The Ballet Recital

I am getting behind on my posts! On Friday we attended Ella's ballet recital! She was so excited and looked adorable. I sat in on the rehearsal and was so impressed with her dancing abilities! This is Ella's second recital of her life and like the first had it's "Ella" moments. Last year she started to walk off with her teacher and then realized the other girls were doing their end pose so she ran on stage while they ran off and stood there by herself in her pose. (She got her own applause.) This year her first dance was super, but the second dance she couldn't get back to her sticker because the girls were spread out so instead of just dancing where there was room she stood there with her arms folded with the saddest look on her face. It heartbreaking! I tried to motion to her to keep dancing, but she just stood there. I was afraid the rest of the night she would be upset, but by the time she showed the gymnastics moves she had learned, all was forgotten. She did some great somersaults, a cartwheel, and a back bend! She tried to do each of them without help which was pretty darn cute! Her favorite part of the night was getting the rose from her teacher and eating the cake! Forget ballet, bring on the cake!!