Twinkle Toes

The girls had their Christmas dance performance a few weeks ago. It was very cute and we loved every minute of it! The themes of each performance were Polar Express, New Years Bash (hip hop) and a Christmas Carol.
When the dance studio opened up a class for 2 1/2 year olds we were so excited! Ella just made the cut off and we signed her up. It's a tap/ballet class. We had no idea that she would be in the Christmas performance! We found out when I went to make a payment and there was a charge for Ella's costume. A 2 1/2 year old dancing on stage! Crazy! That and having her wait backstage with her class without Cirdan or I. Scary. I almost didn't let her perform. I talked to the owner of the studio (who is wonderful) and Cirdan talked to some other parents and they made us (and by us I mean me....Cirdan wanted her to dance regardless, he was excited) feel a lot more comfortable. She ended up doing very well. When it was her turn to go onstage she walked out and started dancing. The crowd started to laugh (because the kids were so cute) and the kids stopped. The audience then started to clap and the kids started dancing again. Ella is the youngest in her class but she did the best! Two of the kids ran off stage even before the dance started. We were so proud! We were able to pick her up at intermission and then she came and sat by us for the rest of the performances.

Kaiya was in 4 dances. Tap, ballet, hip hop and Jazz. It was a busy night for her! She loves to dance and it shows. She doesn't get nervous and she has a smile on her face the whole time. She wants to try out for one of the characters for the end of year recital. I am not sure yet if we will let her because that just means lots more dance practices and mostly every Saturday until June. She will already be in 4 dances again. Plus she starts her competitions for Xtreme this next year....which we are looking forward to!

I took pictures of Kaiya in all her costumes...
Tap...

Jazz...

Ballet...

Hip hop...