Ballerina Girl

Darcy's first session of ballet ended last night. On the last night the parents are invited to sit in the classroom and watch what the kids learned. Only one word can really describe our experience there last night: hilarious!.

The city of Windsor offers four sessions of programs throughout the year and this past winter session we had Darcy enrolled in 3 things, swimming, ballet and soccer. We found three things to be a bit much so we decided that for the spring session we would only do two things. The next level of swimming classes is at the same time as the soccer class she had been in so we got rid of soccer. She's doing ballet with her best friend, Alisa, too so that was another reason why we wanted to keep up the ballet. After seeing last night's show we think we should have stuck with soccer!

We know that Darcy isn't the most graceful girl around and that was proven to us last night. Maybe she's been too exposed to Nick's running but she seemed to feel everything was a race last night. Whenever the teacher asked the girls to do one movement or another from one wall to the other Darcy was usually the first one across but she wasn't necessarily doing anything close to what the teacher had asked. I think she may have been a little distracted having us there but it was still pretty clear that she's not going to be the next Karen Kain. All that being said, it looked like she was having a ball and she had no idea that she wasn't doing things exactly right. She felt like she's the best ballerina in the world and I guess that's what matters. She also seemed to be the chattiest girl in the class (no surprise there, Sue Junior) and interrupted a couple of times with some tidbits of wisdom for the teacher. The teacher turned on some music from "Aladdin" and Darcy had to let everyone know she had watched "Aladdin" that day. Then when they were doing some turning she asked, "Miss Laura have you ever seen a spin like this?" Probably not because it wasn't even close to what Miss Laura had asked them to do! Funny, funny stuff.

I've been trying all afternoon to add some videos but it's not working. I'll try to get them added at some point.