Oh, I Want my Dancing Shoes to Stay...

*Update- the videos should work now. Thanks Lindsey for pointing out that they were on private. duh...

first dance recital was this past weekend and let me tell you- that there is some quality entertainment! I learned a few things about Hallie that evening since I have never seen her dance before (Yeah, I'm the mom who just takes my turn in the carpool picking her up but does nothing more than that. Oops...)
 1) She knew the choreography much better than expected
2) She can darn near do the splits! Who knew??
3) She likes to be the star. For example, at the end of one dance, all the kids had their head in their hands and Hallie has hers up in the air to make her the focal point (I don't think that was supposed to happen). You may be able to see it in one of the videos. Another example- at the end of one of the songs, the kids all end in a sitting pose, all except Hals, who is still standing there posed. Uh, pretty positive that wasn't supposed to happen...

Here are some videos for your viewing pleasure. Her group performed three dances and I really only have a good video of the last one because it took me that long to figure out that my phone was blurring everyone and basically making them big white blurs. Boo....
  
 In this one it is pretty easy to tell which one she is...this is when I got smart and used the actual camera to make the videos instead of my phone. Duh. I will know better next time.
She is in the front middle on this one...you can't tell, but basically the one I am focusing on. I thought my phone would be better than the camera, but boy was I wrong!
 This one is a Halloween dance and they are all wearing little pumpkins. Hals is again in the front middle (basically the same spot). When they do a back bend, she is one of the ones who is way up in the air (way to go, girl!)

And, of course some pictures:

Again, bad choice of camera...

She was thrilled that daddy brought her flowers. Every girl needs flowers after a performance, right?

Hallie goes to dance each week with her friends (our neighbors) Ashley and Kennadee. We couldn't find Kenna, so we just have pictures with Ash and Hals

Just needs to sit up a bit here and we've got the splits. I am really surprised that she is that flexible...because we all know that I am NOT flexible in the least.

Once we got home, she wanted to keep showing me her moves.

 I kept calling this a bear crawl and she had to keep reminding me that it is called a "back bend". Shows what I know.

I am excited to see the next performance (in the spring) because this one was just cute.