Recital!

Ms.  Peanut had her recital a number of weeks ago.  I was dreading the recital for weeks!  I was not looking forward to dressing her up or the pressure of a dress rehearsal and... well... the dance instructor kind of intimidates me.  I was never in dance so I had absolutely no clue how the whole thing would turn out.

Of course, I also heard horror stories about how unorganized it was and that we had to stay there until 10 at night and no one would feed us and they let lions loose in the main auditorium to sniff out rednecks.  I made that last bit up, but really, I kind of felt like that.  

And the costume!  OMG!  I was shocked.  I loved it except the for the cut outs at the sides.  AND there was some issue with the costumes being too small so we had to rush order these ones.  The original costume looked like it would not even fit BabyP.

BUT.... It was great!  We had a blast watching her.  We were organized and able to get there on time.   I was amazed at the performance.  The costumes looked great onstage.  There were no lions!  

The poor little girl in this picture with peanut is a string bean.  Her costume was crazy short.  I thought it looked cute on her with the tights though.

And above is about what you can expect from a 6 year old dance routine.  They were all trying really hard, and it was incredibly cute.  We were lucky enough that we only had one costume.  Other people had 2 costumes and a few had two costume changes!

She had a blast.  She was so proud of herself, which is what matters.

Final pose at the end.  She really worked on something sassy, and she nailed it!

At the end of the dance routine, these little girls refused to leave the stage so the boys dragged them off.  Peanut's class was the only one with boys.  I loved having boys in the class.  I think it really added to the dancing and made their performance super cute.  

The theme was Candyland.  Peanut was licorice sticks and nerds.  It was really cute, and we all had a great time watching her.