Rachel's dance recital

Rachel has been loving her dance class the last couple of months, and Friday was the final performance. She was very excited about it all. Here she is with her friend, Lydia, who is in a different class, but the two classes did one dance together.

Rachel is in the middle back row--the only blond with long sleeves. (Sorry if you get motion sickness watching these videos. I won't be winning any cinematography awards anytime soon.)

Most girls are 3 years old, with a few 4-year-olds. Pretty good, considering...

Here's Rachel before her second dance, Beach Baby. She agreed to do a good picture if I let her do a silly picture, too.

I volunteered to help out getting the girls on and off stage and sit with them during the other performances, and that was an adventure in itself. 3-year-olds don't follow directions all that well. :)

Rachel's in the front middle of this one with the green flower on her skirt. I thought the part where they're supposed to be dancing with partners was the funniest. They were so confused, got the wrong partner, realized that they were supposed to find their partner about the time they were supposed to be done with the partner, etc.

And the final pose was so cute. Even the two girls that were kind of lost, just standing there.

I was very impressed with Julie, her teacher, being able to teach two full dances to spacey 3-year-olds in just 6 or 8 weeks (I don't remember how long the session went). And sewing all the costumes for 7 different classes, besides. She amazes me.

It was a great evening and we were so proud of our little ballerina for the great job she did.