Here Comes Trouble: Ballet day and money in my pocket.

Yesterday was a good day. It was a good day for several reasons.

1) It was Saturday, and who doesn't love a Saturday? (Actually, I know the answer to this. Servers. Servers do not love a Saturday. But those of us who have left our restaurant days behind in favor of a Mon-Fri work week? We love a Saturday.) Daddy home all day? Hurrah!

2) There was a big community yard sale on base and I A) got rid of a ton of stuff that was taking up valuable space in the house and B) made $100. $100! Woo hoo!

3) It was the first day of Ballet class for the Twink. She woke up asking "IS IT BALLET DAY?!?!?" We got her dressed, told her to listen to her teacher, and hauled off to class.....

Jaynie admires her outfit in the big mirror, while waiting for class to start.

I couldn't be there (was busy hawking our old cd's - really - people will buy anything. Mr. Big? Sold.), but Joe took all these pictures for me. (Ok, and for you guys.)

Listening quietly to the teacher's instructions. Who is this kid?

We got the leotard and shoes from the thrift store (two bucks!), and didn't have any plain tights. So she got the rosebud ones. At the last minute she pleaded her case for wearing the foofy skirt. I told her she could wear it to class, but the teacher might ask her to take it off. We had a whole discussion about how ballerinas wear tu-tu's for "shows", but at class they just wear the leotard and tights and it was up to her teacher etcetcetc. Well, she came back to me after class and the first thing she told me was that the teacher had said "Of COURSE you can wear your skirt!"

You can clearly see the joy on her face here.

So if you are wondering what they teach three-year-olds in ballet, it apparently involved a lot of sitting...

Learning arm positions

There was also running on tip-toe (which is so stinking cute, I can't properly describe it), twirling with arms above the head, and "hopping like a frog".

There was one scary part - apparently towards the end of the class a terrorist somehow got into the studio and tried to join the girls...

Blurry, but you can see the danger approaching our tiny ballerinas...