Our Beautiful Dancer!

Since we put Zach in a whole bunch of sports throughout the year and he has school, Hailey was feeling a bit left out. So we signed her up for a 3-4 year old dance class so that she's have something of her very own to do. She has been waiting forever (so she says) for it to start and this last week it was finally time!

Here she is all dressed up and ready to go. You'll notice she's in pink from head to toe - that's what she picked out at the store. They had blue, black, and white too, but she wanted everything in pink.


Thinks she's just the least bit excited?


The class is only half an hour, so they don't get through a whole lot. Here they are at the beginning of the class, meeting each other and their teacher Miss Christine.


They each had to stand on a specially marked spot to do their warm-ups.


They did a lot of shoulder, head, arms, legs, and whole body warm-ups. This is Hailey jumping up and down with her class (see the video later on of some more jumping).


Here they are stretching out their legs and arms - Hailey wasn't quite sure what was going, but was doing her best to follow along.


After that they were finally ready to do some dancing. They ran around the room, danced in different ways (or just ran around for most of the girls, including Hailey), and finally learned first position. Hailey like to call it first pedition - she knows what it means, even if she can't quite pronounce it.


Here are a few video clips of her dancing (I have a whole lot more, but thought these two were the cutest).

The is one of her jumping/hopping during warm-ups - she was so cute!



And here is one of them dancing with scarves (Hailey's favorite part of the whole class). The teacher had them all lay down on the floor and pretend to be asleep. Then she would dance around and put on a scarf on each of them. Once they got a scarf, they could get up and dance with it. Hailey wasn't quite sure how to dance with the scarf, so she really was studying the teacher and trying to do the same things she was. It was so darling!



It was one of the most fun half hours ever! It's so fun to see her have such a good time and have something of her own to do. She's been running around the house all week practicing her dancing - it's been fun to catch her at odd times when she doesn't know I'm watching - she's even given her bear and blankie a little dance lesson! She can't wait for this Tuesday when she gets to go back and dance some more! To be honest, neither can I!