I stayed up late last night looking through my mom's
old piano music until I came acroos Yankee Doodle. I stayed up until I learned the first part of
Yankee Doodle. Today I played again only
4 notes of the song and Annaliese immediately told me the name of the song
without me even saying a word. I am just
so impressed with her keen connection to the sounds of songs. Of course she was extremely excited that I
could play her favorite song! We walked
down to Ava's house today to play for a few minutes and Annaliese had to of
course stroll baby. After nap we went to
get Annaliese signed up for dance class.
I'm so excited to say that my little girl is old enough to start
dancing. As most of you know I started
taking dance when I was 2 and a half and took for 26 years until my dance
teacher retired. Since I don't have my
dance teacher to teach Annaliese anymore I had to find someone else. I am so happy to have Mrs. Mary Ann Wood be
Annaliese's dance teacher. Mrs. Mary Ann
is one of my dance teacher's dearest friends and they took dance togther when
they were little under Mrs. Eva May Morris.
I know Mrs. Mary Ann and she has see me dance in my recitals all my
life. I knew that when Annaliese was old
enough I wanted to put her with a dance teacher that I knew and trusted and
would treat her with love and care.
Tonight we went to Mrs. Mary Ann's studio so that Annaliese could get
signed up for the summer camp she has.
She will take for 4 weeks in the summer as just a fun exercise and then
official start dancing in October for the regular season. We are going to use the summer as a trial to
see how she does and to see her interest in it.
I am certainly not going to be the mom that forces my child to do
something just because I did it. But I
will be the kind of mom that encourages her to stick with one or two talents so
that she can become very good at them.
Annaliese fell asleep in the car on our way there and so when I got
there she was a little quiet. After we
signed up the secretary asked us if we wanted to see the studio. When we got back there Mrs. Mary Ann just
hugged us and told us how happy she was that we were there. She let us sit down and watch the big girls
do their recital routine. Annaliese was
so excited and just perked up when she saw the dancers. She was putting her arms out like they were
and wanted to get down and join them. When
we left the room and I put her down in the waiting area she ran off and was
headed back to the studio until I caught her.
She was ready to go back right away.
She was really interested in the dancers and I think she will have a lot
of fun at dance class! Later we went to
Gammy's to do dishes (since I still don't have a working sink) and we watched
the Queen's Diamond Jubilee. When they
started to play their anthem Annaliese picked up her American flag and started
waving it!
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