Dance Recital

E's dance recital was last night. I took most of these pics at her dress rehearsals as I was helping backstage during the actual show. After her first practice I asked her if she like being up there. She replied, "yes, i like being on stage." I will not deny having a happy moment. If you were one of the unlucky who did not attend, you missed out on more than seeing the cutest dancer ever. You missed out on dealing with the reactions of 80+ girls under 10 when the fire alarm went off. Some little one wandering the halls with dad decided to feed his curiosity one and for all. Actually there were only a couple criers and once we settled them back into the room, convinced them that it was a false alarm, it was more about comforting the parents that rushed back stage to check on their girls. Then I remembered my son, in the audience with his dad and grandparents. My heart started to beat a little faster. My sweet, soon to be 8 year old has a few fears and smoke alarms make the list. This wasn't the high pitched annoying beep that you have at home. This was more like alerting the people that we had gone to Defcon 1. D had a harder job than me, as I found out later. Still, eventually all was well and the show did go on. Dance is more than just bobby pins and sequence people.


Waiting in the wings.






Does anyone else love this one as much as I do?



Pep talk from Miss Amy.

You can see that one little one didn't know where her spot was, things were stopped because the poor little thing started to cry. She did fine during the real deal.

Please don't shoot the camera girl , she's an amateur. Just be thankful for this as they did not allow video taping the night of the performance, which they did last year. I think that discriminates against those of us that are cheap, or frugal. :)