Princess Ballet

Natalie had her first ballet recital over the weekend.  It seems like it's been a long build up to this, and there were times when I questioned how much she was even liking it.  And then dress rehearsal happened and the child was in love.  She was dressed fancy, got to be on stage, had makeup on, and then watched the older girls dancing.

dress rehearsal

demonstrating first position

trying so hard to dance like the girls wearing pointe shoes

Here is Natalie's class practicing their routine at dress rehearsal (she's in the back row):

Sunday afternoon was the recital...though we started off the day pretty grouchy (probably from the 3 hours we spent at rehearsal on Saturday), Natalie rallied for the recital.

Here is Princess Ballet I doing their routine at the recital (she starts off in the back row about 3rd from the left):

dancing to "Shake it Off" during the intermission

any dancers could go on stage...these boys and oh, so many girls

three best friends

all the day's dancers

post-recital

Ben was Natalie's number one fan all season

In the end, Natalie ended up liking ballet so much that she opted to keep with it rather than gymnastics, which she has been doing forever.