Our little dancer!

Lily had her first dance recital this past Friday night! It was such an exciting event. We got her hair stylist to fix her hair pulled up and curled and it was so pretty.

It was at a big Junior College auditorium and I was so afraid Lily would be scared of the stage, but she got used to it at the dress rehearsal on Thursday.

My other worry was that she would not dance on Friday. Her class performed three songs and the first one, she started out really good and then got distracted by a couple of the girls who went behind the curtain and were playing. For the 2nd half of that song which was a ballet number, she stood with her back to the audience pointing at the girls trying to "tattle" on them..

We changed outfits for the 2nd song and had about a 20 minute break to get ready for Lily's favorite song - "Teddy Bear." It's a cute song that they do some ballet moves, but they got to pick a favorite stuffed animal to bring and dance with. Lily picked a cute stuff baby doll and she did almost everything perfect in this song. I was literally, rubbing my eyes to make sure it was her because she did so good on this one. Her whole class did. We were so proud of them.

The 3rd song was a very cute tap number called "Brush your teeth." They had huge decorated toothbrushes and danced with those. She did pretty good on this one. At least she went on stage and I was even more excited when she danced.

She also got Cover Girl runner-up for selling a lot of ads, so we stayed until the end of the recital which didn't end up around 10 pm. It was a long night, but Lily really enjoyed dancing and watching the other girls.
If I didn't believe she honestly enjoyed all of this, I would never force her to do it.

Thanks to everyone that came out and watched her - my parents, BJ's mom, BJ's sister and niece. We were so proud of our little dancer!