Dance Recital 2010

Tonight was the "real deal" for Little Miss A's dance performance...recital day at last. Her class danced to the Perfect Nanny from Mary Poppins and she did a wonderful job. Way to go baby girl!!! I am so proud of you!!! :)

Here she is all dressed up and ready to go...

After the show...

Little Miss A's Dress Rehearsal

Little Miss A had her dress rehearsal tonight and did a great job! It really is amazing how much her routines have progressed over the past three years. She has become quite the little dancer...

She made quite a few new friends in class this year!!

We're already looking forward to play dates this summer. :)

Recital Costume

Let me just say how happy I am that we don't have a black and yellow recital outfit this year...2 years in a row was too much. :) As we left dance class with costume in hand, Little Miss A smells inside the bag and announces "it smells like whipped cream!!" Mr. D says "maybe they used whipped cream to make it, it is fluffy, you know." We tried it on when we got home and she looks like a prima ballerina. They are doing their performance to the Jane and Michael Banks advertisement for a new nanny song from Mary Poppins. It's really cute. :)

A Night at the Nutcracker

Our anniversary tradition has been to see The Nutcracker. Knowing the the kids (Little Miss A in particular) would the the Ballet as much as we do, we did a family celebration this year. It was wonderful. We got all dressed up and headed to dinner. It was a really nice Italian restaurant, that TOTALLY reminded us of our trip to Italy a few summers ago.

Then it was off to the Ballet! We had great seats right by the orchestra so the kids could REALLY see the dancers on stage. Even though we've watched the Nutcracker movie SEVERAL times prior to the big night so we would know the story line and be able to follow the dance without words, the kids still had a ton of questions. It was cute. They did REALLY well...definitely a tradition to continue with the kids. :)

Chasing lights after the show!

Holiday Dance Performance

Today was the big day of Little Miss A's Peppermint Candy Cane dance that we have been practicing for the past few weeks. She did great...I think she was too focused on her steps to sing along though. :)

Tutus and spice and everything nice!

We got together for a crafty play date with our bffs this weekend to make tutus. It was SO much fun!!! I'm not sure who was more excited for dance class today...Little Miss A to wear it or the Mom seeing Little Miss A in her cute new duds doing pirouettes and plies. A flurry of pink fluff...what girl wouldn't want one? I'm contemplating making one for me...how fun would it be to dance around the house in that? (No mental pictures please!)

Our Little Ballerina!!!

After a long summer break and delayed opening of the new studio, Little Miss A had her first day back in dance class today. :) She was in heaven!!! It's unbelievable how much her skills have blossomed since May. We really struggled with high skips (looked a little awkward) last spring, but now they are just amazing!!! Miss S commented that "A must have grown a foot since May!!" Seriously, she is so tall!!! Still the youngest one in the class and by far the TALLEST!!! Height, grace and beautiful posture, you can't beat that combo!

Disclaimer: Sadly, of all the pictures I took this afternoon, this was the best. The lighting wasn't very good through the window, not to mention the reflection issues I was having. Add those problems to the motion from inside the studio that made everything super blurry and that was all she wrote. So the wall shot before class is the best we have.