Settling into fall

We're settling in and we have a nice routine going. Monday I have my belly dance class which Aloka usually comes with. She (and I too) just got a new hip scarf (with jingly coins) and she's so excited to wear it for the next class. She really learns these moves! It's cute, and all the women in the class seem to love her.
Tuesday she is in her Waldorf playgroup from 9-12pm, Wednesday is gynastics with Josh, Thursday is playgroup again, and friday is Waldorf SweetPeas playgroup and then Family Yoga. Holy guacamole! That's every day of the week. Weekends are filled with concerts/performances and whatever else is going on.
Dena (aloka's teacher) said that she and her family are really into snowboarding, and that when her two children got a little older than Aloka's age, it was really fun to have something in the winter they could really get into. So I foresee snowboarding in our future, probably this year.
Dena also said that falling (which i of course will be doing constantly) is no problem here because there's always so much fresh powder. She is from Colorado and said it was usually hard packed by the time they went out to ski.
So as long as I have some cushion, i won't mine the humility too much! I'll probably do some more cross country skiing again too this year.
So i don't have a ton of photos this week, but we did go to an awesome West African performance for children and i have some videos, though they're not really portraying the coolness of the group! The dancers did lots of back flips and amazing acrobatics along with a leopard dance at the end. The band is called Masabo, and Aloka and I left the theatre with huge smiles (and a CD and T-shirt!). It was a great show!