Boop Boop and Babyface! Recital is here!

Evidently I have the only little girl who does not like, rather HATES putting on makeup. It took FOUR TRIES to get makeup on her. We would get all the way to mascara and then she would start crying. And forget lipstick. It was a rough start....

But we finished GREAT! After our soccer performance last weekend, I was a little worried that we were going to get a big performance of her standing on the stage with her hand in her mouth. I was SO happy when at dress rehersal she knew her dance much better than I've ever seen her do in class. We've been practicing and I think it paid off!

Backstage at Rehearsal

 We started with her tap dance "Babyface" I was most worried about this one but she did great!

But the one that really brought the house down was her ballet to the three little fishies song "boop boop didum dadum wadum Choo". First off, how adorable are they in the teal tutus. 

The dance has them shaking their little hips when the song says the "boop boops". At rehearsal Ms. Kathy told them to make certain they step out and really shake their hips when they do that. I guess Emmy really took that to heart. I have never seen moves like this! She. Was. SHAKING. it! All serious hip action.

 After her grand performance we took some time to celebrate. GiGi made the girls these fabulous matching bears! Emmy hasn't put hers down yet. The turquoise bear has eaten every meal with us.

Two beautiful ballerinas

The fabulous Mrs. Kathy

 The funniest thing was just how excited she got about people giving her flowers. You would've thought they were M&Ms, maybe even better! She was already giddy with two beautiful bouquets when Blake gave her these. After that forget it! We asked Sean to hold them which she changed and she came over and whispered to me "mommy those are MINE." She wouldn't put them down. We even had to bring them to dinner later! Who knew.

After the late late night we didn't so much take a bath, more kind of washed her face. The result for the next day was this Cyndi Lauper look. Smudged eyeliner, neon, and 80s hair. This is her "don't want to be bossed "look from her fishies dance. We now do this look several times a day. 

 I can't believe that her first year of baby ballet is over!!! She's going to be a "big ballerini" next year as she says. Kind of got emotional there while she was on stage. No matter what she says, I think we'll be dancing next year ;)