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Dance Recital

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Another year of dance is in the books!  This is the fourth year for Avery and Emerson and the second for Harper.  I’m proud of my “not so tiny dancers”.  A few pictures from dress rehearsal.

And a few pictures from the recital.  The girls had a big cheering crowd…myself, Justin, Grandma, Grandpa, Jana, and one another when they weren’t performing.

At this point the girls are wavering if they want to continue dance next year.   I think they love dancing but they sometimes don’t love following the instructor.  If they really don’t want to continue at Cuppetts with ballet and tap, I think we will try another dance studio that offers more types of dance for their ages.

Celebrations, Observations, and More Celebrations!

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Celebrating Mila’s 28th Birthday Mexican style!Mila - 28th BdayObserving Harper’s ballet class during observation week. She is so cute to watch, but she easily gets distracted and forgets to do the steps at times.  She also doesn’t like when another student gets too close and invades her personal space!Harper - Ballet - April 2017Watching Emerson perform her kindergarten school play “Over In the Jungle”, which by far exceeded any and every expectation I had. The students, costumes, set, music….was ALL AMAZING!  Seriously, I was beyond impressed.  And once again, I had to hold back from tearing up.Emerson - kindergarten playObserving Avery and Emerson’s ballet and tap class during observation week.Avery and Eme - dance April 2017Celebrating Papa’s 67th birthday Italian style!Papa - 68th BdayCelebrating meeting baby Elinor, Becca’s 4 month old daughter!Maddy Girls with Elinor Hite - April 2017(Four kids looks good on us, doesn’t it) 🙂Maddy Family and Baby Elinor - April 2017Celebrating Harrison’s 2nd Birthday!Harrison's 2 Birthday2 - April 2017Celebrating a beautiful afternoon at Quattro Gumba Brewery with the Russos!IMG_4961Celebrating the first night of Passover at my parents!IMG_0162And all this before we even make a dent into the second week of April!

Kindergarten and Ballet – Here We Come

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The long awaited first day of kindergarten finally arrived this morning! We have been talking about the big day off and on since the beginning of the year.  Both Avery and Emerson have been pretty excited to start kindergarten and have only been a little nervous. The girls have been prepping for some time…getting their back packs, meeting their teachers, thinking about what they would bring to lunch, and even starting homework this summer!

The first day started with pictures in the backyard!IMG_4076_MG_4092_MG_4100 _MG_4098_MG_4094 _MG_4101IMG_4081 IMG_4083 IMG_4087img_4075IMG_4070IMG_4115 IMG_4113_MG_4123 _MG_4110

Followed by a walk to the bus stop for a bust stop breakfast._MG_4132_MG_4163

I had actually wanted the girls to eat at home so their bellies were well fed with nutritious food but I did allow them to have something else if they wanted.  Avery had a donut and a strawberry.  I don’t think Emerson had anything…I think she was a little nervous and didn’t want to eat._MG_4141

This was all the kids at the bus stop! _MG_4154_MG_4157

Harper looked on!_MG_4142 _MG_4151

And then before we knew it they were off._MG_4168 _MG_4169_MG_4171 _MG_4173_MG_4179

I thought I would tear up but when that bus took off, I started to tear up more than I thought I would and when Fang rubbed my back, I started to actually cry which was only intensified when another neighbor commented on how sweet it was that I was so emotional.

I really didn’t worry about Avery and Emerson during the day and for good reason. They both came home saying they had a great day, although not sharing too many specifics._MG_4192 _MG_4202

Meanwhile, today was also Ms. Harper’s first day of ballet. She has been looking forward to this day for close to two years! Even this morning she was dancing around the house…doing plies and tapping her feet.  She was READY…._MG_4180_MG_4188_MG_4191

…that is until she got to the dance class and she froze. She didn’t want to go in and while she did for a few minutes with Mila, it didn’t last long.  And she spent the majority of the class watching from the outside.IMG_4015

On the way home, she was embarrassed and didn’t want to talk about it.IMG_4018

Poor thing….she finally talked about it that evening.  I think she wasn’t expecting their too be too many kids and she froze.  After a long discussion, she said she would be ready to dance next week.  We shall see!  We believe in you Harpee!

My Tiny Dancers

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My tiny dancers had their second dance recital today.  I was quite nervous leading up to it but my nerves started to ease a little after the dress rehearsal on Thursday.  Both Avery and Emerson did great and I was able to get their hair and make-up done relatively easily. I recorded the rehearsal since no photos or recording is allowed during the actual performance.  They did great at both the rehearsal and the actual performance.  I was beaming with joy…I couldn’t be more proud of both them.  They remembered their routine and the song and Avery especially was singing quite loudly during the performance.  At the end of the performance, awards were given for perfect attendance.  Of all the dancers, only two students received such award….one was Avery and she received her award on stage!  Emerson received an award for excellent attendance.  Seriously, I couldn’t be more proud of my tiny dancers!!

My Disco Ducks

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The girls first recital is now in the history books.  I was so nervous about it for the last few weeks….I had seen the girls rehearsal a few times the past few weeks and at times the girls would pay attention to the teacher but then other times, Avery especially, would not even be looking at the teacher.  Well during the whole one minute and forty five second performance today, all I could do was laugh.  Avery actually followed pretty well.  Emerson had severe stage fright.  She stared out at the audience not looking at the teacher once and practically did the same first move from start to finish.  Emerson generally really got into the routine so I really hadn’t expected her to freeze, but she did.  After the performance, she really didn’t want to talk to anyone and you could tell she was upset but didn’t want to talk about it.  Anyway, I captured a video of the dance on my phone during rehearsals and as much as we wanted to have this performance, I couldn’t bring myself to shell out another $40 for the video.  And here is little Harper who was mesmerized by the performances!