Tiny Dancer

Leighton loves dance. Good-bye mommy's dreams of a future gymnast.

Our Y had a few dance class issues, but now it is up an running again and she asked to do dance again this month. At a consignment sale I found her a ballerina skirt (she was IN LOVE!), along with ballet and tap shoes. She is one happy, tiny dancer.

Meg also teaches her A LOT. She wants to be a dancer just like her!

Let's just hope she did NOT get my genetics for dance, because bless her she will have to work much harder then.

I love having a girly girl that wants to dance and attempt gracefulness (did you see the band-aide on her knee from her latest attempt!), but can also throw down with the boys! The perfect combination.

Tony Danza {pt2}

Yep. That is never going to stop being funny to me.
Simply because my entire life is a FRIENDS reference.

Lo had the best month in dance sort of.

Sort of because we never had a consistent teacher, one day we were stood up by a teacher and on the last day after I already signed her back up for December I find out the dance coordinator up and quit. Ok so those were my hang-ups, but she didn't seem to notice or mind.

Here she is dancing her heart out. She does seem to have way more rhythm than I do. Yay, she got Auntie Meg genes! ;)

I see a little Kate Hudson {in Glee} here.

Due to the dance program being put on hiatus we switched back to gymnastics. I bumped her up a class level since she has been doing this since she was18 months old...time to be pushed a tad more. She loves her new "green" book class and does so well. She even learned a cartwheel...mostly. At least she has the basic premise down. I taught all these classes once a upon a time and let me tell you I had 7 year olds who were not even this close. She gets that from me. :) I was born doing cartwheels. :)

Lo Cartwheel from Michele Keethler on Vimeo.

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Abruptly moving on with no segway. :)

I didn't get any pics of Lo that night, but my littlest sister Meg IS a dancer. We went to her dance recital and Lo was just mesmerized by it all. They had hip hop, modern, ballet, jazz and so forth. Lo kept whispering "Mommy, I want to dance!"  Bless her heart you could just see the music and rhythm in her dying to get out!

So below I am sharing my sister's dance video I took. Please enjoy my commentary as I am literally blown away by her. I am not exactly sure who her parents are, mom insist Meg got her moves from her because she use to be on drill team, but let's get real I have never seen my mom move like this!
Meg, is stage left {house right} and looks just like me. :)



It will be fun to see what path(s) Lo chooses in life for her outlet.

Tony Danza

Did you ever watch the epic show Friends?! Did you live under a rock?! Because really that is the only way most people didn't watch it. HA! Remember when Phoebe sang that Elton John song Tiny Dancer...she thought he said Tony Danza and now that is the only way I sing it! HA! I am easily amused.

ANYWAY...my beautiful daughter, no thanks to her Auntie Meg, {I knew I shouldn't have let her babysit so many days in a row...}, has decided to take on dancing and hang up her grips for gymnastics. May we please have a moment of silence to soak in this sad day.

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Last Wednesday was her first dance class ever. I was a tad nervous, because I am out of my element here. Lo on the other hand was stoked. She even insisted on wearing her black leo with the "skirt" so she could twirl. HA!

{pics taken through the glass and mirror reflections...not the best, but it will do.}
She did so good.

Way to go my tiny dancer!