Dance Recital

For ballet they danced to Little Town from Beauty and the Beast


For tap they danced to Fabulous Feet

Emmie was VERY into the whole makeup thing this year. 

Emmie was my only dancer this year (much to Ruthie's dismay...she REALLY wanted to dance...her turn is coming in the fall though!). Emmie did tap and ballet. She LOVED ballet but about half way through the year she said she didn't want to do tap anymore. It took me awhile to figure out what the problem was but I finally pulled it out of her that she didn't like tap because she was having trouble learning the steps and was frustrated. What a great opportunity to teach so many lessons! We talked about how some things come easy and other things don't and we have to work a lot harder. We talked about how, even when things are hard we still have to stick with them for the time period we commited for. I told her that she had to keep doing tap until the recital and then in the fall she could do jazz instead. Well, after the dress rehearsal this past week she told me that she wanted to do tap again in the fall! I was shocked! I was also so proud of all the things she had learned in tap and ballet this year and I'm proud of her for working extra hard to learn her tap steps! I have a feeling that when it comes time to sign up she'll still end up switching to jazz but we'll see!

hanging out backstage with Evelyn, her school and dance friend!

She had her recital today and she had a GREAT time. She loves to be up on the stage! Even more special was that she got a trophy this year because it was her third year of dance! She has been waiting 3 years for that trophy (and talking about it every single week). It was also her very first trophy! She was so, so proud of it and it now holds a special spot on the bookshelf!




We're so proud of our little dancer!


This is the sibling picure you get when said siblings are 6 and under!


All the grandparents came to watch! (Ellie was not having the whole picture thing...)