Always a dancer
Saturday night Hannah stayed the night at Hubs’ dad’s house. Or as Hannah calls him, Mister. So she calls me very excited Sunday morning to tell me that Mister had helped her pull out her tooth that has been super loose for a while. It’s her 3rd lost tooth so far. So yesterday when I picked her up from her Nana’s house after work I told her that I need to take a picture of her smile now that she lost that tooth.
“Ok. Mom, I was so excited to get that tooth out. At first I was scared but then I just closed my eyes, made jazz hands and let him pull it out!”
I giggled to myself. Jazz hands. My little dancer–24/7.
Back to the dance world
already. YES ALREADY.
i posted a few times last year that Nettie was having issues with loving dance as much as she should. she was burned out. and so was i. i was recovering from having Nimmie and traveling all over the city for her competitions. it was insanity for a bit there. but wouldn’t you know that as soon as we got back from florida i sat there thinking oh no…Nettie really isn’t gonna dance next year? no more wizard of oz? no more watching her get on that stage? this is madness. so i go to tell her this and i was waiting for her reply to be “suck it mom. i’m tired of dancing. i’m not gonna dance anymore” and i was gonna have to cry because she’s been dancing since she was 2. instead though she said “i wanna do it. and i want to do a solo”
*JUMPS FOR JOY*
so today she starts practice for her solo for next year. and in august she’ll start practices for her production number for next year. they’re doing charlie and the chocolate factory. how cute will that be? and i THINK she’s gonna dance to candyman** by christina aguilera for her solo. those 2 will be competition dances so she’ll do them lots in front of audiences and be judged and win trophies and all that fun stuff. she also has to take a technique class that all the girls have to take if they want to compete. she’ll just perform that dance at the recital. and she always does opening number. that at least doesn’t start til april next year. SO we’ll all be busy with lots of dancing this year. i know along the way i’ll be burned out and probably be so sick of it.
and i love it.
** solo song is picked. Miley Cyrus- Let’s Dance. I don’t like Miley Cyrus AT ALL but the song is cute so yay! **
Nettie's 4th recital
i honestly can’t believe that Nettie went from this at 3 years old
to this.
i can’t believe she’s had FOUR recitals already. my 6 year old is a dancing machine. i hope she stays with this and keeps doing it. i am TOTALLY burned out on dance this year but it’s all paid off every single time i’ve watched her on that stage. talk about total pride for your kid, you know?
Hi. I'm back in the dance world…
again this weekend. Nettie’s got her recital so i’m tied up tonight, tomorrow and sunday with all of this.
i hope you all have great weekends and that the rain stays away from you 
Hi, i live in a dance world
you know, the idea of Nettie doing competitive dance was so awesome when she first started. and then the twice a month competitions started happening. and now it’s just not that exciting anymore. everytime she steps on that stage my heart swells with pride and i’m totally excited to see her. but after that….the hours of waiting for the awards ceremonies to be done so we can get outta there…not so exciting! silver lining??? the trip to florida next month for her competition! so anyway, this weekend we have competition so that’s what I’ll be doing all weekend. Hope yall have awesome plans and enjoy yourselves!
Yes we're still alive!
man i tell you what…having a new baby is A LOT of work and it’s time consuming and so the computer falls to the backburner. i STILL haven’t caught up on yalls blogs. maybe i should consider it a lost cause til i go back to work??? lol i hope not. hopefully things settle down soon and i’ll have a chance to catch up. in the meantime i have to report that Nettie had her very first dance competition—different than a recital and she did so well. her group got lots of awards and trophies!!! and Nimmie is doing awesome. she smiled for the 1st time today. twice. and not at all since then LOL. i hope yall are doing well and thanks for all your sweet comments! i’m glad you’re still reading even though i’ve been a slacker!
by the way her production number was wizard of oz!
Dance
after Nettie’s recital last year, after she showed such a big interest in the opening number as opposed to her regular class dance ( i think it had to do with dancing with the big girls) me and hubs’ mom decided that we’d look into putting her into team competition this year. so we went to the meeting last night about it. i think Nettie will truly enjoy it…the production number this year is wizard of oz which she adores. she’ll play a munchkin which i think she’d be great at. and we get to go to 5 competitions including one in florida in june. all fabulous and great. downfall? the freakin cost! i can’t even begin to fathom how much this will all cost when it’s said and done. i DO know Hubs’ mom is paying for most of it because we can’t afford it. but we want her to be able to do this. and then i think of these other older girls who dance in like 10 songs at the recital and who knows how many for competitions…their parents must pay AT LEAST 500 bucks a month if not more for their daughter to dance. wtf? i mean how can they afford that? they must have 2nd and 3rd jobs JUST for dance. insane. as it is Nettie’s tuition for dance is now 100 bucks a month…not to mention the 100 bucks due like every month for something or other til christmas. INSANE. so this is a test run. if she does well and excels this year, then we’ll do this every year as long as Hubs’s mom wants to pay LOL. but i think it’ll be so much fun and a great experience for us all. i hate that i’ll have to miss some of her stuff because you know, this whole baby thing i got going on right now. but at least she gets to do it ya know?
so work is slow today. i deem today catch up on blogs day because i’m SO behind. wish me luck:)
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