Welcome to Helaina's dance recital! She did a great job. We have learned valuable lessons in regards to Helaina and her emotional needs lately. When she enters into something a little bit unfamiliar she gets a little bit "upset". She cries, and gets crabby and refuses to do ANYTHING that needs to be done to get things going. It happened on the first day of preschool, it happened on picture day for dance and it happened again today. The good news is that once she gets where she needs to go and sees that things are familiar she is JUST fine. Thank goodness for that! Today, instead of getting mad at her for it, I reached into my bag of teaching tricks. It is so easy for me just to get mad and expect her to just be the perfect child who is always compliant. Anyway, today I tied a beautiful pink ribbon on her wrist and told her it was a bravery bracelet and if she felt a little nervous she could touch the bracelet and feel better. IT WORKED!!!! Yippppeeeee! Of course, Breleigh had to wear one too! If you look at her wrist in the pictures you can see it. I figured oh well... the costume is too small anyway so she might as well have a bracelet on!
Isn't that a great jump? I love it! Jim took the pictures and I did the editing. I thought we got some pretty good shots. Love that ZOOM lens!
Breleigh was SO SO GOOD today. She watched, in awe, to all the dances in the first half of the show. She clapped and kept asking me if there was going to be another movie? I kept telling her it was like dancing with the stars. The recital started with a very good Lion King performance and she kept saying... "no more lions, lions all done?" It was so funny. In the second half she got a little antsy and didn't want to sit on my lap but we were sitting in an upper section with a little bar in front of us and she stood there and danced for the rest of the performances. 
Our Lollypop girl!
The whole group on stage! Notice the length of Helaina's tutu. She is just a wee bit taller than the rest!
What a fantastic day! Helaina did great in her dance. Breleigh did great in the audience and we all had a great time. Nana and Papa were not able to join us this year for the performance so as a surprise for the girls we were sent to Build a Bear Workshop for a special project. Both girls made dogs and picked out an outfit for them. Breleigh picked out exactly what Helaina picked out and wasn't interested in looking at anything else. It was hilarious! Helaina named her dog Auron (after Alex's dog) and Breleigh named hers Cute-ish. When the girl doing the stuffing asked her what HER name was... she said Cute-ish! That is totally a name that her sister would come up with! Hehehehehehehehehehe
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