Maisy's Dance Recital: Year 3

Dance Recital Day! Maisy has been with Jo-Ann's Little Dancers for three years. Hard to believe. In today's show, her class danced to songs from Winnie the Pooh. It was precious. She is so lucky to have an entourage cheer her on smile emoticon Grammy, GranDanny, Mimi, Grandpa, Grandma, and her #1 fan (Afton!). At the end of the show, she was awarded a silver sterling charm (ballet slippers) in recognition of her three years with Jo-Ann. She was so proud of herself- and so are we! 

Maisy's Dance Recital- Christmas 2014

Maisy is dancing again for the third year with Ms. Jo-Ann. We love Ms. Jo-Ann and her precious program. Maisy is so happy to be a dancer again :) Her class performed at Grapevine High School to "Walking in a Winter Wonderland" and "Joy to the World". This was her best recital yet!

Maisy was proud that Grammy, Grandpa, Grandma, Mimi and Grandanny all came to the show! 

Click here to see her dancing :) 

Love this little dancer!

Maisy's Dance Recital 2014

This is Maisy's second year to dance with Ms. Joann. She loves her class, the music and of course all the dancing :) Her costume this year was the most beautiful shade of purple. They danced to two songs from Veggie Tales. I love that her teacher incorporates Christian music into the class. Maisy did a great job!

Since this was her second year to dance with Ms Joann, Maisy was awarded a dance medal. 

Afterwards she was met by her fans-- Grammy, Afton, Grandpa, Grandma, Daddy and Mommy :) 

Way to go Maisy!

Maisy's Spring Recital

I love dance recitals. The costumes, make-up, music, and dancing. I love it all. In May, Maisy had her first big dance recital.

She did a tap and ballet routine. Both to songs from "Mary Poppins".

The tap routine was to "It's A Jolly Holiday with Mary". 

The ballet was to "Chim Chimney"-- it included little brooms and news-boy style hats. Ah-dorable.

Maisy liked dressing up and dancing. But she told me after the show, "it would have been more fun if they had food there".

So with a hungry belly, she did her best. (In my defense, I did pack goldfish for backstage, she just chose not to eat them!) Here are her dance videos. Pretty good for a 3 year old :) who is starving. Lol.

Click on the links below or click over to the blog and watch them there.
http://youtu.be/Vg4KKLU8suQ

http://youtu.be/FgnE4giTxUc

Summer Fun & Dance Recital 2012

Summer is off to a great start. Our first week has been filled with new haircuts, lots of playing, a trip to the library, gardening and dancing.

Jeff built Afton and Maisy their own planter box, so together we planted sunflower, carrot, and cucumber seeds. It has been about a week and already we are seeing some sprouts.

Saturday was Afton's big dance recital. This is her second year dancing at Studio A. She has spent the year studying jazz and ballet, and her performance was a culmination of all she has learned.

I helped out backstage again- keeping the girls happy while they waited for their turn to dance, changing costumes, and taking lots of silly pictures. 

Her favorite new dance style is jazz. She likes all the bouncing around and fast tempo. Her jazz routine was done to "Razzle Dazzle" from Chicago.

See the jazz routine here:(http://youtu.be/a8I-wnFeTvc)

The ballet routine was done to "I Have a Dream" from Mama Mia.

See the ballet video here:  (http://youtu.be/yQNpBb-DYRA)

 

 Afton had lots of adoring fans (aka family) who cheered her on.

I loved our special time together. Can't wait to do it again next year- with both my little girls!!!

the Dancing Queen

Afton had her first dance recital on Saturday. She has spent one hour every Thursday since August learning tap and ballet. And of course, she has loved every minute of it.

I volunteered to be the "Stage Mom" for the class. It was fun hanging out in the dressing room with the girls. I helped keep them occupied until it was their turn to perform, change costumes and hair between numbers, and reapply lipstick :)

The girls were all so sweet and it was fun spending that extra-special time with Afton.

The silly pose

Celebrating after dancing on stage

Yes- those are 'Crafty Texas Girls' bows :)

She adored being on stage. It was amazing to see how confident, concentrated, and smiley she was in front of all those people. Her hardwork practicing her routine paid off- she did a fantastic job.

Afton is the one with both arms in the air.

Her tap routine was to "I Want Candy" and her ballet routine was to "Somewhere Over the Rainbow"- which made me cry!

Waiting for the music to start.

 Lots of family came to the recital to support her, so Afton left with two arm-fulls of flowers. Her room in now adorned with three vases of fresh blossoms. 

She is already looking forward to next year's recital- and I have to admit- so am I!!!