Hailey's 1st Dance Recital

What an exciting day. Hailey's 1st dance recital! She did a ballet-style dance to the song, "I won't grow up" from peter pan. Her little costume looked similar to tinker bell...and even though not pictured in the single shot....you'll notice her wings in the other pictures. It was a fun afternoon. All of the dances were cute, the smaller and more clumsy the little girl was-the better the dance seemed to be. I was quite frustrated at the fact that we had to pay...yes, pay to see our own child in her recital. 10 bucks!!! Yikes! The stupid theater didn't even have good air conditioning either! It was so miserably hot in there-we were all just sweating to death! Hailey did well in her dance, but I could tell she was nervous. The best part of the whole night was the curtain call at the end. All the classes took their own turn bowing for the audience and then lined up to let the next group go. At the very end, the owner of the dance company got up and said a few words. During this little speech of hers , Hailey managed to find her way out of line and wandered up to the front so that she could be seen. She was standing near the owner on stage. The owner wanted to recognize the special competition team of the studio, so she asked them all to come up to the front to take a bow and be recognized and then began to talk about how hard they had been working for their positions on this team. Hailey decided that she must have been on the team, and went up with them to take her special bow! I was laughing so hard!! She didn't belong up there! She had no cares or worries....just wanted a special applause from the audience. It was so funny to see how sure of herself she was, and she honestly thought she was supposed to be up there! Hilarious! We were sure proud of her. She did a great job and we are looking forward to more fun things in the future. WE love you peanut!

(Hailey is 2nd one in)