The most beautiful snowflake of all......
All of the girls did great. Once during the performance a little girl went to the edge of the stage and hollered "Hey Grandpa! Can you see me?" Of course, that got a big laugh......and stole the show.Now, Miss L is a little shy around other children. She gets right in the middle of them and follows them......but she doesn't talk much and definitely isn't a leader. Being in this performance somehow has proved to be very therapeutic for her. I am not sure if it was the cheers of the crowd, or the pretty costume..... but she seems to have gained a lot of self-confidence.
Can you tell?
After the show we all decided to go out and eat. While we were there her teachers came in. At this point she had changed out of her costume and was in her "street" clothes. At the recital there were teachers from different studio locations helping out. These teachers had only been to one of Miss L's practices, so they really weren't familiar with the local students.
As one of these teachers passed by Miss L hollered "Hi" and waved.....the teacher just kept walking. I would hate to accuse her of ignoring my child, but she did. She probably just thought that this nameless child was behaving like a brat. Now I too, have been guilty of this before. Before having children, if a child that I believed was acting rambunctiously hollered out, or said something unsolicited.......I ignored it. Of course, I wouldn't want to encourage that type of behavior. (snarl, snarl) Miss L couldn't figure out why the teacher didn't speak to her. We told her that without her costume she probably didn't realize that she was one of the dance students. Miss L then stated....with MUCH attitude....."She needs to rec-o-nize me!" (Imagine one hand on her hip and the other hand waving a finger in the air)
Miss L wasn't acting up...she was just excited. VERY EXCITED. I think she felt like a star. When her regular teacher passed by Miss L said "Hi". This teacher stopped and spoke to her. After speaking with Miss L, she came over to where her daddy and I were sitting as well as my parents. "I can not believe that she is talking so much. She has been in class since August and she is always so quiet. This is the most she has ever said!"
Maybe all this stardom is going to her head.
Either way, in our eyes she IS a star. And even if she didn't steal the show, she definitely stole our hearts.
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Thanks for the compliment about the "Dick" post - all of that was TRUE! (Ick!)
With her newly acquired diva attitude, you have to teach her the "z-snap".
How funny!
I find sometimes when I'm yelling at the boys, that I've pretty much got the hand on the hip, finger waving 'tude. Not sure why, I'm about as white as they come. Growing up attending a Catholic school, I didn't even know anyone whose parents were divorced, much less a minority. Although I went to a public high school, we lived in a very white-German-Irish-Catholic town and there was only one minority in the entire high school.
TMS jokes that we seldom visit Chicago although we only live 30 minutes away because, (said in the most nerdy voice you can imagine) "we are afraid of the negroes." He is joking, of course--actually making fun of those who really feel that way, and, believe me, I think we know some of those people.