Hannah's First Dance Recital

The girls wandered around the house this morning calling out for Lula.  Hailey worked her way through the kitchen opening cabinets and yelling out "Gotcha!" with each cabinet she opened in hopes that Lula would be behind one of those doors.  No luck.

 

I tried a few times to get them to go downstairs.  They would walk over to the top of the stairs and get so close to making their way down when one of them would get an idea and off they'd go.

 

Finally they accepted defeat and started on their way downstairs.

There she is!

 

Hannah:  "What is she doing with that wrapping paper mom?!"

Me:  "Hmmm....looks like she is pointing at something."

 

 

Hannah: "Mom! Look at what Lula did! Come quick!"

Hailey: "What the heck?!"

 

This afternoon was Hannah's dance recital.

It was held at Blaine High School.

 

Getting her ready for the recital today brought back so many memories.  Doing hair, checking the bag over and over to assure we have all of the costume, packing bobby pins, putting on makeup.....

 

 Caylie (3), Hannah (5), Olivia (5), Ivy (5)

 

I was actually a little nervous for Hannah today.  There were a lot of people there and I wasn't quite sure how she would handle that.  When they called their class name, the teacher walked them out to the floor.  There was a bounce in all of their steps and they walked right out and got into their positions.  The music started and they didn't miss a beat!  Too bad this picture is a little blurry but then again, that is how I watched the whole number since those tears got in the way....

 

They did so good!

Honestly, they did great!  There were other little kids there that did ok but their classes were so big that it was hard for everyone to be doing the same thing at the same time.

The bigger girls did pretty good but there were classes of middle aged girls where for parts of the dance you could see that they forgot what to do or ended up totally freezing- which I don't really get since the teacher was in front of them reminding them of their moves.

 

Half way through the show there was an intermission.

As soon as it started, I put my things down and was getting ready to go over and see Hannah when I see that Brian had already made his way over.  He had already made it over to give her a hug and tell her how good she did.  Yep, more tears...

 

The show ended with a finale number.  All of the dancers came back out and moved to a song.  It was a little much and hard to see everyone but fun to see Hannah and her friends having a good time.

 

Looking forward to the Spring Recital!