) and his brother (my human's uncle)

Here I am on the boardwalk.  That's Dartmouth across the harbour but it was a rainy and foggy day so you can't it very clearly.  My human takes the ferry across regularly for some of her dance classes.

Summertime fun

Hi Everybody,
We're going to be posting some of our very own adventures before we post the rest of Amaya's.  This week we went to the lake and made zipper pulls for our backpacks with our names on them.  Also, stay tuned for upcoming posts about individual adventures that Emma and I have had recently.

here we are with our backpacks (they come from Buildabear) and our beads.

Stringing the beads.

All done:)

Here's a close up, we really like them:)

Next up, the beach photos from Chocolate Lake (yes, that's really its name and no the water is not like chocolate).  This lake is walking distance from our house.

Dipping our feet in the water.

Sitting on our towel and digging in the sand (somebody else had started this when we found it).

Catching some rays, relaxing together at the beach.

Hi Everybody,
We haven't managed to put a new post on our blog for almost a month, sorry about that!!!  Our human was very busy taking part in her brother's wedding and spending time with visiting family members.

But our friend Amaya did manage to have quite a few adventures during that time and here are some pictures that show what she did and where she went.

Bodiless Amaya at the Discovery Centre.

Here's an exhibit about the sources of drinking water for Halifax and how to conserve water.  We live right by the Ocean but we can't drink that water.

That's all for today.  We'll try to post more tomorrow!!!