So You Think You Can Dance? Shoot. Adjoa KNOWS She Can

One of my fav shows is SYTYCD I've watched it religiously for years. And I have to admit sometimes I miss the days when people messed up, or fell, or forgot the dance. The dancer's caliber is so much higher now than in years passed, a major screw up hasn't happened forever.

Of course, it's also getting harder to wow everyone when all the routines are great.

Even though it's one of my favorites, I haven't blogged about it recently like I used to. Mostly because we have Adjoa now, so it cuts into my blogging, but also because instead of blogging about the routines, I have to watch them a second time. I get too caught up in watching Adjoa.

I had some terrific vids from Season 5, but they were lost in the great Memory Card Erasure at the end of the Hawaii trip this summer.

I'll post a few vids from the fall season so far.

Warning, this might only be cute and adorable and funny to mommy and grandparents.

Swim Lessons, New Fridge, Blub and a bit of Glee

Adjoa's swim teacher gave us a cute little certificate outlining all Adjoa learned to do in her second swim class this summer.

Just so you all know, Adjoa has successfully completed the following swim skills:

• Jump off diving board with assistance
• Back Float with assistance
• Superman (Streamline)
• Blowing bubbles under water
• Circle Arms
• Flutter Kick
• Spiderman
  

And in case you were wondering how cute she looks doing those things, here's a picture to give you an idea. She's so brave! She loves jumping off the diving board, as you can tell. She can even swim unassisted for a little bit.

In other news, our house is determined to destroy us. The garbage disposal went out in the apartment downstairs a little bit ago and the refrigerator died a rather untimely death. Without any warning. So we also had to buy a new fridge. Ugh. If we make it through the fall without a single unexpected expense, it will be a huge blessing.

Our sod was installed (the same day our fridge died) and it's starting to look less soddish and more like grass. Pictures will be posted shortly. I'd like to wait a bit so it's more healthy-looking and not in shock before I show the world our latest landscape development.


There are a couple cute Adjoa sayings I want to make sure I get written down so I don't forget. She used to say "l" for "r" so FROG would be FLOG. As in, "Ma! Look! A Gleen Flog!" It was so cute and endearing. She doesn't do that anymore and sometimes it makes me a little sad. {She also used to call me Ma instead of Mom. I miss that too. Which is a surprise to me because I felt like an old pioneer grandmother when she would say "Ma"}

Right now she says BLUB instead of BLOOD. She bites her lip or tongue several times a week, poor girl, and inevitably, she will stick her tongue out and ask,

Mom! Do I have BLUB?

The blub carries over and she conjugates it well. "Mom, are you blubbing?" lol. We get a kick out of it on a daily basis.

She also seems to think slobbery and strawberry are interchangeable. It makes for some interesting dinner conversations.


On a personal note. I can't believe I haven't posted yet about Glee. Have any of you seen this? I was super excited when we saw the pilot in the spring. I thought for sure it was going to be a summer show. I think the pilot was so popular they decided to wait until fall. Well, it about killed me to wait all summer for this new show. It's on tonight and I'm in 7th heaven.

Perfect line-up. So You Think You Can Dance {yes, I watched that all spring and never once blogged about it. My how things change when you have kids!} and Glee. I think Wednesdays are perfect.

Everything is Amazing, Nobody is Happy

Louis CK was on Conan and here's his interview. It's pretty dang funny, and oh so true. I remember long conversations with my friends and you had no privacy because the phone was attached to the wall in the kitchen. That was awesome. Your legs would fall asleep after a while and you'd be forced to hang up.

We had a rotary phone too, and it's so true. I remember thinking it would take forever to dial because you had to wait for the disk to spin all the way back.... Awesome.

I also remember when we got our first family computer. No Internet. Just a computer that I'm sure was sooooo slow. I remember being so proud of my reports - all typed up and with color cover pages that I designed with clipart. ha ha. I didn't have an email address until college.

Man times have changed. On any given day we have 3 computers in our house and only 2 people who can use them!

Enjoy!

Jane Austen and Baseball

So this AWESOME clip was on The Colbert Report {last night? I'm not really sure. I TiVoed it and watched it today}.

If my world and Robert's world collided it would be this. {ummm, technically that is exactly what happened when we got married, so I guess it's fair to say this is an accurate picture of our world}.



Gotta love Stephen T. Colbert! There's a reason he's one of my TiVo addictions!

Reflections of Christ

I added a video at the bottom of my blog. Check it out, it is amazing. I didn't do it as a post, because I want it to stay on my blog for a while.

The photos were on exhibit in the Mesa Arizona Temple Visitors Center.

You can leave your comments on the video here, if you would like.

Hope you enjoy it!

SYTYCD

Well, it's over now. Believe it or not, I actually DID watch the entire season.... I just got too busy to blog about it and search for my fav videos.

I was hoping for either Joshua or Katee, but I really thought it was going to come down to Twitch and Katee. So. I was close.

It was fun to see Nigel and Mary dance... and holy cow! I had NO IDEA Mary Murphy had legs like that. Amazing. I was envious, but then I always am jealous of long legs.

Congrats Joshua! You deserve it, and I just adore how you get all chocked up all the time!

So You Think You Can Dance...a little late

Ok. I have to admit that I'm a little disappointed in SYTYCD this week. I' haven't posted any video clips of dances because I just wasn't floored by anything, really.

Don't get me wrong, there were some really good dances, but nothing that left me thinking "WOW"; nothing that made me want to run to my computer and post. It was just ho-hum.

I don't know if it's because I'm expecting so much from the dancers this year or if it was just really that boring. Part of the problem, I believe, is that they have greatly reduced the number of choreographers. Mandy Moore, for instance, who is sort of a boring choreographer anyway, did 2 routines last night. Having one week to come up with 2 dances that everyone is expecting A LOT out of is hard. Apparently these guys just can't do it anymore. Besides that, most of them have been on the show for several years now.

The judging was crazy, too. It really bothered me that Kherington and Twitch were such a let down and then all three judges chose to "ignore" the fact that Kherington really dropped the ball during the second half of her routine. Then they attack minor flaws in other's performances. (I'm thinking of when Mia tore Joshua Allen apart because she wanted to see more 'movement' from him... something along the lines of "your head was going and your body was going, but I wanted to see more movement") It was crazy and poor Joshua was just plain confused by her comment. He (and I'm pretty sure everyone else) had no idea what the heck Mia was talking about.

Oh, and then there was Mia's really bizarre method of complementing Chelsea: "you're so beautiful I want to stab your face". Really? Wow. Anyway, I think I need to watch it again to try and come up with at least one dance to post....

All in all it was a pretty disappointing show this week. :(

So You Think You Can Dance

Tonight it starts.... well, really starts. Auditions are fun and all, but as far as I'm concerned, the show begins when the top 20 start dancing.

Since I can't find my fav dances on YouTube yet, I'm treating myself to my two favorite dances of all time. I tried to sneak Neil and Sabra's "Sweet Dreams" power negotiation dance on here - love that one too, but it I can't find one that is not from the live tour (poor recording quality) that will play once it's posted. Sorry people. It's a great one, you'll just have to find it yourself on YouTube... (I also love Travis and Heidi's Paso Doble)