She Floats Like a Butterfly

Today was Amber's first day of dance class for the new school year.  Amber has always had the natural grace of a ballerina.  She did ballet for a couple years in the past and then for a variety of reasons we took a two year break.  She did Irish Dance one year and then American Heritage Girls(AHG) last year.  When we found out AHG would most likely not happen this fall, we decided to let her tryout for ballet again.  I didn't want her in the class with the younger kids because I wanted her to be challenged physically and not distracted by immature behavior.  So again we threw out a Gideon Fleece and decided if she made the Ballet III class we would go forward with lessons.  The try-out was two weeks ago and they told us at the end they recommended her for Ballet III.  I didn't fully realize how much she wanted to do dance till that moment, she was so excited she was almost shy.  We went back to the car for a moment, then I told her we would go ahead and buy all her supplies for class at the "Dance Boutique".  She was so happy she started jumping around.  We got her the royal blue leotard, with the pull back tights (such a nice advance in ballet wear so you don't have to ruin the tights wearing them in your shoes) and really neat new type of ballet shoes that are much more slipper like but have criss-cross elastic straps to better keep them on.  

Needless to say we didn't have any trouble with her getting through her school work today, knowing it had to be done to attend class (if makes me wonder if she should take lessons more days each week LOL).  They take ballet much more seriously at this level.  After her class today she was beaming and told us she needs to bring a notebook to write-down the series she is suppose to be practicing at home, I like that.  Looking forward to a year of fun and growth.