Sophia's dance class started today at Art of Dance Academy. She and Haley are the only two kids in the class. How special for the two of them! They truly are best friends and thoroughly enjoy each other's company and silly jokes. There is a one way window that I could peek through and I saw the girls playing a version of "Simon Says" with Ms. Monique while she taught them some ballet moves. They were giggling and jumping around a bit, but Ms. Monique does not tolerate any horseplay so she kept trying to get them to focus. And they did. WOW! I need Ms. Monique at our house. She doesn't call it discipline she calls it structure.
Both Haley and Sophia went to Ms. Monique's Princess Camp earlier this summer and remember there that the class was much longer and that there was a snack time. On the way home Sophia kept asking me why it was so short and why there are only 2 kids in the class and why they didn't have a snack. Ms. Monique requires all the dancers to wear buns in their hair and it must be tied back with bobby pins and a hair net. Talk about strict (and unreasonable if you ask me). I'll have to practice that one before the next class. It's literally a battle every day just to brush Sophia's hair. I have no idea how I'm going to put it into a bun!
All the work they are doing in class will culminate into a Nutcracker performance on December 19th. I can't wait. They were measured for their costumes today before class started. (A side note: Sophia grew so much this summer that the ballet shoes she wore in July for Princess Camp are too small!)I was a little bit nervous that Sophia wouldn't get a lot out of the class at this age, but after seeing her today I feel confident that she's going to love it and learn alot. If nothing else she'll learn proper posture.
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