Saturday, May 16, 2009

Dance Recital

A little while before the recital. Leah was coming out of her skin all day waiting for this dance recital to begin. I did her hair around 3 to try to appease her but she was mad at me for taking out her "flat braids" (french braids - it was a zig zag part with two french braids). Anyway, she loved it and she was mad at me for taking it out and because it still wasn't time to go. Like it's my fault when the clock doesn't move faster!



Oh my gosh! It's finally time to go. She was so excited. "You can take a picture mom but then we need to hurry hurry hurry!"



On the way there... "Mom! I'm so excited! Take a picture of me!"



The Event: (the video is 3 minutes long - it's bad mostly. Hard to get good video from where we were.



Curtain Call:


Waving Bye! I wish I'd backed up and gotten a picture of the whole stage. It was FULL of kids. There were 27 separate acts for the recital. It was insanely long.



My favorite moments of the night:

During the performance right before Leah's, she suddenly appeared on the side of the stage. Someone let her get too far out. It made the people in the audience laugh. She's so freaking cute.

And about half way through her performance she got distracted by the action backstage and was watching off to the side for awhile. Too funny!

Oh and during the ending "curtain call" stuff they were handing out a few trophies to the older kids. The younger kids all gets medals but at some point the lady says "Did I miss any trophies?" and Leah (along with a few other kids) raised their hands.

Luckily Nana had brought Leah a rose. She'd wrapped in all in tissue paper and put a ton of ribbon on it. Nana said to her "her's your rose leah! This is way better than a trophy" and she was happy as could be! She has the rose in a vase in her room now. She was really excited about keeping that in her own room.



And here she is about 3 minutes after getting in bed. Wiped out.



Sorry this post is so long! Whew.

2 comments:

Cathy said...

i am soooo glad to see the video - there was someone in my way and i couldn't see Leah half the time. they should give nana's upfront, center row seating. how cute is she???

Kathy's Korner said...

oh that was to fun!!

Thank you for sharing that. It was fun to think about you sitting at your daughters recital while I was at mine. We couldn't video tape however....

anyway. It is fun to watch them for sure!