Saturday, October 24, 2009

My Ballerina

About a year ago I was driving past the Georgia Ballet School and I couldn't wait to get home and look them up online. I wanted to find out how old the little ones had to be to start classes. I was so excited to find out that they had a Mommy and Me class that Maren could start when she was 2 years old. We started going to our Monday morning classes in September.

I love that you can see her little belly in her leotard!


She was being a very good sport while I kept snapping pictures of her!
Maren's birthday will always make her one of the youngest in her class. I must say I was quite surprised by how well she did in class. Some of the other moms commented how well she did for being so young-- I was so proud!

All of us had our cameras on the first day. It's a wonder poor Ms. Erin got anything done!

They spend time doing stretches on the floor and then they go across the floor on tippy toes and hopping (those are Maren's favorites).

It took her a while to see that she was in the mirror. She spent most of her time checking out everyone else--- esp. the one little girl who was running wild (there's always one)!

You sign up for the class 6 weeks at a time so we finished our first run at the end of September. I took a break in October because our schedule has been so hectic. I wasn't sure if Mae was going to miss it, but everytime we drive past school she tells me, "I want to go dancin" "I want to see Miss Erin". She also walks arouhd on her tips toes and practices her jumping.

Here are the girls leaving class. Erin uses the ribbon from her toe shoe to make a "choo choo" for the girls to hold on to and walk to the classroom. On the first day Maren wanted me to hold her and walk with her to the room. By the end of her lessons she was running to get on the choo choo.

We'll be signing up for classes again soon!

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