hazel and eleanor's ballet recital

yesterday was crazy

we had hazel and eleanor's ballet recitals

at separate times

hazel was in the matinee and eleanor was in the evening show

which meant they had separate dress rehearsals, too

it was a fulllll day

hazel was gorgeous as always

 this is her fifth year of ballet and she still loves it as much as she did when she started

 i love to watch her dance and i think it's really good for her

she could easily be too shy to want to perform but she's used to it and i'm glad

 a class picture

 this is a picture of dress rehearsal but we'll pretend it's from her actual recital

her class performed so well

right after she was done we got to pick her up from the stage and give her flowers

then we went out to the car and changed eleanor into her outfit and let her have her flowers early

since the rest of the family wasn't going to sit through a second 

(identical but with other classes) recital

 olive picked out the girls' flowers and gave them to them

and she's starting ballet again next week because she decided she does want to do it again

she was crying because she was fighting with noah 

but insisted on being in the picture..

 a few pictures of our swan

this is eleanor's first year of ballet

she loves it

she was nervous to get on stage for the rehearsal but wanted to go back up during hazel's recital

 i was amazed i got her hair slicked back as well as i did 

lots of hairspray

 showing me some moves

 a class picture

eleanor was feeling sassy by the time it was her recital

 there were five in their class but one just moved and the other is out of town

 i was the class mom so i entertained the girls before and after their turn

until the final bow at the end

which was long and tiring for little three year olds

 about to perform

the perk of being class mom 

watching from the sideline and snapping a quick pic before the show started

(they were first)

eleanor's class did really well

she kept trying to look over and talk to me while dancing but i didn't mind ;)