Olivia loves to dance, as long as you don't watch her! There are 2 prominant things about my middle daughter: 1) She has wild hair and 2) she is incredibly shy. If someone she is unfamiliar with tries to talk to her, she pretends that they don't exist. She has told me for a few weeks now that she wants to dance. I have seen her in Rebecca's room with the Hairspray music blasting, dancing away...until she knows you are watching her. Then she freezes! Today, I decided to let her try a dance class and wasn't expecting too much. I knew that we would get there and then she would be too shy to participate. All morning I told her what was going to happen, we would get there and she would need to go with the other girls and listen to the teacher (all part of the "mental rehearsing" I leaned in Weight Watcher meetings...) When we got there, she went with the other girls to the bar, and had a smile on her face the whole time we were there! She was even able to follow all of the dance steps that her teacher was teaching them! When the teacher paired her up with another girl in the class, Olivia took her hand, and danced! She was so happy! I was worried about her being the youngest girl in the class, since she's still 2 and everyone else is 4, but the teacher said that she was able to keep up and she's fine. Olivia wanted to stay in her dance outfit all day long so that she could show Rebecca her dance moves. I was so proud of her today and I am glad that she was so excited to dance!
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Go Olivia!!! We'll have ballerina's everywhere!!! Sara these are some awesome pictures. I have NEVER seen her smile so big. She always gets scared when I talk to her. I bet I could make her smile if next time I just bust a few ballet moves! Now there's a visual!
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