Getting ready...

Bella and Aube have their Dance Recital this week. Tonight is their rehearsal...and Thursday night (7pm, Uptown Theater, free, if you're interested!) is the big day. I'm so excited for them...and am crossing all fingers and toes that they actually DANCE. I'm envisioning the worst, but I'm sure they will do fine. Bella danced last year and she's the shyest of the shy. They've practiced hard...Aube has two songs with her group and Bella has three....ballet, tap and jazz. We have their costumes all ready, complete with tutu's, booty shorts and boa's! Ü

But of course, we have to do our own little 'prep' here at home.
A little stretching.

Some practicing in front of an "audience"....notice the two chairs with babies at the bottom of the picture:

Practice makes perfect....

We've also been practicing hairstyles. With Bella, its easy...she's got that massive head of curls that I wanted SO bad growing up. So it's always fun to play with her hair. But Aube...she's not so fun. We keep her hair short because she looks like a ragamuffin when it gets all long and stringy. And even with it short, she has a constant case of bed-head hair. I try to get her to let me put it up, and she will let me...but then 10 minutes later, she's taken it down.

Well, for the recital, it needs to be up and off her neck (even tho Miss Stephanie did say it would be ok to keep it down since its short).  But I wanted to try something different....so we tried pigtails. And she kept them in!! All night! In fact, she kept getting up after bedtime because she wanted to "fix" them.