Dance Recital

Elise and Lydia just finished the year of dance with their cousins McKenna and Savannah at Mike's sister's studio.
Their dance recital was fun for us as parents to watch, and we appreciated the grandparents joining us.
Elise took beginning tap dancing this year, and she danced to "Rockin' Robin" at the recital. She loved her costume with the long red fringe and the feathers in her hair. She did a great job learning and remembering almost all of the steps.


Lydia's 2-3 year old ballet class was so cute to watch. They were "sunflowers" with black and yellow costumes, and danced to Vivaldi's "Spring" (thank you Liz for helping me identify the song). In the beginning of the dance they "grew" out of giant flower pots.
Lydia participated in the class all year, and danced at the dress rehearsal, but she froze during the actual recital. She hid inside the pot until she was lifted out, and then she didn't do a single twirl or plié. If you ask her about dancing at the recital, she freely admits "I didn't." She just stood there looking adorable!


(at the dress rehearsal)

Shuffle Ball Change, Princess Twirls

Elise is back in dance, and this year she and McKenna are taking a tap class. Cindy is their teacher. All of a sudden one day, Elise informed me (as she held up her right hand) "This is my right hand." I thought, wow, where did she learn that? I certainly didn't teach it (sometimes I have to think really hard myself about which is which!) Apparently she picked it up from tap class, cool. Now I can give real directions about stuff like which button to push on the cd player if she wants to skip to the next song.

Lydia just started her first ballet class, with Savannah. It is so funny watching their teacher interact with the little 2 year olds. She talks in this enthusiastic high voice, and everything has a cute name, like "Princess twirls".

I feel really lucky that my girls can have this experience. When I was little I took one ballet-type class, and a clogging class, and I always wished I could have done more. Cindy is kind enough to trade us tuition at her studio for babysitting McKenna and Savannah 2 afternoons a month.

Elise's Recital

Elise's dance class recently performed a routine in their Spring recital. It was so fun to see her perform what she has practiced, and she did a great job.Her dance was set to the Blues Clues music, and they had cute blue costumes and magnifying glasses for props.Here is Elise with her cousin McKenna:

Elise and Mike's mom:

Elise and my mom:

Elise and my dad: