Her class is RIGHT after school. Like, 18 minutes after the last bell rings. It's about an 11-minute drive to dance, so she has SEVEN MINUTES to get home, put her stuff on, and jump in the car. YIKES.
Cooper bought a magic 8 ball with some of his birthday money, and Dorothy quizzes it incessantly about whether she'll be good at dance this year. At first I thought she meant well-behaved, but then I realized she meant, like, good. How cute/terrifying s that?
I cleared my schedule to be able to take her because she needs help, I would imagine, changing from ballet shoes to tap shoes, and it's her first year in a big kid class; her adorable little preschool classes were mid-afternoon and easy to attend on time). But then, of course, a meeting popped up on my calendar that I couldn't refuse. Ben will take her, in between running other kids other places (it's a day when they all have an activity). Part of me feels guilty because there are 12 dance classes this semester, and I can got to 7 of them. Part of me just doesn't want to miss it because our dance class ritual was something I came to love the past 2 years.
If I am being honest, the practice was for her to see if she can get her ballet slippers on (NOPE) and off (yes, but she just sort of flings them behind her, and I cannot imagine this will be any different in the studio, so I wrote her name inside them) and her tap shoes on (YES). I also wanted to see if she could handle the sensory prison of her tights (yes, if they're footless) and put on her own leotard (sort of-- yes if it is already right-side out, but I suck at laundry, so). But mostly, I just wanted to see this:
She is SO PRECIOUS! Averson started Dance Team (zOMG) at the end of summer, and it's an hour and a half of jazz, tap, and ballet. I was so worried, and then after a series of cluster-f days where I couldn't watch, I was able to stay the whole day yesterday. Not only can she get her own stuff on and off, she was helping other girls! So I'm guessing that Dorothy will get the swing of it pretty quickly. Regarding the flinging, each of the girls in this group has a bag and the shoes go right into it when they change to tap. She does the same system for recitals, so they're well practiced.
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