First Dance Class!

Today was the girls’ first dance class!  I was excited and I kept talking to them about it.  I dressed them up cute and took pictures the whole time, of course.

Sydney just being adorable.

Showing me some dance moves.

Skyler doing her own dance.  Sydney’s dances are very princessy, while Skyler sort of goes the mosh pit route.

Some pre dance class love.

I’m not sure why Sydney felt she belonged in the middle of the circle, but she did.  She also introduced people whether she knew them or not, and claimed to be everyone during roll call.

Skyler is a pretty good little direction follower, although her preferred expression of creative movement tends to be running fast in a circle.

I think at this moment, they were pretending to be horseys.

Swinging their arms.  Skyler is right next to Sydney.  She’s kind of hard to see because she was really giving those arm swings all she had.

There was an unfortunate head conking incident that resulted in Skyler wailing for a few minutes.  Daddy fixed everything though, and she got back in the game.

SIDENOTE:  Please excuse Ping’s hair.  We all hate it, but he made a really weird agreement with my dad to keep it long until the weather is bearable again.  As soon as it gets cool, he’ll be back to his normal self.

This is Cheryl teaching her to do happy and sad toes.  Cheryl, who is an owner of Artworks, was my diamond sister during my stint as an Alpha Delta Pi member.  I transferred after my freshman year, but Cheryl was a sweet girl, and she was really good with all the kids.

It sort of surprised me that Skyler was the one who really loved the class the most.  I keep expecting Sydney to just go nuts and have so much fun, but she gets a little overwhelmed in group settings sometimes.  She doesn’t quite understand the dynamic of a group of toddlers.  She’s pretty used to being center stage all the time, so when she’s not, it confuses her.

I don’t care if I’m biased.  Show me a girl cuter than this one.  I dare you to try.

Not going to happen.  Sorry.

The little girl in black was really cute, but she kept knocking into Sydney, and Syd just would get stunned, to the point where she eventually just quit trying to dance around anymore.  I think she was embarrassed that she got bumped, irrational as that sounds.

When class was over, Cheryl asked all the kids if they liked stickers.  Skyler immediately jumped up and went over and grabbed her shoulder, where she was rewarded with a sticker on the nose.  That was the big money for her.  Dancing was fun, but a sticker on the nose was big time!