Beth's Christmas ballet recital was Friday night. Friday was also the last day of school before Christmas break, which meant that the kids all had their school Christmas parties that day. Beth came home hyped up on sugar and brimming over with excitement about her show. She had her costume on before I even mentioned putting it on and spent the rest of the afternoon referring to herself in third person and going by the title of "little elf", who is apparently male as the pronoun used was "he". She alternated between bouncing (literally) along beside me and hiding, then shouting out from her various hiding places that I needed to find little elf before he would do whatever it was I had asked him to do. We curled little elf's hair, which he was thrilled with, and applied some light makeup, including blush, eye shadow, and a little bit of mascara. Little elf felt very pretty.
Kiki showed up and offered to take little elf to the performance so that he would be there on time and so the other four kids didn't have to sit around and wait for half an hour (all performers had to be there 35 minutes early). Plus, that would allow us to stop and pick up cookies, which we were supposed to bring for after the performance. We gratefully took her up on her offer and sent the two of them off, much to little elf's delight. Kiki has always been little elf's most favorite person in the world and the chance of getting to drive in Kiki's car with just the two of them, going to a performance where he got to be a star, was paramount with winning the lottery :) We joined them about 20 minutes later.
The performance was very well done. There were over 50 dance students and several voice students, so the performances alternated between vocalists and dance classes. The dance students ranged from 3 through high school. Kiki taped the 3 year old class performance, which was unintentionally hilarious. Beth's class did very well (video included in my previous post).
Beth and Kiki after the performance (yes, she took her socks off for the performance) ~
Jack was quite impressed with the show and, much to Rob's chagrin (which increased my enjoyment of the situation), decided he wants to do "boy ballet". We stopped at Sprouts on the way home and Rob ran in to pick up a few things. Jack climbed into the front seat of the minivan and demonstrated "boy ballet" for me ~
He ended with a boogie ~
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