Christmas Dance Recital 2011

y little girl is starting to not be so little anymore. I notice something this year in her growth from previous recitals that I am amazed that she is the same girl. She loves dance so much and has so much fun. She hardly needed any help from the teacher to remember her dance moves and as always she is a ham. This year she danced to "I saw Mommy kissing Santa Claus" and this year they had a nutcracker number for each class. Her class got to be the Mouse King. I am only downloading the recital this year if anyone misses the rehearsal let me know and I will send you those videos. She remembered most the dance this year so you wont need to see the rehearsal to know what it was supposed to look like.

Here she is at Rehearsal in her Mouse King Costume.

Here she is at the recital in her Recital Costume.

I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus Dance

Mouse King Nutcracker Dance

Christmas Recital 2010

She had her Christmas recital last night. She was cute, adorable, beautiful, and a little bit a show off. She did so good. No extra craziness like last years telling elves off but it was good all the same. I love how confident she is when she dances. For this reason alone it is worth it to me. I want her to grow up knowing that she is beautiful. I also want her to be kind and confident. So many things that I want for her. Well you aren't looking at this to read my sentimentality. Enjoy the pictures!

Before the recital started. The costumes this year have a french theme.

Behind Stage getting ready to go on

One of her dance friends

Most of her class

Another one of her dance friends in their Christmas doll outfits

After the recital my kids got to see Santa.

Now without further ado I present the recital Dances on Video

Sad Dolly Dance

Santa's Workshop Candy Cane Dolly Dance

The finale didn't turn out according to the teachers vision but in her words they are little kids and that is half the fun. There was a little girl that was dancing in front of everyone else the whole time and she knew she was the star of the show. However we were focusing in on our daughter. You can see at one point where my daughter seriously considers joining the other little girl though.

I just looked at last years recital and it brings tears to my eyes to see how much she has grown. And laughter to my heart to relive those memories.

Christmas recital 2009

So this is overdue, however I made a promise to post video of her recital and now that Christmas is over I have found some renewed energy in blogging so these next few posts will catch you up on what has been happening at our home. I hope that you enjoy.

She was so cute in her costume here is a full shot. I just couldn't get her to look at me though at this point.

Here is her first number. Half way through It gets closer. She gets a few of the dance moves in there.

Here she is waiting to go on stage for her Polar Express number. She insisted I took one with her friend. And well she has just the cutest smile in this one.

Here she literally stole the show. Let's just say there were no little elves helping during her dance class when she was learning to do this dance she seemed to forget about it. But hey, she is cute.

Here is the finale. Yay she did at least half the number till she realized she didn't have her partner close by to spin in circles with.

As you saw Santa came at the end of the recital. Here are a few pictures with Santa. She was so excited to sit on Santa's lap this year.

He did surprisingly well on Santa's lap. I think he was trying to figure out how he was going to eat that candy cane before mommy and daddy took it away from him. :0)