Dance Recital

Anna's first dance recital is done, and we all loved it! She takes a 90 minute (!) class once a week, where she does 45 minutes of tap and ballet and then 45 minutes of gymnastics.  Anna is the second youngest in her class, and the classes are pretty tough on her because they're so long.  She is a big, and I mean BIG, Mama's girl, so she pretty much cried every day when I dropped her off at dance (and school and the gym and anywhere else where Mommy isn't there).  The studio doesn't let the parents watch - at all. It's annoying because you have no idea what your kids are actually getting out of their lessons, but all of the studios around here do it that way.  My goal for her recital was for her to make it out on the stage.  I was pretty sure she would just be too shy to do anything else, and I had never really seen her doing anything around the house for it.  I am happy to say that I was WRONG. This is a short video from her dress rehearsal. My seats were right at the stage at the rehearsal, so I couldn't see her feet, but it's the shortest video I have, so it's the easiest one to upload.

This costume was so cute! 

Warming up before they went on.  She was taking this part pretty seriously!

"Animal Talk"

The flowers her Daddy and her big brothers got her. She loved them. :)