The Ballet Recital

Today was the result of months and months of ballet lessons for Elizabeth, which lasted all of 5 minutes on stage but was enough to fill me up with the great feeling of having those precious moments for a really long time.

The production was Cinderalla and Elizabeth was a mouse.  I am eternally grateful that we made it to the dress rehersal and actual recital without ripping off the tail, tearing a ribbon or getting something smooshed on the front of the (very expensive) costume.  I had heard some other mice were not so lucky.

Cinderalla, played by a very special young lady named Grace, had actually been working with them the entire year ( I guess I would consider her an assistant to the instructor) She is super talented and just beautiful to watch.  Grace is on the right jumping into the air.  Elizabeth is dead center and jumping into the air.  Grace also attends the same school where Elizabeth has been in daycare and will be in Pre K this coming year, so she sees her from time to time at school.

The production was so nice and I appreciate the dedication of the staff and professionalism to put on a show of this standard.  All the dancers were wonderful and worked so hard but below are a few pictures of my favorite parts.

Ok and I had to put these up.  Poor Anna Kate, she gets that mad scientist hair thing going on and this Saturday was no exception.  It was a three pony tail kind of day to try to bring it down.  I need to wipe her down with fabric softner sheets.