Ella’s Dance recital

So the day finally came for Ella’s big dance debut!  We were so excited.  We started the day out by going to Cracker Barrel for a Father’s day breakfast.  We had to scoot on out to get Ella ready… I curled her hair and put make up on her.  We had fun and she looked soooo cute!  We arrived backstage kinda early and it was a while before we found anyone else in her dance class.   So it was neat to be around all of the other “big” girls in their dressing rooms.    Finally we found two other girls that was in Ella’s class, I left her with the teacher and I went to go find Jeff and our family.  So, I’m sitting there watching the other girls dance and then I see my friend Jessica and she said she had just been backstage and that Ella was really upset and crying pretty hard.  So I rushed backstage to find Ella and sure enough she was very upset.  She was crying because a bunch of girls backstage were screaming and loud noises really scare her.  Her teacher was great though, she took her to her own personal dressing room and put make up on her and did a really good job of calming her down.  After that I was very nervous about whether or not she would even dance.  But she did!  And she did great.  I have a few pics of just her but they are pretty dark.  This one is my favorite, you can see the little muscle in her leg as she is pointing her toe.    She did such a great job.  The whole class did.  When they had rehearsal and even just showing the parents in class it seemed that sometimes they were all over the place but they did a great job at the recital.  A ton of girls in different routines were just standing there and not really doing anything but all the girls in Ella’s class did the routine.  We had some professional pictures made at the rehearsal and I got to see the proofs to pick which one I wanted to order and they turned out great!  I can’t wait to get them back.  After Ella’s class finished their dance we took some pictures in the lobby.  Gerry bought Ella some flowers and she loved them.  She didn’t want to give them up to take pictures.    You can see from her face that she is still in a little bit of a bad mood from being upset at the screamers.    I changed her clothes and we took her back into the auditorium for a little while to let her watch some other girls dance.  She loved watching them.  We stayed through about 4 dances or so.   Gerry ordered us the recital video so at least she will get to watch more of it at home.  Dance should start again in late August or early September.  I hope that she will have a tap routine for the next recital.