Thursday is our busiest night of activities. Gwyneth has an hour of ballet, an hour of tap and jazz combo, and 45 minutes of hip hop. It’s a lot of dance. It’s almost overwhelming for a 6 year old. She loves, loves, loves to dance and she is so full of joy while doing it, but she gets tired. By that last hip hop class, I see a few yawns. She told me she worries that her teacher thinks she is lazy in hip hop because she is tired…..oh my goodness, this girl. So thoughtful and full of heart. I asked her if she wants to quit hip hop or try for another time – of course, she wants to stick with it. Such perseverance. 

Oh yeah, and every other Thursday Annabelle has girl scouts. 

Tonight was extra special because it was Annabelle’s night off girl scouts and she was able to join us for Gwyneth’s Halloween dance performances. Gwyneth was the cutest little Annie and did a wonderful job with all of her routines. My favorite of course was the ballet – her and her adorable friend, Paige (along with the rest of the class of course) did a routine to Phantom of the Opera. So very, very serious and very, very fabulous. .

Next up was tap and her One-eyed, one-horned giant purple people eater. 

And last up was hip hop, which I can’t remember the name of the song, but she rocked it with her street moves. 😉

Annabelle was our sweet little, good sport this evening. We basically went back and forth to the Mexican restaurant next door to the dance studio so we didn’t have to drive home in between routines. She did math homework over chips and salsa. Reading over appetizers. And then sat and told us stories about her day over dinner entrees. It was a long night requiring a lot of patience from her and she never complained.