Ballerina's

Princesses and ballerinas. The best of both worlds, when the ballerinas get to wear princess crowns for their recital! Nicole did a great job at her recital. She was so happy she got to wear a beautiful crown full of jewels--maybe that's why it didn't even phase her that her sometimes scatter brained mother forgot to pull her ballet shoes out of her purse and give them to her. She ended up wearing just her tights on stage. Her sometimes scatter brained mother still didn't even notice the whole time she was on stage (so maybe no one else did either?) and Nicole even led the girls on and off the stage!!! Yipes. Fortunately for the mother (it's fun talking in third person isn't it?) when Nicole told her what had happened and the mother started apologizing profusely Nicole said "It's was o.k. because Miss Sarah said I could just wear my tights, and I didn't even slip!" That was the last we heard about that.

We learned the hard way Nicole's first recital that it is ritual, tradition, custom, (one of those) to give dancers flowers at a recital. We hadn't gotten Nicole flowers (this was when we were still in ALBQ) and she was asking why we hadn't. Fortunately for us a friend gave Nicole one of her own flowers and Nicole was happy. This time we were prepared and had one of our own to give her. Despite the above picture, Isaac really was excited to give it to her.